Kliptown event a waste of taxpayers money

Rev Kenneth Meshoe, MP


The ACDP will not be attending the ‘People’s Assembly’ in Kliptown later this month.

The choice of Kliptown as the place to hold the 50th anniversary of the ANC’s ‘Freedom Charter’ is unwise and insensitive on the part of the ANC, particularly because Kliptown is an extremely underdeveloped community.

The ACDP believes that the reportedly over R5 million that government plans to use for these celebrations should rather be used to develop infrastructure, provide basic services and proper sanitation for all the needy people of Kliptown.

Many Kliptown residents are still subjected to the humiliating and unhygienic “bucket system” as there is still no proper sanitation in the area, sadly, 11 years after the new democratic order.

That is why, the ACDP cannot, in good conscience, be part of what we believe is unnecessary and unwise government expenditure. We believe providing basic services and proper sanitation is more important that wasting taxpayers money on a three-day party.

The ACDP supports the position taken by the Kliptown Concerned Residents Committee (KCRC) that “there is nothing to celebrate since their areas remains undeveloped.”