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Cape Council booted off Gateway Project
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Angelo said:
Well then you obviously don't give respect to many. I suggest you stop trolling all the time, and stop being rude to those who are widely- and well-respected on the forum. If that is not clear, try this - stop throwing baby tantrums.
lilDeath
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/hands pip a *UR DE MAN* award
Hmm interesting read, like I said this is good for the city of capetown, it is not that good for the DA since they nolonger have the opertunity to expose further ANC corruption and miss conduct and at the same time the ANC will punt this as if the DA "couldn't handle it". The truth is the ANC are just trying to save their own reputation, which is hecticly in decline I might add(atleast from my perception).
ANC welcomes Zille's removal from N2 GatewayVio said:
It is amazing how the ANC blatantly lie about Zille's involvement.
The project was transferred from the City of Cape Town on the 28th of February already.
The reason why Zille and The City Council had to deal with the matter is they were presented with some rather hefty bills running into tens of millions of Rands from Developers which they know very little about.
What started out as a query as to why so much money is needed for these projects and why they have overrun their budgets is met with "smoke" and dagger tactics from the ANC.
The smoke to cover up the fire and the dagger to plant in Zille's back with constant unfounded media reports.
The ANC are trying to cover up a some very serious abuse of Public Money. That's all I read into it.
What really pisses me off is that 3 to 4 years ago when the National Party handed the City of Cape Town to the ANC on a platter, they took our Ward's Capital Budget of R6.5Million and apparently spent it in the previously disadvantaged areas?
We were spun a cock and bull story about this and that, but we learnt to live without the new road that would have brought new business and welcome relief for the area. The story to long tell here.
One can clearly see that our money was squandered.
As did these previously disadvantaged areas get the money?
Was it applied in an appropriate manner?
Nobody, not even the Local Authority here knows.
The money was simply whisked off to places unknown.
Even letters and faxes to The Mayor and City Manager were unanswered.
Now 3 to 4 years later we are still in the planning stage, but other areas in Cape Town like the Northern Suburbs are enjoying boom time, while our areas are still living with roads from Noah's Ark days.
Businesses are moving out either because they are struggling or simply because the Sheriff has cleaned them out already.
It is not funny to witness The Sheriff arriving at a Local Business loading up the man's furniture and stock, while the staff and the public look on in amazement.
Many of these business people were young coloured folk that are just trying their hardest to meek out a living, but are finding it difficult to even meet their rental commitments and within 6 to 12 months they are bankrupt.
That New Road could have meant the difference of an extra thousand jobs and maybe many business people may not have gone bust in the interim?
One looks at all these huge amounts of money just floating around and one asks these people that thought it was prudent to steal our Capital Budget, wtf did they think they were trying to prove?
Not as if our area didn't produce ten times that small budget in Rates and Taxes in a year.
Really makes me mad.
So much time, effort and money wasted all because of politicians.
Politics in Local Government has become counter productive.
If the Council Officials were just left with the tasks they are employed to do, things would be a lot different.
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BTTB: this makes me so mad. When I left CT 3.5 years ago (grew up there, miss it madly), everything was so promising there. I went back for a few weeks a little while ago and I nearly had a heart attack of how bad some things got there 
To me this is a case in point of how the ANC messed up a good thing down in CT
To me this is a case in point of how the ANC messed up a good thing down in CT If I can add a bit more to my story above.kingmonty said:BTTB: this makes me so mad. When I left CT 3.5 years ago (grew up there, miss it madly), everything was so promising there. I went back for a few weeks a little while ago and I nearly had a heart attack of how bad some things got there
A Development that was all set to go, with the long tedious planning stages completed was shelved as the Rezoning had now lapsed after two years.
This expiry date was October last year.
The approved Development was 60 Shops, a Garage and 500-600 Parking Bays.
I spoke with the Planner and he confirmed that the shelving of the Road Development by the previous ANC Council was the reason.
The irony of the story goes further as jobs and opportunities in the area have been lost and shoppers are flocking instead to the Northern Suburbs like Canal Walk and N1 City, but further to that, The Operator of the Project a BEE Company might I add, lost out on a Golden Opportunity.
And all that for a few million that was only a small proportion of what the residents and business people in the area pay in a month.
Really a pathetic show from the previous Mayor and City Manager.
I hope they never have any say over our City again.