Not involved in political sphere

DANNY Jordaan met us in 1979 at Arcadia High School where he was a history teacher. From there he moved to Dower Teachers College.

We met him when he played soccer for Swallows and cricket for United.

At Arcadia High we received our political education from Mr Williams, known as “Ampie”, not from the present Safa president.

We were involved in community organisations such as VCS (a Christian student organisation), Nayco (Northern Areas Youth Congress) and UDF, under the leadership of Ronald Lammie, Eldridge Jer- ry and others. There was no Jordaan.

In 1994 the ANC took Labour Party members to parliament and Jordaan also as a member of parliament. What a surprise!

Jordaan did not have a support base in Port Elizabeth. He is intellectually fine, but not a foot soldier like Khusta Jack, Derrick Swartz and George Ir vine.

At Arcadia High he did nothing to better or upgrade the school, or fight gangsterism and drug trafficking which is the order of the day in the Arcadia suburb. Jordaan did not play an active role.

The conditions of the soc- cer fields in communities and schools are still the same as when Jordaan was president of the Eastern Province Soccer Board. He is no puppet but not fit for a mayor.

That is a clear sign the ANC do not care for the poor and so-called disadvantaged in this metro. With this type of attitude of the ruling party, they find themselves in quicksand.

The more the mayors change, the deeper they sink. By the end of this year there will be no more ANC. We need more leaders, not followers.