DA refutes mayor was ‘forced’ to resign
This comes after the Tshwane ANC’s chairperson Kgosi Maepa claimed the DA’s national leadership had forced Mokgalapa to resign.
The DA has denied that outgoing Tshwane mayor Stevens Mokgalapa was forced to resign his position.
“The ANC just like making wild allegations,” DA national spokesperson Solly Malatsi told Rekord.
This comes after the Tshwane ANC’s chairperson Kgosi Maepa claimed the DA’s national leadership had forced Mokgalapa to resign as they had with his predecessor Solly Msimanga a year ago.
“The DA has dismally failed to govern the City of Tshwane, they have been limping from one corruption scandal to the next from 2016 to 2020,” he said.
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The scandals Maepa said he was referring to were Glad Africa, Aurecon, Wonderboom Airport and the alleged appointment of people with falsified CVs and unqualified senior managers.
“The people of Tshwane are worse off today than they were before the DA took over. We have been living in a veritable hell, especially in Tshwane townships,” he said.
However, DA provincial leader John Moodey commended the city’s service delivery efforts of ensuring 284 projects in the 2019/20 integrated development plan and multi-year projects were implemented.
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“Of those projects the installation of the water and sewer reticulation and construction of bulk water and sewage facilities in Hammanskraal extension 10, giving residents access to basic services and construction of the new Klipgat Hospital Reservoir, will be completed in August this year. It will provide adequate water supply capacity to 4 700 households in Klipgat,” he said.
Moodey added a transactional advisor had also been appointed to the Wonderboom Airport to build in-house capacity.
“The DA is confident that the city is spending residents’ money appropriately,” he said adding that “false allegations” by the ANC about the city being in turmoil were misrepresenting the “true state of the city”.
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