Newly appointed Johannesburg Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda says he is confident in his abilities to adequately run the City and ensure that service delivery is efficiently rolled out.
, after garnering the majority of votes. He was contesting against DA’s Mpho Phalatse and ActionSA’s Funzi Ngobeni.“There is no doubt in my ability firstly to hold office, secondly to keep this coalition together for as long as I have to. Because I have been given a responsibility by the collective, it is not myself who went around and requested that I want to be mayor.
Meanwhile, he says his administration has already begun working on a plan to stabilise the City’s finances to ensure that service delivery is a top priority.“We are in the process of working on a financial plan. It is one of the 11 strategic objectives as the government of local unity because without the proper finances in place we cannot deliver to our residents and we cannot advance any service delivery agenda moving forward.
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