The crusade to save Joburg has become a Gauteng power grab, and Herman Mashaba's demands have been replaced with excuses.
The crusade to save Joburg has become a Gauteng power grab, and demands have been replaced with excuses.There are two kinds of kids at a school concert. Those who freeze at the sight of a big crowd and those who grab the microphone to steal the show.
Mashaba was popular in many quarters while Joburg mayor and looked to capitalise on this with the launch of ActionSA in 2020.An old ActionSA election poster still sits on a street pole on my way into the office, it reads “Gatvol with politics? Register to show them”. It drove home his message of being different to other politicians, where action was more important than image, and an antidote to the ANC and its problems.
When they saw this gained little traction and political attention, they ditched it for power via the backdoor.the devil In exchange for putting an ActionSA member as speaker in the Joburg council, booting Gwamanda, and ditching the tariff; ActionSA would vote with the ANC.“that a vote for ActionSA would never be used to keep the ANC in power,” seemed hollow. He had just pulled a page from the book of politics he had told his supporters to ditch.
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