Saturday 5 June 2021 - 8:02pm
Tempers are flaring in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg. Some areas have been without electricity for weeks. In Extension 1, the lights have been off for 6 weeks and the community has had enough. It s threatening to shut roads. eNCA s Aviwe Mtila has more details. Courtesy #DStv403
JOHANNESBURG - Tempers are flaring in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg.
Some areas have been without electricity for weeks.
WATCH: Gayton McKenzie wants to clean streets of drugs, fight unemployment and fix local government
By Ntombi Nkosi
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Johannesburg - Gayton McKenzie, the leader of the Patriotic Alliance (PA), wants to clean the streets of drugs and get into a coalition with any party that will give in to their demands.
McKenzie said the PA has made strides in just two weeks since his party won more wards during the by-elections last month.
The PA has now taken four wards from the DA in the south of Johannesburg, starting with Riverlea in November 2020.
“In Eldorado Park, we have only been in power for one week, we have fixed all the street lights. It was dark, we have opened the drains, we have filled 640 potholes, we ve got a legal clinic in Eldorado park, the people can get free legal advice because it is expensive. This we have done in a week, imagine what we can do in a year.
JONNY STEINBERG | Why electoral reform doesn’t get my vote Ditch proportional representation and what has happened in Eldorado Park could well occur on a national scale 03 June 2021 - 20:18
The debate about prospective electoral reform is charged with a sense of excitement that I think is misplaced. It sounds at times like talk of a daily tablet that will cure cancer or a cheap machine that will end climate change, a piece of wishful thinking obscuring what’s at stake.
Proportional representation (PR), it is said, was a gigantic mistake. MPs are beholden to the party bosses who determine party lists, and are thus frightened and compliant, the legislature weak and insipid. A hybrid system mixing PR with constituency representation will bolster parliament’s independence. MPs will be more frightened of upsetting their constituents than of party bosses. They will, for the first time, actually represent the people who voted them into office.