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Incompetence by the DA?
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Yes BTTB, blame the past...
marine1
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He is blaming the last few years of ANC rule if I understand him correctly, which would be fact !!
Did you read the article fanboy? This is City of CT related...
marine1
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Yes I did, what is your point, fanboy?
The DA has to pay private consultants to do these jobs as the current employees are not able to do the jobs as they were just put there for political reasons.
No good having 10 people to do 1 persons job and then not being able to do it properly anyway, all because of AA or nepotism
The DA has been in power since 2006 and these bids took place under their noses. If you refer to my thread on this subject, I have no problem with the use consultants. Its the R241m in unauthorised expenditure I have a problem with. Corruption? NO!! The DA is not capable of such...
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?235733-DA-splashes-out-R500m-on-consultants
Mods how about a thread merge?
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So where do you get off blaming the ANC?
It's been almost five years since the ANC administration left the building in case you haven't noticed.
Flanders
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Pffft...the ANC spends more on champagne in a year.
I hear you and I agree. The thing is that many ANC supporters (and also disgruntled ANC supporters) will use this one incident alone to jump on the DA, point their fingers and throw accusations around - as is evident in the comments section under the article (oh, and this thread too, of course!
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Hi Sox,
Not sure what you are getting at, but it is common knowledge that each time the ANC have control of the City Council things go pear shape.
Let me elaborate. When the ANC are in control nobody that works at Council knows where they stand as far as jobs are concerned (nepotism), projects that have taken years to get to a position where they can be implemented at huge costs, yes consultants, suddenly are cancelled or shelved so that money can be spent elsewhere, meetings are closed to the Public, nobody can make sense of the budget and the Auditors take years trying to decipher the financial mess the City was left in by the ANC, money created in one area is taken and spent in other areas, water went up five fold since 2000. I can go on...
Look the DA is just better at running the City and by the recent by-elections held it is evident that even black people are seeing this too. The City has a lot of resources and needs every penny it makes to address the backlog in housing and infrastructure as the National Government run by the ANC will not give the City money to this end for fear of the DA getting the credit.
So yes I do blame the past. One of the key people I blame is Kortbroek for ever giving control of the City to the ANC. It probably set us back a decade or more in service delivery.
I will make sure with my vote and many others too that the ANC never get hold of our beautiful Cape.
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Albereth
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I don't think that anyone has ever claimed that incompetence is the sole domain of the ANC.
All I could read in that long post of yours are excuses, excuses and more excuses...Basically you blamed it on everybody but the DA. You mustn't come here with that "tendency"
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Hi Sox,
Actually I am not all that impressed by the DA, I am not a party member and will never be. We have a very lazy Councillor in our area that does very little and if said person stands another term I will place my cross elsewhere. The thing is as a group they are better at running the City Council, those are the facts as I see them. Perhaps in your area, Midrand the ANC might be better, but that is not the case here.
Regards,
BTTB.
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I'm a DA supporter and I seriously hope that heads roll for these corrupt tender processes. This sort of thing is unacceptable for any ruling party. These practices need to be condemned by DA voters or we are no better than the ANC supporters we always criticise for being mindless.
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All I want the ANC to do is answer one questions for me.
Why in contravention of the Municipal Systems Act which enshrines Public Participation were ANC City Council Meetings held in camera and the agenda withheld from the Public?
Why in contravention of the Municipal Systems Act which enshrines Public Participation were ANC City Council Meetings held in camera and the agenda withheld from the Public?
The DA themselves criticized this, if you read the article. Even they think this was suspect.
But, there are two important things.
First is that the payments were not made to friends and family, but actual companies doing actual work. Second, the work was done - service delivery in CT is proof of that. Third, the DA doesnt shy away from criticizing its own when they done wrong - thats why they improve.
If this was the ANC, there would be denial all round with a bit of "Find out who spilled the beans" served for good measure.
But, there are two important things.
First is that the payments were not made to friends and family, but actual companies doing actual work. Second, the work was done - service delivery in CT is proof of that. Third, the DA doesnt shy away from criticizing its own when they done wrong - thats why they improve.
If this was the ANC, there would be denial all round with a bit of "Find out who spilled the beans" served for good measure.
marine1
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If they are guilty of corruption, the guilty must be prosecuted, simple as that.
The DA must not become what the ANC is.
The DA must not become what the ANC is.
Quote: "Here is a company hired by the city that gave the wrong advice. It said the city wouldn't be liable for VAT ... PricewaterhouseCoopers was then hired to advise the city and these people were paid R1,9m without a tender."
So let me get this right. These people hire an adviser, who gave them wrong advice and nobody picked this up from the DA. Then when ***** hits the fan, they hire PWC (WITHOUT A TENDER), to give them advice on the previous advice that they received? Wow!!!! I don't know how anybody can even attempt to defend that.