When we moved our campaign headquarters to Joburg, our target was clear: win Gauteng in the 2019 elections.

Doing this takes a significant amount of effort and resources, and that’s why it made sense for DA Gauteng Premier Candidate and Mayor of Tshwane, Solly Msimanga, to make the decision to resign as mayor and campaign for the province wholeheartedly.

“With every passing day, and with every community and resident of Gauteng I engage with, it has become clearer to me that unless the DA governs Gauteng with an outright majority, that the people of Tshwane will always be negatively affected by a corrupt, inefficient and uncaring ANC provincial government – no matter how hard we work to turn around the municipality.” – Solly Msimanga, DA Gauteng Premier Candidate

Mayors Solly Msimanga and Herman Mashaba have been paving the way for things to come in a DA-run Gauteng.

Mayor Msimanga inherited an effectively bankrupt City of Tshwane from the ANC, and turned a R2 billion deficit into a surplus at the end of his first financial year in office.

He sold the ANC’s mayoral mansion so that his government could build 40 RDP homes instead. And he removed 900 political appointees in the Mayor’s Office who were glorified ANC cadres drawing millions of rands from the City.

Among other things, his inner-city rejuvenation project is steadily cleaning up the City and making it a space for businesses to thrive.

And his team’s efforts to attract job-creating investment have far exceeded their target. TEDA has an investment target of R1.5 billion and the current investment pipeline amounts to R3.84 billion with a potential 1 850 job opportunities!

Msimanga’s dedication to rooting out corruption and growing the economy in Tshwane can only mean good things for the whole of Gauteng.

The people of this vital province certainly deserve this after years of ANC plundering!