DA North West will not get involved in horse-trading following ANC Troika recall – calls on opposition parties to do the same
Note to Editors: Click here for soundbites in English and Afrikaans by Joe McGluwa MP, DA North West Provincial Leader.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in North West will not involve itself in factional horse-trading in municipal councils affected by the ANC’s Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) recall of Mayors, Speakers and Chief Whips (Troikas) of the Mahikeng, Ditsobotla, Macquassi Hills and Matlosana Local Municipalities and the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality.
We have written to all DA Municipal Caucuses not to extend any support to any ANC candidate to replace an ANC office bearer. That is because the root of the rot in North West is the ANC in its entirety.
The DA further calls on all opposition political parties in North West to support our initiative not to give credence to this futile exercise of replacing one ANC cadre with another. The time has come to let the ANC deal with the mess the ANC has created.
The ANC had 26 years to deliver good governance and quality basic service delivery in North West and for 26 years they have failed miserably. Instead of improving the lives of people, the ANC in North West has presided over the collapse of governance and the cessation of service delivery while corruption and looting has transformed the province into a wasteland of deprivation, desperation and despair.