Statement on separate development in Midvaal
Sunday, 12 August 2012
The DA doesn't care about poor and working class communities especially Africans. This was confirmed today by households and communities in Midvaal that were covered by door to door and community meetings we together with the South African Communist Party (SACP) conducted as part of our Know your Neighbourhood Campaign.
Among others communities in the Sicelo Shiceka area, wards 08 and 10
and other areas, wards 01, 05, 06, and 11, were covered in the campaign. These communities are characterised by conditions of abject poverty, unemployment, crime, informal settlements and are definitely marginalised by the DA controlled local municipality. The DA neglects these communities and exploits them in the delivery of basic services in favour of the rich.
At meetings it was reported that access to limited social services including employment in the municipality and business opportunities is determined on the basis of DA membership. Community members reported that some of them and their family members were thus wrongfully forced to take up DA membership.