Reader is happy

I AM happy to see there will be a replacement of the city manager, who was an unfortunate perpetuation of the disastrous period of ANC administration ruled over by Nomaindia Mfeketo.

During the entire period of Mr Ebrahim’s tenure in the most senior position in the City of Cape Town’s governing structure, I can categorically affirm that I have never received a reply from this person to any letter or e-mail addressed to the city manager apart from the mindless automatic response to e-mails, nor has any telephoned enquiry apparently reached him, because I have never received the courtesy of an answering call.

No matter how strongly I expressed my dissatisfaction with the conduct of City employees, particularly in the property and planning departments and in the proven machinations of Mfeketo directed by Ebrahim Rasool in the stadium swindle, I received no feedback.

I suspect he was put in his position as a cadre of the ANC to act as gatekeeper.

It is now time for an open enquiry, NOT behind closed doors, into the mismanagement of the City under the aegis of its most senior employee.

I am looking forward to assisting such an enquiry if it is honestly instituted and constituted, not just designed to paper over the cracks in the body politic. Irving M Freeman Green Point

In the above letter, Time for City probe, published in yesterday’s edition, we erroneously referred to Achmat Ebrahim as former Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool. The error, which we regret, occurred during the subediting process and we apologise for it.