Cilliers Brink

DA Tshwane Mayoral Candidate 2026🇿🇦
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[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Johann Mettler blocked their tenders. He refused to let corrupt officials walk free. He stood between Tshwane and those who wanted to loot it.

Today in a special council sitting they are trying to fire him for it.

One of those tenders would have handed a company called Smada a 50 year lease on the Pretoria Show Grounds. Smada has been linked to the EFF and Julius Malema at the Madlanga Commission. 👀

This is not about misconduct. This is about removing the man standing in the way. ⚖️

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

At 10:24, twenty four minutes after the Tshwane council was scheduled to start, the report we are told will deal with Johann Mettler’s suspension as city manager has not yet been shared with councillors.

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

In Mabopane📍It was a privilege to spend time with Bo Koko at our Braai with Brink and Ask Brink Anything session. Thank you for the warm hospitality🙏🏽

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

📍 Letting the people of Mabopane know about my 5 mayoral pledges:

1️⃣ Fire corrupt officials.
2️⃣ Restore law and order.
3️⃣ Upgrade roads and water infrastructure.
4️⃣ Utilise municipal assets to attract investment and create jobs.
5️⃣ Empower communities to help keep their neighbourhoods clean and safe.

Register to vote at https://t.co/HlJhTk7sVA

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[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Good to be in the streets of Winterveld today! 🙌

The ground is very fertile👊 The people of Tshwane’s townships are tired of the ANC’s lies and want real change. ✊🗳️

Ganyane ganyane… the DA is taking over Tshwane🔥

#BackBrink #TakeBackYourCity

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Eugene Modise was found guilty by Tshwane’s own forensic investigation. He hid his financial interests in a security company earning millions from the city.

We filed papers in the Gauteng High Court to force a proper decision. Because a slap on the wrist is not accountability. It is an invitation to do it again.

Register to vote so that we can continue to apply pressure here. https://t.co/HlJhTk6V62 🗳️

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

The issue isn’t just Eugene Modise.

The real question is why Mayor Nasiphi Moya continues to keep him as Finance MMC after he was found guilty of breaching the Councillor’s Code of Conduct.

Leadership is measured by the decisions you make when transparency matters most.

#BackBrink #TakeBackYourCity

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Adv Chakalaka makes yet another Juju connection at the Madlanga Commission.

[SABC News @SABCNews]

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Adv Chaskalson reads Whatsapp messages indicating that Maj‑Gen Feroz Khan allegedly provided EFF leader Julius Malema with information about the VBS scandal complainant, including an address.

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Eugene Modise’s company earns R3 million a month from Tshwane. ⚖️

His punishment for hiding that? A R200 000 fine🤯That is not accountability.

We need to take back your city from criminals like him. You have the power to do that at https://t.co/HlJhTk6V62

#takebackyourcity #backbrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Today as the DA in Tshwane, we stood outside the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. ⚖️

We filed papers against Eugene Modise. The Deputy Mayor. The Finance MMC. The man found guilty of hiding his financial interest in a security company contracted to Tshwane.

His punishment? A fine of two months pay. That is not enough.

Because if Modise walks away from this, every tenderpreneur politician in this city gets the message that the rules do not apply to them.

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

In 2024, the DA-led mayoral committee in Tshwane commissioned a review of the city’s security model, with its heavy reliance on ineffective yet expensive stationary guards, so-called ‘watchman services’.

We wanted to scale down the city’s reliance on watchman services in favour of using crime-fighting technology combined with mobile armed response.

After the takeover of Tshwane by an ANC-led coalition, the review of the city’s security model was abandoned. As a result, the contracts of the old watchman-style security companies were extended several times. Those contracts remain in place today.

What was only disclosed months after the ANC takeover was that a councillor on the new mayoral committee had a financial interest in one of the old watchman-style security companies that did business with the municipality.

That councillor is Eugene Modise also happens to be the ANC regional chair in Tshwane.

After Modise became a councillor in Tshwane in 2023, he failed to disclose his financial benefit from a contract between Triotic Protection Services and the Tshwane Metro.

In 2025, the DA asked for an investigation into Modise’s relationship with Triotic. Following a forensic investigation, which Mayor Nasiphi Moya withheld from the municipal council for months, Modise was found guilty of breaching the Councillor’s Code of Conduct.

This Code holds that councillors must declare their shareholding and other financial interests in companies. They are also prohibited from benefiting from agreements with the municipality.

Modise told forensic investigators that he sold his shares in Triotic to an employee by way of an instalment sale agreement. But he could not furnish them with any documentary proof of such an agreement.

Even on Modise’s own unlikely version of events, the employee who has supposedly bought Triotic from Modise pays him for the shares in monthly instalments. Until the last of that money is paid, Modise has a continuing financial interest in Triotic. He also leases property to Triotic.

