GOOD Party rejects Ramaphosa's claims that DA-led municipalities are well run

CAPE TOWN - The GOOD Party has rejected President Cyril Ramaphosa's claims that Democratic Alliance (DA)-led municipalities are well run.

Ramaphosa singled out the Cape Town and Stellenbosch municipalities as benchmarks for good governance, while addressing African National Congress (ANC) councillors in Soweto on Monday.

READ: Ramaphosa says it's painful to admit that some of SA's best-run municipalities governed by DA

Both municipalities have enjoyed multiple consecutive clean audits, including for the 2023/24 financial year.

However, the GOOD Party said that the president should know that these municipalities were only better run for some.

GOOD Party secretary, Brett Herron, has labelled both municipalities as global benchmarks for inequality.

"It is true that DA-led municipalities obtain vastly superior audit results than ANC-led municipalities, but where do the benefits lie for millions of people in Cape Town who live in fear of their and their children’s lives due to systemic gang violence? The environments in which these people live are breeding grounds for anti-social behaviour but are left undisturbed."

Herron said there were many other examples of profound unfairness in Cape Town, on which clean audits had proven to have zero effect.

"South African citizens deserve higher standards than having to choose between a self-confessed party of looters and a party that uses clean audits as a platform from which to proclaim its morality while sustaining inequality."

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