I agree with capetownguy. The ANC had their day in Cape Town and the stuffed up. I reckon even today a few years down the line we are still picking up the pieces of mismanagement of the City's Coffers and no service delivery. What the ANC thought they were doing when they ran the City the Lord alone knows, but they did nothing, made no friends, we got higher tariffs for no service.
We don't need to even mention things like Nepotism etc. Mfeketo and her buddies must never run Cape Town ever again.
One more point and this goes to what timgaul says above. Proper or true Democracy can only be measured when parties form coalitions. It shows character and how mature our Society is.
One example of poor governance in the Cape was the fact that when Mfeketo was in power nobody, not even members of the public were allowed to get the agenda or be present in Council meetings. The doors were closed. I mean? How the heck can you run a local authority and close the doors to the ratepayers? I can understand the ANC not wanting the DA or other political parties in chambers, but the public. I still cannot get my head around that policy the ANC employed when the ran the Cape. Well it cost them dearly and rightly so.
Let me also get one thing clear. The DA is no white horse either. Here in our neighbouring Ward the DA Councillor nice chap and all does very little in the way of actual work, avoids public meetings and keeps a lot of the important stuff to himself. How much of this is his own inadequacies or him playing the party tune we may never know.
