Checked 27 October 2026
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What does the evidence show?
Why it is Verified
Sewage works clean wastewater before it goes back into rivers. In July 2022 the Auditor-General's acting Gauteng leader, Dorothy Rampopo, named the Rooiwal works as the cause. The Auditor-General's 2024-25 records list only one Tshwane case of harm to the public. They call it pollution of water sources and say it was first raised with the City on 15 December 2021. We take it to be the Rooiwal case, because it is the only one and was raised months before the 2022 reports. We did not find what the Auditor-General asked the City to do.
Auditor-General of South Africa. Published 24 June 2026.
Where to look: Material irregularities data (data.material_irregularities, 14 entries for period 2024-25): only one has impact_element 'Likely substantial harm to general public'; its notification_date is '2021-12-15' and its status_of_mi is 'Appropriate action being taken to resolve MI'. The page is a JavaScript app; the saved file is the data it shows (api/municipalities/3-city-of-tshwane-metro).
Auditor-General of South Africa. Published 24 June 2026.
Where to look: Printed page 202 (PDF page 206), City of Tshwane dashboard, 'Material irregularities': '14 material irregularities'; under 'Appropriate action': 'Pollution of water sources, resulting in harm to public (1)'. Printed page 173 (PDF page 177): 'We have issued 28 MI notifications to five metros (Buffalo City, City of Tshwane, eThekwini, Mangaung and Nelson Mandela Bay) ... relating to the poor management of wastewater treatment works and landfill sites ...'
Auditor-General of South Africa. Published 28 April 2026.
Where to look: Slide 49 (PDF page 49), 'Material irregularities (MIs) identified and status', Tshwane: '14 MIs on non-compliance resulting in' ... '1 Substantial harm to general public'; status '3 Appropriate action in progress to resolve MI'. Slide 47 (PDF page 47), 'Infrastructure delivery: Project visit observations', 'Rooiwal WWTW conditional assessment (sanitation)': 'WWTW drastically overwhelmed'; 'Discharge of non-compliant effluent in Apier River'; 'Facility operates with unlined holding ponds, lacks bio-monitoring programme, and invasive vegetation'.
Sowetan. Published 13 July 2022.
Where to look: Body paragraph 5 (Gauteng 2020/2021 audit outcomes released by 'the acting business unit leader for Gauteng Dorothy Rampopo'); paragraph 9 ('we have identified material irregularity relating to the substantial harm to the general public at the City of Tshwane where the municipality has failed to provide the residents of Hammanskraal with clean water'); paragraph 10 ('This is due to the non-compliant discharge at the Rooival wastewater treatment works,' Rampopo said). Paragraph 1 is the lead after the photo caption ('The City of Tshwane has been flagged by the auditor-general as the worst performing metro in Gauteng...'). The article spells it 'Rooival'.
Daily Maverick. Published 28 June 2022.
Where to look: Paragraph beginning 'In its breakdown, the AG said a material irregularity was issued to the City of Tshwane based on "harm to the public due to the poor quality of water supplied to Hammanskraal residents"'; the lead says the report covers the 2020-2021 municipal audit outcomes. Dated copy also kept at evidence/dm-2022-06-28-ag-eight-metros.
What did the council do, and when?
Who ran the council
Mayor: Nasiphi Moya (ActionSA). Council run by ActionSA, ANC, EFF. From Oct 2024 to present.
TimesLIVE. Published 9 October 2024.
Where to look: Paragraph 1 (ActionSA's Moya elected mayor); paragraph 2 (122 votes to 86); paragraph 8 (she was acting mayor after Brink's removal; counting the 'LISTEN HERE' line)
TimesLIVE. Published 12 October 2026.
Where to look: Paragraph 2 ('The ANC/EFF/ActionSA coalition took over in October 2024 ... Nasiphi Moya was elected as executive mayor')
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