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Actors Who Hated Their Costars
If you dislike someone you work with, you probably keep it to yourself or only tell your closest friends. Some actors, however, are willing to tell the whole world! Here are 26 actors who revealed the costars they hated working with: Discussing the "most difficult celebrity" she's worked with on Watch What Happens Live in 2016, Busy Philipps said, "James Franco and I really didn't get along when we were on Freaks and Geeks. We were 19, and we really, really disliked each other. It's well-documented. He shoved me to the ground once. It was really brutal... We're friends now and we really like each other now, as adults, but as kids, we did not get along." In her memoir Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera wrote, "One of the Glee writers once said that Lea [Michele] and I were like two sides of the same battery, and that about sums us up. We are both strong-willed and competitive — not just with each other but with everyone—and that's not a good mixture. As the show progressed, though, that friendship started to break down, especially as Santana moved from a background character to one with bigger plot lines and more screen time. I think Rachel —erm, I mean Lea— didn't like sharing the spotlight. On top of that, she had a hard time separating work from our outside friendship, whereas it was a lot easier for me. I'm not offended when people offer feedback or criticism, and if things get heated on set, I try to keep perspective." She continued, "We're all stressed, yes, but we're all working toward the same goal, so laugh it off and keep it movin'. Lea was a lot more sensitive, though, and it seemed like she blamed me for anything and everything that went wrong. If I'd complained about anyone or anything, she'd assumed I was bitching about her. Soon, she started to ignore me, and eventually it got to the point where she didn't say a word to me for all of Season 6. Lea and I definitely weren't the best of friends, and I doubt we'll ever sit on her couch and eat kale together again, but the rumors of our 'feud' were blown out of proportion." In the 2023 docuseries The Price of Glee, Naya's dad said that his late daughter always had "trouble with" Lea. He said, "There was always a fight between them. Always. Everybody knew. Everybody saw it. They hated each other but, at the same time, respected each other's talent." Responding to rumors of a feud with Naya on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2014, Lea said, "It's really unbelievable the amount of things that can just be completely made up. And it's really frustrating. The way people like to pit women against each other is really annoying, and it's sad." In 2022, Superbad writer/actor Seth Rogen told Vanity Fair that Jonah Hill "immediately hated costar Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Seth said, "He was like, 'That was fucking with my rhythm. I couldn't perform with that guy.'" Producer Judd Apatow added, "Jonah said, 'I don't like that guy. I don't want him doing it.' And I said, 'That's exactly why we're hiring him. It couldn't be more perfect. The fact that it bothers you is exactly what we want.'" Jonah himself said, "Chris was really, really amazing off the bat. And I think he was really annoying to me at that time." Seinfeld guest star Armin Shimerman "hated" Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards. At the 2017 Florida Supercon, he said, "Hated them. They were non-communicative, ugly, I was the guest star. The episode's called 'The Caddy.' I played a caddy. I played the caddy. I was on that show for six days, five days. Every day, nobody said a word to me except cues. Nobody came up and started a conversation. I was already on Deep Space Nine. I was a series regular on a... TV show. That's not acceptable... If you have a guest star, if you have a day player, if you have an extra, you do not avoid them. You speak to them. We're all human beings together... And those four people on Seinfeld never said boo to me." He also alleged that, once, when the gaffers had to redo the lighting, he was sitting between Jerry and Julia while they waited for half an hour. They talked to each other the entire time, never once acknowledging him. He said, "It was as though I wasn't there. So, I'm not very fond of them." Sarah Silverman also had a terrible time guest-starring on Seinfeld. On a 2021 episode of her podcast, she said, "I was Kramer's girlfriend, and I will tell you this: Everyone was really nice, but I had a bad experience with Michael Richards. The first scene I shot, I'm in bed with Kramer, and he's scared because he hears noises. He says something like, 'What was that noise?' Then my line is, 'It's probably the wind.'" However, she flubbed her line and said, "It's probably the rain." Sarah continued, "This guy, Michael Richards, breaks character and just starts ripping me a new asshole... He points to the window and he goes, 'Do you see rain in that window? Do you see rain in that window?' and I go, 'No,' and he says, 'Then why did you say rain? It's not rain. There's no rain in that window! The line is wind!" She felt a "lump in [her] throat" and was upset he got away with treating her that way. The next day, while shooting a diner scene, he acted polite and tried to talk to her. She recalled, "And finally, I just cut him off, and I say, 'I don't give a fuck!'