Recently a number of news events have made the headlines in Cape Town. One of the events that made headlines was the story of the junior soccer players at BT Football Academy who were left stranded in Portugal by the BT Football Academy owner. Thankfully after the intervention of a group called Colored Girls Rock https://www.facebook.com/ColouredGirlsRock led by Tracey Lange, started fundraising, and the players were eventually able to return home to Cape Town after being abandoned by BT Academy.
Sadly, however, instead of acknowledging the group's effort and congratulating them on taking the initiative, the Democratic Alliance (DA) put out the following statement. https://wc.da.org.za/2025/07/da-commends-wcgs-role-to-assist-stranded-soccer-players-in-portugal
In its statement, the DA completely ignored mentioning the group (ColoredGirls Rock) by name, instead including the sentence, 'While there has already been private funding raised," thereby putting themselves forward as the saviours of the stranded players and coaches. Is this not cheap politics/electoneering, considering that South Africans will go to the polls next year in municipal elections and the DA is trying to stay in the limelight of the work that others have done?
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