THE BIG INTERVIEW | Mashaba bids Joburg goodbye after three years as first citizen
Outgoing mayor of Joburg Herman Mashaba spells out the challenges of running a coalition administration.Had the DA secured the majority of votes in the 2016 local government elections, Herman Mashaba would not have survived even a year in office.
"I will be a free man," a jovial Mashaba declared in an interview with Sowetan at his office in Braamfontein. Mashaba said it was the DA that made his job harder. This, he said, became more pronounced when he absorbed over 3,700 security guards into the city's payroll. "Some of their caucus members complained that I was spending money on people who are not paying taxes. I took it as an insult."
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