An accident waiting to happen
Jun 21, 2020
3 minutes
There is something strangely similar between Herman Mashaba and Danny Jordaan’s time as a mayor as captured in The Accidental Mayor: Herman Mashaba and the Battle for Johannesburg and Crispian Olver’s How to Steal a City: The Battle for Nelson Mandela Bay, an Inside Account. And that similarity is fierce independence from their party factions.
Like Mashaba, Jordaan was also an “accidental mayor”. And perhaps therein lies the crux of his mayoralty; he could get things done. There is a
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