Politicians Squabble While Residents of Tshwane Suffer
30 October 2020
Today’s Council Meeting in Tshwane demonstrates all that is wrong with our political system, while politicians squabble and horse-trade, the residents of our capital city suffer.
Since 2016, the residents of Tshwane have not enjoyed stable and effective governance. The DA has had two Mayors, in the space of just 3 years, both of whom were mired in scandals and an inability to deliver service delivery effectively to residents. The intervention of the ANC Provincial Government, placing the City under administration, has been proven to be in breach of our laws and a political tactic. Under the provincial administrators, the City went from bad to worse.
The election of the DA’s Randall Williams will not improve the lives of the people of Tshwane. The DA has demonstrated, for all Tshwane residents to see, that it does not have the depth of leadership to deliver change. After all, the residents of Tshwane should be left concerned by of leadership of a Mayor who was the DA’s third choice behind the prolific failures of Solly Msimanga and Stevens Mokgalapa.
The reality is that the mess in Tshwane, and the suffering of the people of this city, is a product of political squabbling and horse-trading for over 4 years. The DA, ANC and EFF have all been responsible for the instability of this vital municipality and the crippling of its service delivery.