CAPE TOWN — A group of about 50 disgruntled residents of townships around Plettenberg Bay staged a sit-in at the town’s council offices yesterday in a bid to meet Bitou mayor Lulama Mvimbi to air their grievances over nondelivery of services.
The sit-in was organised by a group claiming to be from the SA National Civics Organisation (Sanco), but council officials have dismissed them as members of a rival parallel structure.
The protest is part of the saga of dissension in Plettenberg Bay that has seen accusations of corruption and nepotism in the council.
Phumzile Dalindyebo said the protest was organised to highlight lack of service delivery and housing in areas in KwaNokthula, New Horizon and Bitterdrift. The Democratic Alliance alerted the media to the sit-in, and inquiries were referred to Dalindyebo, who said he was the secretary of the local Sanco branch. He accused Mvimbi of creating parallel structures to sideline the “real” Sanco group in the town.
Dalindyebo, a former council employee who had his contract terminated in December, said his group handed a memorandum to Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka last July at a presidential imbizo attended by Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool and local government MEC Richard Dyantyi. They had not yet received a response… Businessday News Worth Knowing
The sit-in was organised by a group claiming to be from the SA National Civics Organisation (Sanco), but council officials have dismissed them as members of a rival parallel structure.
The protest is part of the saga of dissension in Plettenberg Bay that has seen accusations of corruption and nepotism in the council.
Phumzile Dalindyebo said the protest was organised to highlight lack of service delivery and housing in areas in KwaNokthula, New Horizon and Bitterdrift. The Democratic Alliance alerted the media to the sit-in, and inquiries were referred to Dalindyebo, who said he was the secretary of the local Sanco branch. He accused Mvimbi of creating parallel structures to sideline the “real” Sanco group in the town.
Dalindyebo, a former council employee who had his contract terminated in December, said his group handed a memorandum to Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka last July at a presidential imbizo attended by Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool and local government MEC Richard Dyantyi. They had not yet received a response… Businessday News Worth Knowing
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