[3] Waters attended Bedfordview High School before attaining a diploma in human resources from Technikon Witwatersrand.

[4] Waters began his professional political career on the Kempton Park town council, winning a landmark by-election against the National Party in 1997.

[7] Waters was a senior member of Ghaleb Cachalia's unsuccessful campaign to unseat John Moodey as the provincial leader of the DA in Gauteng in 2017.

[8] In June 2019, James Selfe announced that he would be retiring as the chairperson of the DA's Federal Council.

[14] In June 2021, Waters was appointed as the DA's Gauteng East Campaign Manager for the 2021 local government elections.

[15] He resigned from the post on 11 October after the DA decided to take down its controversial election posters in Phoenix, KwaZulu-Natal.

[4] He was vocally critical of the ruling ANC's decision to disband the amalgamated Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences units in 2006.

He has labeled the plan anti-poor and irresponsible: As always, the poor will be hardest hit, because the NHI does nothing to address the crisis in public health care.

That crisis has been caused by a shortage of nurses and doctors, inadequate facilities and resources, and weak management systems.