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PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - The African United Front (AUF) slammed the DA after the party laid criminal complaints against, among others, Bitou mayor Peter Lobese this week over alleged “siphoning” of municipal funds.
AUF local structure chairman Lindinceba Nkentsha said in a statement that the DA was a “racist organisation” and that Lobese and other officials were targets as they were probably “too black to run Bitou government” in the eyes of the DA.
Nkentsha added that the timing of the complaint was also a concern as it comes in the wake of “positive relations” between the ANC and the AUF “to make changes in Bitou”.
“We are not surprised with these cheap political points scoring by DA,” Nkentsha said in a statement.
“The DA is a racist organisation. It views black Africans as corrupt and incompetent to run a smooth administration. We know that Lobese rejected the DA’s position to dismiss or terminate contracts of senior black officials in Bitou. We believe that the mayor and the senior officials are targets because they are too black to run Bitou government.”
He further said this was a ploy to create administration and political instability in Bitou.
He added the AUF had taken a decision to mandate its councilor not to support the “racist disciplinary hearing against” municipal manager Thabo Ndlovu. “AUF also instructed its councilor to submit a motion for a vote of no confidence against DA speaker Anellise Olivier and deputy mayor Jessica Kam-Kam.”
“The DA had tried by all means to destabilise Bitou Municipality and cause chaos by poaching senior officials from Bitou to DA controlled municipalities. This is a plan to create administration instability in Bitou Municipality to enable the DA-controlled provincial government to run Bitou municipality.
The AUF will not allow to be bullied by any political party, we enter into coalitions as equal partners. DA is desperate for power forgetting that they did not win the majority of votes in the 2016 local government elections. To steal the power or think that they will easily swallow the AUF is a mistake.”
Nkentsha said the AUF would continue to champion the interests of the working class and poor people of Bitou and would not be intimidated by any party or person in realising its aims and objectives.
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