As the leader of South Africa
But if you are going to be a policewoman
you should make sure that your own party’s record is perfectly clean and if
there are lapses you should personally step in to put them right.
The question is: Are
you going to do that in Plettenberg Bay
As you know that’s where so many of our country’s
rich and famous have their seaside homes. And most of them are undoubtedly DA supporters.
But that’s no excuse for turning a
blind eye to what the Sunday Times has just
revealed.
It was quite
shocking to see how Plett’s Bitou Municipality, which your party now controls after it had been run by the ANC for 16 years, is doing
exactly the same dubious kind of thing that the ANC has been up
to for years.
Power corrupts they say and this is ringing
ominously true at Plett.
The paper told us that after the DA took over Bitou last
year it found the R10-million IT system didn’t work. A common occurrence in ANC run government organisations.
So the DA
sacked the supplier Lefatshe Technolgies. This
started another jobs-for-pals
scandal so typical of our administrations all over the country.
Big hearted
billionaire Jeremy Ord came to the rescue of the beleaguered town where he has a home.
He just happened to be Chairman of Dimension Data, a world wide IT company
that was bought last year by Japan
He undertook to get his firm to
evaluate the council’s IT at no cost, although
you would have thought this would have been done before the existing supplier
was given notice.
The DA was so
delighted with Ord’s free
assessment that in December last year
it decided to bypass normal tender procedures and give Ord’s company a R4.3-million short-term
assignment to sort out the mess.
Bitou’s
manager Terry Giliomee justified this by saying
they got no other quotations because there was not enough time. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Council’s letters showed that as far
back as August last year Lefatshe had been told its contract would end on December 31. Not enough time. Ha! Ha!
Ha!
It looks as though the ANC has been gleefully feeding the paper the dirt.
They didn’t have to look far. One of your councillors Johann
Brummer gave them just the ammunition they needed.
In a December
email to Bitou officials about a problem at Plett’s poshest restaurant he wrote: Remember that Lookout is a Plett icon and hang
out for some very powerful people – like Jeremy Ord and others
who have supported us generously in the past.
That sent your members scrambling to
find a reasonably explanation for this political gaffe. One of them said, We don’t confirm who our
donors are. Nobody
told Brummer about that. Ha! Ha! Ha!
And Ord was not
saying anything either. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Everybody knows that No comment means YES.
Please Helen don’t let
the DA go the way of the ANC. There’s enough skulduggery in Government already
without your party starting.
Regards,
Jon, a concerned tax payer and
specialist IT illiterate looking for a Government job, who won’t say which party he donates
to for fear of victimisation.
P.S.
Do you mind if I send thanks from the Poor Man’s Press
Ombudsman to Rob Rose
and Bobby Jordan for a very comprehensive
report. I presume they won’t tell you
which party they support.
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