OK guys. I'm triggered. Conversations about @CityofJoburgZA@CityPowerJhb@JHBWater make me incandescent with anger. For the last fews months I've read the stories about the R972 million tenders that went to families or associates of officials. I bit my tongue because my rage is like a wildfire in my chest.
There was also the R335 million wasted on overpriced cleaning equipment. In June 2025, the High Court struck down the city's Property Rates Policy and called it "unlawful" and "procedurally dishonest." I shut up because this was too close to home.
Add the revenue collection contract which reportedly paid R210 million a year and the alleged conflict of interest involving then MMC for Finance, now mayor Dada Morero and Helen Botes.
And the incompetence? Do you recall a parliamentary committee flagging COJ for submitting documents 30 minutes before a key meeting?
Chronic water problems, electricity, uncut grass and wait for it, residents fighting to keep the public library open because they don't give a damn about what matters to residents, to children? How do you even fail to keep a historic library open? Bow your heads in shame!
This is personal because all the above are the reasons we no longer have a home in the city of our birth. We could not afford bills of R40K-R50K. And time spent asking them to explain. When we took legal route the bills went down🤔
It is not enough for Godongwana/ @GovernmentZA@PresidencyZA to form Working Groups or ask Dada for explanations. You cannot teach empathy and decency. What they all need is a confrontation with reality. With so many people not paying because they are too indigent and some because they can afford but refuse to, you cannot squeeze those who pay and treat them with disdain. Their resources are not limitless.
You cannot demand that ratepayers finance your gravy train. Break them, and you will also collapse.
@CityofJoburgZA is a disgrace and residents deserve better.
Like darkness through the winter nights so are the days of our lives ⏳Mara there’s a Bright Side at Nando’s.🔥Order a full chicken on the Nando’s app and get free sides that match the load shedding stage we are on as a country. #NandosBrightSides Ts&Cs Apply
@CityPowerJhb Ref No: CPWEB3382738. Been without power since Sunday. Had created 3 tickets, all were closed without anyone assisting. I have emailed David Makoni the Area Manager @ Hursthill, with no response. Went numerous times to the Hursthill Office as well. Please assist.
#ANCLives off the indignity of a black child. It took them less than five years to build state of the arts World Cup stadiums. But for 25 years now they have not eradicated pit latrines/toilets.
#ShameANC
@JacksonMthembu_@MYANC Please do not gaslight the nation, legitimate anger and frustration from the public are not thuggery. Do not blame the people for their response it takes away from your apology. The ANC must present us with a ten point action plan for fighting #COVID19SA intra party corruption.