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The DA’s Scorched Earth Policy

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Dear Editor

The DA has effectively engineered a scorched earth policy on the Metro, by frivolously voting against the 2021/22 Adjusted Budget.

This was clearly, in my mind, to entice the EFF to vote it into power. The DA is totally oblivious of the catastrophic economic consequences it unleashed against the already suffering residents of Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.

Some of their key gripes are the overtime expenditure, ran between 1st June to December 2021, the awful collection rate of 71% (instead 85%) from 1st June to end of December 2021.

The DA is pondering and shocked that Nedbank decided to recall its loan, due to the poor collection rate during the tenure of the DA reign. During the DA rein, debt impairment ringed R2.1 bln (15.20%) up until they were booted out in December 2021. They can’t connect the dots.

The current administration presented a plausible and realistic bankable case to the bank. That was accepted and the loan reinstated.

I have always said that the DA governs well in Cape Town, however, the strategies and antics it employs in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, are puzzling.

For a liberal party, at a time of the most deadly drought, driven by climate change and human mismanagement, as was the case under both ANC and DA, in the last 5 years, to act like this, they extinguish whatever human hope in people.

The net effect of DA’s childish bickering and politicking, is that people in poor and informal settlements are being literally thrown to the wolves to die or fend for themselves.

Throwing money away in times of disaster is a despicable act of treason.

Regards

Mkhuseli Jack
ABANTU INTEGRITY MOVEMENT VIC

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