‘n Skamele 430 ondersteuners van die Demokratiese Alliansie (DA) wat nie die moeite gedoen het om op 18 Mei in Kouga te gaan stem nie, het die beheer van die munsipaliteit op ‘n skinkbord aan die ANC gegee.
Die ANC het met 15 raadslede teenoor die 14 van die DA gewen. Die wegblyers kon die telling net mooi omgekeer het.
Die bepaling van die uitslag van die verkiesing is nie ‘n eenvoudige proses nie. ‘n Omslagtige berekening is nodig om by die finale “telling” te kom.
Dié berekening toon dat die ANC die verkiesing met 859 (sê 860) stemme gewen het. Elke kieser het twee stemme vir die Kouga-raad gehad - een vir ‘n wyksraadslid en een vir ‘n party. Vandaar die syfer van 430 wegblyers (860 ÷ 2) wat die DA die beheer van Kouga gekos het.
Daar was ‘n paar faktore wat die uitslag beïnvloed het.
• Wegblyers: ‘n Derde van die geregistreerde kiesers het nie gaan stem nie, ondanks waarskuwings deur die media en politieke partye dat elke stem tel. Daar was 51 400 geregistreerde kiesers. Hiervan het 35 200 gestem.
Die vraag is nou: waar was daardie 430 kiesers op stemdag wat die DA laat verloor het? Was dit oorgerustheid dat hul wyke veilig is? Of die lui-lekkerte van ‘n vakansiedag? Of gewoon luiheid? Of die weer? Die antwoord is waarskynlik iets van elkeen.
Die algehele stempersentasie van 68 persent is uitstekend vir ‘n munisipale verkiesing. Dit was nie goed genoeg nie in ‘n munisipaliteit waar die kiesers baie goed geweet het die uitslag was op ‘n mespunt.
Die verskoning van “niemand het ons kom besoek nie”, is ‘n onverskoonbare een.
• Werwing: In wyk 8 (Bo-Wavecrest), waar mnr Dave Aldendorff van die DA stof in sy opponente se oë geskop het, was die stempersentasie ‘n verstommende 82 persent. Hoekom het hý dit reggekry en nie die ander veilige DA-wyke nie? Dit is bekend dat mnr Aldendorff deeglike werwingswerk gedoen het.
Die twee ander veilige DA-wyke in Jeffreysbaai het onderpresteer. Dit het die DA ‘n hele klompie stemme gekos.
Altemit moes sommige DA-kandidate mnr Aldendorff se strategie gevolg het.
• Kleiner partye: Die Vryheidsfront Plus (VF+) en Kouga2000 (K20) se kandidate het onderskeidelik 526 en 486 stemme gekry. In sommige kringe word geredeneer dat dié twee partye se deelname die DA die verkiesing gekos het. Dat dié twee partye dit moeiliker vir die DA gemaak het, is gewis.
As hulle nie deelgeneem het nie, is dit nie te sê al hul ondersteuners sou vir die DA gestem het nie.
Dié partye kon voordat hulle kandidate gestel het meer bedag gewees het op wat in Kouga te wagte was. Hulle verdien ‘n vingerwysing, veral K20 wat nou graf toe is.
• Intimidasie: DA-politici het gekla oor initmidasie van kiesers in Swart- en Bruin-oorheersde gebiede. Die ANC het byvoorbeeld strate na stembusse in Pellsrus versper en kiesers aangespreek. Dit het die DA stemme gekos. Intimidasie is ‘n werklikheid van die Suid-Afrikaanse politiek. Dit sal vir baie jare by ons wees.
Die DA kon meer bedag gewees het hierop en teenvoeters gevind het.
Opsommend: die “kan-nie-worry”-wegblyers was die kernrede waarom die DA die Kouga-verkiesing verloor het, gevolg deur louerige DA-werwing in sommige wyke, gevolg deur die onbedagsame deelname van kleiner, onsuksesvolle partye. ‘n Duur les.
- Japie Bosch
25 May, 2011
23 May, 2011
Herskikking van SA politiek nou moontlik
2011-05-21
Tussen die lawaai deur van die DA se feesvierings oor die steun wat hy by die ANC afgeneem het en die ANC wat wal gooi dat hý steeds landwyd die meerderheidstem gekry het, staan een ding soos ’n paal bo water: Die uitslag dek die tafel vir ’n grondliggende herskikking van die politieke landskap in die aanloop tot die volgende nasionale verkiesing in 2014. Lees verder: Die Burger.
Tussen die lawaai deur van die DA se feesvierings oor die steun wat hy by die ANC afgeneem het en die ANC wat wal gooi dat hý steeds landwyd die meerderheidstem gekry het, staan een ding soos ’n paal bo water: Die uitslag dek die tafel vir ’n grondliggende herskikking van die politieke landskap in die aanloop tot die volgende nasionale verkiesing in 2014. Lees verder: Die Burger.
20 May, 2011
Election results map
View the election results in the Kouga by clicking on http://www.news24.com/maps?year=2011, followed by the "Eastern Cape", next on "Cacadu", and finally on "Kouga". Now check the tables for the election results in 2011.
15 May, 2011
Wrong message
Prof. Chimpie Cawood writes, "Your article by JP Landman [click here to read the article - DAtanet] re the two votes is a wrong message for Kouga voters. Kouga voters have three votes i.e. white ballot paper: vote for a DA ward candidate; yellow ballot paper: vote for a party (DA) proportional list for Kouga Municipality; green ballot paper : vote for a party (DA) proportional list for Cacadu District Municipality.
