Battle for Cape Town rages on

Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool says it is the ANC’s job to unseat Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille and her DA-led coalition. Speaking in the week in which Zille was violently hounded out of the ANC stronghold of Crossroads, Rasool told the Sunday Times the ANC wanted to put what he termed “the mayor’s glibness” to the test. The Cape Town council has been in a state of uncertainty ever since the March local government elections, in which no party won a clear majority. For her part, Zille says politics is about power and that any attempt to take over power should be done through legitimate means.