DA vows to fight ANC’s nefarious campaign
The DA responded to the ANC's release saying their campaign against them has wicked objectives.
The ANC on the West Rand has expressed its contentedness with the High Court’s decision to strike a matter concerning council rules, brought by the DA against the Speaker of Mogale City Council, Naga Lipudi, and the municipality, off the court roll.
As published in last week’s edition of the News, the ANC stated in a press release that the ANC reiterates its position that the people of Mogale City deserve better than the games the DA is playing in court, which it seeks to use to win political and governance battles it loses in council chambers.
The DA responded to the ANC’s release with the following:
“The ANC has been driving an anti-democratic and obstructive campaign. The objectives of this campaign are to hinder service delivery and to prevent the council from meeting certain legislated deadlines like the tabling of the budget. Failure to meet these deadlines could result in the municipality being put under administration by the Province and that ultimately is the objective of the ANC,” said the Mayor of Mogale City, Michael Holenstein.
Holenstein said in his statement that the point man in the implementation of this negative strategy is the ANC Speaker of Council.
“He was elected together with a DA Mayor after the elections in August 2016, after a number of allegations emerged of attempts to bribe opposition councillors to vote for an ANC candidate.”
He further stated that in an effort to resolve the impasse, an urgent application was brought to the High Court to force the Speaker to convene a meeting to debate a motion of no confidence in himself.
“The matter was struck from the roll on the basis of urgency.”
Holenstein wants it to be clear that the cost of this court action was borne by the DA and not by the residents of Mogale City.
“The multi-party government of Mogale will continue to take all steps possible to prevent the ANC from achieving the nefarious objectives of their campaign.”
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