Keep up your excellent initiative - election day is upon us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Keep up your excellent initiative - election day is upon us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
’n Morele plig by die stembus
Woensdag se verkiesing stel Suid-Afrikaners voor ’n keuse tussen een manier van regeer en ’n ander – ’n keuse so duidelik dat dit elke kieser se plig is om sy keuse te maak en sy kruisie te trek vir die een of die ander, in belang van ons geliefde land.
Die een manier van regeer is om korrupsie en wanbestuur te vergoeilik en ongestraf te laat. Die ander manier is om skoon oudits te kry en op te tree teen skelms.
Die een manier van regeer is om munisipale dienste te laat verswak tot satwordens toe, paaie vol slaggate te laat en riool in strate te laat afvloei sodat inwoners voel hulle moet die wet oortree en dienste self lewer. Die ander manier is om basiese dienste in stand te hou deur begrotings behoorlik te bestuur sodat die paar munisipaliteite wat jy bestuur, al is hulle klein, telkens die bes bestuurde in hul provinsie is.
Die een manier van regeer is om die magshebbers toe te rus met die blinkste motors, die gaafste huise en die beste byvoordele. Die ander manier is om die gordels stywer in te trek en meer geld te bestee aan dienslewering aan armes.
Die een manier van regeer is om, herhaaldelik en skaamteloos, te beweer God is ’n ondersteuner van jou party en jy sal tot die wederkoms regeer. Die ander manier is om kiesers te vra om jou hul stem te leen, die tydelikheid van jou mandaat te erken en so die reg van die kieser te erken om van gedagte te verander – om nie eens te praat van om jou nie aan te matig om namens God te praat nie.
Die een manier van ’n verkiesingsveldtog bedryf is om jou opponent persoonlik te beledig eerder as om voorbeelde van jou eie uitnemende bestuur te probeer beklemtoon. Die ander manier is om op jou eie goeie bestuursrekord te fokus en nie jou opponent te skel nie.
Die een manier van verkiesing veg is om die raskaart te trek, sekere bevolkingsgroepe af te dreig en mense te antagoniseer. Die ander is om te konsentreer op versoening deur nie-rassigheid sodat al ons kinders ’n gelyke kans kan hê, al swem dit teen die stroom van populisme en ons geskiedenis van verdeeldheid.
Woensdag is die dag om te kies tussen hierdie opsies.
Ons vertrou dat kiesers sal besef dis tyd om die een manier opsy te laat, en dis ons bede dat hulle in groot getalle die ander manier sal kies.
Uit: Rapport, 15 Mei 2010
Die een manier van regeer is om korrupsie en wanbestuur te vergoeilik en ongestraf te laat. Die ander manier is om skoon oudits te kry en op te tree teen skelms.
Die een manier van regeer is om munisipale dienste te laat verswak tot satwordens toe, paaie vol slaggate te laat en riool in strate te laat afvloei sodat inwoners voel hulle moet die wet oortree en dienste self lewer. Die ander manier is om basiese dienste in stand te hou deur begrotings behoorlik te bestuur sodat die paar munisipaliteite wat jy bestuur, al is hulle klein, telkens die bes bestuurde in hul provinsie is.
Die een manier van regeer is om die magshebbers toe te rus met die blinkste motors, die gaafste huise en die beste byvoordele. Die ander manier is om die gordels stywer in te trek en meer geld te bestee aan dienslewering aan armes.
Die een manier van regeer is om, herhaaldelik en skaamteloos, te beweer God is ’n ondersteuner van jou party en jy sal tot die wederkoms regeer. Die ander manier is om kiesers te vra om jou hul stem te leen, die tydelikheid van jou mandaat te erken en so die reg van die kieser te erken om van gedagte te verander – om nie eens te praat van om jou nie aan te matig om namens God te praat nie.
Die een manier van ’n verkiesingsveldtog bedryf is om jou opponent persoonlik te beledig eerder as om voorbeelde van jou eie uitnemende bestuur te probeer beklemtoon. Die ander manier is om op jou eie goeie bestuursrekord te fokus en nie jou opponent te skel nie.
Die een manier van verkiesing veg is om die raskaart te trek, sekere bevolkingsgroepe af te dreig en mense te antagoniseer. Die ander is om te konsentreer op versoening deur nie-rassigheid sodat al ons kinders ’n gelyke kans kan hê, al swem dit teen die stroom van populisme en ons geskiedenis van verdeeldheid.
Woensdag is die dag om te kies tussen hierdie opsies.
Ons vertrou dat kiesers sal besef dis tyd om die een manier opsy te laat, en dis ons bede dat hulle in groot getalle die ander manier sal kies.
Uit: Rapport, 15 Mei 2010
14 May, 2011
The danger of a split vote
Piet Liebenberg, an Our Times reporter, wrote as follows: "My research on the previous election (2006) for ward 5 is a case in point why the votes for the minority parties [split votes] cost the DA dearly. Had the 29 people who voted ACDP or Vryheidsfront voted for the DA then the DA would have won the ward."
Election results map
An interesting exercise: click on http://www.news24.com/maps?year=2006; then on the Eastern Cape; then on Cacadu; and finally on Kouga; now go to the tables for the election results in 2006.
A preview of the municipal election on 18 May
Every voter has two votes next Wednesday – one for a ward councillor, where one chooses between individuals, and one on a proportional list where one casts a vote for a political party.
