Cape Town will be able to focus on its own efforts to provide housing for the poor and it will, I am sure, provide more for the city than the national and provincial governments.
An opportunity has been lost, an opportunity to work together. It has been lost, because the ANC preferred secrecy to transparency. It has been lost, because the ANC preferred the spectacle of delivery to delivery itself. It has been lost because the ANC and not Mayor Zille has decided to cut ties.
The voters have already delivered their verdict. The ANC has been thrown out of the mayor's office.
Members, I stand here as a proud DA member, proud of the multiparty coalition that is being led by Helen Zille, and which is rescuing the City of Cape Town from its poor administration. Enkosi. [Thank you.] [Applause.]