Overview
- The DA-installed billboard in Pretoria reads “The ANC showers in hotels, you have no water” with the tagline “Vote DA to put water in your taps.”
- The ANC’s attorneys issued a 12-hour takedown demand, alleging an unauthorised, digitally manipulated image of Premier Panyaza Lesufi and reputational harm.
- DA federal council chair Helen Zille publicly rejected the demand and said the party will not remove the billboard.
- The SACP, the ANC’s Gauteng provincial task team and Cosatu condemned the billboard as misleading, distasteful and a political stunt.
- Reporting points to a likely court fight that could test free political expression, as social media monitoring logged roughly 25,000 X posts tied to the row.