Midvaal - Farming communities in Midvaal complained to the ANC's Gauteng leadership on Sunday about a lack of service delivery in their area.
African National Congress chairman Paul Mashatile sat down with some residents of Kromdraai Farm as part of the party's door-to-door campaign.
An elderly man who has lived in a corrugated iron shack there since 1973, said residents were struggling to get water.
Only one water tanker supplied the small informal settlement.
This was supplied by the Sedibeng district.
Some residents claimed they paid R200 a month for water, and others said they were denied water altogether.
According to the ANC, the residents had lived on the farm for 50 years, but the Democratic Alliance, which runs the Midvaal municipality, was refusing to relocate them and refusing to provide them with services.
Mashatile asked them to put their trust in the ANC.
“The ANC wants you to live like other people,” he said.
“Being here is like being a squatter the rest of your life.”
Residents living on the neighbouring Herold's Farm also complained about a lack services.
They were building their own toilets because they were not being supplied with anything.
Mashatile said the residents living on the farm were no longer working there so they had to go to surrounding areas to find piece work.
The ANC Gauteng launched its 6000-strong Moses Kotane brigade of volunteers last month.
On Sunday, the volunteers started door-to-door campaigning in Sicelo.
Teams of volunteers would go to all 13 wards in the area. - Sapa