Chair, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move on behalf of the ANC:
That the Council -
1) notes that although the DA often lauded the administration of the City of Cape Town as being open, effective and efficient, Mayor Patricia de Lille, however, is slowly but surely realising that the administration that she inherited from her leader and predecessor, now Premier Helen Zille, is in fact not so open but conducts its work under a shroud of secrecy as it is apparently still remote controlled by Premier Zille;
2) notes that this was again recently evidenced by the city administration's practice and demonstration of secretive bureaucracy when it failed and/or refused to provide information about basic services involving billions of rands being paid by the City to private entities because of the City's policy to outsource basic services;
3) further notes that this same practice of secrecy was also illustrated by Premier Zille and her administration at the legislature when they openly misled Scopa by testifying that provincial programmes are uploaded on the provincial government's website, which is open to the public, whereas the media and members of the legislature could not locate any projects on the website; and
4) condemns these secretive practices of Premier Zille and the DA in the harshest terms and calls on her to not only provide lip service to clean and transparent governance but indeed to practise it.