Zille warns of ANC dirty tricks

THE ANC will use every dirty trick it can to cling to power in Nelson Mandela Bay, because a lot of people have prime positions that they do not want to lose, DA leader Helen Zille has warned.

In her address to the DA provincial elective congress in Jeffreys Bay on Saturday, Zille said the possibility of the ANC losing the local government elections in the Bay in 2016 made it dangerous.

She told the 520 delegates, representing 18 constituencies, that the DA was a threat to ANC rule and called on them to work tirelessly in the run-up to the local government poll.

"The ANC is at its most dangerous phase in its history right now," Zille said.

"Cosatu, one of its pillars, is going to split and then you are going to have a new party that will say it is going to do a lot for the workers.

"The DA is going to say we are working for the unemployed to get jobs.

"You know from nature that when an animal is wounded and dying, it is at its most dangerous. And there are a lot of people in this ANC in the Eastern Cape who have nice positions that they use to take the people's money. - Mkhululi Ndamase