Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero's claims made in Parliament have been dismissed by ActionSA leader and Joburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba.
ActionSA leader and the party’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba has reacted angrily to the troubled city’s mayor Dada Morero blaming him for the current state of the country’s biggest municipality.
During a joint meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on Tuesday, Morero said Mashaba created weak leadership throughout the city.
ActionSA MP Alan Beesley, On Tuesday had asked Morero why his high-level team in Parliament included chief operations officer and former acting city manager Tshepo Makola and the municipality’s head of Group Forensic and Investigation Services Sinaye Nxumalo, who were both dismissed during Mashaba’s tenure as mayor between August 2016 and November 2019.
City of Joburg bosses were in the national legislature for a briefing on the municipality’s 2024/25 financial year audit outcomes and steps undertaken to address and correct the audit findings.
