ANC slams Chamber's skewed focus
The Western Cape ANC says big business blocks economic development of Cape Town and the province and serve vested self-interests.
Provincial treasurer Fezile Calana says a position put by the Cape Chamber of Commerce is backwards, narrow-minded and anti-transformation (see Cape Times report).
Chamber president Michael Bagraim on Tuesday in a submission to Cape Town questions the expansion of the MyCiti rapid bus service to the Cape Flats areas such as Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha as politically driven with no economic logic.
The ANC says Bagraim's comments about the cost of the project and who will subsidise it, are very unfortunate.
"It shows that poor groups like workers and entry level business people are prevented from benefitting in development. The DA government in the province continues siding with established business and trade areas at the expense of the poor.