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@HermanMashaba you ran out of chlorine. Instead of closing the valves, you fed filthy water to communities for three weeks, and you didn't even inform them. 408 people are now sick, most of them children younger than four. This is a literal disaster. Worse, you made us look like fools, running tests and taking samples, while you knew all along that you were feeding our people dirty water. Spare us the lectures on hypocrisy.

@ME_Beaumont and @HermanMashaba, let me help you, since you clearly don't know how the City you govern works. I am the MMC of Health. My job was to sound the alarm on what looked like a diarrhoea outbreak, and I did. It was OUR Health Department, with the Tshwane District, that picked up the high numbers. Not your Mayor. Not your City Manager. Us. Now let's talk about who actually failed. Your Mayor is responsible for ROC and the water business unit. Your MMC of Corporate and Shared Services is responsible for Bronkhorstspruit. Your City Manager, the man you defended with everything, heads the administration. Where is he? On vacation, while children are falling ill. So answer this, what does Health have to do with your incompetent officials who could not procure chlorine for three weeks, and then kept quiet until we exposed the crisis? Was Health supposed to guess that your administration was feeding the public contaminated water? Were we supposed to procure the chlorine too? Must Health now run your water unit because your people can't? Health told residents not to drink the water. Your administration let them drink it. That is a violation of human rights, and you want to talk about hypocrisy? Spare us the deflection. #EFFInGovernment