Hon Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay that the city of Cape Town under the leadership of the Democratic Alliance has processed over R350 million worth of deviations in a period of six months, allowing the DA-led city to extend the contracts of certain consultants without following tender processes;
2) further notes that despite appointing two directors to head the city's Integrated Rapid Transit, IRT, Unit, the city continues to use consultants and has been shifting the goal posts in opening crucial road links such as the West Coast bus lane and leaving the two directors with almost nothing to do in six months;
3) acknowledges that this is a clear indication of the DA's lack of knowledge on governance issues and its desperate attempt to use the back door to channel public funds to certain business individuals with links with the DA; and
4) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such a practice, which amounts to nothing but a systematic abuse of public funds to buy votes.
THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Hon Sinclair, you are not allowed to speak on your cellphone in the Chamber. [Interjections.] I am now calling your name, and you cannot hear me.