Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has accused the DA of being “opportunistic” after the party launched a billboard in Hammanskraal accusing the ANC and ActionSA of spending R777 million on water tankers in Tshwane.
The billboard, unveiled ahead of the local government elections, calls on residents to “Take back your city from water tanker mafia! Vote DA”.
Responding to the billboard, Lesufi questioned the DA’s record on water tankers when it previously governed Tshwane and accused the party of using the issue for political gain.
“They are being opportunistic. The water tankers of Tshwane, the current contract of water tankers, who appointed them? It’s the DA. They were running that city,” Lesufi said.
‘Municipalities moving away from private tankers’
Lesufi said municipalities were now moving towards owning water tankers rather than relying on privately-owned vehicles.
“If you go to Tshwane, we have changed that. We have water tankers that are owned by the municipality, no longer owned by individuals, including in Ekurhuleni and in Johannesburg. We are working towards that.”
He accused the DA of having “run out of ideas” and said the party was making claims about issues it had failed to resolve while governing municipalities.
“It is just opportunistic and a stance that the DA now have run out of ideas. They have started to be smooth talkers.
”They have said everything that they think is correct, when they themselves have created this problem,” Lesufi said.
