ANC SAYS HELEN ZILLE MUST GO
DA leader Helen Zille and all her party's arguments in the Makhaza Open Toilet Scandal have been destroyed in the Cape High Court. Zille should resign from public life as her credibility now lies in tatters, says the ANC.
ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman says: "Helen Zille was the mayor of Cape Town when these open toilets ‘with a view' were built. As Western Cape premier she came out guns blazing in defence of the illegal, undignified and unenclosed toilets. She even held public meetings in Khayelitsha to defend the indefensible."
Judge Nathan Erasmus in no uncertain terms on Friday found against her, the mayor and the city of Cape Town and the taxpayer must again foot the bill for the umpteenth expensive and avoidable court case lost by the DA regime.
In her arguments Zille all along maintained that she met a so-called "one-in-five" toilet per family "standard". The High Court found this to be baseless in any law or "legislative framework" and that the City cannot rely upon this ratio.
Zille claimed an agreement was reached with residents to have these despicable open toilets built. The city's own forensic report could not prove this agreement. The High Court found the "purported" agreement "relied upon" to be invalid and unenforceable. It is also unconstitutional.
Zille and the DA claims to be driven by constitutionality and the Rule of Law, but is frequently found to be in breach of the Constitution (such as the unconstitutional interference in the Overberg District Municipality and the dismissal of staff from the Social Transformation Programme she scrapped in her own provincial department).
Judge Erasmus of the Cape High Court in this case of the Makhaza Open Toilet Scandal alone found that six Constitutional provisions of the Bill of Human Rights were violated!
This ruling disproved and exposed Zille and the DA's fabricated defence and malice to punish the residents by altogether removing the flush toilets. Therefore the court ordered these toilets must be reinstalled.
Zille in a statement on behalf of her party unconditionally accepted the court's ruling. She must now accept the inevitable and without delay resign from public office and life.
The ANC says the DA has proven to be following political agendas, be content with inferior services in poorer areas and that it does not care for poor and ordinary people. It abuses state money to advance its war on the poor and to punish the poor.
"This has to stop now. The ANC calls on Zille to do the honourable thing by resigning immediately. The ANC also calls on all the people of the Western Cape to reject Helen Zille, her cronies and the DA in the upcoming municipal election by voting ANC only to eject her and her party from taking the City of Cape Town and the province further on this slippery slope that destroys and negates the lives and rights of people," Fransman says.
Statement issued by Marius Fransman, Western Cape ANC Provincial chairperson, May 1 2011
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