REFILWE MEKOA
Springbok residents in the Northern Cape Province have closed the municipality premises.
According to speaker of the NamaKhoi Municipality, Lorenzo Faber, the community is protesting outside the premises. It is the second day that residents march against poor service delivery and misuse of tax payer’s money through court cases. Faber says residents complained that the municipality should stop using its money for court cases because it cannot afford expensive legal battles.
Political analyst Theo Venter says the courts are also fed-up of sorting out political sides. “South Africans must understand that our constitutional courts are the certain sense a political court. In the previous time all decisions were taken politically and the man with the power took the decisions. Now the referees in politics are the courts,” he says.
Venter says he doesn’t think the trend of political parties taking each other to court will stop. He says that at the end people will vote for the ANC because their choices are limited.
Faber says more than R1.3 million has already been spent by the DA and COPE coalition for taking the ANC to court.