... And he's kind of stunned, and it's like he snapped out of it a little. He understood what I was saying was, 'You don't talk like that and act like nothing happened. I'm not going to be one of those people that joins in and acts like nothing happened. That was shitty behavior." Afterwards, he was more gracious. According to a 2016 Us Weekly report, Castle costars Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic "completely despise each other." A source alleged, "They will not speak when they are off set, and this has been going on for seasons now... This season, it got so out of hand they made Stana and Nathan go to couples counseling together." However, Stana's reps told the outlet that she "had absolutely no issues" with Nathan, and his reps didn't respond to their request for comment. On a 2015 episode of the podcast B.E.E., Alex Pettyfer revealed which Magic Mike costar allegedly had an issue with him. He said, "It's true. Channing Tatum does not like me, and for many reasons — many being my own fault." The problems started with the "bad boy" reputation that preceded Alex. He said, "[Channing] was not sold on me being a part of this film because he looked upon me as being a risk." He continued, "I didn't speak on the movie [set]. I was scared to speak. I actually did my work, and I sat in the corner and listened to music because I had been told that anything I do is wrong by my reps. I was very insecure as a human being, and that also gave me a bad rep because they said, 'Oh, Alex thinks he's fucking better than everyone else because he doesn't speak to anyone,' and that's not true. I was just genuinely nervous and scared to be myself." When everyone returned to set for reshoots, Channing "had already told everyone he didn't like [Alex], and what Channing says goes, because he's a movie star." Then, things soured even further when Alex ended up owing one of Channing's friends unpaid rent, so Chaning sent him a "negative email." On the set of The Notebook, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams argued a lot, and it reached a point where he felt he couldn't work with her. Director Nick Cassavetes told VH1, "Maybe I'm not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there's 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, 'Nick, come here.' And he's doing a scene with Rachel, and he says, 'Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?' I said, 'What?' He says, 'I can't. I can't do it with her. I'm just not getting anything from this.'" Nick continued, "We went into a room with a producer; they started screaming and yelling at each other. I walked out. At that point, I was smoking cigarettes. I smoked a cigarette, and everybody came out like, 'All right, let's do this.' And it got better after that, you know? They had it out...I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character, and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open. The rest of the film wasn't smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing." Of course, that's not the end of the story! Ryan and Rachel famously experienced an "enemies to lovers" romance, and they dated for two years after the movie's release. In 2024, Laura Benanti told That's a Gay Ass Podcast that she "never liked" Zachary Levi, whom she costarred with in a 2016 Broadway run of She Loves Me. She said, "Everyone was like, 'He's so great!' And I was like, 'No, he's not. He's sucking up all the fucking energy in this room.'" He tried "to mansplain everybody's part to them" and kept trying to host dance parties. She said, "He really sucked everybody in with his dance party energy, like, 'We're doing a dance party at half-hour.' I was like, 'Good luck, have fun.'" She also called Zachary out for his Instagram Live where he implied that their fellow costar Gavin Creel died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine. She said, "For him to use Gavin's memory — a person he was not friends with — to use his memory for his political agenda and to watch him try to make himself cry until he had one single tear, which he did not wipe away, I was like, 'Fuck you forever.'" In a 2017 YouTube video, Ashley Tisdale revealed that she and her High School Musical costar Lucas Grabeel "hated each other" while filming. She said, "We were not close. We were not good friends... I think we just didn't know each other, and I was definitely, like, a lot like Sharpay... I have to say, after we wrapped, though, I've always had a love for [Lucas]." In 2015, Gillian Anderson told the Guardian that there were "definitely periods" where she and her The X-Files costar David Duchovny "hated each other." She added, "Hate is too strong a word. We didn't talk for long periods of time. It was intense, and we were both pains in the arse for the other at various times... I'm not going to get into it. I'm not even going to begin to get into that. But we are closer today than we ever have been." In 2014, Freddie Prinze Jr. told ABC News, "I did 24. It was terrible. I hated every moment of it. Kiefer [Sutherland] was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face. I think everyone that's worked with him has said that. I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped." He continued, "I went and worked for Vince McMahon at the WWE, for Christ's sake, and it was a crazier job than working with Kiefer. But, at least, he was cool and tall. I didn't have to take my shoes off to do scenes with him, which they made me do. Just put the guy on an apple box, or don't hire me next time. You know I'm 6 feet, and he's 5'4." In a since-deleted Instagram post from 2016, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said, "This is my final week of shooting #FastAndFurious8. There's no other franchise that gets my blood boiling more than this one. An incredible hard working crew. UNIVERSAL has been great partners as well. My female co-stars are always amazing and I love 'em. My male co-stars however are a different story. Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't. The ones that don't are too chicken shit to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses. When you watch this movie next April and it seems like I'm not acting in some of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling — you're right. Bottom line is it'll play great for the movie and fits this Hobbs character that's embedded in my DNA extremely well." The post led to speculation of a feud between him and Vin Diesel. Then, in 2018, The Rock confirmed that the two didn't film any scenes together. He told Rolling Stone, "That is correct. We were not in any scenes together.' Detailing how things unraveled, he said, "Vin and I had a few discussions, including an important face-to-face in my trailer. And what I came to realize is that we have a fundamental difference in philosophies on how we approach moviemaking and collaborating. It took me some time, but I'm grateful for that clarity. Whether we work together again or not." In 2021, Vin shared his side, telling Men's Health, "It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs character. My approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, Okay, we're going to take Dwayne Johnson, who's associated with wrestling, and we're going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard his character as someone that they don't know — Hobbs hits you like a ton of bricks. That's something that I'm proud of, that aesthetic. That took a lot of work. We had to get there, and sometimes, at that time, I could give a lot of tough love. Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything I'd have to do in order to get performances in anything I'm producing.' Thankfully, they were able to work things out, and in 2023, the actors finally laid their feud to rest. The Rock returned to the franchise for Fast X. He tweeted, "Last summer Vin and I put all the past behind us. We'll lead with brotherhood and resolve - and always take care of the franchise, characters & FANS that we love." In 2016, Diane Kruger told BuzzFeed that her Troy costar Peter O'Toole "wasn't very pleasant" to work with. She said, "It kind of sucked. He's dead, so I can say that. But he wasn't the most pleasant person." In Leslie Jordan's career, there was only one actor he didn't enjoy working with — Newhart actor Mary Frann. When he guest-starred on the show in Season 1, he was "warned" about her. In 2021, he told Los Angeles magazine, "The set was so loose and relaxed, and we were having such a good time, but then [the] door opened, and she came in. And so I went that afternoon to my agency, Cunningham, Escott, and Depine, who handled me for commercials. And Mr. Escott, T.J. Escott, unbeknownst to me, had been married to Mary Frann. I didn't know that, and I walked in there and said, 'What a bitch!' and everybody in the office was going 'Shhhh!' And then from the office, T.J. said, 'I agree with everything he's saying!'" When The Vampire Diaries first began filming, Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley "despised each other so much that it read as love." In 2019, Nina told the Directionally Challenged podcast, "We really just didn't get along the first five months of shooting... We ended up getting to a good place, and it was fine. Of everyone, I think I probably see him the most and hang out with him the most. We're probably the closest." Responding to her comments, Paul told Entertainment Tonight, "We totally clashed. We didn't [get along]. Creatively, it just wasn't in sync. The fans would never have known that. We're basically driving each other insane and then after a few seasons, we developed this absolute mutual love." Charlize Theron reportedly had a contentious working relationship with costar Tom Hardy on Mad Max: Fury Road. According to Mark Goellnicht, a camera operator who was interviewed for the book Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, the actors argued after Tom was three hours late, while Charlize had been waiting on set in costume the entire time. Mark said, "[Tom] was quite aggressive. She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point because then she said, 'I want someone as protection.' She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time." In an interview for the same tell-all book, Charlize corroborated Mark's account. She said, "It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending a woman producer [Denise Di Novi] down could maybe equalize some of it. A lot of what I felt was coming my way from Doug [Mitchell, another producer] was … oh, [screw] it. I'll