Daily protests over the Democratic Alliance (DA)-led city administration’s “poor service delivery” will continue until “the people feel they have been listened to”, says Ndelela Mavungavunga of the SA National Civics Organisation (Sanco).
The group has been co- ordinating “protests by residents” in Imizamo Yethu, Gugulethu, Crossroads, Delft, Masiphumelele and Lwandle for the past two weeks, “against the DA mayor’s failure to deliver toilets, water, electricity, housing and city police”.
Executive mayor Helen Zille has slammed the ongoing demonstrations as attempts by the ANC to “actively disrupt service delivery” so that the city can be accused of non- performance.
She said earlier that the protests formed part of a well-organised plan by the ANC to destabilise the multi-party government. Cape Times
InternAfrica is inclined to agree with Mayor Helen Zille - the past three years we have participated in authorised peaceful sustainable housing demonstrations to the the department of Housing offices. ANC MECs Richard Dyantyi, Marius Fransman are among the respondents in the Provincial ANC and Municipal housing structures who have never engaged with proven research or InternAfrica.
At a meeting with InternAfrica in parliament offices 29/03/2006 the Special Advisor (Saths Moodley) to the ANC minister of Housing (Lindiwe Sisulu) actually said:
“You are in the wrong office”
InternAfrica is focused on the habitat (sic housing) environment of Cape Town and the Western Cape.
Lack of intellectual environmental engagement by ANC officers with regard to proven sustainable carbon efficient and at 1/4 the cost Cannabrick solution, is evident. Incomparrison to MEC’s Lindiwe Sisulu, Nomandia Mfeketo and Richard Dyantyi’s costly, and failed N2 Gateway project which they touted as a National Model to resolving the housing backlog by 2014.
InternAfrica will continue to address and inform all those affected by the Cape Town habitat environment crisis (and solution) as made available in news, housing, Google Earth placemark, fire & flood stats, pictures, demonstrations, petitions, press, World Urban Forum participation & sustainable development research.
“Based on perceived objective reality, to achieve these outcomes. It is only logical that our experience, or dynamic objective reality mediated by practice, will serve as our teacher, telling us whether the circumstances necessitate any changes in our target dates.” - Thabo Mbeki
Research makes no difference to the human habitat environment unless it is translated into policy, practice, promotion and products.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein
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