The City of Cape Town has stopped answering questions posed by GOOD in the Western Cape Provincial Legislature.
Over the past six months, each time GOOD MPL Brett Herron has asked Western Cape MEC Anton Bredell questions about Cape Town, Bredell has responded on behalf of the City that the information Herron seeks is none of his business as the City is not accountable to other levels of government.
DA members of parliament routinely receive answers to questions they ask about ANC-led municipalities across the country. But where the DA leads, it refuses to be held accountable.
Herron led a GOOD demonstration demanding answers outside the Cape Town Civic Centre in June. Picketers, who included seven former Cape Town councillors, carried posters asking some of the questions the City has been refusing to answer.
On the same day, Herron addressed a letter to National Minister of Cooperative Government Dlamini-Zuma asking for input and intervention.
"This is a crude case of double-standards by the DA. I don't believe it conforms with the intentions of the Constitution which is very clear on the principles of accountability and transparency," Herron told WAARHEID!
"Most of my questions have been asked on behalf of community members who don't feel they have been getting service-delivery related information to which they are entitled. Other questions have related to issues of governance, spending and the selection of service providers."
"The DA seems to believe it is entitled to avoid scrutiny or accountability because it is not as publicly tainted by corruption as the ANC.
"The recent arrest of Cape Town councillor Nora Grose for fraud and money-laundering clearly indicates that the two old parties have more in common than either would like to think," Herron said.
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