Pleading with the ANC government for devolution will yield nothing given the ANC's predisposition in favour of centralisation. If DA and IFP municipalities and provinces want to do certain things, they simply need to roll up their sleeves and get to it, argues Martin van Staden.
The ANC and
its client parties disrupted a public hearing on
the DA's Western Cape Provincial Powers Bill last month, describing it as an apartheid
measure.
Conflating apartheid and political decentralisation, of course, is a political trick with a long history, not an insight the widely discredited ANC has stumbled upon.