COPE DEMANDS AN ADMISSION FROM PREMIER DAVID MABUZA THAT THE ANC IS FAILING

 COPE DEMANDS AN ADMISSION FROM PREMIER DAVID MABUZA THAT THE ANC IS FAILING

BY BRIAN KAJENGO

COPE in Mpumalanga demands an admission from Premier David Mabuza that the ANC is failing in the province based on the fact that municipalities continue to receive disclaimers despite his bully threats that officials would be fired if this continued.

“It is by now an open secret that five municipalities in the province received disclaimers with some repeating themselves in this embarrassing gesture.” Riot Hlatshwayo said.

Riot told Bvunzamutupo SADC VOICE that COPE has always called for the political heads of municipalities, the mayors, to be removed and be replaced with relevant and committed officials who would be able to turn the strategies in municipalities around for the benefit of the communities they are serving.  

Certain municipalities such as Bushbuckridge and Thaba Chweu received disclaimers year after year and despite them having been put under administration on several occasions, the communities under them continue to be without water and other important factors needed to complete service delivery.

“As this presser is being written, there is no water in the Bushbuckridge area. This is one of the municipalities that received disclaimers one after the other,” said COPE Mpumalanga provincial chairman,” Comrade Sizile Ndlovu today (Monday February 10, 2014.      

He said the interpretation of the above is nothing short of failure in the part of the ANC and demanded that Mabuza himself must now admit that indeed the ANC was a failure.