ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa has accused DA leader Mmusi Maimane of being nothing but a "garden boy" for the party he leads.Kodwa said Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille was also a front for the likes of Western Cape premier Helen Zille and DA federal chairman Athol Trollip.Kodwa was addressing a half-empty Strand Town Hall at an event to present Xolani Sotashe as the party's mayoral candidate.Strand is Sotashe's home base."People like Maimane is a person I call a garden boy. In English, he is fronting," said Kodwa.He said De Lille and Maimane were merely fronting because Trollip and Zille were the real leaders of the DA.In 2009, Julius Malema, the ANC Youth League leader at the time, referred to the DA's Youth League leader as one of "Helen Zille's garden boys".Malema also referred to Lindiwe Mazibuko, the DA's parliamentary leader at the time, as "the madam's tea girl".Kodwa said his party had decided to name mayoral candidates for the coming local elections because metro municipalities were becoming economic centres. Therefore opposition parties, like the DA, were aggressively going after these municipalities.Kodwa said the DA wanted to contest Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, City of Tshwane and City of Johannesburg to reverse the gains made by his party.He also had a go at the City of Cape Town's budget, which he labelled anti-poor and pro-rich. If, he said, ANC stalwarts like Dullah Omar and Ashley Kriel should wake up, they would see nothing has changed in townships like Athlone.Sotashe was selected because he would represent the city's poor.Sotashe tore into De Lille, saying that ever since she became mayor in 2011 the racial divide had widened in Cape Town."You have a city for the rich and a city for the poor," he said, adding that the ANC needed to integrate the city and rid it of racism. Speaking to The Times earlier, Sotashe said "the ground is fertile" for the ANC to take over from the DA.Sotashe's rise means outspoken trade unionist Tony Ehrenreich, who in 2011 failed to dislodge the DA, has been ousted after his dismal performance as the leader of the opposition in the city council...