This follows accusations that the City of Tshwane had ignored warnings to refurbish the Rooiwal treatment plant.

Addressing the National Press Club on Friday, few hours after he accompanied President Cyril Ramaphosa to Hammanskraal, which is in the midst of a cholera outbreak, Brink defended himself and the DA's coalition leadership in the City, saying the problems in Rooiwal were known as far back as 2004 when the ANC governed the metro.

"The warnings came first in 2004, 2008 and again in 2011, but these calls for refurbishing Rooiwal were ignored by the ANC," Brink said.

While the DA came into governance from 2016 with a coalition government, Brink reiterated that the plans to fix the Rooiwal plant would now cost R4 billion and the project will run up to 2026.

Brink furthermore said the accusations that he had no desire to solve the dilapidated roads, stormwater drainage and other infrastructure system were false.

I walked the dusty streets that have never been tarred and the lack of service delivery in Tshwane matches the decline in the City's revenue collection," Brink added.

Before being sworn in as the mayor of Tshwane on the 28th of March 2023, Brink served as a member of parliament of the official opposition, the Democratic Alliance (DA).