She said she had tried to share Leeuwenhof as much as she could with community organisations‚ including those helping the disabled and attempting to create jobs. In 2014‚ she allowed Oranjezicht City Farm to run its market at Leeuwenhof before it found a new home in Granger Bay.
Zille said she was not getting preferential treatment with the installation of the purifier. “If there is plentiful surface water‚ the benefit of harvesting it and using it for all purposes falls to the citizens of Cape Town who then have more municipal water that they can use‚” she said.
And when she left the official residence in Oranjezicht‚ she would not take the purifier with her.
“It’s going to stay in on Leeuwenhof‚ which is a property of public works‚ and will benefit all future people who will work and live there‚” said Zille.