ANC's Jessie Duarte says "apartheid has seeped back, very quietly and comfortably."
|||The ANC’s Jessie Duarte has torn into the DA-run Western Cape and City of Cape Town, expressing her disgust at how she says “apartheid has seeped back, very quietly and comfortably, into the province”.
“What apartheid left, the DA has just taken forward... we must admit as a nation that this is an apartheid-run province...” Duarte, the ANC’s deputy secretary-general, said during a visit to Bonteheuwel on Friday.
In recent weeks, the ANC has wheeled out the big guns, including President Jacob Zuma, in its struggle to take control of the Western Cape in next year’s elections. And after her visit which also included stops last week in the southern Cape and West Coast, Duarte scored the Western Cape government a zero for service delivery to the poor.
“I’ve been to Fish Hoek, where the DA made promises they did not keep. The people do not have water there, there’s an open drain running through the area, but there’s more concern about the wetlands than there is concern for the people,” Duarte said.
She accused the provincial government of “really not doing anything here for black people; let me be blunt, because I’ve not seen white people in this city live in these conditions.
“What Helen Zille is telling us is that there’s two South Africas, one is hers for rich people, and they could also include rich black people, but not for the poor,” Duarte said. -Weekend Argus