Mpho Phalatse has promised to address the R200bn infrastructure backlog in the metro
DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Dr by opening up the city for more private-sector involvement and to create a conducive environment for businesses to thrive to create much-needed jobs.
“We will meet the demands of our residents if we partner with the private sector ... in addressing our infrastructure backlog. From 2016 to 2019 we worked a lot with the private sector — we took about 154 buildings that were hijacked and gave them to the private sector for development.” Apart from its ageing infrastructure including the electricity grid and roads network, the municipality was also recently hit by a water outage that affected hospitals and threatened businesses.
“We had about 100,000 billing queries when we started in 2016 and in 2019 we had brought them down to 9,000. We will just do what we did back then, by looking where the bottlenecks are and addressing that,” she said. “We will make sure that we have the right people in key strategic positions and do away with cadre deployment.”
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