There’s a rough ride in store for the leader of Joburg, the country’s heartland.
PAUL ASHThere was a time not so long ago when Joburg was an echo of Gbadolite, the town on the edge of the Congolese rainforest upon which Mobutu Sese Seko lavished millions, for it was his hometown.
But all the money Mobutu spent on it went just so far. Drive out of town to where the tarred roads ended abruptly as rutted muddy tracks leading into the forest and you understood that Gbadolite was a bubble of crazed wealth — a bit like Joburg in more recent years. Sandhurst at least has power, unlike the hard-pressed residents of most other districts who must every day bear arms against the two donkeys of the apocalypse: load-shedding and water outages., who, thanks to an ANC-EFF deal, is now mayor of the heartbeat of the South African economy.
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