Zille continues blame shifting when in trouble

Western Cape premier Helen Zille and her government continue to carelessly gamble with the lives of innocent people in the province as it denies them proper assistance. Instead of dealing with real problems her administration is largely responsible for, she opts to point fingers and tries to shift the blame, says the ANC Western Cape.

Zille is known for dividing communities, fanning rising tensions and even frustrating people with irrelevant lame blame games as is evident in her latest little weekly newsletter.

ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman says: "It is unacceptable that Zille and her DA continues the planned and orchestrated alienation of certain residents (some called refugees by her) in order to advance the DA's political aims by building on its deep-rooted National Party narrative of ‘swartgevaar' (black threat). This is again evident in the latest attempt to frame the ANC for the DA's woes in Nomzamo, Lwandle, near Strand.

"When Zille ran out of excuses why her administration unilaterally stopped the process to get alternative land for resettling the homeless of Nomzamo and also for threatening Sanral to ‘get rid of the problem' by forcing it with a 14 day deadline in a letter dated 22 January 2014, she clutches at her old hackneyed ‘ungovernability campaign' nobody believes anymore. It is as desperate and stale as her story that the Western Cape is on a knife's edge.

"Zille should know better than to weave and fabricate ‘evidence' at the hand of vague, meaningless and worthless photos and thumb sucking. She often conflates facts and fiction to arrive at a preselected destiny. Zille could do better than to tell us what she has done to help the poor people that had been cruelly thrown out into the cold and rain on her administration's instructions. Or has she got something to hide and cover-up since there is a formal process on the way to establish the facts and separate it from the false fiction? The truth will eventually come out anyway! A little DA introspection will go a long way. Zille should start to govern instead of playing infantile games."

The ANC calls on the DA and its leaders to stop using poor people as pawns in the DA's games.

Statement issued by ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman, June 9 2014

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