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uMngeni Proves South Africa Can Work

Statement by Geordin Hill-Lewis – Leader of the Democratic Alliance:

Today I spent the day in uMngeni meeting residents, community organisations and businesses, alongside Mayor Chris Pappas and the DA team.

The successful turnaround of uMngeni shows clearly that decline is not inevitable. Every broken town and city can be turned around, but only with a DA government.

In 2021, the people of uMngeni trusted the DA with a majority and gave us the opportunity to govern.

In less than five years, that trust has produced results.

The DA inherited a municipality weighed down by debt, poor financial management and failing basic services. Since then, uMngeni has paid off its inherited loans, dramatically reduced irregular and unauthorised expenditure, invested in roads, equipment and infrastructure, and improved basic service delivery.

Today, uMngeni is ranked number one in KwaZulu-Natal for household access to essential services, with a 93.75% access score.

None of this happened by accident. It happened because voters chose change, gave the DA a clear mandate, and then held us to it.

Chris Pappas and his team have shown what becomes possible when a municipality is run by people who care about getting the basics right, spending public money with integrity and making progress every day.

There is still much more to do in uMngeni. Good government is never finished.

But everywhere I travel, I meet more South Africans who are ready to put their trust in the DA because they want the same thing, a government that works and a better life for their families.

uMngeni shows them that it can be done.

Town by town, city by city, more South Africans can choose progress over decline.

South Africa can work — for everyone.

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