Mayor of Tshwane steps up: Tackling lawlessness and listening to residents

Charles Molele

City of Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya faces major challenges ahead, including illegal housing in areas like Sunnyside, an electricity crisis, messy city finances, ageing infrastructure, and a neglected Central Business District in Pretoria, the capital.

On top of this, there is a persistent water crisis which has left Hammanskraal residents without water for days, affecting their livelihoods and leaving dozens dead following the outbreak of cholera in the rea.

Other challenges include money to the tune of R6 billion being owed to Eskom and the late submission of five quarterly audit performance committee reports. 

Yet Moya, who took the reins on October 9 after the ousting DA mayor Cilliers Brink, is undeterred – and has vowed to fight to the bitter end to turn-around the city.

Indeed, Moya, ActionSA councillor and former deputy mayor of the City of Tshwane, has been making a visible effort to address residents’