ANCYL ungovernability campaign stinks

The ANCYL has lost the plot.  In the last two days, ANCYL representatives have flung human faeces from portable flush toilets at the Western Cape Provincial Parliament and at a bus carrying Helen Zille. 

They're supposedly doing this to protest against sanitation services in Cape Town - in particular, the ANCYL is unhappy about the portable flush toilets the DA government is offering to communities in Cape Town. 

Cape Town is the leading metro for sanitation delivery in the country. Here are the statistics for the percentage of people with either flush or chemical toilets per province:

Western Cape:  90.5%
Gauteng:  86.5%
Free State:  67.7%
Northern Cape:  66.5%
National Average:  62.6%
KZN:  53.2%
North West:  46.2% 
Eastern Cape:  46% 
Mpumalanga:  45.2% 
Limpopo:  22.7% 

On top of that, the City of Cape Town is the best performing metro at 97.2%. So the question is, why is the ANCYL protesting in Cape Town - which has the best sanitation in South Africa - and not in the rest of the country, where millions of people are forced to use buckets as toilets?

In Nelson Mandela Bay alone, 30 000 people are forced to use bucket toilets every day. In Cape Town, nobody has to use a bucket toilet - everyone with a bucket can get a free serviced portable flush toilet.

The facts are clear:  DA governments deliver better sanitation than ANC governments.  

These "protests" are all part of the ANC's plan to make the Western Cape ungovernable before next year's elections. Their plan is to stage politically-motivated protests in order to create the impression that there are service delivery problems in the Western Cape.

But as the statistics indicate all the time, the Western Cape is in fact the best-governed province in South Africa. 

Instead of flinging faeces around, the ANCYL should be focusing on holding its governments to account for their 19-year failure to deliver proper sanitation in the rest of the country. 

Statement issued by Mbali Ntuli, DA Youth Leader, June 5 2013

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