Wasteful DA Day Zero opportunism

MMUSI Maimane, thank you for travelling all this way to “introduce the team that will be tackling the crisis to avoid Day Zero”.

I’m sure any one of your local leaders could have accomplished this complex task and saved your party the travel and hotel costs.

So after we dissect your admittedly impressive stage performance, you actually said very little about Day Zero – its management or avoidance, at least.

If it’s true that you have no direct influence on the running of this city, and in the absence of a half decent game plan, you were here for one of two reasons: Either, like me, you have zero confidence in the City of Cape Town’s management, or you confirm my theory that you would attend the opening of a brothel if it gave you publicity.

Your party has watched as our population has swelled with the influx of economic refugees from other provinces, knowing full well that we simply don’t have the infrastructure to cope with this population spurt.

The cold truth is that our dams, roads and trains weren’t designed to cope with this sudden and unwanted migration. Your party has attempted to fleece the struggling ratepayer and now turns to petty party politics even as lives are threatened. Yes Mmusi, people will die as a direct result of a lack of water.

Clearly, Cyril Ramaphosa has made your job harder, for by going after Zuma and the Guptas you have been exposed as being politically shallow. You, after all, have almost made your career criticising state capture. Sir, anyone could have done it. Day Zero is almost unavoidable, this is a time for principled leadership, not the drivel you offer. Lentegeur