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ANC Retains Ward 124 “This is an indication that the residents of this ward still have confidence in the ANC to represent their aspirations within the Johannesburg Metro Council” - Jolidee Matongo

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Ward 124 Councillor Elect Mongameli Mnyameni - ANC Contact: 078 264 2930

he ANC has retained its ward in the hotly contested City of Johannesburg, following a by-election on Wednesday.

The ward was previously represented by the ANC and became vacant as a result of the death of the ANC councillor Sidney Radebe.

“The victory of the ANC in this by-election in ward 124 which covers Booysens, Turfontein, Joburg CBD, Selby, Forest Hill and Reuven is an indication that the residents of this ward still have confidence in the ANC to represent their aspirations within the Johannesburg Metro Council,” said Greater Joburg Region spokesperson Jolidee Matongo.

According to the IEC Website, ‘The ANC retained the seat it won in the 2016 Municipal Elec-

tions, however, with a lesser margin of 46.63% of the votes cast compared to 47.42% in the 2016 Municipal Elections.

Voter turnout was 23.16%.’

Mongameli Mnyameni will take over as the new councillor after the ANC received 1753 of the votes casted.

The Democratic Alliance candidate Gcinilizwe Salaze (DA) received the second most votes with 1633. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Mahuma Pelo Jeremiah Moholoaboni, received the third most votes with 355 votes and COPE Shenaaz Khan received 15 votes .

“The ANC in Greater Joburg Region congratulates the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for delivering these free, fair and credible by-elections. We equally express our gratitude to our committed and selfless volunteers who continued to work tirelessly and ensured this victory for the ANC and the people of Johannesburg,” concluded Matongo.

The Democratic Alliance in Johannesburg is disappointed it failed to win the ward, despite sending top leaders including its Gauteng chair John Moodley and Johannesburg Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba to cam-

Election results Party ANC DA EFF COPE

Candidate Votes Mongameli 1 753 Mnyameni Gcinilizwe 1 633 Salaze Jeremiah 355 Moholoaboni Shenaaz 15 Khan Source: IEC

paign in the ward. Joburg Region Chair of the Democratic alliance, Khume Ramulifho said they did not expect a victory in an area that is not their stronghold.

“We are disappointed that we didn’t win the ward. We lost the ward by 119 votes.

However, we are encouraged that we are growing our support. More especially at Selby Hostel VD where we got more votes than the ANC. This is a positive sign for the DA to keep focus looking at 2019. This confirms the possibility that the DA can win Gauteng in the next elections,” Ramulifho said. The party retained the seat it won in the 2016 Municipal Elections, however, with a lesser margin of 46.63% of the votes cast compared to 47.42% in the 2016 Municipal Elections. Voter turnout was 23.16%.

EFF and COPE could not be reached for comment.

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‘Companies will approach educational institutions for staff to recruit as institutions are a great hunting ground for them.’

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he matric year is a difficult one for learners. It’s the last year of 12 of schooling, and it’s a year filled with emotional ups and downs! It’s a very intense year as you try and make the best of your time left in high school, but also try and commit all the free time you have to your studies. It’s also a time you need to decide on what next? What happens after exams? What are your short term goals?

“As an institution we clearly recommend further and higher studies”, says Ian Becker of Boston City Campus & Business College.

“It’s easy for us to advise further studies – we have done this for 27 years and we have seen the huge impact further education makes on communities and societies.

It’s more difficult decision for learners though. It involves a commitment of time, finances and personal discipline,” he continues. “So what will convince a learner that all these commitments are worth it?”

Becker discusses recent research carried out nationally by OfferZen.com. “These were conducted with specific reference to Developers, but we can see that many of the outcomes can be extrapolated to other industries”, he says.

IT developers in South Africa and internationally have varied qualifications, with some being self-taught and having no qualifications at all! “This makes it very difficult to convince learners to stick with the programme and gain post-school qualifications”, says Becker. However we need to take some facts into consideration: • Due to complex labour laws, many companies now have instituted minimum education requirements, for all levels of employees. So a matric or equivalent is essential; • To be considered for employment, you need a CV. This CV has to be better than the CV of the other people applying for the same position;

• While you may know coding, developing and other IT applications, it is your say-so only unless you have a certificate to identify and prove your skills; • Companies will approach educational institutions for staff to recruit as institutions are a great hunting ground for them. They have students with a proven track record, they can get references from staff who know them, and they can get many applicants at one time.

