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A House Divided: The feud that took Cape Town to the brink
Crispian Olver
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Jonathan Ball Publishers
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A House Divided: The feud that took Cape Town to the brink - Olver, Crispian
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Synopsis "A House Divided: The feud that took Cape Town to the brink"
It's 2018 and Cape Town is racked by its worst drought on record. The prospect of 'Day Zero' - when the taps will run dry - is driving citizens into a frenzy.Then the ruling Democratic Alliance removes control of the water issue from Mayor Patricia de Lille. While politicians turn on each other, revealing deep-lying faultlines and new enmities, critical questions arise: what lies behind the fallout, and what, if any, deeper interests are at play?Against this fraught backdrop, author and academic Crispian Olver resolves to explore how the city of his childhood is run, and he sets his sights in particular on the web of connections between local politicians and property developers. Interviewing numerous people - including many dropped from the City administration in questionable circumstances - he uncovers a Pandora's box of backstabbing, infighting and backroom deals.Olver explores contentious property developments in agriculturally sensitive Philippi, on the scenic West Coast and along the glorious - and lucrative - Atlantic Seaboard, delves into attempts to 'hijack' civic associations and exposes the close yet precarious relationship between the mayor and City Hall's 'laptop boys'. In blistering detail he gets to grips with the political meltdown within the DA and the defection of De Lille to form her own party.
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