DA’s sly meddling with politics

WITH the perfect view of that infallible exact science, hindsight, Deputy Mayor Ivan Eversen now boldly declares: “We’ve never run out of water.”

“We’re not going to run out of water. It’s a matter of management of a limited water supply,” on the same day when it’s raining buckets in Cape Town. And then comes the punchline, from the second citizen after Mayor Patricia de Lille – he accused her of prematurely announcing that Cape Town would run out of water, suggesting that she has been running a huge campaign of misinformation.

Now we know about the humiliation that the DA inflicted upon itself during the first round of the vote of no-confidence against the mayor, the feigned indignation of national DA leader Mmusi Maimane interfering in local politics, which is outside his mandate, the sly manipulation of its own constitutional amendment aimed at one individual and a singular agenda – to get rid of a credible mayor, and now preparing for the coup de grâce, the next vote of no confidence.

And Deputy Mayor Iversen, like a Brutus of old, is also drawing his knife for the fatal stab wound in the back of Caesar.

In politics, the DA’s DNA has been hundreds of years of oppression and marginalisation of the local people and, ironically, it is those very people who have given them such a strong mandate to rule.

The treatment of Patricia de Lille by the DA leadership must rank among the worst form of political cannibalism and will haunt it in the 2019 General Elections and the 2021 Local Government elections.

But they are so blinded by their obsession of this one individual, that they cannot see the wood for the trees.