For the ANC the issue will be not to lose too much.
The ANC steadily increased its percentage of the vote from 1994 to 2004, peaking in the national elections in that year at close to 70% of the vote. Since then they have lost some ground (66.35% in 2006, 65.9% in 2009), but not nearly as much as predicted by pundits.
This time round, pundits are again predicting a loss of support for the ANC.
Failure to keep the ANC share of the vote above 60% could lead to considerable political pressure on President Zuma. It is clear that there are candidates in the ANC who would like to make a run for the Presidency if given the opportunity. They may use a poor election result as a stick to try and hit Mr Zuma and force a contest. Should the ANC come well out of the elections it will strengthen Mr Zuma’s hand.
For the DA the issue will be to break through the 20% mark.
This time round the DA should benefit from its merger with the Independent Democrats (although that was only a 2% party at the previous election). The DA should also gain if COPE implodes as is generally expected.
An important issue for all parties will be the percentage poll. In 2000 it was 48%, in 2006 48.4%. So half the voters did not bother to go and vote in the last two local elections.
A higher percentage poll will benefit the party whose supporters come out and vote. Pundits are predicting that ANC supporters will stay away on Wednesday. They will clearly have to stay away in much bigger numbers than before to cause meaningful change.
Another critical issue particularly for the DA, will be how many municipalities it will control outright. Data released by the national government clearly indicates that the DA performs well in the municipalities it controls outright. The more such DA-controlled municipalities there are, the more competition will be introduced in the performance race between municipalities, which must be good.
The possible downside in the election results could be a division along racial lines. If White, Coloured and Indian voters largely vote DA and Black (as in African) voters choose the ANC, it will perpetuate a trend witnessed in 1999 and will undermine social cohesion. It will also mean the DA will remain a largely Western Cape party.
From: Preview of the local government elections by J P Landman
For the ANC the issue will be not to lose too much.
The ANC steadily increased its percentage of the vote from 1994 to 2004, peaking in the national elections in that year at close to 70% of the vote. Since then they have lost some ground (66.35% in 2006, 65.9% in 2009), but not nearly as much as predicted by pundits.
This time round, pundits are again predicting a loss of support for the ANC.
Failure to keep the ANC share of the vote above 60% could lead to considerable political pressure on President Zuma. It is clear that there are candidates in the ANC who would like to make a run for the Presidency if given the opportunity. They may use a poor election result as a stick to try and hit Mr Zuma and force a contest. Should the ANC come well out of the elections it will strengthen Mr Zuma’s hand.
For the DA the issue will be to break through the 20% mark.
This time round the DA should benefit from its merger with the Independent Democrats (although that was only a 2% party at the previous election). The DA should also gain if COPE implodes as is generally expected.
An important issue for all parties will be the percentage poll. In 2000 it was 48%, in 2006 48.4%. So half the voters did not bother to go and vote in the last two local elections.
A higher percentage poll will benefit the party whose supporters come out and vote. Pundits are predicting that ANC supporters will stay away on Wednesday. They will clearly have to stay away in much bigger numbers than before to cause meaningful change.
Another critical issue particularly for the DA, will be how many municipalities it will control outright. Data released by the national government clearly indicates that the DA performs well in the municipalities it controls outright. The more such DA-controlled municipalities there are, the more competition will be introduced in the performance race between municipalities, which must be good.
The possible downside in the election results could be a division along racial lines. If White, Coloured and Indian voters largely vote DA and Black (as in African) voters choose the ANC, it will perpetuate a trend witnessed in 1999 and will undermine social cohesion. It will also mean the DA will remain a largely Western Cape party.
From: Preview of the local government elections by J P Landman
12 May, 2011
Positive talks between DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE and COPE in Kouga & Koukamma
Very positive negotiations between the leadership of both the DA and COPE took place during the weekend in Humansdorp.
The positive vibe at the meeting resulted from healthy cooperation between the two parties during a by-election in Humansdorp/Kwanomzamo some two years ago.
During the upcoming local municipal elections COPE unfortunately did not manage to register their candidates in Kouga and Koukamma in time due to an administrative blunder.
After lengthy discussions the two parties resolved that they share a common view with regard to the municipal election:
• The ANC must be stopped in both Kouga and Koukamma due to corruption, financial- and administrative- malfunctioning, and poor service delivery.
• Both the DA and COPE wish to experience Kouga and Koukamma reaching award-winning status once again by rendering “clean” administration and top class service delivery.
With the above in mind the COPE leadership in Kouga and Koukamma recommends the following:
• That their followers remain members of the COPE party;
• That due to the fact that COPE could not register candidates in Kouga & Koukamma, their followers will vote for the Democratic Alliance on all three ballot papers on May, 18;
• That future cooperation between the DA and COPE be jointly decided.
The DA leadership in Kouga and Koukamma agreed to incorporate COPE members in local municipal structures.
(Submitted by Dr. Nico Botha, Chairman of the Management Committee of the DA in the Jeffreys Bay Region)
The positive vibe at the meeting resulted from healthy cooperation between the two parties during a by-election in Humansdorp/Kwanomzamo some two years ago.
During the upcoming local municipal elections COPE unfortunately did not manage to register their candidates in Kouga and Koukamma in time due to an administrative blunder.
After lengthy discussions the two parties resolved that they share a common view with regard to the municipal election:
• The ANC must be stopped in both Kouga and Koukamma due to corruption, financial- and administrative- malfunctioning, and poor service delivery.
