Water crisis? Blame national government

SEEING that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon naming, blaming and shaming the Cape Town municipality and the DA for the developing water crises, I think I should add my penny as well, for what it’s worth.

Recently your esteemed paper published the interesting fact that the Department of Water and Sanitation has been giving the Western Cape farming community 48% of the dam allocation, while the city was, up to now receiving only 42%. This will, however, cease by month end. It seems to me that typical ANC government politics at play has resulted in our water crisis.

When will people stop being fooled by the sense of entitlement? How long has it taken for the ANC to wake up and smell the roses?

Stop lambasting the DA for a crisis which is not of their making. Why do people have blinkers on? You have the commission of inquiry under way, yet a suspect president is still in power, a minister of mines is in power, the newly elected secretary-general is in power, the deputy president of the ruling party is in power, all compromised.

In a normal society they would all be suspended while under investigation. Our values are distorted. The facts, the truth: the ANC is obviously trying to make a meal out of a crisis started by their own ineptitude at running a country.

Water provision is a national issue, but it’s obvious that inefficiencies on the part of central government is the cause. Like with Sassa, the mines, Eskom, Prasa, etc, ad nauseum.