Promise date: 22 November 2021
Due date: 2 November 2026
Source: Acceptance speech
Promise outcome: Broken
In August 2019, a DA member of parliament complained to the Public Protector that Kempton Park was “rat-infested” because the City of Ekurhuleni had failed to collect waste once a week.
The municipality, which had an ANC mayor at the time, said the problem was the “incessant breakdown” of garbage removal trucks.
But more than three years later – and despite DA mayor Tania Campbell’s promise that the residents of Ekurhuleni would “no longer … be living in filth as pointed out by the Public Protector due to waste not being collected on a regular basis” – the broken-truck problem remains.
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