Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has launched a scathing attack on the DA-led City of Cape Town, accusing it of “spending millions… on a scam called the Design Capital”.
She accused the city of buying the title.
In her address to Parliament during the debate on the State of the Nation address on Wednesday, Sisulu castigated new DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane for saying that his party governed better.
“In this province, where the DA governs, R30 billion was spent on consultants, no doubt white cronies of the DA government. In this province, we have scam after scam that is readily covered up with the complicity of the media. Millions are spent by the City of Cape Town on a scam called the Design Capital. These millions could have been spent on shelter and proper sanitation.”
She pointed fingers at the city council for “paying the judges of the Design Capital award”.
“Maybe honourable Maimane can explain to the taxpayers of Cape Town why the DA bought the title, how much they paid for it, how much it is still costing and how much it will cost over the next three years. And how this can be defined outside the context of corruption and wasteful expenditure?”
Cape Town is halfway through its year as the World Design Capital. The Cape Town Partnership started the bid for the title, conferred every two years by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, a non-profit organisation that promotes industrial design.
Source: IOL