ANC destabilising Tlokwe council

The ANC today again tried to take control of Tlokwe illegally by switching council agendas and sneaking in a motion of no-confidence in the DA Executive Mayor. An independent councillor was forced to leave the council chamber in an artificial attempt to achieve a majority in the council.

The meeting to remove the DA Mayor could not be constituted since it was not quorate.

The ANC councillors then proceeded, without the council being quorate, to debate the salaries of MMC members. They also put reasons forward to the North West MEC for Local Government to conduct a Section 139 intervention into the Tlokwe municipality and to appoint an administrator to take control of the council. This is an obvious attempt to re-instate ANC control by stealth. 

It is all part of sustained attempts by the ANC to destabilise the council in the run up to the by-elections on the 23rd of October. Since the DA took over in Tlokwe, the ANC has done everything in its power to destabilise the council and prevent real service delivery from happening. But the DA will continue working to make sure that Tlokwe is a corruption-free and effective municipality that delivers services to its people. 

The ANC's delaying tactics, together with the persistent attempts at vote-buying by ANC and government officials form the backbone of the ANC's election strategy for the upcoming by-elections.

The ANC has been forced to resort to these tactics because they know that they have no service delivery record to run on in the Tlokwe municipality.

Statement issued by Chris Hattingh, DA Leader in North West, October 2 2013

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