SA Politics Part 14 - The New Dawn turns to Dusk

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Fresh face, bold policies — EFF’s Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng outlines her vision for Joburg

The EFF’s Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng has injected fresh energy into the Johannesburg mayoral race. She sat down with Daily Maverick to discuss in detail her strategic roadmap for the city, which focuses on e…
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See the EFF has picked a real winner here as their Jhb mayor candidate.
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On infrastructure:
A: As mayor, I will embark on a massive maintenance project for the city that will require collaborations, partnerships, and a huge amount of resource mobilisation. The water and electricity have the same kind of approach. DM
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Asked what other steps she would take towards getting the city back on its feet, Zille says: “The first thing we would have to do is formulate an adjustment budget. This will be a statutory requirement, and it cannot achieve much because one can only move 10% of revenue to new priorities.

“I will ask the minister of finance to deploy the specialist Johannesburg Task Team in the National Treasury to assist us, as they have built up a deep and extensive understanding of the various aspects of Joburg’s financial crisis.”

The infrastructure backlog and maintenance crises, Zille adds, “will be very difficult to address and would take years of prudent management to reduce… without even taking account of the need for extensive infrastructure expansion to make provision for this expanding city”.

Public private partnerships (PPPs) play a key role in her plans for rejuvenation of public services.

“City Power’s debt,” Zille says, “is about 19bn rand [$1.2bn]– the highest level of debt of any of the city’s entities. This can only be managed if City Power becomes a private-public partnership in which the debt is converted into shares in a company under professional private management.

“I would also partner with the Utilities Reform Programme, which is part of Operation Vulindlela [a joint initiative of the presidency and the National Treasury] – which offers significant financial incentives to ringfence funding for trading services [water and electricity]. And we would certainly ringfence most of this revenue.”
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On unemployment

A: To fix that, you insource people, you give them permanent employment that has actual tangible benefits: medical aid, sick leave, family leave, all of the ways that we know that labour protections work in this country. So that’s one thing that we can immediately change and something that the mayor has the power to enforce.

And we have to use the city’s own supply chains to actually plug people in, for example, black-owned businesses, women-led businesses, LGBTQ-led and disability-led businesses. Assisting those people, not as a matter of charity, but understanding the historical context that we come from that had a policy that was deliberately and intentionally excluding them.

We have internships, we have skills development that is linked, one, to our service delivery core work for the city, then are linked to the second thing that is a big topic in Johannesburg, our infrastructure.
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Asked about the overall state of business in Johannesburg, Zille says the core problem is a lack of confidence in the future of the city. “This drives away investment and encourages existing businesses to relocate to more conducive locations.”

Zille has pledged to attract 200,000 new jobs to Johannesburg over five years by restoring municipal competence and improving service delivery.

She says functional infrastructure attracts investment, and revived business districts stimulate economic activity. She says business confidence cannot return unless Johannesburg provides dependable water, electricity, roads and traffic management.

But Zille says there will need to be to be a political and cultural deep-clean if the city is to once again attract capital.
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You can see which party actually wants to solve the problem, and which one is the cause of it.
 
TheChamp said:
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Does this whole thing need to be investigated and all that, yes.

But to claim Mark Burke had operational control to make these sorts of decisions and have a hand in these sorts of things may be a bit of a stretch.

But, just for you Champy, I'd say I'm somewhat disappointed that Mark was involved in a Crypto Arbitrage type of setup, they just seem sketchy to me at the best of times.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Does this whole thing need to be investigated and all that, yes.

But to claim Mark Burke had operational control to make these sorts of decisions and have a hand in these sorts of things may be a bit of a stretch.

But, just for you Champy, I'd say I'm somewhat disappointed that Mark was involved in a Crypto Arbitrage type of setup, they just seem sketchy to me at the best of times.
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You honestly did not have to explain yourself to me, but I am still touched that you felt you had to.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Does this whole thing need to be investigated and all that, yes.

But to claim Mark Burke had operational control to make these sorts of decisions and have a hand in these sorts of things may be a bit of a stretch.

But, just for you Champy, I'd say I'm somewhat disappointed that Mark was involved in a Crypto Arbitrage type of setup, they just seem sketchy to me at the best of times.
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Imagine resigning because of investigation of any kind. I doubt if there will be ANC president/minister who will remain standing.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Does this whole thing need to be investigated and all that, yes.

But to claim Mark Burke had operational control to make these sorts of decisions and have a hand in these sorts of things may be a bit of a stretch.

But, just for you Champy, I'd say I'm somewhat disappointed that Mark was involved in a Crypto Arbitrage type of setup, they just seem sketchy to me at the best of times.
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He's owner and chairman. You can't tell me he wasn't involved at any stage.
 
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