Mamelodi water crisis a DA governance failure, ANC's Ramaphosa tells residents

MAMELODI - African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa has reminded Mamelodi residents, who are disgruntled over water cuts, that it is the Democratic Alliance (DA) that runs their municipality.

Ramaphosa is campaigning in Tshwane, a former ANC stronghold which is now run by a DA-led-multi-party coalition.

Mamelodi has been struggling with intermittent water supply for weeks now.

Some residents have been shouting "no water, no vote" at the presidential convoy.

But Ramaphosa said that the water crisis was a DA governance failure.

"Water in this metro must be delivered by the local council, the metro, which is a DA-run metro and wherever you go, you come across complaints of water and complaints of transformers that are not functioning."