A tit-for-tat game ensued between the DA and the ANC this week, with each party accusing the other of going into communities and inciting service delivery protests – all at the expense of genuine demands by communities
This week’s visits to Alexandra and Emfuleni by the ANC and DA, respectively, showed both parties’ lack of authentic leadership
“He should have instead used the same energy that he used to go to Alexandra and ask about what was happening there, to come here and ask what has happened to the Evaton Renewal Project.“There was R1 billion that was supposed to be used, but there is nothing to show for it and this ANC-led municipality cannot account for it.
“The primary issue [similar to that raised by Alexandra residents, regarding the alleged missing Alexandra Renewal Project funds] is in relation to the Evaton Renewal Project, where a large sum of money – about R870 million – was committed. But nothing has been done to date,” he said. “There have been numerous service delivery protests in the area and no one has taken note. Today there is a visible difference: the minute the DA comes with its leadership and addresses the same issues that we have been raising for donkey’s years, then the media is here, the police are cordial and there are even representatives from this useless municipality here to receive the memorandum of demands.
The DA’s PR councillor for Midvaal, Hezekiah Shababa, concurred, saying there was no question as to what or who was behind the protests engulfing Gauteng. “It is South African communities using protests as a particular mode of political participation leading to the upcoming elections.”One of the leaders of the shutdown in Alexandra, Mandla Mavundla, castigated political parties for playing the blame game “instead of making residents their priority”.
Mavundla said they did not plan to politicise the protest when embarking on their protest action. “There was no plan to politicise the protest; that is why the organisers are all affiliated with different political parties.”
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