Mfuleni

Ekoruleni is performing very well.

City of Tswani, Mfuleni, Mukhali City...

We've got a number of them.

Rastenberg, they're also giving us challenges.

I'm not sure if this is a question that you can answer from your vantage point, but are you able to tell us how much of this excessive consumption is actually linked to household or business use and how much is attributable to the municipal leaks that we know so many municipalities are losing water through?

Second, municipalities will be able to give you a breakdown of figures.

But I can just give you an example with, for example, Mfuleni.

We know that over 50% of the water that we supply, it goes through the system, through the leaks.

DA ward councillor candidate for Ward 108 in the Blue Downs area, Mfuleni area, Rudi Stevens.

He's facing renewed scrutiny after a 2021 video showing him assaulting his then wife has now resurfaced.

It's some good reporting by a reporter and Julian Johnson, reporter for the Report online newspaper.

Some of the other challenges, for instance, is just organisational chaos.

When Ramaphosa spoke to volunteers in Mfuleni yesterday, He didn't touch so much on the fact of branches.

You know, branches used to be the cornerstone of the ANC.

He didn't touch much on branches, but he basically just said, you know, skip the branches and just vote for the ANC.

But because branches are in such disarray, The ANC is just basically saying, you know, or maybe not, he's not saying it directly, but disregard the branches, the chaos that you might have at branches because they might be infighting or whatever.

Just vote for the ANC straight.

And basically motivate people, especially the volunteers, who have to make the case for the ANC with ordinary voters, some of them very angry, like Mfuleni as well, to vote, to cross the vote for the ANC.

What then is the ANC actually offering Cape Town voters? Has Ramaphosa set out a clear alternative for the city? And is the party's message, is it convincing that they could actually win back voters, win new voters? What are they saying that's going to change that voter apathy, even among traditional supporters?

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You would have suffered some, uh, protest action on the R300 and the N2 and, uh, Mfuleni res-residents are vying to continue such protests.

I know it would have frustrated you in the traffic over the past couple of weeks and your news-

A frustration in terms of the services.

They've been protesting, saying that the city of Cape Town is refusing to install taps and toilets in that informal settlement.

Yeah, so we know that this community started, um, and they came from the Mfuleni, um, Khayelitsha surrounding areas.

Um, during COVID, many of them said they had lost their jobs, um, because of the lockdowns and because of the effects of, of the pandemic.

And a year ago, we actually went there, and we, we covered a march where they went to the Premier's office as well as the city of Cape Town, um, to put their, their demands, um, to the, the, the, the government.

You know, we spoke to residents.

Um, a mom who says she has to run across the highway to relieve herself, um, with her daughter on the side of the road, and, and she s- she describes how she was approached by, by certain motorists, um, and, and basically fearing for her daughter's life, um, because they aren't able to relieve themselves, um, in, in a, a toilet or a reasonable, um, area.

Uh, they also don't have water, so they're having to walk all the way to Mfuleni from that area to, um, go collect water at the nearest tap.

So we are still waiting.