Intermittent supply and cuts in Johannesburg’s suburbs and townships will be big issues
The quality of drinking water in Hammanskraal is likely to be a determining factor when residents in the area cast their votes on Monday. Picture: SHONISANI TSHIKALANGE
In Soshanguve, they will be thinking about the times they ran after a tanker for a bucket of water, and the time spent in queues to get water to cook and drink when their taps ran dry. The intermittent power supply and water cuts in Johannesburg’s suburbs and townships will be a major issue in these elections. Soweto and Orange Farm residents have had to endure continuous dark nights due to Eskom cutting power supply after many failed to settle their electricity bills.
“Some of the problems are long-standing, but the awareness about these things is what is different. The political order is different. There is more awareness today of corruption,” he said.“The problems have been there, but people can relate to them now. People are economically under pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic. Jobs have been lost and power supply has been cut.”
He said voters don’t necessarily use their ballots to punish the governing parties in their municipalities. “I see Tshwane continuing to be a hung municipality, I don’t think any party is going to get an outright majority because no-one has been able to do something interesting in Tshwane since the last election,” he said.It would require a lot of explaining should, for instance, the ANC win the city with an outright majority because it has not done anything major to claw the city back, though it deployed a lot of resources in Tshwane during its election campaign.
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