MBANGWA XABA | The spike in contact crimes such as murder, rape, hijacking, robbery and business robberies just after the announcement of level-4 and 3 of lockdown regulations would soon be a Sunday picnic in comparison to the growing tide of crime.
In the coming two financial-years, or even more, if those who run CoJ hope to keep the city economically alive, they must pay attention to its poor residents. The city's marginalised and hugely patient and benevolent black township-based residents hold the key to its success on the one hand, and a ticking time-bomb on the other.
The kindness of township residents has been stretched to the absolute limit. Every traditional township business has been taken away from them by either retail corporates or foreign nationals. This is truer for Johannesburg, especially in relation to its poorer parts such as Alexandra, Orange Farm, Dieploot and Soweto. The growing Eskom electricity debt in these areas is not only detrimental to the city's economic growth, it is actually a revenue impediment. Even worse, it is a rising economic and social crisis of tsunami proportions.
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