I thank the ANC for sweeping away the rubbish for us!

Without trying to be sarcastic or funny in any way, I would like to sincerely thank the ANC for taking an ex-DA councilor away and swallowing her (and soon to be spat out) into their fold. I feel simply saying thank you to the ANC isn’t enough!

In particular, I refer to Bev Turk, now ex-ward councilor for Ward 57. For months now our internal DA legal processes have been trying to get rid of her, as there were a number of racist allegations against her. Time was imminent in that our Federal Legal Commission was going to declare that she contravened our codes and was to be expelled from the DA. Turk herself knew she was guilty, otherwise why would she be looking all over the South for a job? Thanks to the ANC, this process has been sped up, as she’s now instantly gone (I have no doubt that the ANC have promised her a job)! Thank you ANC for making it effortless for us. In poor little Bev’s mind she is now secure in the consistently corrupt ANC; how delirious can one get!

Racism allegations surrounding Bev Turk is nothing new, as one can google many newspaper articles that demonstrated her racial prejudice and disrespect to people in general. The shocking state of her ward is a clear demonstration showing how she did little for her community. She was consistently lazy and I had to frequently get her to actually get some work done. Needless to say, she didn’t like this and I wasn’t very popular with her.

As of a few months ago, as Member of Parliament for the area, I instituted some internal processes that are ensuring that the ward gets back to a standard acceptable to residents, as Bev had done nothing all this time. Now that she’s out of the way, we can get a competent councilor put in to serve the community at the level that they deserve.

The desperation by the ANC is obvious, in trying to discredit the DA, which they know will win Gauteng in May. They are prepared to take anyone, no matter how bad, incompetent and lazy they are to present to the public a façade of success and growth. The opposite is true. With such people in their ranks, the ANC will only continue on a spiral of failure that they are already on.

Once again, thank you to the ANC for sweeping the rubbish away for us!

Manny de Freitas MP

Shadow Minister of Home Affairs (DA)