The African National Congress in the Western Cape said yesterday that it will ask Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate the alleged racial incident which occurred at Clifton 4th Beach last month.
This after it emerged that beachgoers, including ANC Provincial Secretary Faiez Jacobs and his family, were instructed to leave the beach by members of a private security company, PPA, who allegedly imposed an 8pm curfew at Clifton.
In his letter to Mkhwebane, Jacobs asks her to establish whether PPA was acting with the permission of the City of Cape Town or certain councillors, such as Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith, if ratepayers and residents association has paid for its services, if PPA is a financial contributor to the DA, and if PPA is registered as a security company.
He says: “I’m hereby asking you to investigate the incident, to establish if PPA has done, or is doing other work for the City of Cape Town, and if so, whether such work was put out in tender and if so, whether the appropriate steps were taken in securing PPA’s services, [and] if DA leader Mmusi Maimane knew about the work PPA was doing and if he had a hand in ‘terminating’ the company’s contract with the City.”
The City has denied any involvement in the incident and accused the PPA of overstepping its mandate by forcing the closure of the beach.
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