EThekwini citizens and businesses come first. Total quality will replace corruption.
Our innovative and hi-tech driven business model will ensure a safe, clean and healthy environment.
Water, sanitation and road infrastructure networks will be maintained to the highest standards of quality.
All everyday core services such as waste collection and management, security, plumbing and pothole repairs will be in-sourced, thus saving billions of rands lost through the inherently corrupt tender manipulation processes. This will expand the middle class, drastically improve turnaround time and reduce the unaffordable and exorbitant municipal bills.
We will redesign our city to restore human dignity and meet the housing demand, tackle the energy and water crises and climate change, and maximise tourism potential by promoting the Thousand Hills tourism route and integrating it with our 18 traditional leadership and communities-linked products. The latter will create more economic and job opportunities.
The Democratic Alliance will ensure that where we govern and where we have ward councillors, the councillors elected will be effective and will be capable of rolling out service delivery ensuring that residents get what they deserve.
We will also ensure that where we need to appoint officials, those officials would be competent and will not be appointed because of political affiliation but would be appointed because of their ability.
That way we will ensure we have accountable government structures in municipalities.
Furthermore, corruption is dealt with and that it does not hit us again and ultimately this will give an effective platform to ensure that the residents where we govern get affordable and effective services delivery.
Our message is clear the DA get things done.
THE IFP believes in reliable, corruption-free governance and efficient service delivery. Each one of our 2 570 candidates is required to sign a Contract of Good Governance. They have been hand-picked to serve their communities, based on their integrity, skills, work ethic and willingness to serve. Our councillors are the essential building blocks for ensuring that ordinary South Africans have reliable access to basic services.
In the words of IFP founder and president emeritus Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi and IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa: “When you consider the IFP’s track record of good governance, and hear about the IFP’s legacy of honest leadership, it becomes clear that you can trust us. And that is the most important asset in securing good governance. Because unlike parties who put themselves before the people, the IFP puts our people first.”
Currently, the eThekwini Metro, even Msunduzi and others are cities collapsing due to corruption: #corruptcollapsingcities. In order to change the lives of ordinary South Africans, our priorities if elected to power include: reorganise the city’s organogram and shed the inefficient staff, mismatched for jobs versus skills to reduce the exorbitant wage bill; create jobs through internships for talented, educated youth; rethink the waste management systems; speed up daily services; overhaul the public transport system; lease or sell vacant property to all race groups for specified developments; overhaul the signage department to improve access to businesses and tourist sites; build proper, sheltered street-trader blocks; clear all city slums and renovate dilapidated inner-city buildings; build suitable social housing; develop water and solar harvesting systems to maintain lives, livelihoods and food security; and employ the required number of metro police for the cities’ population in order to keep our cities safe.
THE MF’s approach would be different as follows:
- Finalise investigations and fire corrupt officials.
- Blacklist corrupt tenderpreneurs.
- Clear out slums and rehabilitate green spaces. • Empower community police forums, neighbourhood watches and employ more metro police to combat growing crime.
- Ensure council allocates budgets for capital infrastructure; strengthen laws on air and water-polluting industries.
- Improve local clinic conditions; expand the fire brigade facilities.
- Reduce unfair property rates, lights and water bills by overhauling the capacity and infrastructure.
- Build affordable and suitable homes for different socio-economic needs; provide local jobs by matching skills to jobs.
- Establish functional, accountable call centres and a single emergency number for prompt response.
- Invest in IT systems and social media platforms to meet the requirements of ratepayers; provide reliable, safe and affordable public transport systems.
- Protection of the beaches and rivers with the allocation of prayer sites for religious purposes, proper ablution facilities and fishing spaces; protect and improve playlots, parks and sports facilities; and localise train infrastructure and services by building a rail route from eThekwini to Msunduzi, like the Gautrain.
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