The Herald (South Africa)

DA hypocritic­al in treatment of Bay councillor

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The DA members are hypocrites of note.

Not long time ago, they wanted to remove former president Jacob Zuma through a vote of no confidence.

They even advocated that ANC MPs must use their conscience­s, and vote against their organisati­on and president, who was voted in by the majority of South Africans,11 million to be precise.

It’s obvious all this only applies to other political parties, not the white racist DA and its black puppets.

The DA councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay council who chose not to vote did exactly what the party has been preaching.

It must be clarified that people of the metro in 2016 gave no majority mandate to any political party, the Bay can only be ruled by a coalition.

The DA must just stop its lies.

Athol Trollip and his cronies’ removal was legal.

The only unlawful thing in that meeting was the conduct of the city manager and the DA.

First, you can’t fire a councillor on the spot without following due processes.

It’s only the IEC that is mandated by law to declare a vacancy in the council, not the city manager.

Another thing is the city manager doesn’t have powers to stop council meetings.

His role was only to advise the council and let the council decide on his advice.

We later learnt that even that advice was just bull.

The coalition was told to run away by the DA, so to collapse the meeting, but the Municipal Structures Act allows for the provision that the MEC can designate someone when [alleged] crooks like the DA decide to stay on in power by hook or by crook.

People of the metro must support the new leadership.

Our people will no longer be treated as objects.

I understand white people’s outcry – when they see a black person, they see a criminal whereas they stole the land and brutally murdered our forefather­s.

Xabiso Ngqawana

Makhanda

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