Helen Zille outlines DA plan to turn Johannesburg around
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sowetan
Helen Zille, the Democratic Alliance candidate for mayor of Johannesburg, presented the five priorities of her programme to restore municipal finances and services. She notably promises to reduce waste, improve billing and penalise incompetent or corrupt officials, according to the Sowetan.
Helen Zille, the Democratic Alliance (DA) candidate for mayor of Johannesburg, presented a five-point plan to turn the city around at a campaign rally in Nasrec, south of Johannesburg. She put restoring the municipal finances at the heart of her proposal, according to the Sowetan newspaper.
The plan provides for cutting unnecessary spending, repairing the billing system and allocating water and electricity revenue to the corresponding services. Zille also promised to replace pipelines, repair electrical substations and maintain roads.
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