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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The ANC and DA are going head to head once again in the Matzikama Municipality, vying to secure victory in a by-election in Vanrhynsdorp on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Residents of Ward 7 will be heading to the polls to elect a new councillor to replace Christo Boks who resigned from Patriotic Alliance (PA) to join the DA last month.<\/p>\n

Matzikama is currently controlled by an alliance between the DA and FF Plus.<\/p>\n

PA leader Gayton McKenzie withdrew his party from the alliance following a disagreement.<\/p>\n

However, the DA is confident it will retain control over the hotly contested region of the municipality and is using the discovery of 2 000 solar panel geysers, which the ANC failed to install while in office, to get voters to cast their ballots in its favour.<\/p>\n

The then-governing ANC coalition received the geysers last year but never handed it over to residents.<\/p>\n

The DA’s communications manager, Melt Botes, said the national government handed them over to the municipality early last year, but no attempt was made to install them.<\/p>\n

“In addition, there is currently a dispute between the national government and the supplier,” he added.<\/p>\n

The geysers were earmarked for residents of Vanrhynsdorp and Klawer, which are hard-hit by ongoing load shedding.<\/p>\n

“If the ANC government had done their job and made sure the solar panel geysers were installed last year, the people would have had hot water every day.”<\/p>\n

The DA has put forward its candidate, Christo Boks, promising the geysers would be installed within three months if the party is voted into power.<\/p>\n

“The residents of Vanrhynsdorp must make sure that the ANC and its partners do not come to power again in Matzikama. They will only disappoint us again,” Botes said.<\/p>\n

ANC Western Cape leader Cameron Dugmore lambasted the DA and its candidate.<\/p>\n

“The DA’s candidate must take the blame for the theft of the solar panels. When he was a PA ward councillor, he pushed for the appointment of a certain service provider to secure the equipment. Why has the DA appointed him as their candidate? On Wednesday, the voters will speak,” he said.<\/p>\n

Dugmore added: “The DA was so desperate that they appointed this person as their candidate.”<\/p>\n

DA provincial leader Tertius Simmers said this was a clear display of the ANC’s indifference towards residents who were struggling the most.<\/p>\n

“In a time where we are all suffering from load shedding, another ANC-created problem, these geysers should have been installed, providing warm water to residents,” he added.<\/p>\n

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