# South Africa Water Crisis: Local Leaders Criticized Over Water Supply

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117908960569078070
- Source account: [@tsheko2020](https://x.com/tsheko2020)
- Source language: Filipino
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:14
- Published: 2026-11-06
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/tl/krisis-sa-tubig-at-kabiguan-ng-mga-pinuno-sa-south-africa.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply) …the whole of South Africa. Just look at the companies that could come here, just look at how much this beauty of ours is said to be worth.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=8) But the failure of our leaders to deliver is very disappointing.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=13) But what is the painful part? Like someone who can't drink water, while the river is right there before their eyes.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=21) Even cows and goats drink better than we do as people.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=28) We ask why, why they want us to live on water tanks.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=34) We know, we know. There's money to be made where there are water tanks.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=41) They trust the money to be made where there are water tanks.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=45) I saw all the boards they put up, decorated with their own pictures.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=49) We get paid in money for tea. We get paid in tea money.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=54) No, not everyone. That's where I got stuck.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=56) Whose? The local ancestors. Hey, hit it so they think I'm a witch today.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=61) They know we're struggling with the fire's real pain.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=65) The truth is, our leaders Because of their failures, they put us in a very difficult situation.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=74) They make us go and protest, to ask for what we need to live.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=81) You know, when the power goes out. We can light candles, we can make a fire.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=86) We’ve already suffered through the hardship of load shedding under the ANC.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=90) But water is a different matter. Water is needed for cooking, washing, and for people to take their pills.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=100) So just leave them to act like animals if they can’t supply us with water from the tap.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=106) They should have decided to install boreholes throughout the residential areas so we wouldn’t have to wait for water tankers that cost 10,000 or 20,000 a day.

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=117) Today we’ll tell them that in just 20 days, it’ll be over.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=123) The contract has only 20 days left. We say?

[2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=128) We say?

[2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/BACnXnr9kFKh/en/south-africa-water-crisis-local-leaders-criticized-over-water-supply?t=131) But then, but then.