I finished reading Zille’s Daily Maverick column this morning with a flush of anger, not something that normally happens when I read the news media. She concluded, ‘This week we saw, for the first time, a growing number of residents understanding the seriousness of what we are facing.’
For the first time a growing number of residents? Is she so out of touch in the philosophically, politically and physically sealed walls of Wale Street she’s not aware how concerned the public has been for a year and our pleas for action?
He column tortuously exculpates the DA – they and city are not to blame and it’s government’s, South African Weather’s Services’ and residents’ fault. But she ignores the consensus, including among experts, of a monumental failure of management, planning and vision by city and government.
She says residents have only woken up now but how does she, and her supporters, explain Mayor Patricia de Lille’s claims that early 2017 the city’s water crisis team were more concerned about furniture, never considered it was a crisis and thought restrictions would suffice until 2017’s rains? In August De Lille was still saying it’s ‘not a crisis’ and ‘well-run cities do not run out of water’. But according to Zille’s kooky analysis, it’s the majority of residents that did not understand the seriousness of the situation.
This is about the credibility and competence of the political leadership. The DA has little of either at the moment. Maimane’s stunt taking control of the water disaster from elected and mandated officials confuses things. Like most politicians Zille is arrogant and dishonest. Almost each time she writes, speaks or tweets she says something that reduces her credibility a little further.
The ‘DA's true leader’, her army of supporters say of her. What a laugh.
For the first time a growing number of residents? Is she so out of touch in the philosophically, politically and physically sealed walls of Wale Street she’s not aware how concerned the public has been for a year and our pleas for action?
He column tortuously exculpates the DA – they and city are not to blame and it’s government’s, South African Weather’s Services’ and residents’ fault. But she ignores the consensus, including among experts, of a monumental failure of management, planning and vision by city and government.
She says residents have only woken up now but how does she, and her supporters, explain Mayor Patricia de Lille’s claims that early 2017 the city’s water crisis team were more concerned about furniture, never considered it was a crisis and thought restrictions would suffice until 2017’s rains? In August De Lille was still saying it’s ‘not a crisis’ and ‘well-run cities do not run out of water’. But according to Zille’s kooky analysis, it’s the majority of residents that did not understand the seriousness of the situation.
This is about the credibility and competence of the political leadership. The DA has little of either at the moment. Maimane’s stunt taking control of the water disaster from elected and mandated officials confuses things. Like most politicians Zille is arrogant and dishonest. Almost each time she writes, speaks or tweets she says something that reduces her credibility a little further.
The ‘DA's true leader’, her army of supporters say of her. What a laugh.
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