Politicians get personal

By Khanyisa Tabata
11 May 2011

Personal attacks are increasing as next week’s local government elections draw near. ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu has accused Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille of “not thinking like a human being”.

Jackson was responding to Zille’s reported statement that the open toilet saga in Cape Town had been blown out of proportion.

Following the Cape Town incident, for which the ANC took the City to court, it has emerged that residents of an ANC-controlled municipality at Viljoenskroon in the Free State have been subjected to unenclosed toilets for years.

Meanwhile, the ANC says employers who don’t release their workers to freely cast their vote border on undermining the laws of the land.

Mthembu says if workers have to be at work for whatever reason on next week Wednesday’s public holiday, arrangements must be made to release them to go and vote before returning to work.