Ramaphosa’s out-of-touch denial of water crisis risks a disaster greater than load shedding
29 May 2023
In today’s Presidential Newsletter, President Cyril Ramaphosa has sought to downplay the state of South Africa’s water supply and infrastructure by stating that “water quality in South Africa is of a high standard".
Aside from a dangerous denial of South Africa’s water crisis and the ANC’s role in it, this is also a gross misrepresentation of the facts which neither diagnoses the problem, nor seeks to address it.
It is this same denial of our electricity crisis that has South Africa on the brink of a national grid collapse.
The President cannot afford to bury his head in the sand on the state of South Africa’s water.