WATCH: Mbeki’s ‘bodyguard’ swaps water bottles before his KZN speech

It seems the former president just prefers to drink his own water. While addressing the OR Tambo memorial lecture in 2017, Mbeki refused to drink water offered to him by Mmasechaba Ndlovu, who was an MC of the event.

“Not this water, this water,” he said as he took his own bottled water, much to the audience’s laughter.It was reported earlier this year that acting eThekwini mayor Fawzia Peer being rushed to hospital after drinking “poisoned” bottled water. The news was first shared by eThekwini Democratic Alliance caucus leader Nicole Graham, who said at the time: “The speaker just announced that there is paraffin in someone’s water bottle and told us not to drink the water. The deputy mayor just left abruptly covering her mouth. What the hell just happened?! I think we just witnessed someone try to poison Fawzia Peer. The mood in Durban council remains strangely cavalier.

“I’m informed that Fawzia Peer has been hospitalised after drinking poisoned/contaminated water that was placed on her desk in a water bottle during today’s Council meeting. How the hell do we work in these conditions?” she later said. The bottle was taken for testing at eThekwini’s municipal laboratory and Peer returned to work the following day after being treated for burns to her lips, tongue, and throat.For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for

Good act our leaders should provide water for themselves .

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