just say it. It was a man forgiving another man for really bad behavior, and I didn't feel safe." She said that, after the director barred Denise from set, she "still felt pretty naked and alone" and like she was "walking on thin ice." Charlize said, "We were either fighting, or we were icing each other – I don't know which one is worse – and [our costars] had to deal with it in the back. It was horrible! We should not have done that; we should have been better… It was not a conducive working environment, I apologize profusely...I don't want to make excuses for bad behavior, but it was a tough shoot. Now, I have a very clear perspective on what went down. I don't think I had that clarity when we were making the movie. I was in survival mode; I was really scared shitless." However, Tom said, "She's a very serious actor. So, I don't see why she would ever be intimidated by me or in any way feel frightened. I think that was more bollocks." In 1993, Julia Roberts told the New York Times her I Love Trouble costar Nick Nolte could be "completely charming and very nice" but "he's also completely disgusting." She said, "From the moment I met him, we sort of gave each other a hard time, and naturally, we get on each other's nerves... He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems [to] go out of his way to repel people. He's a kick." In 2022, Nick told Insider that he hadn't reached out to her to bury the hatchet, "though it's buried." He said, "I mean, it was absurd what we went through. It was partly my fault and a little bit of hers. Julia got married at the beginning of that film, and it was one of those things where I just approached it all wrong." In 2014, Jennie Garth confirmed longstanding rumors of an on-set feud with her Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Shannen Doherty to E! News. She said, "We were locked in this sound stage for 14-16 hours every day. There were times when we loved each other, and there were times when we wanted to claw each other's eyes out." In her book Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde, Jennie added, "It was more of just young girls finding their way and finding their individual voices. Shannen and I are both Aries women, we're both very strong, independent women, so we butt heads a lot. Now, as grown women, we happen to get along as well." Patricia Neal was reportedly originally "thrilled" to work with George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's. However, she soon saw that, since the last time she'd seen him, "he had grown so cold and conceited." Eventually, she "hated" him. In Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson, she said, "On one occasion, Blake [Edwards, the director] and George almost had a fistfight. We were trying to block a scene, and George wanted to change everything that Blake had planned, and George got so terrible that Blake almost hit him. I got them to stop, but I think George got his way. I hated him from that moment on." In his 2014 memoir Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography, Neil Patrick Harris reportedly called his Purple People Eater costar Dustin Diamond "one of the more unpleasant people in show business." He also reportedly said Dustin would go "out of his way to offend pretty much every person he comes across." On a 2023 episode of her podcast Bitch Sesh, Casey Wilson said that her The Santa Clauses costar Tim Allen was "such a bitch" to work with. She called it the "worst, truly single worst experience [she's] ever had with a costar ever." She said, "[In our scene] I'm supposed to throw things at him. He's coming down the chimney, obviously as Santa. And I am woken up thinking there's an intruder — basically like a home invasion scene...I basically hear him — he goes, 'You gotta tell her to stop stepping on my lines.' The producer turns to me with horror on his face and has to walk one foot to me, and he goes, 'Tim would ask that you stopped stepping on his lines.'" She also alleged Tim was "so fucking rude" to her post-filming and "never made eye contact, never said anything." In 2016, Amy Hill told the AV Club that she didn't like working on The Cat in the Hat because of her costar Mike Myers's behavior. She said, "He had his handlers dress his trailer, and his area was all covered with tenting because he didn't want anybody seeing him. It was so weird. It was just the worst. It was like I was there forever, and my daughter was 2 and a half, and I felt like I was missing her first everything. I was miserable. I just thought it was really rude for him to not take all of us into consideration." She also said, "It was just a horrible, nightmarish experience. I don't think he got to know anybody. He'd just be with his people and walk away. People would come, and then he'd stand there. There was a guy who held his chocolates in a little Tupperware. Whenever he needed chocolate, he'd come running over and give him a chocolate. That's what divas are like, I guess. Or people who need therapy." Richard Gere originally played Chico in The Lords of Flatbush, but he had a lot of tension with lead actor Sylvester Stallone that led to his firing. In a Q&A, Slyvester said, "We never hit it off. He would strut around in his oversized motorcycle jacket like he was the baddest knight at the round table. One day, during