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All white DA members must be intensely scrutinised - ANC WCape

Party says Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille responsible for promoting Sam Pienaar to chairperson of subcouncil 6

Patricia Delille has a lot to answer for the rise of the Trojan Horse Pienaar 

22 January 2016

DA's Disciplinary Process is incapable of grasping the gravity of the Trojan Horse Massacre. The Trojan Massacre, claimed the lives of three young people, Jonathan Claasen, aged 21; Shaun Magmoed, aged 15; and Michael Miranda, aged 11, and thirteen adults along with two children who were injured in an ambush at the corner of St. Simon's and Thornton Roads, Athlone.. 

Their death sent forth tremors of grief and protest that the brutality of police and State violence had reached new levels of evil. Its perpetrators such as Sam Pienaar, who, like other evil racists, are now part of the DA machinery, cannot be left at the hands of the inconsequential DA Disciplinary committee that cannot be trusted.

It is Patricia De Lille, both as the Mayor of the Democratic Alliance and leader of the party in the Province who, is responsible for the promotion of its co-architect, Sam Pienaar, from an ordinary councillor to chairperson of subcouncil 6 (Bellville, Belhar, Bellville South), which, as we are now told, came with an increased salary of around R800 000 per annum. She effectively decided to reward Pinaar, instead of showing her the doors of justice.

The DA is consciously and intentionally choosing to evade scrutiny of its white members because they fear what they may find out. They go to the greatest of lengths, targeting ANC leaders with all manner of investigations and scrutiny, but today they are telling us their investigating arm was too short to unearth knowledge that is on records about Pienaar.

As the ANC in the Western Cape, we are instructing the DA and Patricia De Lille to put all its white members under intense scrutiny, their histories, their racist tendencies and vitriol, how they treat their black counterparts and other progressive white people, and let that happen immediately, because with each day that passes, another DA person is caught on the wrong and evil side of history.

Statement issued by the ANC Western Cape, 25 January 2016