Mayor De Lille confused by Political Grandstanding
The recent protests taking place in Nyanga are to be condemned. The damage to property and the injuries to people have no place in protests and the police must act against the perpetrators. We must all work to find urgent solutions to the problems, but must avoid the escalation of the tension as well.
The Mayor has seen the City of Cape Town Law Enforcement and states that they are investigating the causes but that it appears to be linked to the taxi drivers. The SAPS stated that it appears to be linked to the taxi drivers and a detailed investigation is being done. Even the sleepiest MEC in the country, MEC for Transport, Donald Grant, said it is linked to the taxi drivers' concerns about traffic fines and poor working conditions.
All of these facts are not getting in the way of Mayor De Lille making up her own stories about this being part of some campaign to make the City ungovernable. The Mayor, in a Council meeting, conceded that the ANC does not have any plans to make the City ungovernable, but she continues to raise it in the media.
The Mayor has demonstrated that she has nothing to offer the City in terms of leadership to address the pressing crisis, but she keeps repeating her own lies. This is the only way she can stay in favour with the bosses of the DA to whom she sold her soul after her party had collapsed.
Premier Zille told Mayor De Lille to repeat these lies, as ridiculous as it is, as De Lille has shown herself to have no ethics. The Mayor is the only one who is letting her election ambitions get in the way of focussing on service delivery, by these wild inflammatory statements that has no factual basis.
COSATU will be reporting the Mayor to the Minister of Cooperative Governance for an investigation. The investigation must focus on the fact that the City leadership may be good bean counters, but are not equal to the task of improving the service delivery index.
Statement issued by COSATU Western Cape Provincial Secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, September 2 2014
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