03
June 2013
OVER 30000 HOUSEHOLDS AFFECTED BY FLOODS IN CAPE TOWN
The SACP in the Brian Bunting District (Cape Metro) is
concerned about the extent of floods in Cape Town. In
the City alone, more than 30 000 households are affected by these severe floods.
The only plan the DA led Administration has ever had is to place affected
families in community halls and return them back after rainfalls to the same
conditions of vulnerability. As a result
same communities suffer devastating floods repeatedly over and over, year to
year.
The DA has failed provide poor
communities with housing, roads and storm water systems in order to prevent and
mitigate against such disasters afflicting many poor communities with misery.
The
DA led administration lacks leadership resulting in poor planning. Existing
Infrastructure
in our working class communities is ageing as a result of poor maintenance by
the ruling DA.
The DA administration deliberately neglects infrastructure development needs of
poor communities but spends its capital infrastructure budget developing
luxuries of the rich suburbs developing bus lanes and cycle lanes neglecting
areas that desperately need infrastructure the most. This is not different to
apartheid racist segregationist policies and impoverishment of the Black
majority.
In this City of Cape Town, the DA is actually concerned about seeking
international media attention including recent decision to award Obama the
freedom of the city whilst the majority people are sinking in floods.
We thank the all
disaster relief agencies and NGOs such as Red Cross, Mustadafin that are
working hard in making sure our communities are
supported during these trying times. It is also unacceptable that the
same communities that were victims of floods the past years to be still in the
same conditions even today. We therefore call working
class communities to raise and act against these ills committed by the DA in
this City of Cape Town
For further information contact:
Benson Ngqentsu - 0827966400
District Secretary
Or
Sonwabile Ngxiza - 0714511329Media Liaison
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