Hit a nerve but don't forfeit facts

The DA’s motorway billboard offsetting premier Panyaza Lesufi’s now infamous "I even bathe in a hotel" comment, with the DA’s promise to provide water, is fascinating on multiple levels.

- KEVIN RITCHIE

It shows how effective political messaging can be when it identifies a single issue and strikes a nerve.

Whether the ANC succeeds in its court bid to get it removed remains to be seen because (a) Lesufi did say it and (b) Gauteng is suffering from an ongoing and highly inconvenient water "shedding" primarily due to the incumbent government (national, provincial and municipal)'s failure to either maintain the reticulation infrastructure or invest in new.

It's not something the ANC want to be reminding everyone of as the country gears up to choose new municipal leaders before the end of the year.