Johannesburg - The Young Communist League on Tuesday called for Moqhaka municipality's executive mayor, Mantebu Mokgosi, to be dismissed in light of hundreds of toilets in the area that were still without enclosures in the ANC-run municipality.
“As the YCL we call upon the ANC to immediately expel Councillor Mantebu Mokgosi, a liability to the ANC's historic mission of transforming our country,” YCL spokesperson Mafika Mndebele said.
He said in a statement what angered the YCL most was that the mayor and the council knew there was legal action taken by the alliance in the Western Cape, and that there was a Human Rights Commission ruling on the matter, and yet, the mayor and the council “sat on their laurels and never acted”.
The YCL also found the explanation given by the mayor that the municipality entered into the agreement with the residents that it would provide sanitation and residents would enclose the structures nonsensical, reactionary and not different from that of the DA, Mndebele said.
“In our view the mayor has acted against the interest of the people and has humiliated them. She expected the poor community to enclose the toilets, the fact that for the past eight years they had not been able to do so did not matter to her.
“This is a spit in the face of the ANC’s vision of a better life for all.”
“The Young Communist League of South Africa has learnt with astonishment and anger that while we were busy condemning the racist behaviour of the Democratic Alliance to build open toilets for black communities in Khayelistha, our own ANC-led municipality in Moqhaka municipality has done the same,” Mndebele said.
He said for the YCL it did not matter who built the toilets and what justification there was, but such acts required condemnation from human rights activists and organisations throughout the country.
“It does not matter whether we are in election mode or not, the fact is we can and should never lie to our people as the municipality has done.”
The YCL said it remained committed in its resolve to ensure the ANC won the local government elections on May 18 and called upon all South Africans to vote for the ANC.
He added that people should “expose those who bury their ugly face under the banner of the ANC while their actions are associated with the DA”. - Sapa