“Blue lights will be a thing of the past in the city”. We will ensure that this city has a new feel and new look. “The only VIPs will be the people of the city”. “The VIPS are residents of this city”, Msimanga said.
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The DA now runs three major cities, including tourism hub and legislative capital Cape Town.
He was elected unopposed during the council meeting that was held in Pretoria today.
Msimanga was nominated by fellow DA councillor Marietha Aucamp, after another party member, Rachel Katlego Mathebe, was elected unopposed as the new speaker of council.
The DA also won the position of Speaker of council as the demolition of the ANC in the country’s capital begins.
But his inaugural address was marred by disruptions from the opposition benches, which now include the ANC. “Our officials will also need to be engaging with our communities more instead of only when there are service delivery protests”, he said.
In response to heckling and jeering from the ANC, Msimanga appealed to the party to humble themselves.
Msimanga, however, told the ANC not to be a bad loser. He warned against attempts to sabotage his administration.
We do know from a reliable source that apparently the mayoral chain went missing some time ago, and outgoing mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa was using a fake one all along.
“Be humble, this is why you came number two, because you refuse to be humble”.
He said the DA was not naive about problems facing the city such as a backlog of 120 000 RDP homes and some 500 000 young people who had lost their jobs in the past few years.
“But we’ll drag them and we’ll experience service delivery in the same areas that they’re coming from and the people that they’re representing”.
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“I want to say to our people, we will speed up the formalising of services in informal settlements … we are saying all those who have been waiting for their title deeds, your title deeds are indeed on the way”.
