Promise date: 24 May 2022
Due date: 24 August 2022
Source: Facebook video: Joburg Energy Indaba [1:33:31]
Promise outcome: Kept in part
At the Joburg Energy Indaba in May 2022, Joburg mayor Dr Mpho Phalatse gave a timeline for the city’s plans to reduce its dependence on power utility Eskom. Continue reading “Joburg energy RFP did go out, but later than promised”
Promise date: 18 November 2021
Due date: 2 November 2026
Source: Acceptance speech
Promise outcome: In progress
In the first speech he gave as Cape Town mayor in November 2021, Geordin Hill-Lewis made a handful of promises – among them to end load shedding over time. How much closer is he to fulfilling the promise? Continue reading “Cape Town ‘on track’ to protect residents from 4 load-shedding stages”
Promise date: 15 April 2021
Due date: 30 June 2021
Source: State of the City address 2021
Promise outcome: Kept in part
In April 2021, mayor Randall Williams told Tshwane residents he would unveil the Mamelodi fire station towards the end of June.
Continue reading “The curious case of the Tshwane fire station that was unveiled twice”
‘I really hope they keep their word. I’m so tired of empty promises,’ reads a comment below a video in which Joburg mayor Dr Mpho Phalatse outlined the coalition government’s plans. We track the mayor’s progress ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Golden Start event.
Promise date: 26 November 2022
Due date: 1 December 2022
Source: Facebook video
Promise outcome: Broken
The eThekwini PR machine worked overtime on Thursday (1 December) to prove that the city’s beaches were safe despite fears about bacteria in the water caused by sewage.
Continue reading “Broken: Some eThekwini beaches still closed for swimming”
In the first speech he gave as Cape Town mayor in November 2021, Geordin Hill-Lewis made a handful of promises. We rate his progress one year on.
Continue reading “City of Cape Town lifestyle-audit promise not just talk”
In the first speech he gave as Cape Town mayor in November 2021, Geordin Hill-Lewis made a handful of promises. We rate his progress one year on.
Continue reading “Early promises: How did Cape Town’s Geordin Hill-Lewis fare?”
Promise date: 31 May 2022
Due date: 31 August 2022
Source: Budget policy statement
Promise outcome: Broken
In May, eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda promised residents that satellite technology would “soon” be used to monitor and detect water leaks in the metro.
“We are confident that this initiative is going to drastically reduce water losses,” Kaunda said in his 2022/23 budget policy statement.
Continue reading “No sign yet of eThekwini’s promised water leak detection tech”
Promise date: 30 November 2021
Due date: 1 March 2022
Source: Statement
Promise outcome: Broken
One of the few promises former Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson made before her term was cut short, was that the metro would get 2 300 energy-efficient streetlights.
Johnson made the commitment in a November 2021 statement about her plans for the coalition government’s first hundred days in office.
Continue reading “Tracked: 200 out of 2 300 promised streetlights for axed mayor Eugene Johnson”
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.
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 impactAFRICA fund.