Vote DA to stop ANC graft‚ Athol Trollip urges voters

13 July 2016 - 19:18 By Malibongwe Dayimani

Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay Athol Trollip has urged residents of Bedford in the Eastern Cape to vote for his party in order "to stop the ANC corruption". The outspoken leader was speaking to just over a hundred of his supporters who gathered on a vacant field at Goodwill Park township.He also slammed the soon-to-be-made merger of Bedford and Adelaide into Nkonkobe municipality that is seated in Alice."That incorporation will make things worse for this town. You will see more poverty. It is nothing but another plan by the ANC to steal more money."Trollip blamed the rampant poverty gripping the people of the small town on the ANC government. He also accused the ANC integrity committee of protecting corrupt members.He reminded the crowd about the fate of the members involved in the Mandela funeral scandal.Mandela funeral fraud case charge sheet just needs ‘touching up’‚ lawyer tells courtThree of the accused in the Nelson Mandela funeral fraud scandal on Thursday resorted to the Grahamstown High Court in a third attempt to have the criminal charges against them quashed. "They were found guilty but instead of punishing them‚ the ANC promoted some of the members into parliament and other positions."He also slammed Mandla Mandela for challenging the DA for using former South African and ANC president Nelson Mandela's voice in a DA election ad. "Mandla is nothing like his grandfather. He complains about everything. Mandela was a statesman and belonged to everyone‚ that advert is going nowhere."Trollip was speaking as part of his election campaign ahead of the August 3 local government elections. He was also scheduled to speak today at Fort Beaufort‚ Alicedale and Grahamstown...

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