Tshwane’s utilities: who should oversee them?

The DA favoured separate utilities oversight; ActionSA opposed the split, according to October records published by the Tshwane Residents’ Alliance for Civic Coordination (TRACC).

The three pre-election summaries cover September and October 2026; the DA and ActionSA versions remain unsigned.

On 7 November, the DA authorised nationally coordinated coalition talks around accountable government and service delivery.

The DA proposed separate oversight for water and sanitation and for energy and electricity, plus a waste portfolio and mayoral committee member. Mayoral candidate Cilliers Brink attended its 7 October session with councillors; a Municipal Public Accounts Committee councillor answered the oversight questions.

Councillor Henriette Fröhlich represented ActionSA on 15 October; Nasiphi Moya did not attend. The party offered the mayor’s weekly service-delivery meeting and a CSIR platform instead of dividing Utilities oversight. It argued decentralisation could increase meetings and miscommunication.

Executive coordination differs from councillors scrutinising service performance.

FF Plus’s 30 September record supports dedicated utilities committees with independent technical support. It bears regional leader Willie Spies’s signature dated 18 October, confirming the summary of its responses and consenting to publication. The signature does not establish adoption by a new council.

DA and ActionSA left the session commitments negotiable. These records establish no agreement.