There is no place for Ses’Khona’s predatory politics in the Western Cape

Wednesday 18 August 2015

The DA notes the suspended jail sentence imposed on Andile Lili, Loyiso Nkohla and seven other members of the Ses’Khona movement in the Bellville Regional Court today. The DA also notes Lili’s stated intention to take the sentence on appeal.

I want to assure Andie Lili, Loyiso Nkohla and all their supporters that there is truly no place for predatory politics in the Western Cape. It is the kind of politics that not only feeds off human suffering but also creates it.

Ses’Khona is a group of people who work from within the ANC leadership, and includes a number of ANC councillors and aspirant ANC councillors. One of their leaders, Andile Lili, is an executive member of the Western Cape ANC. Today the ANC Western Cape Leader, Marius Fransman, showed his true colours as he sat in the courtroom front row to support his Ses’Khona colleagues – the same Marius Fransman who condemned Ses’Khona’s criminal attack at Cape Town Airport in 2013.

Western Cape residents should know that a vote for the ANC in the Western Cape, is a vote for Ses’Khona. A vote for the ANC is a vote for an organisation that:

- Organised and executed several faeces-throwing incidents in the City, at the Cape Town International Airport and elsewhere;

- Organises disruptive protests on the N2 highway and intimidates citizens;

- Led violent marches in the City centre during which the stalls of street vendors were vandalised, destroyed and looted;

- Conned vulnerable people by offering them jobs in exchange for joining their movement, and

- Illegally sold plots, belonging to SANRAL, to residents of the Lwandle informal settlement and diverted disaster management resources away from affected residents there.

The DA believes that every South African is entitled to live in a truly free and fair society. We will continue to oppose any organisation that threatens this ideal, and which obstructs the delivery of services to more and more people in this province.

Statement issued by Patricia de Lille, DA Western Cape leader, August 19 2015