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Original Post Date: 2004-01-12 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/12/2004 8:14:19 AM
SA Election: DA cries foul over ANC election posters
[Note. I noticed today, enormous posters of Mbeki on billboards around Johannesburg proclaiming “A better life for all” – the same junk slogan they’ve used for the past 10 years. What a lie that is! Jan]
Durban ratepayers can expect an avalanche of election posters to flood their neighbourhoods and suburbs in the next few months in the run-up to the national elections.
And, already, some political parties have been accused of contravening agreements on the putting up of posters, with opposition parties crying foul.
The Democratic Alliance claims the main culprit is the African National Congress. The ANC is bringing in its most senior heavyweights – right to the top with President Thabo Mbeki – in its bid to wrest control of the province from the Inkatha Freedom Party in the forthcoming elections.
But the DA says the ANC, in its bid to take over KwaZulu-Natal, is flouting agreements reached by all political parties on where posters should be erected.
Opposition parties crying foul
The DA’s executive committee member in the eThekwini Municipality, Lyn Ploos van Amstel, has written to municipal manager Mike Sutcliffe complaining about the ANC posters, which she says have been stuck directly on walls, bridges and other public infrastructure “in contravention of the agreement concerning election posters, which was accepted by all parties and adopted unanimously at council”.
“These posters have all been put up since the council went into recess – after the agreement was accepted,” Ploos van Amstel said.
She said posters had been put up on bridges in Coedmore Drive, Montclair and in Tern Way and Kenyon Howden Road, Yellowwood Park. Other posters have been put up at the entrance to North Ridge Park in Kenyon Howden Road, the outer walls of the municipal complex in North Road, Clermont and the wall of the Clermont municipal complex.
“Contraventions of this nature leave public spaces in a disgusting mess and must not be tolerated,” she said.
“It goes against all the city’s efforts to clean up and upgrade local commercial nodes and to maintain a sense of pride in residential areas,” she said.
‘It goes against all the city’s efforts to clean up’
It was obvious, she added, that the ANC had either not informed all their local structures about the terms of the poster agreement or decided that they would not abide by it.
“Either way, this is not acceptable. It is of concern to me that the agreement contains no real provisions for enforcing compliance or dealing with contraventions, although I hope that the normal procedures will follow.
“I am, however, concerned to have been told by a complainant from the Montclair Ratepayers Association that when he telephoned our planning section to complain, he was told that nothing could be done.”
Deputy Metro Mayor Logie Naidoo said the DA would end up with egg on its face should it choose to be selective.
“We’ve seen IFP posters on traffic lights and on walls in the city. The DA failed to complain. Is it because they are in an alliance with the IFP?” Naidoo asked.
Asked to comment on Sunday, Sutcliffe said he was surprised that the matter had to first be raised through the media even before he could get a chance to look into it.
“Instead of screaming and shouting, the party whips should get together and work out agreements to police themselves on this issue. I will certainly look into it,” Sutcliffe said.
This article was originally published on page 3 of The Daily News on January 12, 2004
Source: IOL
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&ar…br>