EDITOR – Does Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille close the roads around the Cape Town civic centre when she makes her budget speech?
I think not. Nor does she even wear a gold (colonial) chain or glide up a red (colonial) carpet.
But she delivers. To the ratepayers of Cape Town and to all the Eastern Cape economic and other ANC refugees who flood into the city looking for the better life for all that the ANC promised them. No matter what the ANC, or anybody else claims, the facts show that Cape Town delivers.
But not so here in Durban. Here we have to close off all the streets around the CBD and inconvenience what little business comes to the city. Here we get out the Metro police – that same police force who are always on strike and hardly ever show up when there's real trouble. Here we roll out red carpets and don golden mayoral chains and arrive in big mayoral cars. How quaint. How colonial; Spot the irony.
All to make a budget speech in the City Hall. How delusional is the mayor and the ANC? Such mind numbing, hypocritical delusions of pumped up colonial grandeur.
Mark Lowe
Durban
