Speaker, the DA consistently feeds the public the propaganda that it runs its municipalities with honesty, integrity and transparency and that, were it in government, the people would be happy. However, increasingly, people residing in municipalities under DA rule are coming up with different stories. Residents of Swellendam Municipality are threatening to boycott upcoming local government polls because of their frustration with what they term deep-seated corruption, incompetence, maladministration and irregularities in the DA and ID-governed municipality.
Details of these activities were also exposed last week by Scopa in the Western Cape legislature. The people of Swellendam have expressed their disgust at the manner in which the municipality is being run. This includes nepotism, underhanded deals, political interference and a chaotic billing system ... [Interjections.]