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Today the City of Tshwane’s multi-party Mayoral Committee, led by Executive Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya, provided feedback to the City of Tshwane’s residents on their achievements during the first 100 days in office. 

These achievements follow last week’s presentation to the Tshwane Council on the mid-year budget assessment of the City of Tshwane as well as a report on the achievements of the City’s mid-year performance targets. 

GOOD is proud to be a part of the multi-party leadership team behind these key improvements and we congratulate the City at large for the improvements and achievements.  These achievements include:

•      A 45% spend of its capex budget by December 2024, which is a huge increase from December 2023, when just 16.9% of the budget had been spent. Capex projects are investments into critical infrastructure and are essential to achieving improved water, electricity and road services. 

•      Reducing underspending of the operational by more than one billion Rand, down from R4,6 billion in 2023/24 down to R3,4 billion in December 2024.

•      More than doubling the percentage of businesses being paid on time: in 2023/24, just 21% of creditors were paid within the terms as prescribed by Section 65(e) of the MFMA, but by the 1st January 2025, the percentage of creditors paid within the prescribed terms has been increased to 47%.

•      In 2023/24, debt to equity stood at more than 85%, but by the 1st January 2025,  the debt to equity ratio has been reduced to less than 65%. 

•      A general increase in city-wide performance: Tshwane achieved 59% of its targets by the end of December 2024, which is a significant improvement in comparison to December 2023 when the City only achieved 38% of its midyear targets. 

At GOOD we are especially proud that the Economic Development and Spatial Planning Department, for which I am the MMC, was able to achieve ALL of its midyear targets.  This 100% achievement was made whilst the Department was also working to comply with the President’s directive for the municipality to register its spaza shops and food handling businesses.  

I am particularly pleased to share that we were able to meet or exceed so many of the objectives we set for our first 100 days in office, including:

•      Providing support to 392 SMMES, a 31% above target achievement, and identifying two new additional sites for new business support centres. Since the majority of these business support centres are located in townships, it is our township economies that benefit from employment and business growth the most.

•      Launch a VIP Business support line to assist and prioritise the City’s largest 200 businesses in resolving service delivery queries and keeping the economy – and jobs – running.

•      Developed an online application process for spaza shop registrations, where we have received more than 4,100 applications, the majority of which are from South Africans and for which women comprise more than one-third of our applications.

•      Trained 172 tourism and hospitality learners through our Tourism Skills Training Programme – a 72% above target achievement.

•      Launched a new online building plan submission system which is an important step in greater transparency and efficiency in dealing with the construction sector’s applications for development.

•      Assisted in recruiting and placing 2,500 persons into the City’s Public Employment Programme, a programme enabled by a grant from the Presidential Employment Stimulus Package. These employment opportunities are assisting to expedite delivery service in areas such as waste management, urban management, general cleaning, and informal settlement management, especially in the Inner City and townships. 

•      The processes to establish Community Upliftment Precincts in Centurion and the Rosslyn are underway and will assist residents and businesses to maintain and improve infrastructure within their residential, business and industrial areas.

I congratulate all city officials and our partners who have worked hard, and in many cases very innovatively, to help the City of Tshwane achieve more, faster and better.  

I also thank our Executive Mayor and my colleagues in our multi-party mayoral committee for their dedication to putting the residents of Tshwane above party politics. We serve all of the City’s residents equally and seek to ensure that all residents receive equal, affordable and reliable services.

At a time in the world when politics and societies seem to be becoming increasingly divided and hateful, the City of Tshwane, the Capital of our Rainbow Nation, must stand united and show that our strength does indeed lie in our diversity.

Issued by Sarah Mabotsa, GOOD: City of Tshwane Councillor