• Both the DA and COPE wish to experience Kouga and Koukamma reaching award-winning status once again by rendering “clean” administration and top class service delivery.
With the above in mind the COPE leadership in Kouga and Koukamma recommends the following:
• That their followers remain members of the COPE party;
• That due to the fact that COPE could not register candidates in Kouga & Koukamma, their followers will vote for the Democratic Alliance on all three ballot papers on May, 18;
• That future cooperation between the DA and COPE be jointly decided.
The DA leadership in Kouga and Koukamma agreed to incorporate COPE members in local municipal structures.
(Submitted by Dr. Nico Botha, Chairman of the Management Committee of the DA in the Jeffreys Bay Region)
A typical SA story
Barney Mthombothi
Thursday, 12 May 2011
It’s perhaps fitting that the campaign for the municipal elections has been dominated by toilets and their contents. It’s an appropriate metaphor for our politics. They’re down the toilet, so to speak. Muck raking has become the stuff of politics. Read more: Financial Mail ...
Thursday, 12 May 2011
It’s perhaps fitting that the campaign for the municipal elections has been dominated by toilets and their contents. It’s an appropriate metaphor for our politics. They’re down the toilet, so to speak. Muck raking has become the stuff of politics. Read more: Financial Mail ...
Rade: Zille kap Zuma
2011-05-11
Pieter du Toit
Kaapstad. – Me. Helen Zille, DA-leier, het pres. Jacob Zuma gister persoonlik uitgedaag om ’n verdoemende verslag deur die nasionale tesourie oor die ware stand van munisipaliteite bekend te maak. Lees verder: Beeld ...
Pieter du Toit
Kaapstad. – Me. Helen Zille, DA-leier, het pres. Jacob Zuma gister persoonlik uitgedaag om ’n verdoemende verslag deur die nasionale tesourie oor die ware stand van munisipaliteite bekend te maak. Lees verder: Beeld ...
ANC hét geweet
2011-05-12
Kaapstad - Die ANC is gister uitgevang oor sy leuen dat hy nié geweet het van die oop toilette in die Viljoenskroonse woongebied Rammulotsi nie. Lees verder: Die Burger ...
Kaapstad - Die ANC is gister uitgevang oor sy leuen dat hy nié geweet het van die oop toilette in die Viljoenskroonse woongebied Rammulotsi nie. Lees verder: Die Burger ...
11 May, 2011
A chance to stop the looting
Rhoda Kadalie
10 May 2011
My neighbour, a hardworking single parent, often tells me how much she despises politicians. "They are like salesmen who sell you products you do not want. They get in the way." It is hard to disagree with her except that I believe that society can only function properly in a constitutional multi-party democracy that requires elected officials in a sovereign parliament to represent us. Elections allow the voters to demonstrate their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the government of the day.
Last year the DA provincial government was the only one that received an unqualified audit and ironically the very people who vote for the ANC migrate from those mal-functioning provinces to the Western Cape in the hope of receiving better services. Read more: Politicsweb
10 May 2011
My neighbour, a hardworking single parent, often tells me how much she despises politicians. "They are like salesmen who sell you products you do not want. They get in the way." It is hard to disagree with her except that I believe that society can only function properly in a constitutional multi-party democracy that requires elected officials in a sovereign parliament to represent us. Elections allow the voters to demonstrate their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the government of the day.
Last year the DA provincial government was the only one that received an unqualified audit and ironically the very people who vote for the ANC migrate from those mal-functioning provinces to the Western Cape in the hope of receiving better services. Read more: Politicsweb
10 May, 2011
Die draadsitter swyg nogmaals
2011-05-10 00:00
’n Politikus is ’n gedierte wat op die draad kan sit met albei ore stewig op die grond, het die Amerikaanse koerantman en politieke kommentator H.L. Mencken eens gesê. Pres. Jacob Zuma leef dié waarheid nou tot nuwe hoogtes uit met sy stilte oor die rassistiese uitlatings van mnr. Julius Malema dat wit mense misdadigers is en só behandel moet word. Zuma “Die Swyger” het nogmaals bewys hy verspeel nie ’n kans om ’n kans te verspeel nie! Lees verder: Die Burger ...
’n Politikus is ’n gedierte wat op die draad kan sit met albei ore stewig op die grond, het die Amerikaanse koerantman en politieke kommentator H.L. Mencken eens gesê. Pres. Jacob Zuma leef dié waarheid nou tot nuwe hoogtes uit met sy stilte oor die rassistiese uitlatings van mnr. Julius Malema dat wit mense misdadigers is en só behandel moet word. Zuma “Die Swyger” het nogmaals bewys hy verspeel nie ’n kans om ’n kans te verspeel nie! Lees verder: Die Burger ...
Shiceka: Changing the statistics will not change the facts
James Lorimer, Shadow Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs
9 May 2011
It has been reported by the Sunday Times that, in addition to his very real failings as Minister for Cooperative Governance, Sicelo Shiceka is in trouble with the ANC because his department repeatedly recognised DA-run municipalities as outstanding models of service delivery. Read more ...
9 May 2011
It has been reported by the Sunday Times that, in addition to his very real failings as Minister for Cooperative Governance, Sicelo Shiceka is in trouble with the ANC because his department repeatedly recognised DA-run municipalities as outstanding models of service delivery. Read more ...
Now open toilet claims hit ANC
2011-05-08 12:59
Johannesburg - The Human Rights Commission is investigating why about 1600 toilets in a Free State municipality have been left without enclosures for the past eight years, the Sunday Times reported.
ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu told the paper: "We will investigate, and whoever is responsible will have to answer. We cannot allow our people to be disrespected like that. It's even worse if that's being done by an ANC municipality." Read more: news24 ...
DAtanet says, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!"
Johannesburg - The Human Rights Commission is investigating why about 1600 toilets in a Free State municipality have been left without enclosures for the past eight years, the Sunday Times reported.
ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu told the paper: "We will investigate, and whoever is responsible will have to answer. We cannot allow our people to be disrespected like that. It's even worse if that's being done by an ANC municipality." Read more: news24 ...
DAtanet says, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!"
08 May, 2011
I’m Fony, vote for me!
It’s the month of May, time for the municipal elections. This column will make no effort at pretending that all political parties are equal. Rather, we’ll measure them by the same yardstick: Are they capable of governing with competence and honesty?
To pretend, as some of the younger journalists sometimes do, that all politicalparties should be heard with a straight face, would not be credible. Here’s the bottom line, upfront: The ANC is not capable of deploying sufficient numbers of competent people to govern our cities and towns. South Africa is proof of that. Lies cannot demand the same editorial space as facts.
Which brings us to your candidate for mayor of Cape Town, Comrade Tony Ehrenreich. Or, as he is also affectionately known, Fony Ehrlosreich. KameradEhren Reich. Herr Oberst Erring Reich. Or simply Mr Human because, as you know, to Ehr is Human.
About his opponent, Azanian immigrant Patricia de Lille, I have nothing to say. Although, to be fair, even when she represented Azania in Parliament, Comrade Patricia was a diligent exposer of ANC fraud and corruption. Such as the Arms Scandal. So let’s just say this: The party she now represents has provided good government wherever it came to power. And you don’t have to take my word for it, just consider this:
One province in South Africa run by the DA. The only province actually to use its full budget for infrastructure improvement. In plain English, dear voter, that means delivering the goods. One city in South Africa run by the DA. The best-run city in the country. One municipality in Gauteng run by the DA. Yep, Midvaal judged the best-run local authority in Gauteng. Ditto the Baviaans local authority in the Eastern Cape.
And who is in charge of all those other places, where the taxpayers’ money disappears, the minister’s incompetent girlfriend is appointed at R80 000 a month, the taps are without water, the streets transmogrify into a string of potholes and the sewage run down the streets? You’ve got it. The ANC of Fony Ehrenreich. He is fighting for your right to also live like that.
When I say he is affectionately known as Fony Ehrlosreich, I am not necessarily being sarcastic. Many people have sympathy with him because, shame you know, he has an impossible job. I mean, Helen Zille and her blue T-shirted DA candidates can simply go around telling the truth. How difficult can that be? But poor old, dear old Fony, he dares not mention the truth because the truth about the ANC in government is an ugly being. And smelling of sewage too. Not to mention hazardous and sometimes deadly. As in the ANC’s baby-killing hospitals.
So Fony has to make it up as he goes along. A new lie for every new day, such as the DA discriminating against the poor by building bicycle lanes. In the world according to Fony Ehrenreich, the rich ride bicycles and the poor drive cars. But the reality is that the poor battle to get to work on time because the trains aren’t running. And why not? Yep, that’s the little fact Fony is trying to avoid by complaining about cycle lanes. The trains do not run properly because of ANC mismanagement.
But does Fony complain about that? Of course not. The truth is not his friend. And then he is deeply hurt and outraged about the Cape Town Stadium, which Cosatu wanted at taxpayers’ expense for a political rally on May Day. The price tag for the stadium plus all the services required to cater for a mass meeting would have come to over a million rand, which, in the world of Fony Ehrenreich is proof of the pudding that the DA-run council is conspiring to keep the poor out of the town. The city is a paradise for the elite, says Fony, while the poor can’t come in.
But have no fear, Comrade Fony is fighting for the right of the elite to live just like the poor.
The truth he tried to hide this time, is that Cosatu was charged exactly the same as everybody else, including the 75% discount for Non-Profit Organizations. And what Fony ignores, being of normal ANC intelligence, is that someone has to pay. When his comrade the Minister flies to Switzerland to visit his girlfriend in prison, someone has to pay. And when the stadium is used for a rally, someone has to pay. Why should that someone be the taxpayers of the city instead of Cosatu?
Another piece of information Tony missed in Government 101 is that when you steal from the taxpayers, you don’t steal from those fat-cat whites you so dislike. You steal from the poor, because those stolen taxes are then in your pocket and not available for housing and schools and hospitals and roads and all the rest of the infrastructure provided better in the Western Cape than in ANC country. And on a bad day, when it was really hard to think of a lie, Fony tampered with the wording on DA posters. He had to apologize for that. This serious ANC candidate for a very high-profile position did not know his behavior was unethical.
Also, there was the time when the poor were, ahem, avoided. A point often made about the ANC’s destructive policy of deploying incompetent cadres because they’re somebody’s friends or to meet race quotas, is this: Would an ANC boss go under the knife with a surgeon who had qualified with a distinction in skin colour? Thanks to Fony, we know the answer. When he got really sick, he did not join the poor in a government hospital run down by the ANC. Then, only a private hospital was good enough.
But we cannot really blame him for that. I mean, subjecting yourself to the results of ANC government could be life-threatening.
And, as a horrified nation now knows, it could also be life-threatening to protest against the corruption and delivery failures of the ANC government. As with Hector Pieterson in 1976, we are in 2011 again staring with disbelief at the picture of an unarmed protestor dying in the arms of a crying and distraught comrade, dying after he was assaulted and shot by the police.
