DA ready to contest Ditsobotla elections
5 September 2022
Note to Editors: Please find attached soundbites in English and Afrikaans by Leon Basson MP
The DA notes today’s vote in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to proceed with dissolution of the municipality under Section 139(1)(c).
We also note that judgement is reserved for later this week in the application brought by Sakeliga in the Mahikeng High Court to set the decision to dissolve Ditsobotla aside.
The DA’s position remains that dissolution will not fix Ditsobotla and that this decision is an abuse of the Constitution by the ANC to settle factional party political scores. It is also an abuse of taxpayer money to fund fresh elections 11 months after the last local government elections.