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Live Debate 6pm: Independent vs DA corruption

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UPDATE – Watch the video on Facebook. Step 1 towards taking control of Knysna away from the Democratic Alliance (DA) begins tonight, 13 August 2019, at 6pm. 5 candidates will debate the pending Ward 5 by-election. What likely makes this different is that a DA stronghold is being challenged by Susan Campbell from the recently erected Knysna Independent Movement (KIM). They’re running on an anti-DA corruption platform and are unofficially supported by the Knysna Ratepayers’ Association. This may prove of interest to the Western Cape. It’s symbolic of the backlash … Read the full article…

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Hawks Part 3: Cops avoiding investigating DA

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Head of the Hawks (DPCI), Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya, never responded to my initial complaint but Colonel Piet Bergh was ordered to meet me. Bergh is the chief analyst for the Western Cape Hawks, head of the Priority Crime Management Centre. That meeting took place in Durban on 19 September 2018. Captain Philip van Dyk, also from Cape Town, was in attendance. I was told that they would speak more freely if I never recorded. I will never go off-record again! In addition to affidavits and evidence, I gave copies … Read the full article…

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Ratepayers object to secret DA disciplinary hearings

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NGOs and Ratepayers organisations around South Africa can learn something from this argument by the Knysna Ratepayers’ Association against the DA’s intended secret, disciplinary hearings against councillors today. “RATEPAYERS STRONGLY OBJECT TO DA BOSSES CAVALIER TREATMENT OF MAYOR WILLEMSE AND COUNCILLOR MYERS Yesterday, Thursday 5 July, the Knysna Ratepayers Association’s Committee sent the following letter to Mr Anton Coetsee, the Initiator in the planned disciplinary proceeding of Mayor Mark Willemse and Councillor Peter Myers, and to James Selfe, chairman of the DA’s Federal Executive. The DA bosses in Cape Town … Read the full article…

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