Inside Metros reporter
Democratic Alliance veteran Helen Zille has accepted her party’s nomination as mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, pledging to restore South Africa’s economic hub from what she called the devastation of poor governance.
Addressing supporters in Soweto on Saturday, Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and Western Cape premier, said she was standing “as a daughter of Johannesburg” and would fight to reclaim the city from decline.
“It is a privilege for me to accept the nomination as your mayoral candidate for this great city,” she said.
“I was born and raised in this great city. It is the place where I took my first breath, my first steps, and spoke my first words.”
Zille painted a bleak picture of Johannesburg’s collapse under African National Congress (ANC) control, pointing to potholes, rubbish-strewn streets, dry taps, blackouts and hijacked inner-city buildings.
“Joburg is South Africa’s most devastating example of what
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