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6/14 The DA municipalities invest far more in delivering basic services to indigent communities than they do in the suburbs; and given that a very substantial proportion of these services are free, there is massive cross-subsidisation from the haves to the have-nots.
7/14 This is as it should be. But if people want their communities to start looking better there are several basic responsibilities that citizens have. Stop littering and dumping. Stop the vandalisation of infrastructure. Maintain the 1000s of free houses that were
8/14 Plant gardens (veg seeds are inexpensive). Don’t throw refuse and plastic waste down drains, it causes flooding; Don’t dispose of baby nappies and other household waste in toilets, it destroys the sewage system.
9/14 Report any problems (potholes faulty traffic signals) through the council reporting system immediately. Know the name and number of your local councillor (usually an elusive ANC councillor) and require accountability.
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10/14 Do not encourage random land invasions on unserviced and unservicable land. This guarantees the establishment of permanent slums. You cannot jump the housing queue by doing this.
11/14 Above all, help end the scourge of teenage pregnancies. Make sure that all fathers take responsibility for their children and provide exemplary role models for them. Finish your education. Get skills. Get a job before starting a family.
12/14 This brings me to the role of prov govt. Two of its main functions are health and education. There are more clinics within comfortable walking distance in WCape than any other province. The prov govt spends hugely on building new schools for pupils moving to the WC.
13/14 So anyone who says that we only deliver services to the suburbs is lying. Including the Dep Pres (which is disgraceful). In fact the middle class massively subsidise the poor where DA governs. We do so because it is the right thing to do. Don’t insult us as a result.
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14/14 Finally, where the DA governs, investors have sufficient confidence to invest and create jobs. The ONLY route to sustainable job creation is a growing private sector. The state does not create jobs. The most important thing is: where the DA governs, unemployment falls.
Part Two
1/12 Time for a second thread to expose our dishonest Deputy President, who tried to rally support for in Khayelitsha by lying about service delivery. Here are some hard facts and statistics to put the record straight.
2/12 Let’s start with Pro-Poor infrastructure investment In 2024/25, Cape Town is making South Africa’s largest ever infrastructure investment by a metropolitan municipality, with a 75% pro-poor spend directly benefitting lower income households.
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3/12 Lower income households will directly benefit from 75% – or R9bn – of Cape Town’s R12bn infrastructure spend in 2024/25. Over the next 3 years Cape Town’s infrastructure spend of R39,5bn is more than all 3 Gauteng metros combined.
4/12 Over 3 yrs, R3,7 billion of Cape Town’s goes to informal settlement upgrade: · R126 million: water, sanitation, and waste · R36 million: electrification · R1 billion: bulk services · R2,5 billion: housing.
5/12 SA’s Census data (2024), shows CT has SA’s highest proportion of ppl benefitting from free basic water and electricity. The City is 10 percentage points ahead of the next metro for free electricity reach, and 25 percentage points ahead for free water and sanitation.
6/12 A R6,3-bn new MyCiti bus route will link Khayelitsha with surrounding suburbs over the next three years. The MyCiti N2 Express service to Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha is the busiest route in the city, providing a world-class public transport service.
7/12 Security measures, including guards and CCTV, have been installed at sewer pump stations in Khayelitsha to prevent vandalism and theft, which cause sewer spills and service disruptions. Why, oh why, do communities vandalise their own critical infrastructure?
8/ 12 Despite Eskom increases in excess of 40% per year, the City of Cape Town has reduced the price of electricity for indigent households over the last two years. The only city in the country to have done this.
9/12 Cape Town has SA’s lowest unemployment rate with 300,000 jobs added since Nov 2021. The R39,5bn infrastructure plan will create 130 000 construction jobs over the next 3 years.
10/12 Khayelitsha has its own world-class public hospital. It was based on demographic projections which have been exceeded because of the scale of in-migration to Cape Town by indigent people looking for better opportunities in life.
11/12 A R3.5mill LED public lighting refurbishment project is underway to improve safety and visibility in Khayelitsha. The City’s policing resources are vastly concentrated in low-income communities eg increased LEAP deployments for Khayelitsha and other areas.
12/12 I could go on and on with examples. But you get the drift. The City and the Province do their job in Khayelitsha, Dep-President. It is time for the ANC to do its job where it governs. Rather spend time telling this truth to them, than lying to the public about the DA.
Oh, and just to add, Khayelitsha has clean reliable drinking water, which a growing number of ANC-governed municipalities, eg Johannesburg, do not.
ENDS. Source: www.x.com/helenzille
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