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ActionSA notes the announcement by the DA communicating their signing of Councillor Novina Pillay. The DA’s attribution of the rank of “senior leader” to Pillay is nothing short of the desperation that has become a daily occurrence as their prolific governance failures in Tshwane are being exposed. 

Pillay has never held any office in ActionSA and has served only as a Councillor. While ActionSA wishes her well in the DA, the claim that Pillay is a senior leader in ActionSA is laughable.

Despite the efforts to deceive, today announcement says more about the DA than ActionSA. Under the leadership of Dr Nasiphi Moya, many residents of Tshwane are realising that the bar of governance had been very low under consecutive DA Mayors. This spreading realisation is clearly a source of insecurity for Brink and the DA against which these kinds of stunts are easily contextualised. 

Just last week ActionSA Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya secured Tshwane’s energy supply by concluding a settlement with ESKOM for the R6.7 billion in debt that Cilliers Brink and his DA predecessors allowed to recklessly balloon from R2.9 billion to R7.8 billion in just 18 months. It is developments like this that are shattering of the myth of good governance under the DA in Tshwane and the resulting insecurity is at the heart of stunts like the one announced today.

While the DA focuses on stunts, Dr Nasiphi Moya will continue to focus on the delivery backlogs that developed under their leadership in government.

Issued by ActionSA National Chairperson Michael Beaumont