OPINIONISTA: Alan Winde hell-bent on an autonomous Western Cape

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OPINIONISTA: Alan Winde hell-bent on an autonomous Western Cape By Pat Lekker

So far, the only lasting impression the ANC has of the successor to Helen Zille is that Alan Winde is a very weak imitation of Zille and the weakest political leader the DA fielded in its core area the Western Cape — the only province where the DA is in control and where it wants to preserve as much as possible the past privilege of its support base.

From the rapid bus transport system, MyCiTi, residents of the Western Cape know how DA “competition” negatively impacted on that service and that it regularly has industrial action and other problems popping up — mainly due to political interference. Knysna, where Winde hails from, saw the tourism entity get R4-million a year of taxpayers’ money with only a service-level agreement with the municipality of Knysna. Knysna Tourism posed as a government body, while it is merely a private company fulfilling the duties on behalf of the municipality.

Bitou is also an area where it is alleged that certain DA politicians indulged in seditious actions to destabilise that municipality when the ANC was in charge.

 

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