COPE leads ANC Follows

Last week Thursday COPE in Matjhabeng had a silent protest on the isle of Stateway (Welkom), where members demonstrated the dissatisfaction with the way the municipality is run. Some of COPE placards read; “No service delivery just empty promises; Matjhabeng is not just Welkom; Stop wasting TAX money”.

Today we witness the hypocrisy of the ruling party on the same Stateway, the same TREE where COPE members gathered last week. Their placards are some sort of a Hip-Hop come back to what COPE was saying. It is so unfortunate that they think this is a Hip-Hop battle, last week COPE said, “ No Service delivery just empty promises”, today the ANC says,” ANC makes no idle promises”. COPE highlighted issues around service delivery in the Municipality, issues such as the street lights that aren’t working, today ANC says, ”Hands off our Municipality”. This is proof that the ruling party has no conscious and does not care about the people.

They then also said,” Protect our gains of freedom”, where are those gains? It is no secret that Matjhabeng has not had a clean audit in the past five (5) years and there is an increase in unemployment in the area particular amongst the youth, we cannot sweep under the carpet the stinking sewages and flooding water on the streets of this community.  

Most of the placards were directly from ANC Lejweleputswa, this comes as no surprise as the district is headed by the Premiers biggest Fan, Mr. Speelman (Mayor of Lejweleputswa and ANC District Chair) who publicly said he would not assist anyone who does not belong or support the ANC.

The ANC thinks it is above the law as they have not followed proper procedures to have the march. They only submitted their notice yesterday (25 November 2015) and did not even have a section 4 meeting.   

If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.

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