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Former ANC mayor of Matlosana Local Municipality, Cllr Washington Ntozini, elected on Tuesday earlier this week, announced his resignation yesterday, barely a day after one of the most chaotic council sittings we have seen in recent times.

The DA notes that Ntozini’s resignation follows an intervention by the ANC’s Deputy Secretary-General, Jessie Duarte. Ntozini resigned with an apology to the failing ANC referring to his election, which was monitored and facilitated by the Independent Electoral Commission, as an “error”.

The failing ANC has now directed council to schedule a special council sitting for Monday, 19 November 2018, to re-elect the former mayor, Cllr Matu Kgaile, who was ousted in a Vote of No Confidence brought against him by the DA.

It is clear that the failing ANC does not understand due democratic process and that the party will always put the needs of the ANC before those of the people.

The failing ANC’s internal political instability brought by factionalism and division have resulted in a collapse of governance and brought basic service delivery to a complete halt in the North West. While the internal factional wars within the ANC continues to escalate, the people of North West fall victim to desperation brought on by a lack of services, increased unemployment and poverty.

The DA remains the only united party that can form a government in the North West that will bring the necessary change and interventions to fix what the ANC has broken. The time has come for the people of North West to rise up against the failing ANC and vote them out of government in next year’s election.

Issued by The DA