Failed schools feeding scheme not on ANC President Ramaphosa’s agenda

15 May 2023

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s blatant disregard of the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) which saw over 5 400 schools with no food for the most vulnerable of our learners being left starving is telling of an uncaring ANC government.

Once again, the ANC has proven to the people of KwaZulu-Natal that they are unable to solve the challenges facing the province. Clear evidence of this is the much-anticipated visit by the President and his National Working Committee to interrogate the ANC Taliban-led faction on continual service delivery failures.

The past weekend's high-level engagement has had no positive outcome for the ANC’s failures in the province. No resolve or accountability for the collapse of the feeding scheme. No direction or plan is forthcoming on a turnaround strategy for the eThekwini metro other than a Section 154 intervention, which, if the ANC-led city of Msunduzi is anything to go by, has been a dismal failure. Msunduzi has been under Section 139 administration for years now, and service delivery and billing failures have all but collapsed.

The province's two main ANC-led cities are dysfunctional, with collapsing service delivery now the order of the day. Millions of rands of in infrastructure grant funding have not been spent and have now been returned to National Treasury.

President Ramaphosa has once again shown that he is nothing more than a figurehead, unwilling to act against the ANC PEC in the province. It is shameful and a disgrace that the needs of the residents cannot be placed ahead of those of the ANC.

With 2024 just ahead, voters will now have an opportunity, like never before, to elect a provincial government under the DA that can get things done. The DA has proven, unequivocally, that where it governs, it governs well.

Issued by Francois Rodgers, DA KZN Leader, 15 May 2023