DA Federal Chairperson has labeled the leadership of ActionSA as schizophrenic for taking credit for improved service delivery in the City of Tshwane.
Solly Msimanga was one of the speakers at the launch of the DA’s Working for All tour aimed at promoting the party’s manifesto ahead of the November local government elections.
Tensions have reached boiling point between the former allies who are now rivals in the Tshwane council with the DA believing it was betrayed when ActionSA for which a deputy mayor position was created and occupied by Nasiphi Moya only for her to emerge as mayor in a new ANC-led coalition government that stripped the DA’s Celliers Brink of the mayoral chain .
The two parties have consistently clashed over taking credit and or responsibility for the successes and failures of the city with ActionSA effectively distancing itself from activities of the DA-led coalition government that Moya was a deputy mayor in. The public relations machinations have now reached boiling point with Msimanga suggesting the ActionSA leadership suffers from schizophrenia. This in a bid to drive home his point that the party founded by Herman Mashaba who dumped the DA after serving a short stint as its City of Joburg in a coalition government he later helped oust.
“There’s others who are saying that they’ve run government, but they forgot to then say that the same government was government that was formed by the democratic alliance, but they want to take credit, but when there was anything wrong, they would say, no, we are not involved. Schizophrenic behavior,” said Msimanga during the launch in Centurion.
The DA has is pushing for Moya to admit she received gratification from a contractor doing business with the city by way of renovations to her private residence that includes construction of a swimming pool.
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental health disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with this condition may lose touch with reality, experiencing a mix of hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking that disrupts their daily life.
Meanwhile tensions persist within the current Tshwane coalition government with ANC and EFF councilors accusing ActionSA of being obsessed with PR so much it claims credit for even things that never happened.
“We need to stop playing with our people’s psyche and using media buying to create impressions that are non existent! Vote harvesting shouldn’t drive us to degenerate to this level. The 86billion worth of pledges that you speak proudly about above have till to date not been unlocked because the embattled City managed who your party ActionSA is afraid of and desperately defends, has vehemently refused to cooperate and support what our administration wants to achieve. Ask your party leaders, which amongst the 86bil worth of pledges have been unlocked and created the jobs you are claim above. Not even one of our investment plans have seen the light of day, for your information. You really need to stop with these exhausting media optics fellow coalition partners and thinking people are that gullible,” said ANC Greater Tshwane Region’s Deputy Chairperson Tlangi Mogale who is also the MMC for Transport in the city.
She was responding to claims by ActionSA activists that Moya had created 22 000 jobs since taking over as mayor. Accusations and counter-allegations are expected to increase as the November 4 poll draws closer.