DA Leaders Lies Catch up with Them
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WAARHEID! Official Newspaper of the GOOD Party Vol 12 April/May 2021 Free Copy DA leaders lies catch up with them A historic school in Bonteheuwel tucked behind a garbage dump. The school is fenced, but the dump is open to Madikizela is one of several DA leaders embroiled in rows over their stated qualifications.neighbourhood At the same time children. as his fake Seedegree Page was 2being for exposed,a special questions feature were on raised the historicabout DA CapeChief TownWhip township. Natasha Mazzone’s “legal qualifications”, and the claimed post-graduate qualifications of Saldanha Bay Mayor, Marius Koen. Madikizela was suspended by the DA when allegations about his fake degree were leaked. Mazzone and Koen remain at their posts. The lies of Bonginkosi Madikizela, former Western Cape leader His bosses rushed to congratulate him for doing the honourable “This is not just about lying, but also about social and spatial of the DA and MEC, caught up with him when he was exposed thing, but in truth will have regarded his disgrace as convenient justice. The city that apartheid developed was built on injustice by his own colleagues in order to dirty his name and remove him to smooth the way for their favoured mayoral candidate, the and division. from the race to be a mayoral candidate for Cape Town. relatively inexperienced and paler, Geordin Hill-Lewis. “Reversing this legacy by reintegrating people of colour into Madikizela’s lies about having completed a degree were exposed Present mayor Dan Plato, who’d like the job again, is regarded the fabric of the city is critical to achieving sustainability and weeks after he was found guilty by the Public Protector for lying as merely keeping the seat warm. justice. Sadly, the majority in the DA don’t see things that way. in the legislature about the City of Cape Town’s cancellation of This is what Madikizela didn’t want to admit so he lied about social housing projects in the inner-city initiated by former City The day before Madikizela resigned, GOOD Secretary-General it,” Herron said. leaders Patricia De Lille and Brett Herron. Brett Herron led a demonstration outside the provincial legislature calling on Western Cape Premier Alan Winde to act The Public Protector’s report demanded that the Premier take In order to avoid admitting that his DA colleagues in Cape on the finding of the Public Protector. action within 14 days, which he didn’t do. Instead, a week after Town had cancelled these projects for political reasons, to keep that, Madikizela fell on his sword. rich property owners and developers in these areas on-side, Rather than admit that his DA colleagues in Cape Town had Madikizela lied that the projects were stopped by the courts. cancelled the development of affordable housing close to the “Winde’s claim to lead a government of integrity rings very Ultimately, however, he won’t be held to account for that lie city centre for political reasons, to keep rich landowners and hollow. There is no integrity in protecting liars, or in the DA because he resigned from his positions as MEC and DA leader developers in these areas happy, Madikizela had lied in the objective to “protect” their rich supporters by keeping people after admitting that the B Com degree listed on his CV was fake. House that the projects were cancelled by the courts. of colour far away on the Cape Flats,” Herron said. GOOD news from the Hantam August first wrote to Sisulu in January 2020, in his capacity as Sisulu’s response was not terribly warm. She referred him to a member of parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Water and a speech by the President at an ANC rally a few weeks earlier, Sanitation, following an oversight trip to the Northern Cape. where it was announced that the province would be getting an extra R300m after being declared a disaster area. Among the places he visited was Akkerendam Nature Reserve, the critical water catchment area for Calvinia. It was But August persisted. He wrote back to Sisulu to say that her the same month that the province was declared a disaster response, “unpleasingly referred me to watch an ANC party area due to long-term drought. rally as opposed to sharing insights and offering solutions”. What August found, and reported to Sisulu, was that the dam Fourteen months passed before August wrote a third letter to Sisulu. This time he reported that he had been back to the GOOD organiser Shaun August and GOOD Northern Cape serving the town was at such a low level that people were Member Leonard Mckay overlooking the Akkerendman having to rely on boreholes or water bought in town. The Hantam and noted many improvements. Nature reserve in Hantam