Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with serious discontent that with only 9 days left before the end of the financial year, the DA led City of Cape Town indicated that it had spent only 50% of its capital budget for the financial year and all of a sudden it claims that it managed to miraculously increase its capital spending to 80% in 9 days; 2) further notes statements by the African National Congress and other opposition parties in the City of Cape Town that the DA misled the public about the areas in which they had underspent when in fact the City of Cape Town only spent 38.9% of the Transport, Roads and Major Projects budget and only 58% of the Housing budget when the many roads across the city show signs of poor maintenance and are riddled with potholes that have cost motorists millions of rand;
3) acknowledges that the DA's claims to have spent almost 40% of its capital budget in 9 days is nothing less than a blatant reflection of fiscal dumping when the City of Cape Town is facing a management crisis and many of its operations are crippled with the exodus and purging of officials; and
4) calls on the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs to investigate the City of Cape Town's financial report and to charge any person responsible for the gross manipulation of public funds, misleading the public and hiding the City of Cape Town's incompetence.