Cape Town - The “dangerous divide-and-conquer strategy by the DA to drive a wedge between African and coloured working class communities” has prompted the ANC in the Dullah Omar metro region to conduct a mass march in the CBD on Friday.
Alliance partners and other civic structures have also been invited to join the march which will start at Kaizergracht at 9am outside the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Cape Town campus.
“We are marching against the perpetual growth of inequalities, neglect of working-class communities and institutionalised racism in the city council.
“This institutionalised racism, implemented through the shoddy and inferior delivery of services in the black and coloured communities, has perpetuated inequalities and reversed the democratic gains that have been achieved since 1994,” the ANC said.
The party also accused the city council of creating a “new haven for white supremacy whose intention is to preserve the privileges of the past apartheid order”.
The march would culminate in the handing over of a memorandum to mayor Patricia de Lille with a list of demands from the “marginalised communities of the metro”.
The party slammed the city council for its alleged “deliberately skewed service delivery patterns to undermine the dignity of the poor”.
“The resources of the city council must be allocated to reverse the structural damage of apartheid and prioritised according to needs and not according to one’s skin tone,” the statement continued.
“Among the issues we will be raising is the recent harassment of taxi operators by the metro police.
“In fact, the city council is desperately trying to suppress the development of black businesses.
“We have also noted the increasing level of bullying by De Lille and her mayoral committee members during their attempt to grab the land in Clifton.
“As the ANC together with the community of Clifton, we will fight to stop land grabbing,” the ANC said.
Cape Argus
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