Yes, there are many examples of developers and coders who are selftaught and successful. You can learn coding online – all you need is your computer. “The research we have seen however,” says Becker,” is that there is a marked impact on both receiving job offers as well as on salary when you have a formal qualification”.

According to the OfferZen research, a lack of formal education relates to a significantly lower income for juniors.

The starting salary for developers without tertiary education is around R15 000, a full 35% less than that of those with a formal qualification.

This is not surprising as developers without formal qualifications are generally younger and have less coding experience. “Keep in mind that while self-taught developers will be able to code, they do not have knowledge or experience of other essential business practices such as team leadership, management, meetings, accounting practices, economics and company law. So while they may be able to solve a bug in a programme, they will find it very difficult to assess and fulfil client needs in terms of new products,” says Becker.

A lack of formal qualifications will leave gaps in knowledge and experience.

While these differences in skills

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‘To stay relevant you have to keep gaining new skills and keep up to date with software and other developments.’ and knowledge are vast, they lessen over time. Over about six years of work experience, developers with a qualification only earn 20% more than their ‘unqualified’ colleagues.

Perhaps over time as a developer gains experience, the impact of their initial education becomes less significant, as they network, learn corporate behaviour and gain overall knowledge and skills.As they become more senior, the relevance of initial education may diminish in certain industries. “Just remember that IT itself is an industry of life-

long learning.

“To stay relevant you have to keep gaining new skills and keep up to date with software and other developments,” says Becker. We can thus conclude that formal tertiary education serves a very important role in getting you into the workplace, keeping you there, and providing opportunity for promotion.

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DA-led coalition fails to deliver on promises of change View Point

Cllr Mpho Parks Tau is former Mayor of Johannesburg and Chairman of the ANC in Joburg

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he Democratic Alliance (DA) led coalition in the City of Johannesburg has failed dismally to deliver on its promises of change – scoring a mere 20% on performance in its first year in government - while its Executive

Mayor got an “H”.

A performance assessment conducted by the ANC Greater Johannesburg Region into the coalition’s promises to local residents, its ambitious 10-point plan and the first 100-days in office’s commitments show a significant failure that has plunged the City into a state of paralysis.

The assessment was based on six factors that included the Constitutional mandate of local government, the National Development Plan (NDP), political mandate, 100-days commitments, Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and business plans, as well as public opinion.

Two weeks into office, on 12 September 2016, the Executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba, first made pronouncements in his 10-point plan which was intended to guide the political direction for his first 100- days in office, and the mid-year deviation

TABLE: DA-led coalition performance assessment outcomes 2016-17 process.

Of the pronouncements made in the 10-point plan, only one commitment was achieved – with two partially advanced.

The other eight commitments were not achieved, nor are they close to being realised today.

August 2017 marks one year since the DA led coalition took over the government of Johannesburg. More promises were made to the people of Johannesburg – post the August 2016 elections – with emphasis placed on “delivering the change that the people of Joburg voted for”.

The assessment of delivery on these promises, however shows that the DA led coalition, its Executive Mayor and his Mayoral Committee, have failed the people of Johannesburg. The DA led

coalition has instead reduced a progressive African city into an institution that has failed to meet its new investor targets in the

past 12 months. The ongoing financial crisis of the City have also seen the government of the day borrow up to R 4billion for

operations in the first month of the current financial year.

Following the purging of 27 senior executives, out of a total of 35, in the past twelve months, the City’s current executive skills gap is fast bringing service delivery to its knees in the municipality. Johannesburg is facing darker days ahead. Many residents are already experiencing a drop in service delivery standards – with water and electricity delivery targets not being met in informal settlements, while uncut grass and piling waste are already a common sight in a number of communities. The City has begun to crumble and the ANC Greater Johannesburg Region remains committed to fighting the injustice being imposed on Johannesburg residents by exposing these significant failures - and more.

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ANC failed people of Joburg during their time in government View Point

By Khume Ramulifho

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corrupt and idealess ANC has yet again exposed itself not only as a failed government but a failed opposition party as well. This follows yet another attempt by the ANC’s former Mayor, Cllr Parks Tau, to revive his political career from the ashes.

It is deeply saddening that the ANC in Johannesburg, without irony, would hold a press conference to purportedly evaluate the performance of the current administration, when the ANC ran the City in an environment of chaos, disorder, poor service delivery and corruption.

It’s truly ironic that the ANC in Joburg, the party that presided over endemic corruption, would brazenly evaluate the performance of a new government that is now forced to rectifying their failures.

