Pastor's plea to Zille and Zuma
CAPE Town's townships "are a living hell". This is the view of Pastor Xola Skosana, who met Western Cape Premier Helen Zille yesterday.
Skosana earlier wrote to President Jacob Zuma and Zille inviting them to join him this Saturday on a 13km march from Gugulethu to Khayelitsha.
"Considering the immense political influence you both have, if you have any empathy in you, you can change the material condition of 300 families at QQ section, informal settlement in Khayelitsha, who do not have toilets as we speak," wrote Skosana.
He said on his last visit to QQ section, he "made the mistake of blinking" and his left foot landed on the "human faeces that decorate most of the area because of lack of toilets".
Although Zuma has not responded to his letter yet, Zille had asked Skosana for a meeting.
"It was a constructive meeting and we plan to continue cooperation into the future to remove blockages to service delivery," Zille's chief of staff Geordin Hill-Lewis said.

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SouthP
Zuma has a lot on his plate, can't you see? He has no empathy he should have sent somebody to represent him and help deal with the plight of these people you voted him in South Africa, now he is leaving you in stool. As for Zille, we expect action not rhetoric. You are leaving people to suffer, can't believe you represent us!Report Abuse
TZOZO
DA is strickly for WhitesReport Abuse
Mellow
zuma are you too busy overseeing your daughters wedding's prep that you dont even have a 1min to honor the frustrated people who voted for you?Zille thank you for responding its clear that those people are frustrated now, service delivery in this country comes last on anc priority list and we all know what will happen should they start a protest right?
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Nando's
well zille should take action as the DA is running the western cape and they should have provided service delivery to the people what will zuma do because the DA will just say they are in control of the province and not the ANCReport Abuse
Sinudeity
Agree, this is hellens responsibility, not jacobs.At least zille went to the meeting. And before any service delivery protests broke out. I wonder if she had any bodyguards with her?
Now lets wait and see if she actually does something about this.
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kolobe
thouht the da supplied everyone with toilets,whats this?Report Abuse
Bonjovi
The DA will never cure the black man's ills. The first glaring problem with Zille, is her narrow scope of interaction from her Johannesburg upbringing to the enclaved life of a premier. Over the years, she has increasingly found herself spending more time with people of means. As a rule, people of means are smart, knowledgeable about public policy and liberal in their policies, and they expect to have their opinions head.People of means believe in free markets an an education meritocracy. They find it hard to imagine that there might be social ills that could not be cured by academic excellence, or by the market. They have no patience with protectionism, find unions troublesome and are not particularly sympathetic to those whose lives are less fortunate. They are adamantly pro-choice, in abortion or in sexual preference, and are suspicious of deep religious sentiment. What this means is that the Cape Town blueprint that Zille has been sellig as a model that she would bring eslsewhere, given a ballor box mandate, falls on its face purely on a structural basis.
In most parts of the country people are hungry first, and they must be fed before they are told about the magic of free market or the necessity of government intervention. Yes Zille has responded, but how long have the people of QQ section suffered. That clearly shows that Zille never set her foot in that part of the area, hence her quick responce because she needs more votes to oust the ANC. It seems South Africa's next best alternative, may just equally be the country's worst nightmare.
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19851410
Don't care sis.Report Abuse
nkosh
DA is for white Mark my wordReport Abuse
Eezy
Pastor SkosanaWhy did you wright a letter to Mr President, You voted for the white devil in WC so deal with it or vote it out, and stop crying foul...
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