The DA made the call yesterday as it announced that four metropolitan councils run by the ANC had indulged in unauthorised‚ irregular‚ wasteful and fruitless expenditure to the tune of billions last year‚ while Cape Town showed the cleanest financials of any metro.
The ANC said this week it was not ready to give the names of its mayoral candidates.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the names would be decided on at a special national executive committee meeting.
The DA’s mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip‚ said yesterday voters deserved to know who the ANC’s mayoral candidates were‚ and who in the ANC would take responsibility for fixing the mess they had left the country’s cities in.
Trollip said the ANC’s delay in naming its mayoral candidates meant the people of the too-close-to-call metros in this election had not yet been given the opportunity by the ANC to fairly and openly interrogate their options this year.
