The only lies are the ANC's
The ANC, in their so-called ‘investigation' into what they allege is the City of Cape Town's fiscal dumping, yet again proves that they either do not understand how City finances work or that they are so focused on political point-scoring that they dare not let the facts get in the way of deceiving the people of this city.
Their statement, released yesterday, demonstrates that they have jumped to conclusions on inadequate information, conflated separate items and misunderstood or ignored the phasing of projects.
On 24 July, in response to the Mayor's announcement of the City's 93% capital budget spend, the ANC claimed that the City of Cape Town was lying about our spend. They undertook to provide the evidence within a week.
Only two weeks later, after Councillor Sotashe, as a member of the Transport Portfolio Committee, received his Portfolio Committee agenda, have they finally tried to substantiate their claim. Councillor Sotashe, it is evident, has tried to use the Progressive Capital Expenditure Report on the agenda to attempt to substantiate his earlier claims of dishonesty.
ANC claim: "The N2 express service to Mitchells Plain tender of R12,7 million was awarded on 24 June 2013. Within five days of awarding the tender, the city claims to have spent R5,4 million of the budgeted R12,7 million".