After Modise was found guilty of breaching the Councillor’s Code of Conduct, the speaker told the municipal council that the only penalties available against Modise were a warning, a reprimand, or a fine.

In doing so, the speaker misdirected the council. The council can, in fact, recommend to the MEC for local government that a councillor should be suspended or removed from office.

In effect, the speaker prematurely ruled out the most serious sanctions that the council could impose on Modise for his breach of the Code of Conduct.

The DA did point this out to the speaker in the council meeting where the issue was considered. But our submission was voted down by the ANC, EFF, ActionSA and other parties in the coalition. These parties then voted in favour of a proposal by the ANC deputy chief whip that Modise be fined two months’ pay.

As held by the forensic investigation, Modise’s conduct in concealing his financial interests in and links to Triotic is a material breach of the Councillor’s Code of Conduct.

What is more, Modise has an important fiduciary role as finance MMC. As a policymaker, he had an obligation to tell the council, the public and the mayoral committee of his proprietary interests in the city’s old-style watchman security model.

The DA will not accept the slap on the wrist given to Modise. And so, today we announce that we have filed papers in the Gauteng High Court to set aside the penalty imposed by the Tshwane council on Modise.

We are asking the Court to remit the issue to the Tshwane council for a proper decision. If our application is successful, we will argue for Modise to receive a penalty commensurate with his breach of the Code of Conduct.

In conclusion: if Modise is left to continue benefiting from a municipal contract in breach of the law, while only paying a comparatively small fine, then other tenderpreneur politicians will be encouraged to do the same at taxpayers’ expense.

[DA Gauteng @DAGauteng]

⏰ Today at 11h00, the DA in Tshwane will outline the legal action we will take against Tshwane Deputy Mayor and MMC for Finance, Eugene Modise.

Stream the press briefing live on YouTube: https://t.co/RM00dpXB5P

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

My 1st Mayoral Pledge is simple. Fire corrupt officials. Protect the honest ones.🫡

Johann Mettler blocked irregular tenders worth millions. He refused to protect officials caught rigging contracts. He did exactly what a city manager is supposed to do.

And the ANC coalition in Tshwane want him gone for it.

That is the Tshwane we are fighting to change. https://t.co/HlJhTk7sVA 🗳️

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Jack Bloom was my mentor in the Young Leaders Programme in 2009. A diligent and relentless campaigner, and someone who will disrupt business-as-usual. The Gauteng Legislature has lost its ‘father of the house’, but it’s high time to have Jack in government. Wishing him the best of luck!

[Water&SanitationRSA @DWS_RSA]

@David_Mahlobo1 @JackBloomDA “We are delighted to receive you and look forward to working alongside you as we strive to fulfil our constitutional mandate of ensuring water security and dignified sanitation services for all South Africans,” Minister Majodina said.

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Constantia Park, Tree Route Park. Turned around by DA Councillor Andrew Lesch and the local community upliftment precinct. 🌳

Pledge 5 of a DA government in Tshwane is built on exactly this. The city taking hands with communities to keep spaces like this clean and safe.

Make sure to register to vote for a DA government in Tshwane at https://t.co/HlJhTk6V62 🗳️

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

The vision is simple. A South Africa where you are free to choose, free to build and free to flourish. Not as a member of a group but as a citizen with real power over your own future.🇿🇦

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

A special thank you to Louis and Angelique Geeringh from Friends of Groenkloof and Klapperkop Nature Reserves, and Stian Veldman from the Butterfly Foundation, for the work they are doing to protect these important community spaces. 🙌

My 5th mayoral pledge is to support well organised local communities that want to help make their neighbourhoods cleaner, safer, and better places to live🌿

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Geordin Hill-Lewis laid it out clearly today. A clear mandate from our Federal Leader for a better future for South Africa and what a DA led national government will look like for every citizen. 🇿🇦🫡

A citizen centred South Africa. A post ANC future. Breaking the cycle of dependency so that every South African is free to choose, free to build and free to flourish.

Dependency is not a safety net. It is a trap. And the DA is the only party with a plan to break it.

That is exactly what I am fighting for right here in Tshwane. Register to vote and be part of the change at https://t.co/HlJhTk6V62 🗳️

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Geordin Hill-Lewis laid it out clearly today. A clear mandate from our Federal Leader for a better future for South Africa and what a DA led national government will look like for every citizen. 🇿🇦🫡

A citizen centred South Africa. A post ANC future. Breaking the cycle of dependency so that every South African is free to choose, free to build and free to flourish.

Dependency is not a safety net. It is a trap. And the DA is the only party with a plan to break it.

That is exactly what I am fighting for right here in Tshwane. Register to vote and be part of the change at https://t.co/HlJhTk6V62 🗳️

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink