Please find attached soundbites in Setswana, isiXhosa and isiZulu by DA National Spokesperson, Solly Malatsi MP, and in English and Afrikaans by DA Deputy Chairperson of Federal Legal Council, Natasha Mazzone MP.
The Western Cape High Court will today deliver judgement on Ms De Lille’s case against the Democratic Alliance. Regardless the outcome of the court judgment, we will always seek to place the needs of the people of Cape Town first.
Under different circumstances, any leader with any sense of accountability to the people the City serves, would have done the honourable thing and resigned after numerous serious allegations against her and the loss of confidence of her own caucus.
Instead, Ms De Lille has hung on to power, refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing on her part and sought to use the courts to prevent being held to account. She has – in true Jacob Zuma style- sought to use public money to defend a matter which is between her and her political party.
The reality is there are a number of very important questions which Ms De Lille has failed to answer.
Most of these require simply a yes or no answer yet she sought to try and confuse the public by deflecting the answers.
These questions are:
- Did she send the SMS to Councilor Xanthea Limberg asking that the then City Manager be scored higher because ‘she wants to keep him’? Yes or No?
- Did she unduly influence the appointment of Limia Essop because she has a personal relationship with her? Yes or No?
- Why did she refuse to cooperate with the on-going Bowman’s investigation which seeks to investigate these issues in the City, and which she loudly professed earlier this year she would easily refute?
- Why did she publicly attack and seek to intimidate the two whistle-blowers in the City, including the Cities’ most senior managers, when the claims they made have been vindicated by numerous processes?
- Why did she seek to protect and shield the now suspended senior official Melissa Whitehead?
The DA’s main priority remains delivering to and serving the people of the City of Cape Town.