IT’S been three days since she was reinstated as mayor of Johannesburg and she’s wasted no time getting back to work.
She’s held a mayoral committee meeting, fired a member of the mayoral council for colluding with the opposition and met stakeholders to discuss the myriad issues besieging the city she calls home.
Dr Mpho Phalatse is under no illusion that Joburg is a shadow of the once-thriving metropolis it once was. Egoli, the city of gold, is now more the city of problems.
Vast areas are often without water. Sustained electricity supply is dodgy even when there isn’t loadshedding. Potholed roads are everywhere and there’s a serious lack of service delivery to the poor. And recent terror threats issued by the Americans have only further
