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Remember ‘rat-infested’ Ekurhuleni? Broken garbage trucks still a problem under DA mayor

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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Tracked: Trying to fix Ekurhuleni’s electricity problems one resolution at a time

Promise date: 22 November 2021
Due date: 22 February 2022
Source: Acceptance speech
Promise outcome: Kept

One of the first promises Tania Campbell made after being elected as the executive mayor of Ekurhuleni was to tackle the city’s electricity problems.

“We will immediately start the process of fixing the electricity problems that seem so endlessly to plague our city …” she said in an acceptance speech on 22 November.

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