ActionSA slams DA for already ‘wasting money’ in JHB

Despite voting for DA Mayor Dr Mpho Phalatse to govern Joburg less than a week ago, ActionSA and the DA are already having issues. ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba is slamming the DA for calling a council meeting with just one item on the agenda.

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Is the DA wasting Joburg residents’ money? ActionSA thinks so

Speaker of the City of Johannesburg Council, the DA’s Vasco Da Gama, has called a council meeting for Thursday the 2nd of December.

Mayor Phalatse is expected to make her first proper address as mayor at that meeting. But ActionSA is adamant that it’s just a glorified acceptance speech.

“It is imprudent and fiscally irresponsible to hold what is clearly a Special Council Meeting, at great expense to the resident, for the sole of purpose of the delivery of a speech. This is especially so in light of the fact that there is another Council meeting scheduled for 09 December 2021, exactly one week later.

Herman Mashaba

Why the ‘expensive’ special meeting?

Mashaba says there is no need for a special council meeting to be called for Phalatse’s first speech. He’s even going as far as writing to Da Gama asking him to cancel the meeting.

ActionSA wants the mayor to rather make her speech the following week. That’s when an ordinary council meeting will take place regardless.

Mashaba says the new Johannesburg government can not expect residents to bear the costs. Especially with already struggling just to receive decent service delivery.

Let’s see if Helen Zille and co clap back at Mashaba on this one.