Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda presented the resilient (eish!) residents of Johannesburg with a rose-tinted version of reality in his State of the City address.
If ever you wanted a visual representation of the dysfunction of the City of Johannesburg, it was the technicians rerouting the electricity supply to the Council Chamber on Thursday morning so that Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda could present residents with a rose-tinted version of reality in his State of the City address.
You can’t make this stuff up. The irony is laughable. It’s also incredibly sad and frustrating. The mayor did not even acknowledge or mention the fire on the M1 or the cable theft during his speech. Under the theme of “Building a stable and resilient city government in service of the people”, Gwamanda emphasized ‘resilience’ as his key theme, praising the resilience of the city’s leadership and its residents.
I would argue that beneath the tapestry of bustling streets and high-rise buildings, the reality is service tunnels that are the site of flagrant lawlessness, where vandals stalk and steal the cables that are the lifeblood of our city, where illegal miners seek refuge and hollow out our country and our economy. The ‘profound reality’ is that under the streets and buildings is crumbling infrastructure leaving us with shaky foundations.
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