/ 9 May 2011

Masondo says 10-year tenure ‘fairly successful’

Outgoing Johannesburg Mayor Amos Masondo is proud of the city’s accomplishments in the last 10 years, he said on Monday.

“I feel it has been 10 years of hard work. Overall, we have been fairly successful,” Masondo said at Johannesburg’s Park Station while campaigning for the ANC. Party president Jacob Zuma was expected to visit the station on Monday morning.

“We’ve changed the skyline in Soweto,” he said.

The mayor is particularly proud of the work done in Soweto, listing the tarring of roads among his administration’s accomplishments.

Masondo came under fire earlier this year when the city was hit by a billing crisis.

Asked what he would be doing next, Masondo said: “I guess I’ll always be available to supplement the work that’s being carried through. I will do whatever I am called upon to do.”

His successor is reportedly expected to be Parks Tau, the city’s finance boss.

Masondo and the ANC’s Gauteng leadership handed out pamphlets and spoke to commuters about their problems and concerns ahead of the local government elections next week.

ANC Gauteng chairperson Paul Mashatile expressed confidence that the ANC would win all Gauteng municipalities, including the hotly contested Democratic Alliance-led Midvaal. – Sapa