Building Better Government, From the Ground Up

We will professionalise local government so merit, not connections, decides who serves. Ensuring trustworthy institutions led by skilled, values-driven people who deliver.

• •A transparent, community-involved candidate selection process to surface the best leaders.
• •Independent, competitive recruitment with credential and background checks.
• •Clear performance contracts for officials.
• •Zero tolerance for corruption.

We'll make municipalities engines of inclusive growth. Ensuring safe, serviced business precincts, thriving SMMEs, and jobs where people are.

• •Fix the basics that power enterprise: roads, lighting, water, sanitation, electricity, and broadband in high-potential nodes.
• •Cut red tape and simplify licenses for SMMEs and informal traders.
• •Open, fair procurement from application to award; participatory budgeting so communities help set spending priorities.
• •Support the green, care, creative, digital, and tourism economies, bringing jobs closer to where people live.

No one should go without water, sanitation, electricity, refuse removal, transport, housing, or decent healthcare. Ensuring reliable, dignified services that are the foundation for health, safety, and economic participation.

• •Put failing Water Services Authorities under turnaround plans with expert teams and real-time monitoring.
• •Restore wastewater plants; launch local "Clean Communities" programmes and regularise informal waste pickers.
• •Stabilise electricity supply with grid maintenance, rooftop solar support, and community microgrids for clinics and schools.
• •Release well-located public land and buildings for affordable housing; upgrade informal settlements and formalise backyard dwellings.
• •Rebuild roads, stormwater, and public lighting; coordinate safer, more affordable public transport.

We'll reclaim public spaces and make safety a lived reality, especially for children. Ensuring clean, well-managed, well-lit neighbourhoods where children (and everyone) can move without fear.

• •Professional, fair by law enforcement focused on dangerous hotspots near schools, clinics, parks, and transport hubs.
• •Child centric upgrades: lit parks and pathways, traffic calming, supervised crossings, and safe school route design.
• •Revive abandoned buildings and neglected spaces into mixed use housing and community assets.
• •Publish enforcement and urban safety data; establish SAPS–municipality–community task teams with clear targets.

We'll harness technology to make service delivery faster, fairer, and corruption-proof. Ensuring smarter allocation of scarce resources, proactive maintenance, and dramatically less room for graft.

• •Predictive maintenance using sensors and data to find leaks, outages, and faults before they fail.
• •Digital service dashboards for communities to track work orders, outages, and response times.
• •E procurement with immutable audit trails for full transparency from tender to payment.
• •Data-driven planning that guides budgets to the highest impact needs.