By Akani Nkuna
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi on Wednesday night apologised after drawing backlash for saying earlier in the day that he sometimes had to book into hotels to bathe during prolonged water outages in the Johannesburg area.
“The water challenges we are experiencing inconvenience everyone equally. No one is immune to the frustration and disruption caused by water shortages, and I regret any impression that suggested otherwise,” he said in his apology, posted on X.
Lesufi made the remarks about having to bathe in hotels at a media briefing earlier in the day. He was briefing journalists about an oversight visit to Johannesburg’s Brixton Reservoir, alongside Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina, Deputy Minister David Mahlobo, and Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero.
“People think that if there is no water…our families get special water. We do not. We also go through [the same]. In some instances, I had to go
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