Nadat die GOOD- politieke party twee weke gelede verwarring geskep het toe hy aangekondig het hy het \u2019n nuwe burgemeester, onderburge\u00admeester en speaker in die Witzenberg verkies, het die DA onafhanklike hulp ingekry. <\/p>\n
Wendy Kaizer-Philander, die DA se kiesafdelingshoof van Witzenberg, het verlede week in \u2019n mediaverklaring ges\u00ea die party het \u2019n onafhanklike regsmening oor die situasie gekry.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019n Onafhanklike regsmening, ingewin deur die Witzenberg-munisipaliteit, verklaar dat die raadsvergadering wat op 21 Junie in Witzenberg gehou is deur \u2019n klein groepie raadslede, insluitend GOOD en die ANC, onwettig was. Daarom is enige besluite wat op die vergadering geneem is, nietig.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hierdie vergadering is gehou nadat Witzenberg-munisipaliteit se speaker op 21 Junie die geskeduleerde vergadering gekanselleer het nadat stormweer allerlei chaos veroorsaak het en die Michells-pas gesluit is. Altesaam elf raadslede het egter toe hul eie vergadering gehou waartydens hulle \u2019n nuwe burgemeester, onderburgemeester en speaker verkies het. <\/p>\n
GOOD het ook \u2019n persverklaring vrygestel waarin hulle beweer een van hul raadslede het \u2019n saak van omkopery teen die Witzenberg-burgemeester, Hennie Smit, gemaak.<\/p>\n
\u201cGOOD het luidkeels en verkeerdelik in die media en op sosiale media verkondig dat hulle Katriena Robyn van GOOD as die nuwe burgemeester verkies het. \u2019n Onafhanklike regsmening het egter bevestig die vergadering en enige besluite wat daaruit spruit was onwettig,\u201d verduidelik Kaizer in die mediaverklaring wat op 30 Junie uitgereik is. <\/p>\n
Tot op hede beklee Hennie Smit en Elizabeth Sidego steeds die poste van die burgemeester en speaker, terwyl die pos van die onderburgemeester steeds vakant bly nadat die voormalige GOOD- raadslid Felicity Klazen uit die pos en party geskors is. <\/p>\n
Die DA maak ook melding in sy verklaring dat die munisipale bestuurder die GOOD-raadslede verbied om die bogenoemde poste te beklee.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie munisipale bestuurder het in \u2019n brief aan die onwettig verkose ampsdraers hulle verbied om hul amp te aanvaar. GOOD het dus nie die amp in die Witzenberg-munisipaliteit beklee nie en Hennie Smit bly stewig in sy posisie as burgemeester en Elizabeth Sidego, as speaker van die Raad. <\/p>\n
Die ANC en GOOD toon nie net \u2019n algehele verontagsaming van re\u00ebls en regulasies nie, maar hul obsessie om mag te kry, is afgryslik. Ons het dieselfde mag in ander dele van die land en provinsie gesien waar die Patriotiese Alliansie die ANC en sy makkers gehelp het om aan bewind te kom. Die onverskillige PA, GOOD en ANC is een en dieselfde, en gee nie meer om oor goeie bestuur en die welstand van ons mense nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verder verseker die DA inwoners van die Witzenberg dat hulle steeds hard aan die werk is om skade wat deur die storm in Junie aangerig is, reg te maak en op te ruim. \u201cDie DA in Witzenberg wil inwoners verseker dat dienslewering ononderbroke voortgaan, dat die munisipaliteit steeds hard aan die werk is om die skade wat deur onlangse vloede aangerig is te versag en bereid is om die nodige ondersteuning te verskaf waar nodig gedurende die re\u00ebnseisoen. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie DA in Witzenberg fokus daarop om gehaltediens aan alle inwoners te lewer en verseker stabiliteit met ons koalisievennote in Witzenberg.\u201d<\/p>\n
GOOD het sedert hierdie mediaverklaring van die DA nog niks rakende hierdie situasie op sy sosiale media geplaas soos voorheen nie. Standard<\/i> het na GOOD uitgereik vir kommentaar en \u2019n mening oor die DA se onafhanklike regshulp se bevinding. Brett Herron, GOOD se sekretaris-generaal en parlementslid, het soos volg gereageer: \u201cEk sal vir me. Kaizer-Philander aanbeveel dat sy \u2019n paar dinge leer. Eerstens behoort \u2019n regsmening wat deur die munisipaliteit verkry is en betaal word nie aan die DA nie. Tweedens, regsopinies is bloot dit \u2013 opinies. Die nuutverkose koalisieleierskap het ook regsadvies ingewin \u2013 sowel voor as n\u00e1 die vergadering waarop hulle verkies is. Daardie regsadvies het bevestig die nuwe leierskap is behoorlik verkies en daar sal by die hooggeregshof aansoek gedoen moet word vir \u2019n verklarende bevel. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie oorblywende opmerkings deur die DA-kiesafdelingshoof vorm \u2019n woord-slaai van byvoeglike naamwoorde. Ek dink nie hulle regverdig kommentaar nie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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