DA to take Demarcation Board decision on review
27 August 2015
The DA will today take on review the Municipal Demarcation Board’s (MDB) decision to go ahead with its unilateral municipal demarcations of outer boundaries on account that this decision is fraught with bias, riddled with party-political motivations and is, therefore, irrational and should be set aside.
The MDB, the regulatory authority that is charged with determining the boundaries of municipalities across the country, should do so independently and without party-political interference.
This comes after the MDB, on 19 August 2015, wrote to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan, and informed him that the Board had, in fact, already made its decision on the 17th and 18th of August 2015 to confirm all previous decisions, without exception. This means that the Board has, in direct contravention of due process, completely ignored the objections submitted by the DA and other persons/groups, to the Board.
As such the DA will make an application to the High Court to challenge the decisions made by the Board based on the irrationality of the decision in and of itself and the following concerns: