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"Report of the Council Meeting held on 24 March 2011 - The DA made use of one of the most strongest possible forms of protest a political party has, namely a walk out, at the March Council Meeting. This happened as a result of Councillors receiving 4 volumes and various other late reports totaling about 2 200 pages at the beginning of the meeting. (The DA has over the past 5 years complained regularly about the many volumes of late reports that are laid on the table at Council meetings and cannot be scrutinised properly). The smaller parties pre-empted the walk out as only 7 of the 21 councillors attended the meeting. Attendees were: ACDP 1, IFP 3, ID 2, and the Independent Councillor." < click here to read more>

"Cllr Amos Masondo, Mayor of Johannesburg, did not pose a rhetorical question, as was widely accepted at the time, when he (m)utterd his now infamous words, ‘crisis, what crisis?’ (in response to reports on the City’s billing problems.) No, the Mayor was only trying to differentiate between the billing crisis and the pending bankruptcy crisis facing the City. The latter is extrapolated from an analysis of the Adjusted Operational Budget for 2010/11 which was presented at the February Council meeting." <click here to read more>

"At this October meeting, a new competency for Councillors - questions to the Executive Mayor - was entertained for the first time. In his usual affable self, Mayor Masondo managed to NOT answer the questions, but rather politicise the issues of unaccounted for water as well as credit control action if water and electricity meters are not read. After this exhaustive effort, the Mayor spent the greater part of the meeting ‘thinking with his eyes closed’. " <click here to read more>

"The 8 hour long meeting tottered on the brink of a quorum throughout as the Mayor, Cllr Amos Masondo and about half of the ANC Caucus did not attend as they were in Durban ‘saving their jobs’ at the ANC’s National General Council" <click here to read more>

"Johannesburg is aiming at being a Mediocre World City. This is the only conclusion that can be drawn from the scorecards for its top management for 2010/11 as presented at the August Council Meeting. Overall the executive directors of the various Council Departments, who, incidentally, receive market related salaries, will not have to stretch themselves before qualifying for generous bonuses as their targets are, in many line items, not much more than their present achievements. " <click here to read more>

"This report is longer than usual as it in essence covers Council activities for two months as there was no Council meeting during June due to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The Meeting had a bumper agenda of 97 items contained in18 volumes which measured half a meter in height (how many trees?). " <click here to read more>

"The ANC has a nasty habit of presenting multi-million rand technical projects to the Councillors at the last minute for instant approval. " <click here to read more>

"It is not always the earthshaking announcements that show the direction a political party is following. Often it is the small things individuals in a party say and do that conveys a very definite message, It was thus very interesting to note that the ANC used the phrase our prerogative five times within the first 30 minutes of the first Council meeting of 2010. " <click here to read more>

"The March Council Meeting is a most significant one with items referring to the past present and future all presented to the Council on the same agenda. These items included the CoJ’s annual report for 2008/09, the half yearly reports for the 2009/10 and the proposed tariffs and rates increases, the draft budgets and IDP for 2010/11. For the major part of the meeting, the Mayor sat with his eyes closed and the head first dropping to the side and then chin to chest. It has however been declared officially the Mayor, Cllr Masondo, does not sleep during Council meetings, but that he thinks with his eyes closed." <click here to read more>

"The agenda of the council meeting on the 25th February 2010 was dominated by frank and shocking admissions by the administration that the City of Joburg is experiencing a financial crisis. Certain strategic interventions were proposed to stabilize the financial situation, but according to the DA, these proposals are not far reaching enough and do not deal with the crux of the problem namely mismanagement, lack of fiscal discipline and a general lack of expertise." <click here to read more>

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