DA Ward 69 Tshwane

08/09/2026

🇿🇦 QuickPolitics | Tuesday 8 September

📉 SA’s economy contracts again
The economy shrank by 0.2% in the second quarter, following a 0.4% contraction in the first quarter. Geordin Hill-Lewis says South Africa cannot afford slow, incremental reform — faster and bolder economic reforms are needed to get the economy growing.

📰 Getting the facts right matters
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has corrected reports about deportation costs. The department spent R175 million — not R17 billion — to deport more than 111,000 foreign nationals over the past two years. He also says deportations have increased, contrary to other reporting.

🗳️ ANC heads to the Electoral Court
The ANC is challenging the IEC’s decision not to reopen candidate-list submissions after the party missed nomination deadlines in some provinces. Fikile Mbalula says 181 candidates were affected and maintains the ANC only said it “encountered difficulties” with the system.

Stay informed. Stay engaged. 🇿🇦

08/09/2026

We are hiring! 🇿🇦

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure is seeking experienced professionals to join our leadership team.

These are key leadership positions at the heart of the Department’s ability to deliver on its mandate. We are looking for capable and strategic leaders who are ready to play an impactful role in strengthening the Department and improving service delivery to South Africans.

Interested persons can use the following link for more information:https://www.dpsa.gov.za/dpsa2g/documents/vacancies/2026/32/k.pdf

08/09/2026

08/09/2026

THE INCONVENIENCE OF CILLIERS BRINK

There is a reason corruption removes competent people before it removes the money.

Stealing is the easy part. First, you must get rid of anyone who reads the reports, understands the finances and asks why the same people keep appearing beside the same contracts.

That is what made Cilliers Brink inconvenient.

The coalition did not simply replace a mayor. It removed someone who understood the City well enough to interfere with the business of making money from its failure.

Consider the water tankers.

Tshwane’s reported water-tanker expenditure reached R777 million. The City disputes which financial year should carry parts of that amount, but it confirmed that approximately R120 million in invoices had been rejected or flagged for possible fraud.

Now ask the obvious questions.

Why can a water tanker arrive when the water cannot? How can this service delivery be prompt and on time, but other services fails? Why has an emergency measure become a permanent industry? Why would anyone hurry to repair the pipes when every dry tap creates another invoice?

Nothing threatens the water-tanker business quite like water coming out of a tap.

When failure becomes profitable, fixing it becomes bad for business.

Then there is Deputy Mayor and Finance MMC Eugene Modise. A City-commissioned forensic investigation found that he breached the Councillors’ Code of Conduct over financial interests linked to a company doing business with Tshwane. He remained in the executive and lost two months’ salary.

The man responsible for overseeing billions in public money was punished as though he had extended his lunch break.

City Manager Johann Mettler was another inconvenience. Council voted on his suspension. When the result did not suit the coalition, the Speaker deducted 13 votes. The High Court declared the decision unlawful and ordered Mettler back to work.

Most people recount when the numbers do not add up. In Tshwane Council, they remove some of the numbers.

This is how corruption succeeds. It does not need every official to be corrupt. It only needs competent people moved out of the way, questionable people protected and everyone else quietly studying the ceiling.

That is why Tshwane needs Cilliers Brink back.

He will do something corruption dislikes most: make it difficult, risky and expensive.

Cilliers Brink is not convenient for the people who profit from a broken city.

That is precisely why he is convenient for the rest of us.

07/09/2026

🇿🇦 *QuickPolitics | Monday 7 September*
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🔵 *DA governance delivers in KZN*

Under DA MEC Martin Meyer, the KZN Department of Public Works has achieved its first-ever clean audit.

When Meyer took office two years ago, clean governance and stronger financial controls were key priorities. The result speaks for itself: good governance can make a difference.

🚨 *Hundreds of corruption complaints against Gauteng Metro Police*

A DA question in the Gauteng Legislature revealed 465 complaints involving corruption, extortion, fraud and theft across Gauteng’s three metro police departments over four years.

Johannesburg recorded the most complaints. Yet only 175 of those implicated were charged — fewer than 40%.

🇨🇺 *SA military officers reportedly ordered to make payments in Cuba*

Reports indicate that 38 South African military officers attending courses in Cuba were ordered to contribute their own money to assist Cubans — reportedly R3,000 from junior officers and R15,000 from senior officers.

Questions remain about who received the money and why South African officers were expected to make these payments.

📢 *_Accountability matters. Clean governance matters. South Africans deserve better._*

07/09/2026

We don’t have to dig deep to find the difference. It’s staring us right in the face. 👀

One city is battling broken infrastructure. The other shows what happens when the basics are taken care of.

🚦 The difference? Good governance.

On 4 November, vote DA for a city that works.