Overview

• Zille says restoring water supply comes first, with immediate maintenance of bulk infrastructure and interim provision to residents while long-term upgrades proceed.
• Her plan extends to electricity, streetlights, roads, refuse removal and sewage systems, which she says require significant investment to stabilise basic services.
• She proposes restructuring the city’s senior management to reduce the metro’s salary bill as part of administrative reform.
• The DA cites internal polling that places it ahead in Johannesburg and argues it must win by a wide margin to avoid unstable coalition governance.
• President Cyril Ramaphosa recently credited DA-run municipalities with efficient, clean governance, intensifying contrasts as the ANC delays naming its candidate and ActionSA is likely to run former mayor Herman Mashaba.