‘Course to recovery’: Joburg Mayor vows lasting cleanliness after G20
Mapaballo Borotho
- Johannesburg Mayor Kabelo Morero says the city’s improved cleanliness during the G20 will continue long after the summit.
- He insists the administration had already begun implementing service-delivery programmes before the event, and the G20 simply accelerated progress.
- Morero says the city remains focused on tackling long-standing issues such as crime, hijacked buildings and deteriorating infrastructure.
The Executive Mayor of Johannesburg says the city’s improved state of cleanliness will continue beyond the G20 Leaders’ Summit.
Mayor Dada Morero addressed the media at the Nasrec Expo Centre on the final day of the summit, stressing that the city had already embarked on plans to enhance service delivery before the G20 arrived.
He noted that many South Africans have long argued that officials can keep Johannesburg clean and safe but simply choose not to. Morero said the summit offered the city a valuable head start.
“Johannesburg is on a course to recovery, on a course to reclaim itself and create a better city for the people, a clean and liveable city,” he said. “The G20 came at a time when we were already implementing programmes to reclaim the inner city.”
He added that the momentum gained from hosting the G20 would continue.
“We will keep implementing this work post-G20, whether it’s infrastructure refurbishment, service delivery improvements, or addressing financial sustainability.”
Johannesburg’s inner city has long been associated with dirtiness, high crime rates, hijacked buildings, and deteriorating roads issues residents have complained about for years without seeing meaningful action or results.
Morero says the administration is now firmly focused on addressing these challenges.
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