Municipality fires back at allegations
The Westonaria Local Municipality was accused of buying votes ahead of the national elections.
Following an article published on randfonteinherald.co.za on 28 February with regards to the Westonaria Local Municipality allegedly buying votes ahead of the national elections, Municipal spokesperson Kgabane Madiehe has fired back with comment stating that ANC members within the municipality are being wrongly accused and says that the allegations are made by people who want to discredit the municipality.
The allegations were made by Westonaria DA Public Representative (PR) Councilor Colin Turner who said that he witnessed municipal workers using state resources to transport ANC supporters to different voterregistration stations in Westonaria during the final voter registration weekend on 9 and 10 February.
“I witnessed municipal vehicles being used to ferry ANC supporters to the different voting stations and I have it on camera to prove my claims,” says Turner.
According to Madiehe, this is nothing but a cheap tactic of wanting to discredit the municipality and the political party.
“All the councillor has to his claims is the fact that people who were driving the taxi were wearing yellow t-shirts and I strongly doubt that those were ANC members.
“The councilor doesn’t have sufficient or convincing evidence to back up is allegations.
“If anything, it is irresponsible and disturbing that some political organizations are hell-bent on putting the municipality into disrepute,” says Kgabane.
He adds that people should stop cheap political point scoring and focus on their political party’s manifesto’s ahead of the national elections.
