Grant Pascoe
While the DA campaigns with smiles and cameras, Cape Town sinks deeper into crime, rising costs and broken promises. Performance has replaced leadership and arrogance has replaced service.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is different from the African National Congress (ANC) but it acts the same. Power has changed them. They have stopped listening. They are two peas in the same pod, one blue and one yellow.
Campaign Season or Service Delivery?
The DA’s Sleight of Hand Meant to Fool Voters
Now in campaign mode, the DA is fixing potholes, cleaning rivers and repairing rental stock. Cheap tricks like eating Gatsbys at popular Coloured hangouts cannot cover years of failure, rising tariffs and neglect. It is a political show meant to fool voters.
Since 2021, they have raised property rates, electricity, water and sanitation costs every year. They ignored residents and small businesses who said they could not afford more. Families are struggling and many have shut their doors. Yet Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis still defends these increases in court. He calls it good governance. But good for who?
Safety and Housing on the Brink
Cape Town has become one of the most dangerous cities in South Africa. When crime rises, the DA blames the SAPS. But the City has a safety and security budget of R6.7 billion. With that kind of money, there is no excuse.
If safety really mattered, people would feel safer. Instead, the DA puts on a show with patrols and blue lights while crime gets worse.
The same failure shows in housing. Every year, the City underspends and sends money back to National Treasury while the housing waiting list grows. Thousands of families are left behind. That is not delivery. It is failure.
A City Left Behind
Cape Town is becoming more expensive, more divided and more dangerous. The DA has become what it once condemned, arrogant and out of touch with real life.
It is time for change. Time for leaders who put people first. Time to spend money where it matters, on homes, on safety, on people.
