Claudi Mailovich ("A Sinking City", Cover Story, March 11-17 (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/cover-story/2021-03-11-is-joburg-a-sinking-city/)) seems to have drunk deeply from the Michael Beaumont/Herman Mashaba Kool-Aid. Even her sign-off line — "If Joburg works, SA works" — comes from them (though it is a good line).
Her article is uncritical of Mashaba’s term of office. Even the DA has admitted he gave the keys of the city to the EFF and damn the consequences — power at any cost. And she states that Mashaba resigned "due to internal party politics". Really? How about being too afraid to face the humiliation of defeat in a no-confidence vote?..
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