MK Party: water tankers are a patch, not a plan
Duduzane Zuma says emergency deliveries will not fix the water crisis, as the party campaigns on rebuilding infrastructure instead.
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party says water tankers are a stopgap and not a solution to the country’s water crisis, with its First Deputy President Duduzane Zuma arguing that the answer lies in rebuilding the infrastructure itself.
In a post on the party’s official X account on Wednesday, the MK Party said Zuma had made the point that tankers are “only a temporary measure, not a solution”, and that the party proposes upgrading and expanding water infrastructure to address the crisis “at its root”.
The post carried the party’s campaign tags, including #LGE2026, pointing to next year’s local government elections, and #MasibuyeleBantwini, a call to return to the people.
The statement sets out the party’s position plainly: it is against relying on emergency water deliveries as a standing arrangement, and for investment in the pipes, pumps and treatment works that are supposed to keep taps running.
The post did not say which municipalities or provinces the party has in mind, what the upgrade would cost, how it would be funded, or over what period it would be delivered. It also gave no detail on how the party would govern the water function differently in councils it might lead.
Water delivery sits with municipalities and their water boards, and the failures that leave residents queueing at tankers are felt most acutely in metros and smaller towns where supply is intermittent. The MK Party’s intervention frames that daily experience as a political question rather than an operational one.
What the party has not done, at least in this post, is attach a number, a timeline or a named programme to the proposal. Readers weighing the pledge will have to wait for the detail, or for the party’s manifesto and council candidates to supply it.
The Enquirer put the questions raised by the post to the MK Party and will report its answer.
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