Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay and discontent revelations that the Western Cape Premier Helen Zille uses taxpayers' monies to pay Heart 104.9 FM for publicity;
2) further notes that -
i) the station's managing director Gavin Meiring has admitted that Premier Helen Zille has used the slot as Mayor of the City of Cape Town before and took a decision to continue with it in April this year;
ii) early this month Premier Helen Zille and her government sought cheap publicity by slamming the SABC's alleged attempts to offer the Western Cape government news coverage on its Interface programme;
iii) the DA spokesperson for communication Niekie van den Berg publicly stated that "paying for any content during news or current affairs programming violates basic tenets of ethical journalism"; and
iv) the Heart 104.9 contract seems to have attracted other benefits for Premier Helen Zille, who received substantial coverage and even appeared with several DJs of the same station on events that were disguised as "support for the World Cup and Bafana Bafana"; and 3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms the double standard and hypocrisy of Premier Helen Zille and the DA for their unscrupulous attempt to mislead the people of South Africa and the Western Cape that the DA government in the Western Cape was not paying for media coverage a few months after they committed over R2 million in taxpayers' funds to pay for news coverage.