Joburg's mayor has challenged 'the ANC government to come speak to its 'successes' in Alexandra over the last 25 years'.
Alexandra residents march to the Johannesburg regional offices in Sandton, 8 April 2019, to protest for service delivery in the township, 8 April 2019. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
Mashaba said in a statement that ANC members have hijacked the legitimate concerns of residents of Alex as an electioneering tactic following protests today to the city’s Region E offices in Sandton where the city manager, Ndivhoniswani Lukhwareni, was prevented from accepting a memorandum of grievances from the #AlexTotalShutDown protesters.
“ANC councillors leading that protest sought to incite the crowd into racially abusing the MMC. In their efforts to encourage the crowd into racially abusing MMC Sun, these so-called leaders went so far as to address their ANC followers by saying, ‘Look, a white man is here to address you’.” the mayor said.
“In order to engage with the legitimate concerns of the people in Alexandra, I have already committed to engaging with residents at the schedules IDP meeting set for the 15th of April 2019,” adding that he would meet ward and public representative councillors of the people of Alexandra.
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