Two years ago, Pappas had big plans, and he has rolled them out. uMngeni is clean, services are being delivered and the administration started weeding out corruption.uMngeni mayor Chris Pappas believes that South Africa is not beyond repair. It is broken, it can be fixed. But it’s going to take a lot of sweat.
The pair’s political rise to mayor of the uMngeni Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal Midlands was the DA’s only win in the province in the 2021 municipal elections. According to Pappas, they inherited a shattered town, inefficient with an exhausted bank account and many pairs of long fingers along the way.
“When we took office, the difficulties were apparent from the start. It was about navigating a system entrenched in dysfunctionality,” Pappas said. This initial situation set the stage for their mission possible. “One of our primary approaches was to understand and then dismantle the existing bureaucratic barriers systematically. It is about understanding the system to reform it effectively,” he explained. It was a progressive and methodical approach to governance reform that is also central theme in the book, it suggests a pragmatic and practical approach to political leadership.
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