{"id":46529,"date":"2024-03-22T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/politiek-in-die-witzenberg-maak-alweer-opslae-20240322-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:02:01","slug":"politiek-in-die-witzenberg-maak-alweer-opslae-20240322-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/politiek-in-die-witzenberg-maak-alweer-opslae-20240322-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Politiek in die Witzenberg maak alweer opslae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Die DA se Kiesafdelingshoof, Wendy Kaizer-Philander het Donderdag 22 Maart in \u2019n persverklaring ges\u00ea die ANC het vroe\u00ebr die week probeer om \u2019n mosie van wantroue in te dien teen die DA-burgemeester en speaker van die Witzenberg-munisipaliteit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie poging is georkestreer deur die ANC, wat saamgespan het om \u2019n effektiewe burgemeester en speaker te probeer verwyder vir hul eie politieke gewin. Soos met alles wat met die sinkende ANC-skip verband hou, het hierdie poging egter misluk toe die opposisieraadslede nie konsensus kon bereik oor wie die ampsdraers moes wees nie. Die geskarrel het begin toe hulle vir twee koukuspouses gevra het, maar kon steeds nie konsensus bereik nie. Dit is dus duidelik dat die ANC en hul trawante net in eie gewin belangstel, en nie om die mense te dien nie,\u201d lui \u2019n die verklaring.<\/p>\n<p>Die Witzenberg se politieke ellende het in Junie verlede jaar reeds al begin toe \u2019n nuwe burgemeester en speaker in \u2019n onregmatige vergadering verkies was. Na \u2019n lang getalm en heen-en-weer tussen die DA en GOOD, is daar egter toe in Oktober \u2019n nuwe burgemeester en speakers verkies, en die vakante pos van onderburgemeester is ook gevul. Katriena Robyn is as burgemeester aangewys, Gert Laban as onderburgemeester en Petrus Heradien as die nuwe speaker. <\/p>\n<p>Verder s\u00ea Kaizer-Philander die DA sal nie onderduimse komplotte teen die party toelaat nie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie DA sal nie toelaat dat onderduimse party-politieke komplotte hierdie munisipaliteit destabiliseer en die welstand van ons inwoners aantas nie. Ons bly bo alles daartoe verbind om te verseker dat dienslewering op \u2019n ho\u00eb vlak vir die inwoners van Witzenberg voortgaan. Die DA in die Witzenberg bly vasberade en ons sal voortgaan met ons stryd om Suid-Afrika van die ANC en hul trawante te red.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n <i>Standard &#038; Gazette<\/i> het tevergeefs probeer uitreik na die ANC. 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