NEW: Water affairs minister skips Parliament's water crisis meeting

Minister of Water Affairs Nomvula Mokonyane was not present to hear the outrage about South Africa's drought and water crisis at a heated committee meeting in parliament on Wednesday.

 






''In this climate we would have needed her to attend," said DA MP Nosima Balindlela. Mokonyane was away on official business in Iran with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Without the customary glasses of water at hand because of the strike at parliament, Balindlela expressed condolences to Deputy Minister Pam Tshwete whose mother died at the weekend, but said she expected Mokonyane to have made an effort to attend given that three provinces had already declared disaster zones.


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