Dismiss DA’s dated advert complaint‚ City of Joburg urges IEC

The advertisements saying “the City of Johannesburg is in good hands” were aimed at investors not voters‚ and the campaign was launched “long before the date of the local government elections was announced”. That’s the gist of the city’s argument in its call on Thursday to “the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to dismiss the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) false and mischievous allegations of misappropriation of public funds to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC)”.