an improv, he grabbed me (we were simulating a fight scene) and got a little carried away. I told him in a gentle fashion to lighten up, but he was completely in character and impossible to deal with." "Then, we were rehearsing at Coney Island, and it was lunchtime, so we decided to take a break, and the only place that was warm was in the backseat of a Toyota. I was eating a hotdog, and he climbs in with a half a chicken covered in mustard with grease nearly dripping out of the aluminum wrapper. I said, 'That thing is going to drip all over the place.' He said, 'Don't worry about it.' I said, 'If it gets on my pants, you're gonna know about it.' He proceeds to bite into the chicken, and a small, greasy river of mustard lands on my thigh. I elbowed him in the side of the head and basically pushed him out of the car. The director had to make a choice: one of us had to go, one of us had to stay. Richard was given his walking papers and to this day seriously dislikes me. He even thinks I'm the individual responsible for the gerbil rumor. Not true…but that's the rumor," he said. In 1987, Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro costarred in Angel Heart. Then, in 2019, Mickey reportedly told the Italian show Non è la D'Urso that they didn't get along on set. He said that he used to look up to Robert, but then the other actor told him, "I think it's better if we don't talk." Mickey said, "Now I don't look up to him no more; I look through him. I came up from the shit. He doesn't know that life. I lived that fucking life, so every time I look him in the face, I look right through his asshole." Mickey also alleged that Robert prevented him from being cast in The Irishman. He said, "Marty Scorsese wanted to meet me for a movie with Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Robert De Niro. The casting person told my manager that Robert De Niro said he refused to work with me in a movie." However, in a statement, Stan Rosenfield, Robert's representative, said, "According to The Irishman producers, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and casting director Ellen Lewis, Mickey Rourke was never asked to be in The Irishman nor was he ever even thought of, discussed or considered to be in the movie." Then, in a since-deleted Instagram post from 2020, Mickey reportedly said, "Hey Robert De Niro, that's right i am talking to you, you big fucking crybaby. A friend of mine just recently told me that a few months back you're quoted as saying to newspapers 'Mickey Rourke's a liar he talks all kind of shit.' Listen Guy in the movies, you're the 1st person that ever called me a liar and it was in a newspaper. Let me tell you something, you punk ass, when i see you i swear to God on my Grandmother, on my brother and all my dogs, i gonna embarrass you severally 100%. Mickey Rourke, as God is my witness." And finally, on the 2024 debut episode of their podcast Call It What It Is, Grey's Anatomy costars Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington admitted that they were far from friends at first. Jessica said, "I did not like you. I did not, not like you. When I first met you, I had just had a baby and was coming back to work, and I was feeling very insecure about pretty much everything. I might have shown up to set, and people were atwitter about some beautiful new woman coming to the show. I think these things can happen where all of a sudden I was sitting across from this beautiful young woman and not feeling myself, and I was like, 'Mm, I don't know that I'm going to like her.'" Camila said, "I realized kind of quickly that you didn't like me. Let's call it the burger truck incident of 2012. There was a lovely burger truck, and I snapped a picture of the truck and was like, 'I'm gonna post it on Twitter, and tag Shonda [Rhimes] and say thank you for the burger truck,' which was very polite. Um, someone wasn't a fan of it..[In the picture] you were eating a burger like everyone else. And you were like, 'You need to ask me before you post.' And I was horrified because I'm new and terrified, and this is Jessica Capshaw. And I was like, 'Okay, she full-on hates me because burgergate happened, and the vibes were not good.'" However, there's a happy ending! They ended up becoming friends when they invited a bunch of people to get sushi, and everyone but the two of them canceled. Jessica said, "We really did become friends immediately."
BBC News
6 days ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
Preston crackdown on bus-blocking parking on six streets
Highways chiefs are to crackdown on residents whose parking blocks buses from getting down streets. Round-the-clock bans on waiting will be brought in parts of Preston, with double-yellow lines expected to follow. Thorntrees Avenue, Thornpark Drive, Hawthorn Crescent, Parkthorn Road, Campion Drive and The Campions - all off the A5085 Blackpool Road in Lea - will be included in the scheme. The restrictions will cover tight bends, areas close to junctions and other narrow sections of roads. Lancashire County Council said the move was planned "to prevent vehicles from parking obstructively and creating problems with bus manoeuvres". A consultation on the plans ends on Friday. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram. You can also send story ideas via Whatsapp to 0808 100 2230.
