Former ANC councillor Loyiso Nkohla is making a political comeback and wants Capetonians to vote him back into the Cape Town city council as a candidate for the Patriotic Alliance.
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He joined the party earlier this month and is standing as its councillor candidate in four Cape Town wards. As evidence, Nkohla produced an e-mail he sent to the city manager and other senior councillors this month in which he complained about “inhabitable” conditions in Khayelitsha and threatening to take action if the concerns were not addressed.I had to drive from Table View to fight for the people of Khayelitsha, where sewerage is running down the streets while local ANC councillors remain quiet.“They responded because that is the only language the city of Cape Town understands,” he said.
His phone has more messages from community members who were either requesting his intervention in their service delivery issues or are thanking him for intervening. He claimed some of these are members of other political parties., transporting portable toilets from informal settlements and dumping their contents in key landmarks about the city, including Cape Town International Airport.
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