If not for her passion to serve the community, newly elected City of Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse might have been an tenderpreneur, doing business with government. However, the qualified medical doctor's altruistic drive led her to venture into politics.
While she did not retract any of the personal opinions she had expressed, she recognised that her statements might have caused confusion regarding the city’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Then, last Monday, Phalatse was herself elected as mayor after the DA received unexpected backing from the EFF and ActionSA for control of the city.
“One of the things I realised when I moved to Johannesburg was that it’s dirty, especially in the inner city. But you can’t blame people for that because it’s not like Pretoria, where you don’t need to walk far along any street before you find a dustbin. I don’t see that in Johannesburg,” she says. “Apparently people own those buckets and make those who need to relieve themselves in them pay a lot of money for doing so. Those buckets are in plain sight of everyone, which is a disgrace. We can’t allow people to be stripped their dignity this way on a daily basis.”
On the issue of crime, Phalatse says her council plans to create an integrated solution by working with the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department and a private law enforcement agency, as well as community law enforcement organisations. “But we don’t want to take over ageing infrastructure – we want Eskom to upgrade it first and then hand it over to us. We also don’t want to inherit the mountain of debt that Eskom’s accumulated over the years because it allowed a culture of nonpayment to grow.”
The word clean up is very broad, we must interpret it in contextual approach, it may also include rubbish, crime, illegal immigrants etc let's hope she won't disappoint
Yhoo thina sicela I development e mamelodi ext 6 phomolong sine 21 years sihlala emkhukwini asinayo i gas
I pray that she do her work without the cadres acting up 🙏
ANC will make it a point that they frustrate the hell out of her,soon there will be a glass jug landing on someone's head,cadres don't take kindly to defeat 🙈
Deport all illegal immigrants!!
Start with the potholes. Our roads are totally disgusting. I’ve never seen such big potholes.
She must start with the illegal immigrants
I support you mayor
We're in support and favour of this initiative Madam Mayor 🙌.
This one wa spita nyana, by the time she realises that her job entails 95% politics and that her election campaign funders are her real bosses, she’ll be at a very dark corner and quietly taking orders from her master.
She thinks Johannesburg is dirty because there's no dustbins? I have bad news for her. 😭
Good luck to her
How?
Should start with illegal foreigners and hijacked buildings. Raise Hillbrow to the ground and build her from scratch. Ask the City of Cape Town re Sea Point if you need advice.
Yes let's work let's clean our City 👏👏
mphophalatse1 enforce Municipal Bylaws as part of your cleaning campaign that will be great sweep into Removing all stains of Corruption & dead in City of Joburg
Deputy white
We will see 🙄🙄🙄... Hope she won't be calling media in 2023 telling us she is resigning from DA because of 1,2,3 racism bully tendencies 🤣🤣.. like her predecessor 🙈🙈
Good news so when do we start 😀 😉 😊
Good not this tavern thing that she was talking about 😳🙄
Can she please bring her vacuum cleaners n clean Lenasia. It has become an absolute shit hole🤬🤬🤬 Illegal land invasions,resulting in Illegal Electricity n water connections. Which also results in cable theft. cANCer has FAILED this beautiful Country 🤬🤬🤬
At local government I don’t care which party is in charge. I just want services you be delivered. Whoever makes an effort to do that needs to be supported. Am tired of being affronted by politicians who treat councils as their piggy banks.
Asifuni mntu ozakuthetha ngoku sifuna ozakwenza...I ANC siyikhutshiswe zezizinto
Please, please can CityofJoburgZA invest in behaviour change and not just 'clean up the city'? If you don't, the next mayor and the next mayor and the next mayor will have to do the same....
Jobs and money are real issues at people's minds. Also the smart city of free money in your bank account at least 4 million rand each month. Money is paper, forget the World Bank and its associates G7 and G20 summit nations. We are serious like Mars One and Nasa astronauts
If she does clean up Jhb then it will definitely be over for the ANC around the country. DA will be government nationally come 2024
Now watch as the Anc works to undermine her efforts.
It's gonna end in tears for this one🤞🏿. The Broeder Bond is still breathing...
Deport illegal immigrants. They serve no purpose in growing SA
She must first buy new brooms and gloves...
Nothing wrong with that.
Deport all illegal foreigners! You will reduce crime by 80%!!! PutSouthAficansFirst
It will impossible to clean an overpopulated city, unless she addresses the illegal immigrants matter.
Breaking news; broom vows to sweep floors 🤦🏾♂️
Our uncle promised us that too HermanMashaba
My view...New elected mayor is set up for failure 'she is too mommy' for this role. Joburg needs proper, stern, assertive and an implimenter individual to run it. Softies can never survive. Jozi is a pure school of hardknocks!