Miami Herald
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Former ‘Real Housewives of Miami' star Lea Black shares post after losing husband
Lea Black reached out to friends, family and fans Tuesday after word spread that her husband had passed away. Top criminal defense lawyer Roy Black, whose clients included numerous celebrities and prominent figures, died at age 80 Monday after battling an unknown illness. 'Thank you for all your blessings,' the former 'Real Housewives of Miami' star wrote on social media. Fans were introduced to the power couple and their young son RJ in the first season of 'RHOM,' which first aired in 2011. They lived in a sprawling, historic mansion in Coral Gables, and Lea gave the Miami Herald a grand tour that year. The pair's annual gala turned into a major plot point after ex cast member Cristy Rice crashed the charity event with two people, and a feud between her and Lea ensued for many, many episodes. Lea, 69, ended up leaving in Season 3 and did not show up for the Peacock reboot in 2021. The Texas native born Lisa Douthit went on to run a successful eponymous skincare company. The philanthropist added that details of a tribute and celebration of life for Roy will be forthcoming 'in a few weeks.' A service will reportedly be held at the New York native's alma mater, the University of Miami. In the comments, condolences poured in from prominent locals like chef Ingrid Hoffman, artist Romero Britto and politician Michael Gongora as well as from former castmates Lisa Hochstein, Karent Sierra and Romain Zago. A few of Roy's onetime clients also chimed in with good wishes, like Joe Francis. In 2008, the 'Girls Gone Wild' creator pleaded no contest to charges of videotaping underage girls, and was released after serving 11 months. The Blacks married in 1994, three years after Lea served as a juror in the highly publicized William Kennedy Smith rape trial, which ended in Roy getting the scion acquitted. The ex reality star told the Herald Tuesday that her late husband always 'fought for the underdog and people's civil rights,' regardless of who they were. 'He understood that we all have our flaws,' she said. 'He was able to separate people's behavior from their character. He wanted the best for everyone.'
The Citizen
19-07-2025
- Politics
- The Citizen
DA lodges human rights complaint over Merafong water crisis
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Merafong has officially submitted a formal complaint to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), calling for urgent intervention in the municipality's persistent water crisis. This follows continued service failures that have left many residents — particularly in high-lying areas of Carletonville, Fochville, and surrounding suburbs — without a stable water supply for weeks and, in some cases, even months. By this week, areas such as Carletonville Extension 8 were again without water. 'Paul Kruger Street also does not have water. This situation is making me really angry as it has been going on for five weeks,' a resident known only as Lea expressed on social media on July 11. According to the DA's Merafong constituency head, Ina Cilliers, the formal SAHRC submission includes 560 affidavits from affected residents, detailed survey data, and other documentation showing the sustained violation of residents' constitutional rights. 'For months, the high-lying areas have been without a stable water supply, with some taps being dry for over three months. This is a clear violation of our residents' human rights,' said Cilliers. The DA cites Section 27 of the Constitution, which guarantees access to sufficient water as a basic human right. Alarmingly, some of the most severely affected areas are also those with the highest payment compliance — often exceeding 90%. The party attributes the ongoing crisis to a combination of infrastructure failure by the Merafong City Local Municipality and deliberate water throttling by Rand Water. As a result, while some wards have relatively stable supply, others are subjected to long-term dry taps. Adding to residents' frustration is the complete lack of transparency. Neither Rand Water nor the municipality has provided clarity on water flow data or the decision-making process behind water distribution. 'Residents are left in the dark, both literally and figuratively,' Cilliers noted. In response, the DA is escalating the issue at multiple levels: In Parliament, DA MPs are putting direct pressure on Rand Water for answers. In the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, the party continues to hold the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) accountable. A resident-led survey is ongoing to map outage patterns across affected areas. A petition has also been submitted to National Treasury, urging urgent intervention into Merafong's debt, which may be contributing to the throttled supply. 'The DA Gauteng has made it clear that this is not a partisan issue but one about dignity, life, and basic human rights,' Cilliers concluded. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Germany plan to make better use of Schüller against France
Germany's Lea Schueller celebrates scoring her side's second goal during the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Group C soccer match between Germany and Denmark at St. Jakob-Park. Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa Germany want to make better use of forward Lea Schüller in the women's Euro 2025 quarter-finals against France on Saturday. "That's the focus. Lea has an impressive goal tally. She's a striker who doesn't need to be on the ball often to be efficient," assistant coach Maren Meinert said in a news conference on Tuesday. Advertisement The Bayern Munich striker has scored a total of 54 goals in 78 international matches, but two goals at the current Euros in Switzerland. "We want to bring Lea into the game, she's an incredibly important player who scores goals with very few touches," midfielder Sjoeke Nüsken said. "If we can improve the quality of our crosses and set Lea up better, then we hope she'll score more goals," she added. So far, the record Euros winners Germany have relied more on wingers Klara Bühl and Jule Brand. "We also have players in defensive midfield who can definitely be dangerous in front of the goal. Of course, we should also utilize that," Meinert said. Advertisement After a day and a half off, the team resumed training on Tuesday morning. Coach Christian Wück began with a speech to the players. He also took captain Janina Minge and her deputy Nüsken aside for a few words. Germany ended the group stage with a 4-1 defeat to Sweden, their biggest loss at a women's European championship. After the game, the team held a crisis meeting.
