While he has been accused of involvement in scandals while Tshwane mayor by the ANC, Msimanga says he left the city in a better shape than he found it in.
Speaking at the DA’s “Phetogo” election rally on Saturday morning in Soweto, the party’s candidate for Premier of Gauteng, former Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga, defended himself against allegations that Tshwane is “failing” as a result of his governance.
Msimanga says the ANC “get to be judged [over] 20 years or 25 years of things that have gone wrong against two years of things starting to be built up again,” under the DA.“But I find it very strange that people would come and say we collapsed Tshwane,” Msimanga said.“Tshwane when we got in was a bankrupt municipality,” he alleged, claiming that within a year his local government had turned the situation around, managing to amass a R704 million operating surplus.
“Obviously people will have different perspectives in terms of what has happened in the last years, but I can tell you Tshwane is a better place and we still continue to build on that, I’ve laid a solid foundation,” Msimanga concluded. [WATCH] Let me set the record straight! Tshwane is not failing, infact it is far better than it was under the ANC!No political gimmicks will take away from our record in Tshwane.
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