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Letters to the Editorwww.MyPE.co.za: With reference to the editorial in The Herald of July 30 (Housing still hot issue in Bay) suggests that the ANC and the DA were "feuding over who should shoulder the blame for the delay in providing housing for the people".

Surely the answer is obvious? If the DA had the power to upgrade the slums of Zosa Street, it would have done so when it won the ward a decade ago. The bottom line is that, for 10 years, the ruling party consistently ignored the ward councillor's repeated appeals for the Zosa Street community to be decently housed.

That those appeals have finally been noted is welcome, if overdue.

One needs to ask, though, whether this sudden spurt of enthusiasm by the divided ANC for the well-being of the people of Zosa Street has anything to do with next year's municipal elections.

For the record, the Zosa Street Action Committee phoned me the day Mayor Wylie and his team - many of whom had crept out of the woodwork after being silent for so long on the Zosa Street issue - and asked me to attend the Mayor's recent vote-catching brick-laying ceremony. I declined, as I did not want to be accused of gate-crashing the event to score political points.

The people of Zosa Street well know the background leading to the current upgrading. To coin a phrase: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."

I look forward to seeing this long-suffering, dignified community settling into the new homes the ruling party could have given them years ago.
 
DA councillor Terry Herbst
Port Elizabeth

Related: Petrol bombing mires Zosa Street progress event.
Posted by: mype on Saturday, July 31 @ 10:10:26 SAST
 
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