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Right now, as residents deal with load reductions, water outages, and waste collection that’s hit-or-miss at best… Joburg’s top executives are earning some of the highest municipal salaries in the country. In fact, some are taking home packages that rival – and sometimes exceed – what the President earns. We explain.
The Telkom Tower, right, surrounded by residential tower blocks and commercial offices, viewed from the Ponte City Apartments building, in the Berea district of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Reporting by: Anna Cox
Script by: Alet Louw
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi
Voice-over: Anda Tolibadi
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Creative Lead: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme
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It's been refreshing to see so coming out as we lift the floorboards on everything happening in our city. Is all this publicity leading to actual accountability? Has our city become too complacent? How do we put enough pressure to actually evoke change?
Agreed. so what? Who/What ways to say this louder?
Absolutely disgusting. Where I live, the two lane road is now a single lane as drivers have to take turns to avoid the potholes - practically craters now. Water and power is hit and miss and refuse collection optional for Pikitup. And yet the management of each of these entities gauges millions from taxpayers annually for nothing. They should all be in prison.
The answer to the question is simple - this is what happens when you elect the ANC. But do the citizens of Joburg have the brains to understand this and do something different at the next election?