quality of the borehole water was affecting people’s health. More boreholes had been installed, a new reservoir He asked Sisulu when her department would table a plan constructed, and the thirsty trees in the dam removed. GOOD MP Shaun August has written to Minister of Human in response to the drought, whether planned interventions Settlements, Water and Sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu to thank would include removing thirsty trees from the dam, and if August expressed his own gratitude, and that of the Calvinia her, on behalf of the people of Calvinia, for the steps her there were plans to raise the level of the dam wall to capture community. department has taken to secure the Northern Cape town’s extra water when the rains come. water supply. Page 1 Food parcels win hungry voters, says DA councillor Members of the struggling Zoar community, near Arendse was responding to a statement by councillor “Ons sien hoe hulle ons mense verwaalroos in arm Calitzdorp, are disgusted by remarks by a well-fed DA Angus McKenzie, in a video circulating on social media, gemeenskappe.” Cape Town councillor that their votes could be simply that: “Food parcels win votes in small towns like Zoar.” Zoar businessman Denver Klink was quoted in a Cape bought by giving them food parcels. newspaper:“Our people are living in poverty, he is “Hulle dink ons is dwars maar ons weet hoekom hullie sitting in his comfort making jokes about Zoar, I can only “Hierdie arrogante DA-raadslid dink dat omdat ons die kospakkies in die eleksie aan mense gee. Hy (Angus) imagine what else gets said.” mense arm is, is dit maklik dat ons vir hulle politieke verstaan nie die omstandighede van arm mense nie, en McKenzie said the video was edited. The City of Cape omkopery val,” het Johan Arendse, 67, gesê. het nie ‘n idee hoe mense uit armoede te kry nie. Town said it was investigating. Nelson Mandela Bay in tatters BY LAWRENCE TROON This once economic power house of the Eastern Cape A good place to start would be for all business chambers The Metro presently suffers masses losses due to its lies in tatters. Many wonder how it will manage to rise active in the region to deploy representatives to the inability to manage grant funding. from the ashes wrought by Covid 19, maladministration Metro’s standing committees on an ex-officio basis. and looting by past ANC city governments – and The present model, in which councillors with no Hundreds of millions of Rands of grant funding are either ultimately the self-destruction of DA-led rule. knowledge of business make huge spending decisions, returned to national Treasury or stolen. is a recipe for disaster. What is clear is that politicians, on their own, won’t be This mismanagement and criminality would be curtailed able to fix it. The only route out of this sordid mess is A GOOD government would urgently tackle the challenge by the publication of a transparent dashboard, at for the people, across race and class divisions, to join of speeding up processes to acquire and re-zone municipal offices and in the media, tracking income and hands to pick up the pieces. property. Many businesses have disinvested from the expenditure. region due to red-tape. The metro requires a one-stop The last time there was any focus on rebuilding the metro centre accommodating representatives of all relevant The publication of such a dashboard would also expose was during the brief mayorship of Dr Danny Jordaan, departments to speed things up. evergreen contractors. when a budget deficit of more than R400 million was turned around – with investment promises totalling R33 Another key intervention would be the creation of an Finally, GOOD would like to see the boards of all state- billion. Since then its been a fast spiral back to the inclusive dispute panel, including lawyers, auditors and owned entities – including Coega – reflecting the bottom. supply chain experts. Resolving disputes before they regional demographics of the metro, with the necessary The metro has no option but to involve the private sector are subjected to lengthy and costly litigation will save skills and expertise appointed to these boards to ensure in a central and strategic manner to rebuild Nelson millions of Rands for businesses and the Metro, alike. that the economy can be revitalized. Mandela Bay’s glory. Strong foundations are GOOD The GOOD option for a non-racial and corruption- free South Africa built on four legs of justice: social, economic, environmental and spatial, is proving very appetizing to decent people across the country. GOOD members in Saldanha Bay, hard at work and in full swing as they At just over two-years-old, the movement has been prepare for the 2021 Local Government Elections experiencing a dramatic growth spurt.