Tshwane metro condemns ANCYL protest
The youth league said it decided to protest when it learned that the metro owed Eskom over one billion rand.
The Tshwane metro has condemned the protest by the ANC youth league on July 20 calling for the removal of Tshwane mayor Randall Williams.
The metro dismissed the protest as an attempt at seeking relevance from the “so-called Greater Tshwane (GTR)” ANCYL and described its actions as unlawful and disruptive.
The metro claimed the protesters physically removed the Soshanguve municipal office staff from the premises and prevented them from carrying out their duties.
ANCYL Tshwane however has defended its actions and described the DA-led Tshwane government as “racist”, “abominable” and filled with “fake university qualifications”.
According to ANCYL GTR regional leader Fortune Mathabatha, they believe Williams is not fit to govern the metro and is committed to seeing his removal come into fruition. Mathabatha said the DA-led Tshwane government is rampant with failure and residents are suffering as a result.
He listed numerous reasons for their call for the mayor’s removal including the auditor-general report released earlier in July that described Tshwane as one of the worst performing metros in the country and the over one billion rand the metro owed Eskom.
Mathabatha said the metro’s failure to pay the power utility contributed greatly to the ongoing national electricity crisis.
The league is also calling for the scrapping of the current billing system in the metro, describing the “Tshwane ya tima” programme as racist and prone to plunge the metro into deeper financial woes.
Mathabatha also confirmed that they have opened a case of fraud against Williams for what it called “falsified university qualifications” and said the protests would continue into the coming weeks.
“Protest action has not stopped, it has only intensified and we are committed to seeing the complete collapse of the DA government in Tshwane,” said Mathabatha
The metro said that it has asked the metro police to deploying more officers to the affected areas and threatened to involve the SAPS should the protests persist.
“We will not tolerate lawlessness in Tshwane, especially weak political stunts seeking to disrupt the work of the City and hamper service delivery,” said Williams.
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