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The DA in Gauteng condemns the sabotage of service delivery in the City of Ekurhuleni by the ANC-EFF-PA coalition of corruption who today voted to block millions of rands worth of urgent service delivery solutions.

The DA and our Multi-Party Coalition partners sought to pass the City’s Adjustment Budget that would have made R21 700 000 available to fix, maintain, and expand the City’s fleet of refuse trucks, R36 700 000 to deal urgently with loadshedding through agreements with independent power producers (IPPs), and R19 170 000 to deal speedily with potholes and streetlight repairs.

Rather than fighting for residents and service delivery solutions alongside the DA to get the Adjustment Budget passed, the ANC-EFF-PA alliance, aided by accomplices in the NFP, ATM, IRASA, the AIC, and the PAC, have betrayed the residents of Ekurhuleni.

The consequences of this service delivery sabotage will fall hardest on the residents of the City. It is now clearer than ever before that we face either a DA-led future of service delivery solutions to get long-dilapidated municipalities back on track, or a future where the ANC-EFF-PA coalition of corruption uses everything from state capture to cadre deployment to patronage to capture that which the voters of our country have sought to deny them: the power to loot and leech while South Africans languish.

Issued by Fred Nel - DA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson