2019 Elections: State of Joburg: Elections looming, Mashaba lauds coalition governance By Greg Nicolson gregnicolson
DA councillors gave their alliance partners in Cope, the ACDP, IFP, UDM and Freedom Front Plus a standing ovation on Tuesday after Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba expressed his “most profound appreciation” during the State of the City Address .
Speaking about the 2016 elections, the mayor said voters had supported a coalition “as a means to check two decades of arrogance that had arisen from single-party dominance” after the previous government displayed “arrogance, corruption and neglect”. The mayor said unemployment reduced in Johannesburg in 2018 by 1.1% while economic growth grew from 1.1% the previous year to 1.4%. He said the city is on track to achieve its goal of R16-billion facilitated investment in the current financial year.
The EFF has pushed for extended operating hours at clinics and after an initial pilot phase, the operating hours at 22 clinics have been extended, with another four to be added within the financial year. Meeting another EFF commitment, each of Johannesburg’s seven regions will have a mobile clinic by July 2019.There can be no doubt, that this City is now moving in the right direction.
In a statement released ahead of Mashaba’s address, Matongo accused the mayor of misleading the public about the state of the city.This administration is neither responsive nor pro-poor as it continues to divert benefits meant for the poor and the most vulnerable members of society,” said Matongo.
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