The mayors of South Africa’s six most populous metros have made at least sixty promises in the current term of office.
Most of their promises have been about electricity (10), followed by water (8), housing and homelessness (5), infrastructure (5) and safety and security (4).
All in all, there are 235 promises in our database, which also covers the previous term.
Click on the links to see each mayor’s promises:
*Kaunda and Williams were in office for parts of the previous term. The 60 promises exclude the promises they had made before November 2021.
Note: We don’t record all promises because we first consider if they are specific enough to be tracked (see our FAQ section).
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Track My Mayor is a promise tracker aimed at increasing accountability at local government level. It was established with support from Code for Africa’s