Yes, dear reader, Andries Tatane’s horrible death in the dusty streets of Ficksburg − that is how far the reality of ANC failure has come from the fiction of ANC propaganda.
And now that we are serious, we should take note of yet another threat by the ANC against our democracy. The persistent, racist assault against our judiciary, the high courts of our land that form our final defence against injustice and tyranny.
In pursuance of its goal to dominate every aspect of our lives through control of all the levers of state power, the courts are a very important target for the ANC’s national democratic revolution. Thus we have seen that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) left vacancies on the Western Cape bench vacant rather than appoint white judges.
Last month the JSC interviewed seven candidates for three appointments to the Cape High Court. Only one of the candidates was black. He was the only one appointed. The other two appointments were not made, even though the candidates included members of the Cape Bar who are deeply experienced, knowledgeable and respected senior counsel.
Let there be no doubt that the ANC-dominated JSC has failed South Africa.
These were blatantly racist decisions, no more, no less. The threat is ANC tyranny.
From: On the Contrary, Pieter Schoombee’s column for Cape Business News, May 2011
To pretend, as some of the younger journalists sometimes do, that all politicalparties should be heard with a straight face, would not be credible. Here’s the bottom line, upfront: The ANC is not capable of deploying sufficient numbers of competent people to govern our cities and towns. South Africa is proof of that. Lies cannot demand the same editorial space as facts.
Which brings us to your candidate for mayor of Cape Town, Comrade Tony Ehrenreich. Or, as he is also affectionately known, Fony Ehrlosreich. KameradEhren Reich. Herr Oberst Erring Reich. Or simply Mr Human because, as you know, to Ehr is Human.
About his opponent, Azanian immigrant Patricia de Lille, I have nothing to say. Although, to be fair, even when she represented Azania in Parliament, Comrade Patricia was a diligent exposer of ANC fraud and corruption. Such as the Arms Scandal. So let’s just say this: The party she now represents has provided good government wherever it came to power. And you don’t have to take my word for it, just consider this:
One province in South Africa run by the DA. The only province actually to use its full budget for infrastructure improvement. In plain English, dear voter, that means delivering the goods. One city in South Africa run by the DA. The best-run city in the country. One municipality in Gauteng run by the DA. Yep, Midvaal judged the best-run local authority in Gauteng. Ditto the Baviaans local authority in the Eastern Cape.
And who is in charge of all those other places, where the taxpayers’ money disappears, the minister’s incompetent girlfriend is appointed at R80 000 a month, the taps are without water, the streets transmogrify into a string of potholes and the sewage run down the streets? You’ve got it. The ANC of Fony Ehrenreich. He is fighting for your right to also live like that.
When I say he is affectionately known as Fony Ehrlosreich, I am not necessarily being sarcastic. Many people have sympathy with him because, shame you know, he has an impossible job. I mean, Helen Zille and her blue T-shirted DA candidates can simply go around telling the truth. How difficult can that be? But poor old, dear old Fony, he dares not mention the truth because the truth about the ANC in government is an ugly being. And smelling of sewage too. Not to mention hazardous and sometimes deadly. As in the ANC’s baby-killing hospitals.
So Fony has to make it up as he goes along. A new lie for every new day, such as the DA discriminating against the poor by building bicycle lanes. In the world according to Fony Ehrenreich, the rich ride bicycles and the poor drive cars. But the reality is that the poor battle to get to work on time because the trains aren’t running. And why not? Yep, that’s the little fact Fony is trying to avoid by complaining about cycle lanes. The trains do not run properly because of ANC mismanagement.
But does Fony complain about that? Of course not. The truth is not his friend. And then he is deeply hurt and outraged about the Cape Town Stadium, which Cosatu wanted at taxpayers’ expense for a political rally on May Day. The price tag for the stadium plus all the services required to cater for a mass meeting would have come to over a million rand, which, in the world of Fony Ehrenreich is proof of the pudding that the DA-run council is conspiring to keep the poor out of the town. The city is a paradise for the elite, says Fony, while the poor can’t come in.
But have no fear, Comrade Fony is fighting for the right of the elite to live just like the poor.
The truth he tried to hide this time, is that Cosatu was charged exactly the same as everybody else, including the 75% discount for Non-Profit Organizations. And what Fony ignores, being of normal ANC intelligence, is that someone has to pay. When his comrade the Minister flies to Switzerland to visit his girlfriend in prison, someone has to pay. And when the stadium is used for a rally, someone has to pay. Why should that someone be the taxpayers of the city instead of Cosatu?
Another piece of information Tony missed in Government 101 is that when you steal from the taxpayers, you don’t steal from those fat-cat whites you so dislike. You steal from the poor, because those stolen taxes are then in your pocket and not available for housing and schools and hospitals and roads and all the rest of the infrastructure provided better in the Western Cape than in ANC country. And on a bad day, when it was really hard to think of a lie, Fony tampered with the wording on DA posters. He had to apologize for that. This serious ANC candidate for a very high-profile position did not know his behavior was unethical.
Also, there was the time when the poor were, ahem, avoided. A point often made about the ANC’s destructive policy of deploying incompetent cadres because they’re somebody’s friends or to meet race quotas, is this: Would an ANC boss go under the knife with a surgeon who had qualified with a distinction in skin colour? Thanks to Fony, we know the answer. When he got really sick, he did not join the poor in a government hospital run down by the ANC. Then, only a private hospital was good enough.