By cleaning corruption first
All of them promise to be brooms that sweep clean. But, when they ascend the throne the brooms become soiled with the dirt of corruption and amnesia!!!
What about those in life supports at home, should they die? How about those who are paying, should they suffer? Leadership is a skill learnt not conferred by position assumed.
Go to Diepkloof and see her cleaning. She just another politician nje. How do you allow peoplebto spend so many days without power just because they owe Eskom. Reinstate the power and develop a plan to resolve the matter amicably. There are babies, toddlers, elders etc. suffering
mphophalatse1 Fordsburg is a pigsty. Good place to start. Maybe large rubbishdrums on the pavements will be a good start.
OneNation70290 I wish her good luck, I hope she would unpack that and explain how it would be aimed at rejuvenating the CBD (Berea, Yeoville and Hillborrow). Our_DA CityofJoburgZA
Irrespective of your age or gender you should participate in this free benefits as help came to me through my weekly investment with Iamcallaway_B I registered on their platform and paid to my account I got profits of R30k I don’t have any reason not to talk about that at all
😆😆😆😆😆 she needs to visit Maboneng with cops on Friday she needs to see the kak
we want that
He must 1st develop the informals of Orange Farm and pave tar roads everywhere, its been + 30 years now. We need a college too!
Blah!Blah!Blah! CyrilRamaphosa is gonna clean up corruption. Talk is cheap. Money buys the whiskey. VoetsekDA
She should have started yesterday.
And make Soweto people pay for electricity....
She'll have to look in to City Power and quickly there something going on there all the never ending power outages.
Women leaders are often better leaders than men mphophalatse1 Our_DA CityofJoburgZA could be cleaned up within 2 weeks. Jhb crime cld be reduced within a month wt SAPoliceService working & be visible. Criminals in SAPS must be dealt with. Low hanging gains David_Makhura
Action please, stop preaching what others preached.
Ai Soze.
She must go deep in Joburg, clean all the foreigners legally!!!
You mean she's still on her plans l thought time for plans is past now's time for action
She doesn't even have a mayoral committee angazi ukhulumani
I thought she already had a plan coming in.
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Bathathe Girl (if they let you)
You get 2 types of domestic cleaning, 1 is those that clean on the serface and those who does deep cleaning. Being in this party, which cleaning do y'all think she will do... musi
You know what they say about the new broom
How?
Good luck as I am sure you will need it
We will like to witness that happen
She’ll have to deport people hhay kancane. Mine nendlu yami siyayamukela iPlan yakhe👌🏻
Where is the mayoral committee?🙄🙄
Let’s start the clean up with eradicating the antivaxers in this country. They are an incurable disease. They are a virus that needs to be eradicated 😡
Start with Hillbrow and illegal foreigners owning shops and selling counterfeit food products
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Go on Doc,do your best.
Stop planning and start doing, these politicians will plan until the next vote...
😁
agreed
I heard that song before
The safe way to Clean the Joburg City is to start where the law enforcement is,bcos chasing foreigners won't help with anything instead we would come across with what it is now.corrupt departments first.
Yes she can clean up,will makhura support her plans?
Still planning
Please remove those illegal street vendors in jhb cbd and u don't hv to offer alternative spaces as most of them r illegal immigrants
Start with our pavements illegal immigrants r impeding pedestrians movements with their fruits and veggies and in Doornfontein it's worst
Well best she get to it as she will be watched like a Hawk as the city is a mess thanks to the party that has failed Jhb...the ANC.
Khuculula ntombo!
Let's put this in perspective it took the City of Cape Town and the DA 2yrs to sort out some of the problems left behind by the ANC. This is not quick fix.
We can't wait
She should consider putting dustbins everywhere ,otherwise people will continue littering the streets and block water drains which causes artificial floods
Please DR
Hasn’t she started yet? Plans are futile without ACTION.
Plans to clean up illegal immigrants
As with all elects
Please🙏🙏
A government of Our_DA is failing to provide services at Klipfontein View, Ward 32 in Midrand where the Poor Black Majority Resides compared to Buccleuch, Greenstone, Modderfontein and Linbro Park dominated by whites MyJRA CityofJoburgZA EFFSouthAfrica EffJhbRegion
We are awaiting 🤞🏿
HermanMashaba are okay?
This is so detailed, you can see it's not her doing, but WMC masterminding through a Native Puppet. Black Native Subjugation is always the end of WMC masterminding . . . .
How ?
Everybody has plans, when does the work start?
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