Anyway, got the same problem. DA doesn’t reach out to me and tell me how they plan to do stuff. I’ve lived in Cape Town for 8years and sadly i see a great imbalance to this service delivery. Take a walk down Page street or Nyanga at night and tell me if anything has changed in the past 12 years.

the other sad thing is that certain crime doesn’t get reported to avert a decline in tourism. Constantia is now the house-robbery capital. i perceive the same problems now as under Nomaindia Mfeketo.

And this argument that COPE is ex ANC can be countered that DA consists of large numbers of NP peeps. it doens’t hold water.

but interesting post, especially the comments.

Keep it up and convince me why i should vote DA. Sad that the only face of the DA (at least in the media) is Helen. Who will they deploy when they win?

Enkosi

and I will NOT vote ANC bcs they are pushing the selfish individual…

the only option left is COPE forever and ever…..

PLz ppl dont waste your vote by voting for parties not mentioned above..

The ANC’s biggest failing as far as I am concerned is their resurrection of racist legislation in the form of AA and BEE. Racism of any kind at any level from the individual to the government is absolute poison to the healthy development of any society and we South Africans, of all the peoples in the world, should know that, but, sadly the ANC seems to be of the opinion that tempered racism delivered in an attempt to counter the ravages wrought by previous racsim is okay. Racism is poison who ever administers it.

I dare say you are not a good reader at all. It makes me ashamed to think the two of us are both electrical engineers. I have not come out in support of the ANC at all in my submissions; maybe you assume it because I am Black!!!!!

The only thing I questioned was the supposed ‘track record’ of the DA that you had read of in Wikipedia!! The postings in Wikipedia are ridiculous; they have been know to be EXTREMELY partisan in recent posting.

GIVE ME FACTS. I live in Cape Town, you live up north. Do not assume anything you do not know. Please, brother, as a scientific person you should at least have some healthy for scepticism. Test all your theories before you committ.

Don’t be naive boet. GROW UP.

Phillipa, I would like to point out that at no point did I mention apartheid being a success story. Thats your take and your fuzzy logic somehow deduced that.

I maintain that in 1994 we stood on the verge of great things that have not been achieved. The reason they have not been achieved is due to an inept and corrupt ANC.I think it is time to give someone more ethical a chance to govern…thats all. At least we could then compare, not so?

To Bonginkosi and others who ply us with lists of what the ANC has done – At no point did I say that the ANC has done nothing at all. I am maintaining that to toss people a dry crust from the bakery window when the place is brimming with freshly baked bread is a travesty. The ANC voter, previously starving, seems happy with the crust however. I know there is bread in there and I want more than crust. We need a baker to open the doors and Zuma ain’t the guy for the job.

Time is all that is required to prove that point.

I very much doubt that unemployment in Cape Town is the worst in South Africa. What about the Eastern Cape and KZN. In any event the unemployment in the clothing and textile industry is a direct result of the ANCs unflexible labour policies and far more competitive Chinese imports.