But we cannot really blame him for that. I mean, subjecting yourself to the results of ANC government could be life-threatening.
And, as a horrified nation now knows, it could also be life-threatening to protest against the corruption and delivery failures of the ANC government. As with Hector Pieterson in 1976, we are in 2011 again staring with disbelief at the picture of an unarmed protestor dying in the arms of a crying and distraught comrade, dying after he was assaulted and shot by the police.
Yes, dear reader, Andries Tatane’s horrible death in the dusty streets of Ficksburg − that is how far the reality of ANC failure has come from the fiction of ANC propaganda.
And now that we are serious, we should take note of yet another threat by the ANC against our democracy. The persistent, racist assault against our judiciary, the high courts of our land that form our final defence against injustice and tyranny.
In pursuance of its goal to dominate every aspect of our lives through control of all the levers of state power, the courts are a very important target for the ANC’s national democratic revolution. Thus we have seen that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) left vacancies on the Western Cape bench vacant rather than appoint white judges.
Last month the JSC interviewed seven candidates for three appointments to the Cape High Court. Only one of the candidates was black. He was the only one appointed. The other two appointments were not made, even though the candidates included members of the Cape Bar who are deeply experienced, knowledgeable and respected senior counsel.
Let there be no doubt that the ANC-dominated JSC has failed South Africa.
These were blatantly racist decisions, no more, no less. The threat is ANC tyranny.
From: On the Contrary, Pieter Schoombee’s column for Cape Business News, May 2011
06 May, 2011
ANC man taunts Zille with 'white' talk
2011-05-05
Port Elizabeth - A member of the ANC's Eastern Cape provincial legislature taunted DA leader Helen Zille with remarks about her “white” party as she spoke to residents of Helenvale outside Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning. Read more: news24 ...
[See also "Zille stippel ANC-strategie uit"]
Port Elizabeth - A member of the ANC's Eastern Cape provincial legislature taunted DA leader Helen Zille with remarks about her “white” party as she spoke to residents of Helenvale outside Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning. Read more: news24 ...
[See also "Zille stippel ANC-strategie uit"]
Rassisme verdeel Kapenaars soos Berlynse muur, sê Mbalula
2011-05-06
Philda Essop
Khayelitsha - Rassisme is soos ’n “Berlynse muur” wat gemeenskappe in Kaapstad verdeel.
Mnr. Fikile Mbalula, die ANC-hoof van organisasie en mobilisasie, het gister dié boodskap gehad vir honderde ANC-vrywilligers wat die O.R. Tambo-saal hier volgepak het. Lees verder: Die Burger
[Lees ook "Zille stippel ANC-strategie uit"]
Philda Essop
Khayelitsha - Rassisme is soos ’n “Berlynse muur” wat gemeenskappe in Kaapstad verdeel.
Mnr. Fikile Mbalula, die ANC-hoof van organisasie en mobilisasie, het gister dié boodskap gehad vir honderde ANC-vrywilligers wat die O.R. Tambo-saal hier volgepak het. Lees verder: Die Burger
[Lees ook "Zille stippel ANC-strategie uit"]
Zille stippel ANC-strategie uit
DA-leier, Helen Zille, het gisteraand gewaarsku dat die ANC tot 18 Mei alles in sy vermoë sal doen om kiesers se aandag te probeer aflei van hulle swak prestasie met betrekking tot die lewering van noodsaaklike dienste aan armes.
“Die ANC sal ongetwyfeld die klem plaas op emosionele sake soos ras en apartheid wat die potensiaal het om ‘n wig in te dryf tussen bevolkingsgroepe,” het Zille aan ‘n groot groep kiesers van die Kouga op St. Francisbaai gesê.
“Die ANC sal ongetwyfeld die klem plaas op emosionele sake soos ras en apartheid wat die potensiaal het om ‘n wig in te dryf tussen bevolkingsgroepe,” het Zille aan ‘n groot groep kiesers van die Kouga op St. Francisbaai gesê.
05 May, 2011
Wee die ANC as Oos-Kaap nies
2011-05-02
Zelda Jongbloed
In die voor-1994-era was daar ’n sêding in die Oos-Kaap wat in die politieke klimaat wat tans daar heers, koue rillings langs menige rug sal afstuur: “As die Oos-Kaap nies, kry die res van die land die verkoue.”
Die Nelson Mandelabaai-metro is die een metropool wat die gevaar loop om uit ANC-hande te glip. Die eerste aanduiding dat die ANC nie te gerus behoort te wees oor hoe aantreklik die party nog vir Baaise kiesers is nie, was in die algemene verkiesing in 2009 toe die party se Oos-Kaapse steun met 15% gekrimp het tot 48%. Lees verder: nuus24
Zelda Jongbloed
In die voor-1994-era was daar ’n sêding in die Oos-Kaap wat in die politieke klimaat wat tans daar heers, koue rillings langs menige rug sal afstuur: “As die Oos-Kaap nies, kry die res van die land die verkoue.”
