Yes, it is tue the street renaming saga in Durban is now heating up even more with the release to this statement yesterday by Dr. Michael Sutcliffe, City Manager: eThekwini:
In a sworn statement provided as motivation for an application made by the Democratic Alliance to halt the renaming process, Councillor John Steenhuisen claims that the organizers of the 2010 Football World Cup “have requested the respondent (eThekwini municipality) not to go ahead with the renaming at least until that event takes place because maps with the existing names have already been distributed overseas”.
Whilst the municipality will respond to the application as a whole at a later stage, given that the DA has sought to publicise their court bid through linking renaming with the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, FIFA and the LOC, it is important that that matter is corrected.
For the record, FIFA and the LOC have never made any such representations to the municipality. I have been assured by the CEO of the LOC, Dr. Danny Jordaan that they have never contemplated such actions.
Why Steenhuisen deems it necessary to lie under oath is a matter which will be investigated as I have reported him to the Speaker for making such untruthful statements.
2 comments:
I find it amazing that you can post this as factual without asking for the other side of the story.
THe statement made by Sutcliffe is balatantly untrue and is just another one of his usual partisan blusters, he has no credibility whatsoever.
Furthermore you may also be interested to note that The speaker has never riased the matter and clearly viewed Sutcliffes statement with a degree of skepticism. If he was cofident that there was even a modicum of truth in sutcliffes allegations he would surely have taken some form of action?
by the way what happened to the audi alteram partem rule?
Kind regards,
John Steenhuisen
What I find amazing Mister Steenhuisen is that it has taken you almost a year to find this blogpost - this is old news. Don't you know about letting sleeping dogs lie?
If you enjoy my blog, please subscribe, I'll do a post about Google Alerts - that way you'll be able to pick things up much quicker on the Web.
And as for "what happened to the audi alteram partem rule" I'm sorry I really don't know. I'm struggling with our 11 official languages as it is, so I haven't a clue what you're talking about.
But I know Mike Sutcliffe well. I like him and respect him and if he says something, I believe it.
So maybe you should use your own blogs for your propaganda.
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