Deputy Speaker, unlike the ANC, the DA holds its councillors accountable. We found the recent statement made by the DA councillor repugnant and he was suspended. Perhaps the ANC can follow suit with its renegade members. [Applause.]
In light of the continued embarrassing and disgraceful behaviour of certain ANC Youth League members regarding flush toilets, I rise today to represent the community of St Faiths and Mvulazana in the Umzimkulu Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, an impoverished community where 99,3% do not have access to sanitation.
Two days prior to a by-election held in April, the ANC-led municipality dispatched trucks with 300 toilets to be erected in the ward. The community was informed that construction would happen shortly. A week after the by- election the trucks rolled back into the ward, this time not to bring more material or to build them, but to remove 250 of those toilets. [Interjections.] The residents were informed that the toilets had been delivered to the wrong ward.
The ANC continues to exploit the poor. They deliver toilets to a community two days prior to a by-election and remove 80% of those very toilets a week later. One begins to wonder how low the ANC will go in their campaign. [Time expired.] [Applause.]