Die Nelson Mandelabaai-metro is die een metropool wat die gevaar loop om uit ANC-hande te glip. Die eerste aanduiding dat die ANC nie te gerus behoort te wees oor hoe aantreklik die party nog vir Baaise kiesers is nie, was in die algemene verkiesing in 2009 toe die party se Oos-Kaapse steun met 15% gekrimp het tot 48%. Lees verder: nuus24
Elections 2011: DA presents Track Record of Delivery for All
James Selfe, DA Federal Chairperson
4 May 2011
Today, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is releasing the third, and final, major document of our 2011 Municipal Election campaign. Our “Track Record of Delivery for All”, which is available for download online, follows the “Cape Town Story” and “Local Government Manifesto 2011”. We believe it typifies what the Democratic Alliance stands for, what we have achieved, and what we can bring to municipalities across South Africa: service delivery excellence for all the people. It is a document that speaks to our vision of a society in which all South Africans have the opportunities and freedoms to be able to make of their lives what they wish – and, critically, how it is that we have gone about working towards that goal wherever we govern. Read more ...
4 May 2011
Today, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is releasing the third, and final, major document of our 2011 Municipal Election campaign. Our “Track Record of Delivery for All”, which is available for download online, follows the “Cape Town Story” and “Local Government Manifesto 2011”. We believe it typifies what the Democratic Alliance stands for, what we have achieved, and what we can bring to municipalities across South Africa: service delivery excellence for all the people. It is a document that speaks to our vision of a society in which all South Africans have the opportunities and freedoms to be able to make of their lives what they wish – and, critically, how it is that we have gone about working towards that goal wherever we govern. Read more ...
Zuma swyg wyl ANC trap op demokrasie
2011-05-01
Die intimidasie van die DA deur ANC-ondersteuners in die munisipale verkiesing neem ’n onrusbarende patroon aan. Lees verder: Beeld ...
Die intimidasie van die DA deur ANC-ondersteuners in die munisipale verkiesing neem ’n onrusbarende patroon aan. Lees verder: Beeld ...
04 May, 2011
DA: Swart stemme kan verdriedubbel
2011-05-03
Kaapstad – Ondersteuning van die DA onder swart stemmers het byna verdriedubbel in die aanloop tot die plaaslike verkiesings, het partystrateeg Ryan Coetzee Dinsdag gesê. Lees verder: nuus24 ...
Kaapstad – Ondersteuning van die DA onder swart stemmers het byna verdriedubbel in die aanloop tot die plaaslike verkiesings, het partystrateeg Ryan Coetzee Dinsdag gesê. Lees verder: nuus24 ...
No five star hotel stays for our MECs - Helen Zille
03 May 2011
Today, I am pleased to present the Western Cape ministerial handbook recently approved by the Provincial Cabinet. Since coming into office in 2009, our administration has introduced a number of initiatives that underscore our commitment to clean and efficient government. Last year, we passed the Business Interests of Employees Act to prevent all government employees and their families from doing business with the state.
We have also strengthened our Forensic Investigation Unit to ensure that cases of corruption in provincial departments can be better detected, investigated and prosecuted. The Western Cape Ministerial Handbook is our latest initiative. There have been numerous media stories on excessive spending by National Ministers on lengthy stays at five star hotels, purchasing expensive vehicles and throwing lavish parties.
When questioned on spending taxpayer's money in this way many of them refer to the current ministerial handbook produced by the national Department Public Service and Administration and say "The handbook says I can." In other words, the current ministerial handbook (which applies to all national ministers and provincial MECs) facilitates and legalises this form of power abuse.
That is why we have developed our own provincial ministerial handbook in line with the 'no frills' ethos of this government. Western Cape provincial MECs will be bound by these tighter rules and regulations. Read more: Politicsweb ...
Today, I am pleased to present the Western Cape ministerial handbook recently approved by the Provincial Cabinet. Since coming into office in 2009, our administration has introduced a number of initiatives that underscore our commitment to clean and efficient government. Last year, we passed the Business Interests of Employees Act to prevent all government employees and their families from doing business with the state.
We have also strengthened our Forensic Investigation Unit to ensure that cases of corruption in provincial departments can be better detected, investigated and prosecuted. The Western Cape Ministerial Handbook is our latest initiative. There have been numerous media stories on excessive spending by National Ministers on lengthy stays at five star hotels, purchasing expensive vehicles and throwing lavish parties.
When questioned on spending taxpayer's money in this way many of them refer to the current ministerial handbook produced by the national Department Public Service and Administration and say "The handbook says I can." In other words, the current ministerial handbook (which applies to all national ministers and provincial MECs) facilitates and legalises this form of power abuse.
That is why we have developed our own provincial ministerial handbook in line with the 'no frills' ethos of this government. Western Cape provincial MECs will be bound by these tighter rules and regulations. Read more: Politicsweb ...
03 May, 2011
From the DA archives #5
May the 18th is the Local Government Elections. The DA is ready to show you that our offer of clean and effective service delivery unlocks opportunity and delivers a better life for all the rainbow people of South Africa.
'Jesus was ’n kommunis, Hy voed 5 000 mense'
2011-05-02
Kaapstad. – “Jesus was ’n kommunis”, “God het pres. Jacob Zuma as staatshoof gesalf” en die ANC, die vakverbond Cosatu en die SAKP is die “Heilige Drie-eenheid”, het ’n pastoor gistermiddag op die regerende alliansie se Werkersdagbyeenkoms in Athlone verklaar. Lees verder: nuus24 ...
Kaapstad. – “Jesus was ’n kommunis”, “God het pres. Jacob Zuma as staatshoof gesalf” en die ANC, die vakverbond Cosatu en die SAKP is die “Heilige Drie-eenheid”, het ’n pastoor gistermiddag op die regerende alliansie se Werkersdagbyeenkoms in Athlone verklaar. Lees verder: nuus24 ...
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