READER LETTER | DA must provide proof its office bearers are clean

The DA has glee over the removal of Cope’s Tshwane mayor Dr Murunwa Makwarela, who presented a fake insolvency rehabilitation certificate so he could stay in office. He must be punished, says the DA.

If the DA wants to throw stones, let us remember the late DA councillor, Denis Peach, who was exposed as insolvent after many years on the Tshwane metro council. He had to resign, but did he pay back his councillor’s salary for his time as an imposter? We should be told. 

Have in mind that the  political party puts forward candidates on lists and they are presenting, supposedly, law-compliant members as potential councillors. It is not the IEC’s responsibility to do background checks. 

What about current DA councillors who have been declared insolvent in the past? The present current Ward 1 councillor, Leon Pieter Kryshaar, going by the court registry, was for a while an insolvent before election day on November 6 2021. Doubtless, the DA might claim he is rehabilitated and I am in no way saying he is not.

What needs to be asked of the DA is show us proof, the public needs assurances. DA head office must issue a comprehensive statement declaring none of the councillors or aspiring candidates submitted to the IEC anywhere was a court declared insolvent. Kryshaar’s court certificate of rehabilitation  must be produced immediately as he is a sitting councillor.

The recent scandals of phony education qualifications by DA public representatives and administrators does not lend one any  confidence ábout this party in general. Remember the blond bonanza who became a senior Tshwane administrator of council with a fake BTech degree? Did council recover the over R1m she scored before being exposed? I would be surprised, but let us all know. 

Thabo Moyane, Soshanguve