3-year plan to try and save Joburg

[BusinessTech]

3-year plan to try and save Joburg

South Africa’s National Treasury will stage a three-year intervention to stabilise the Johannesburg municipality, which has been beset by governance and financial challenges.

 

[porchrat]

put it under administration. The local muni has clearly lost the plot.

All that budget and they can't provide basic services like water and electricity.

 

[ShaunSA]

Godonguano plans to save Jozie from his fellow comrades?

 

[ShaunSA]

put it under administration. The local muni clearly has clearly lost the plot.

All that budget and they can't provide basic services like water and electricity.

Administration solves fokoli when you simply choose another comrade to be Administrator

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Administration solves fokoli when you simply choose another comrade to be Administrator

Yep, swopping one useless idiot for the next useless idiot doesn't make much difference....

 

[porchrat]

Administration solves fokoli when you simply choose another comrade to be Administrator

It's worked before.

The problem is usually when the administration ends and the local boys take over again. Then they just drag it back into the mud.

 

[ToxicBunny]

It's worked before.

The problem is usually when the administration ends and the local boys take over again. Then they just drag it back into the mud.

I would not expect it to happen now just before elections, but if the elections go badly for the ANC (which indications are that they will), I fully expect them to try put the city under administration to try and wrestle control from the newly elected municipal "leaders" whoever they are.

At no point will administration be used as a vehicle to actually really fix things though.

 

[Sideshow Bob]

Administration solves fokoli when you simply choose another comrade to be Administrator

That is why mybb community urges you to wash your hair for once and come out and vote for Mayor Zille. If you are not fortunate enough to be a world class city of Johannesburg resident, ah well..

 

[Hemi300c]

"challenges"

F-Off

 

[KulQkumba]

It's worked before.

The problem is usually when the administration ends and the local boys take over again. Then they just drag it back into the mud.

It has? I honestly don't know of one example where there has been any kind of sustainable improvement...more like things went the other way (if that is even possible to imagine).
I get your point about handing back to locals, but isn't this by definition "it hasn't worked" then?

 

[porchrat]

It has? I honestly don't know of one example where there has been any kind of sustainable improvement...more like things went the other way (if that is even possible to imagine).
I get your point about handing back to locals, but isn't this by definition "it hasn't worked" then?

That's the thing. It's consistently not sustainable. Not because the administration process doesn't work. It usually works OK. They stabilise service delivery, pay off immediate debts etc.. They tend to hand back a muni that is, at least at a basic level, more functional than it was before.

Problem is the moment power is handed back to the same useless idiots in the muni council they just F it all up again.

I'm not sure how you fix that honestly. The residents are voting for these idiots and the administration process doesn't train them on how to effectively run a muni.

 

[Bad Ballie]

That is why mybb community urges you to wash your hair for once and come out and vote for Mayor Zille. If you are not fortunate enough to be a world class city of Johannesburg resident, ah well..

I approve this message on the basic principle that if the DA do not get their act together and stop acting like an EU left wing twit, then you can always vote them back out next elections. The days of blind loyalty to any party are long gone, vote for the party that offers you the best future and get rid of them if they do not deliver

 

[DreamKing]

anc: give us one more chance .......

 

[Peter_Quinn]

That is why mybb community urges you to wash your hair for once and come out and vote for Mayor Zille. If you are not fortunate enough to be a world class city of Johannesburg resident, ah well..

do i first need to swim through a pothole before going ?

 

[Peter_Quinn]

anc: give us one more chance .......

a grocery voucher and t shirts does wonders don't forget cheap tactics and fear mongering it works well

 

[Lupus]

I would not expect it to happen now just before elections, but if the elections go badly for the ANC (which indications are that they will), I fully expect them to try put the city under administration to try and wrestle control from the newly elected municipal "leaders" whoever they are.

At no point will administration be used as a vehicle to actually really fix things though.

They don't need to do that, they'll just do the same thing they did the last time, just call motions of no confidence all the time and hold up things, put in two puppet mayors and then a muppet

 

[Sideshow Bob]

do i first need to swim through a pothole before going ?

You registered only 3 days ago and hit the ground running already ?

hmm...

 

[ToxicBunny]

They don't need to do that, they'll just do the same thing they did the last time, just call motions of no confidence all the time and hold up things, put in two puppet mayors and then a muppet

Yeah that is also a likely play as well... but it only works if that side of the equation is big enough to install their muppet puppets.

 

[Lupus]

Yeah that is also a likely play as well... but it only works if that side of the equation is big enough to install their muppet puppets.

They just did last time, this time lets see, hopefully people have learnt to not fall for Flip Flopper Mashaba again

 

[ToxicBunny]

They just did last time, this time lets see, hopefully people have learnt to not fall for Flip Flopper Mashaba again

One can hope..

Whilst his whipsky fueled racist rants are amusing, he's not what I would call a useful public servant.