Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has called the state of infrastructure in Johannesburg a disgrace.
The DA leader, accompanied by Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille and other regional leadership members, conducted site visits around the city to inspect the state of infrastructure ahead of the upcoming local government elections.
The DA also submitted documented service delivery failures to the Public Protector for investigation.
Hill-Lewis, who is also the Mayor of Cape Town, says the current state of the city is as a result of failure to prioritise investment.
“What we’ve seen here today is caused by years of neglect, failure to prioritise investment in basic infrastructure and failure to spend money properly and the consequences are plain for all to see and not just in the smell and the huge river of sewage that we saw, but also the consequences for jobs.”
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