Tag Archives: cronyism

The DA rubs cronyism salt in our wounds

Mike Hampton Posted on by

The Democratic Alliance’s rewarding of criminals continues. They’re doing exactly what they accuse the ANC of. Politics is a marketing scheme to biased supporters. I’ve related in detail how the DA’s leadership has protected Eleanore Spies. She was the Mayor of Knysna but, last year, got promoted to Speaker for the Garden Route District after a forensic report recommended that she face a disciplinary hearing and criminal charges for theft and fraud. Her husband was involved in fraud and graft separately, years ago. He too became a DA councillor despite … Read the full article…

DA misuses millions on illegal tourism companies

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Private tourism companies in the Western Cape are being illegally funded from Public funds. This is about DA corruption that places an enormous question mark over MEC Tourism Alan Winde, the DA’s Western Cape Premier candidate. This story began in Knysna but impacts on the economic health of the province and the national perception of the DA. It will likely grow to impact the 2019 elections. I have laid complaint with the Office of the President and the Western Cape Hawks. The former has acknowledged my complaint and the latter … Read the full article…

More corruption the DA voted for…

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Knysna’s previous Municipal Manager Grant Easton was illegally appointed (couldn’t speak two languages which was the advertised requirement, and his qualifications weren’t checked until I took it to Parliament i.e. he was a pre-determined selection, the interviews were a hoax. He would never have had reference for the job if he hadn’t previously had experience as the Chief Financial Officer of the Municipality… except he’d been illegally appointed there too because, as the man in control of the budget, he never had an accountancy qualification. Much that went wrong happened … Read the full article…