I would like to respond to a misguided comment made in the Business Day editorial published on March 12 (DA Needs to Find its Soul). In this piece the writer makes an ill-informed remark: "One of the central planks of the DA message has been that like it or not, it is an effective, incorruptible administration. But that has been bruised by Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s disastrous handling of the Cape Town water crisis." If there is any evidence of corruption in the management of the water crisis there is a duty on any person who has evidence in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act to take such evidence to authorities immediately. I have become used to being blamed for many things but one thing I cannot be blamed for is that it hasn’t rained. Climate change has resulted in Cape Town facing its worst drought in history due to three years of below annual average rainfall. Cape Town finds itself in an unprecedented situation where finger-pointing and blame is the norm, b...
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