The Public Protector’s findings have intensified political pressure on the City of Cape Town, with opposition parties highlighting failures in sanitation, housing, infrastructure and service delivery affecting residents.
Opposition parties have called on the City of Cape Town to urgently address service delivery failures identified by the Public Protector, saying the findings highlight continued inequalities affecting residents of Langa Flats and Khayelitsha.
ActionSA Cape Town mayoral candidate Dereleen James said the party welcomed the findings, which she said exposed failures by the DA-led City administration to provide adequate services to residents of Langa and Khayelitsha.
“ActionSA welcomes the Public Protector’s damning findings that the City of Cape Town, under successive DA administrations, systematically failed to provide adequate service delivery to the residents of Langa and Khayelitsha and is guilty of maladministration,” James said.
She said the investigation highlighted failures involving basic municipal services, housing, sanitation and sewerage infrastructure, arguing that communities had been left behind through years of neglect.