When the new administration came into office, a number of corruption cases were uncovered, which the previous ANC administration had refused to act on. Currently, there are 1920 cases under investigation within the City. With respect to the City’s

‘It’s truly ironic that the ANC in Joburg, the party that presided over endemic corruption, would brazenly evaluate the performance of a new government’ current financial performance, for the year 2016/17, the unaudited numbers show a significant reduction in the variance between the budgeted and the actual revenue collected compared to 2015/16.

This is an improvement from a R3.4 billion negative variance in the 2015/16 financial year to an improved R2.7 billion negative variance for the 2016/17 financial year. In March and June 2017, the revenue that was collected exceeded R3 billion. Never before has the City of Johannesburg collected revenue exceeding R3 billion in a period of two months. This improved revenue collection means improved service delivery.

Total revenue collection in the 2015/16 financial year was R34.9 billion as opposed to an improved collection of R35.2 billion in the 2016/17 financial year. The City also assesses its revenue collection performance through financial ratios. Our forecasted debt to revenue ratio is 40.7%, well within the City’s target. Our main liquidity ratio measure, cost coverage ratio, is also projected to be a healthy 36 days, well above the National Treasury benchmark.

Ultimately, measurement of the City’s performance with respect to service delivery should be left to the residents themselves and not a political party or its leader, who seem to be struggling with maintaining their relevance.

The City’s recent customer satisfaction survey – run by an independent

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service provider – indicated that Johannesburg residents are seeing the change which has been brought by the DA-led coalition government.

These are survey results which the previous administration kept under lock and key due to the fact that they indicated downward trends in performance. The last survey of this kind was conducted in 2015.

The results of the current survey, conducted in April 2017 under the DA-led administration, demonstrates a rise in the City’s overall performance, from 59% in 2015 to 61% in 2017. This increase effectively turns around a downward trend in the City dating back to 2009.

The results are also confirmed by a recent 6-monthly Government Performance Barometer undertaken by Ipsos, which found that residents’ overall perceptions of how well the City was performing went from 39% in July 2016 to 53% in July 2017.

Under the same survey, overall perceptions of how well the City was handling the delivery of basic services, such and water and electricity, increased from 51 % in July of 2016 to 59% in July of this year.

In terms of the City’s survey, the basic household services indicator achieved a 4% point increase from 59% in 2015 to 63% in 2017. This indicator has also been on a downward trend since 2010 and takes place against the context of aged and crumbling electrical and water infrastructure.

Improving the lives of residents is precisely what the DA-led administration delivered as recently as this morning with the launch of the electrification of Klipspruit, a mere two kilometers from the famous Kliptown, the birthplace of the Freedom Charter.

This was a community which had been forgotten and left to fend for itself by previous ANC-led administrations.

Since the DA-led coalition’s time in government, we have: - Given residents the dignity of owning a home by delivering 2,714 title deeds; - advanced the electrification of a total of 1,000 homes in Meriteng and Fine Town – more communities previously forgotten by past administrations; - allocated almost R163 million to provide electricity and water connections to poor residents in informal settlements throughout the city through the City’s new budget; - invested R482 million over the next 3 years to clean informal communities; - invested R40 million to enhance sanitation in the City’s informal settlements through the City’s new budget; - increased access to healthcare for poor communities by extending clinic operating hours at Princess, Freedom Park, Hikensile, Randburg, Zandspruit, and the Albert Street clinics; - To the R170 billion infrastructure

backlog created by the previous administration, we have – Repaired 117,483 potholes across the City, which ANC administrations had allowed to degrade to dangerous levels.

Allocated R5.2 billion to upgrading our existing infrastructure. A further R3.3 billion is provided for the development of new infrastructure. R4.3 billion has also been allocated to progressively address the much-needed repairs and maintenance of our existing infrastructure system.

- We have also allocated R574 million in capital expenditure and R115 million of operational expenditure for the upgrading of 10 informal settlements throughout the City in the 2017/18 financial year. A total of 51 informal settlements will be upgraded over the next three years. By comparison, the previous ANC administration set itself a target of upgrading a mere two informal settlements in the 2016/17 financial year.

This is the change we are bringing to the people of this City and that is the true reflection of the DA – led Coalition Government’s performance.

The ANC failed the people of Johannesburg during their time in government. If they truly care for the residents of this City, they would take responsibility for the mess they created in their time in office rather than hosting ill-conceived press briefings.

Khume Ramulifho, is DA Johannesburg Regional Chairperson

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