Ratepayers must stand up to DA

IT’S TIME Cape Town ratepayers stood up to the pathetic DA’s handling of the affairs of our province.

The fact that we are in this situation is due to inefficient councillors who are unable to run a complex business.

Then they try to make the ratepayers pay so as to give themselves an increase in salary; they should have the guts to admit their failure to do their jobs competently.

It is my opinion that the best way for us to show that we can make it very unpleasant for them is if all the ratepayers withhold their rates payments. Unfortunately, we South Africans can never stand together to make o ur point; instead we go marching in the streets, disrupting everybody’s right to continue working and living a normal life.

So I dare the councillors to meet with their constituents and make this happen, or are they too afraid of standing up for the people’s rights?

Here are examples of how the council has wasted money: changing our logo on the province’s letterhead, which cost us R8 million, and does not really representing our Cape Town with its Table Mountain.

Now they want to waste another R20m on a dilapidated bridge which serves no purpose… all that money they waste could have done a lot of good for the citizens of our province.

I think I should add another gripe: traffic robots; seems the city is “robot verskrik”.

So let’s weigh up a roundabout with a robot; cost-wise the roundabout wins hands down. Why? Robots need electricity, globes, various coloured glass, poles, electric connection boxes, cables; and they go on the blink and are knocked down. They also need specialist staff.

A roundabout properly laid out is a once-off expenditure and has the effect of slowing down traffic. So just cost-wise its a winner.

Councillors then want more pay; what a cheek. BRIAN SJ WILSON Sunningdale