Embarrassingly ignorant

From: NARENDH GANESH Durban North

LAST week’s letter by ME Hurter, “An unhealthy obsession” refers.

It is said that ignorance is bliss. It can also be rather embarrassing if one pontificates sarcasm without knowledge.

Hurter questions from where I get my knowledge of the DA. I was a branch chairperson of the DA for 10 years in my ward. I was elected for two consecutive terms on to the DA Federal Council. Short of the Federal Executive, that is the highest decision making body of the party. My knowledge therefore is fairly profound and considered.

I have no obsession with the DA. However, I will not relent on my right to comment.

Unlike many “yes men” in the DA, I never relented in airing my views or taking on questionable decisions of the DA hierarchy.

If I challenge what I deem contentious issues, it does not mean I’m obsessed, does it? It allows me to exercise a democratic right denied to me for so long.

On the point of focusing on service delivery, how many DA councillors do what Hurter suggests, such as “serving sandwiches, or soup, to the long queues of patients at government hospitals or the elderly pensioners at pension pay-points?”

My helping those in need does not necessitate a boastful advert. I am content to serve the best I can, while I can and if you take umbrage at me questioning things regarding the DA, then so be it.

Democracy is a wonderful thing,