Ramaphosa under fire after praising DA municipalities

Doubts are emerging about whether President Cyril Ramaphosa will see out his term after his admission that the DA is better than the ANC at running municipalities.

- Gareth Cotterell

He made the remarks at an ANC roll-call meeting last Monday.

“It is hugely painful each time the auditor-general comes to report to Cabinet and they put up their report and those municipalities that do best are not ANC-controlled municipalities,” Ramaphosa said.

“And I can name it here because there is nothing wrong with competition; they are often DA-controlled municipalities. We need to ask ourselves what it is that they are doing that is better than what we are doing.

“There is nothing wrong with us saying we want to go and see what Cape Town is doing, we want to go see what Stellenbosch is doing.”