The use this weekend of vehicles belonging to the South African Football Association by the ANC in Beaufort West, must be condemned as yet another case of ANC abuse of public resources.
The DA has observed and has video and picture evidence of the ANC using SAFA vehicles to transport its activists around Beaufort West in the run up to a by-election on Wednesday, 24 May.
This weekend, the driver of one of these vehicles physically scuffled with DA activists who took pictures and videos of them.
The ANC is clearly desperate in Beaufort West, and ousted former Mayor, Truman Prince has been at the centre of the more scandalous campaign tactics the ANC has employed.
No doubt Prince’s affiliation to, and recent leadership of SAFA in the region has everything to do with the use of SAFA vehicles in the ANC campaign.
I therefore call on SAFA President, Danny Jordaan, to get these vehicles back into SAFA control – and out of the hands of the ANC.
I will write to Jordaan asking him directly to stop this abuse of SAFA vehicles.
Jordaan was recently voted out of government in Nelson Mandela Bay, and the people roundly rejected his opportunism there. He must not allow SAFA or its assets to be used opportunistically by the ANC either.
The DA will not allow the abuse of SAFA property, for the ANC’s election campaign.
SAFA property must be used to develop the sport among our communities, and to develop young soccer talent, not to ferry ANC activists around.