2019 ELECTIONS: ANC Western Cape targets water as a voting issue, claiming that ‘the DA scared us with Day Zero’ By Tessa Knight
The ANC in the Western Cape campaigned door-to-door in Lentegeur, Mitchells Plain on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 asking residents with water debt to sign up for a litigation case it has filed against the DA-led City of Cape Town. With less than eight weeks until the country heads to the polls, the ANC is hoping to gain more votes by riding on the wave of anger over water tariffs that peaked in 2018.
the party is focusing on water tariffs and water-related debt after the alleged “failing” of the City to look out for struggling residents, in an attempt to increase party support. But Xanthea Limberg, mayoral committee member for Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services and Energy, vehemently denies that the City has not assisted low-income households with water bills.This includes residents of informal settlements and residents who meet the indigent household criteria. Indigent households, or households which are not able to afford the cost of water, are supplied 10.
Even though water tariffs have been reduced, low-income households who do not qualify as indigent were hard hit by the extreme cost of water during the drought, and are still battling to pay their debt. Using the example of R4 to R24.37 for 6kl of water, the ANC found that the cost of water increased by 600% for households using 6,000 litres of water a month. This increase has placed a burden on these struggling households.
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