SupraMustGo: IMMT briefing nothing more than PR exercise

16 May 2018 in News

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the North West is deeply disappointed with the meaningless feedback Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma gave to the people of North West this afternoon.

As we have long said, the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) along with the Section 100 intervention are a smokescreen used to cover up the fact that President Cyril Ramaphosa does not have the capacity to deal with the North West’s focal problem – Supra Muhamphelo.

The people of the North West have been caught in the middle of an ANC factional battle, where the casualties are the people and service delivery. When politicians fight, it is the people who ultimately suffer. It is a slap in the face of the lived experience and plight of the province’s residents for the IMTT to state that “more investigations” into the state of the province need to be done, when the facts are right in front of them: from Auditor-General reports to the physical state of the province.  Ramaphosa’s IMMT is being disingenuous; it is playing with the lives of the people.

We do not need more reports or investigations or PR stunts by the ANC – we need action that will bring order and change the lives of our people for the better.

Last week, we filed a PAIA application to gain access to the full IMTT report – we believe it is nothing more than a PR gimmick, which either says nothing or will only tell the people what they already know: that the ANC has failed the people and that Mahumaphelo must be removed from office, without further delay.

The ANC has failed the people of the North West and we are sceptical that the ANC will ever be able to put the people first and turn the province around.

The North West needs the kind of Change that only a DA-led government can bring.