The ANC in Johannesburg has come up strongly against the cancellation by mayor Herman Mashaba of a number of projects started by the previous administration. The party said the decision to discontinue the projects was evidence that Mashaba was turning his back on the identified township economic nodes. This emerged during a media briefing convened in response to a decision by the DA, taken at the end of the party’s special mayoral committee meeting on Saturday, to axe several projects started under Parks Tau. Mashaba announced the decision to do away with Jozi My Beginning, the Jozi Digital Ambassadors programme, as well as the micro mushroom farms and stone paper projects. The city had also decided to cancel the Blue Economy Project in which it had invested R150m in solar-powered bakeries meant to use mango flour imported from South America.
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