Midvaal
Midvaal Local Municipality’s vision is, “to inclusively serve the needs of our community”. With consistently clean audits evidencing honest leadership and spending, as well as a very low unemployment rate, this DA-led municipality sets the bar high.
23 070 housing opportunities are being created over the next few years to provide poor residents with quality homes. The Kgatelopele Youth Programme is giving 250 young entrepreneurs skills to build businesses and access to 100 hectares of land for farming.
Midvaal Success Stories
Black suppliers in townships are getting a fair share of DA-led Midvaal’s R2 billion local spend over the next four years.
The Kgatelopele Youth Development Programme is giving 250 young entrepreneurs skills to build businesses and access to 100 hectares of land for farming.
DA-led Midvaal is creating 23 070 housing opportunities over the next few years, to help our poor residents get quality homes.
The Municipality is spending over R400 million on upgrading the municipal electricity network and water supply in Sicelo and other formal and informal settlements.
DA- led Midvaal has built a multi-purpose centre in ward 10 Sicelo with a community hall, library, and soccer and netball grounds.
DA-led Midvaal will tar 23kms of road with R170 million going towards maintaining existing tar roads.
“The DA gave us an opportunity to take part in the Kgatelopele Youth Development Programme. After graduating from the programme I am a social entrepreneur with my own company ready to trade with government or the private sector.” – Lerato Tsatsame, Lakeside
R350 million will go to sanitation
by 2021, together with clinic and toilet installations in ward 10 Sicelo.
“Everything that we do as a municipality will seek to make every person in Midvaal – black or white, rich or poor – feel a sense of belonging.” – Bongani Baloyi, Midvaal Mayor
DA- led Midvaal is awarded good audit results every year for being honest about how every cent of ratepayers’ money is spent.
Clean audits for four years in a row!
Where we Govern
Meet the Mayor & Mayoral Committee
Peter Teixeira
Executive Mayor
As part of the mayoral committee that made Midvaal the best-run municipality in Gauteng and amongst the top 5 municipalities in South Africa, new Executive Mayor Peter Teixeira intimately knows the many challenges and opportunities that awaits him. Peter joined the DA in 2014 and gained political traction when he was elected as a ward