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Your time is up: Herman Mashaba tells Parks Tau

Picture credit: PETER MOGAKI
Picture credit: PETER MOGAKI

Johannesburg executive mayor Herman Mashaba has told his predecessor Parks Tau that he has no projects he can call his own in the city.

“After the third of August‚ Councillor Tau‚ you have no projects‚” Mashaba said.

He was responding to the speech made by Tau in which he asked the new administration to retain projects such as Corridors of Freedom and Vulindlel’eJozi aimed at achieving spatial transformation and creating employment respectively.

In his speech‚ Tau urged Mashaba and his administration to retain projects that were meant to transform the city. He then said the African National Congress would ensure that these project were not abandoned by the new administration.

No e-tolls in my city‚ says Joburg mayor

The mayor of Johannesburg‚ Herman Mashaba‚ has warned that the metro police and other security forces will not be allowed to harass motorists about e-tolls in the country’s economic hub.

Mashaba announced serious changes in the city which included ensuring that the Johannesburg Metro Police Department did its work and did not take bribes.

He said new mobile stations would be deployed in various parts of the city to ensure a quick response and access to communities.

Mashaba then warned the metro cops that “there will be no harassment of our motorists about e-tolls”.

Other changes to be implemented by Mashaba’s administration include:

- unused mines in Langlaagte being converted into a tourist attraction;

- extending the working hours of local clinics and resourcing them;

- improving the response by emergency services;

- hosting a ‘billing Indaba’ to deal with revenue collection and billing problems;

- assigning the finance MMC to compile a report on how the city can use in-sourcing instead of outsourcing services to prevent exploitation of workers; and

- meeting with the business community to pave a new era to revive the city centre and its surroundings.

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