Picture File: Gauteng Premier David Makhura visits Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. Picture: Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius
The province was rocked by the multi-million-rand Covid-related personal protective equipment graft, which implicated powerful ANC individuals. University of Johannesburg economics professor Peter Baur said key service delivery areas, which required intervention by the Gauteng government, included municipal service delivery; security; social support to poor communities; better management of the growing informal settlement crisis and a high unemployment due to the rural-urban migration.