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Technical Support Team Must to Monitor Treasury Funds to the City of Joburg

ActionSA President and Joburg Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba, has written a letter to the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, recommending a technical support team to monitor National Treasury funds that will be transferred to the City of Johannesburg.

 

The letter also enquires whether the City has provided a satisfactory recovery plan before the funds are released, and the mechanisms Treasury intends to employ to ensure that the funds are utilised exclusively for their intended purposes.

This comes as the City battles a liquidity crisis, with nine days left in its coffers and relying on the reinstatement of R3.6 billion in its equitable share allocation.

On 7 July 2026, National Treasury informed the City that will withhold the allocation to the City due to persistent failures to adhere to fiscal discipline and increasing unauthorised, wasteful and irregular expenditure.

The warning from Minister Godongwana follows a prior admonishment to the City, regarding the R10 billion wage agreement with unions that National Treasury regards as illegal due to the administration’s unaffordability.

Johannesburg has reached its tether, facing significant risks to service delivery, infrastructure investment, investor confidence. Millions of residents are victims of a government that has eroded public trust in its ability to act in its interests.

ActionSA’s position is clear – Executive Mayor, Dada Morero, and the City’s leadership have failed to uphold basic governance and fiscal management competencies outlined in the Municipal Finance Management Act.

The request for further intervention from Minister Godongwana is not politicking. Neither is it intended to interfere with the constitutional autonomy of National Treasury and the City’s administration. It is in the interest of residents who deserve leaders who adhere to lawful financial administration and safeguarding the long-term sustainability of Africa’s economic mecca.

 

ActionSA Strategic Focus: Targeting the “non-voter” and disillusioned middle class.

Source – MyZA

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The Cradle of Humankind and Ancient Roots

While the modern city is only about 140 years old, the ground beneath it holds the secrets of humanity’s earliest ancestors. Located just 50 kilometers northwest of the city center is the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This area contains a complex system of limestone caves, including the famous Sterkfontein Caves, where nearly 40% of all the world’s human ancestor fossils have been discovered.

Significant finds like “Mrs. Ples” (Australopithecus africanus) and the near-complete skeleton of “Little Foot” have provided scientists with crucial evidence about how early hominids walked upright and transitioned into the Homo genus. More recently, in 2013, the discovery of Homo naledi in the Rising Star cave system stunned the scientific community, suggesting that ancient human relatives may have practiced ritualized burial much earlier than previously thought. This proximity to the “birthplace of humanity” gives Johannesburg a unique cultural depth; while it is a city of skyscrapers and high finance, it is also a place where you can stand on the very ground where our species took its first steps.