Justifying the City’s R70 billion budget and to equate it with the R43bn spread over three years is disingenuous

South Africa - Cape Town - 7 September 2021 - DA parliamentary spokesperson for Employment and Labour and DA MP Michael Bagraim arrive at the Cape Town Central Police Station. The DA lodged a formal complaint with the police against the ANC’s Top Six leadership over the ruling party’s alleged failure to pay UIF contributions at Cape Town Central Police Station. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)

South Africa - Cape Town - 7 September 2021 - DA parliamentary spokesperson for Employment and Labour and DA MP Michael Bagraim arrive at the Cape Town Central Police Station. The DA lodged a formal complaint with the police against the ANC’s Top Six leadership over the ruling party’s alleged failure to pay UIF contributions at Cape Town Central Police Station. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)

Published Jun 24, 2023

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Michael Bagraim’s letter (Cape Argus, Tuesday, June 6) cannot go unchallenged.

To justify the City’s record R70 billion budget and equate this with a so-called indigent relief package of R43bn spread over three years is disingenuous, shameful and typical of the politically correct, grandstanding racist minority who govern the City and think that relief as opposed to actual spending will placate those of us who know and understand the deception of this otherwise duplicitous white minority outfit.

There is nothing convincing or persuasive about his rant, except to justify skewed spending by a party hell-bent and determined to maintain the status quo, and this at the expense of the majority who continue to vote this racist outfit into office, content in the knowledge rather white minority misrule than black African rule (read ANC), who are themselves no different to the DA except for the fact that theirs is characterised by obscene theft and other galling acts of delinquency masked as black African majority rule.

It is Bagraim shouting from the comfort of his Highlands Estate enclave, oblivious to the sickening plight of the majority. What job creation is he extolling when the majority residing in the ghettos of Manenberg, Hanover Park, Heideveld, Bishop Lavis and elsewhere continue to grow with gang violence and extortion the order of the day?

Where our children seek to emulate local gang leaders since this is the only economy they know and have come to rely on for substance as opposed to piecemeal expanded public works initiatives.

These only serve to widen the gap between the historically advantaged, who continue to thrive oblivious to the suffering of the majority in this last outpost of white domination and exclusivity under the guise of democracy?

* Vincent Phillips, Wynberg.

** The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Independent Media.

Cape Argus

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