DA welcomes guilty verdict in Ses'khona matter

06 February 2015

The DA welcomes the Bellville Regional Court's ruling today that nine men accused of dumping faeces at Cape Town International Airport are guilty of contravening the Civil Aviation Act.

The men are all members of the Ses'khona movement and two of them, Andile Lili and Loyiso Nkohla are leaders of the movement.

For too long the Western Cape has been terrorized by Ses'Khona, which ironically refers to itself as a "people's rights movement".

Their actions until now show the direct opposite. They misuse the poorest in the community to extend their own power. They are a group of people who work from within the ANC, their network including a number of ANC councillors and aspirant ANC councillors.

Andile Lili and Loyiso Nkohla, full members of the ANC, have been making repeated threats of ungovernability against the Western Cape Government and the City of Cape Town. They have carried out these threats in the following manner:

Organising disruptive protests on the N2 highway 

Leading violent marches in the City centre during which the stalls of (mostly foreign) street vendors were vandalised

Organising and executing several faeces-throwing incidents in the City and elsewhere

Conning vulnerable people by offering them jobs n exchange for joining their movement and

By illegally selling plots, belonging to SANRAL, to residents of the Lwandle informal settlement and diverting disaster management resources away from affected residents during the evictions took place there.

There is no place for predatory politics in the Western Cape. It is the kind of politics that not only feeds off human suffering but also creates it. 

The court judgement confirmed that there is no place for gutter politics as practiced by the ANC.  This is a victory for our constitutional democracy and human dignity. May this be a hard lesson for the ANC leadership in the Western Cape. The voters and courts will have the final say, and not the ANC Headquarters.

The citizens of the Western Cape value human dignity and reject organisations like Ses'khona and for showing disrespect.

The DA calls for a sentence befitting of this crime so as to send a strong message to the offenders that political thuggery will not be tolerated.

Statement issued by Dr. Ivan Meyer, DA Western Cape Leader, February 5 2015

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