Sophiatown’s patience is wearing thin
The rubbish bins were overflowing, the streets needed attention and the walls of one elderly resident’s home bore the scars of attempted break-ins. Looking at the state of her neighbourhood, the 72-year-old Sophiatown resident wondered aloud who would finally put things right. Then she glanced up at an election poster of Helen Zille. “I know that Gogo can help us,” she said of Zille, the Democratic Alliance’s mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. A long-time DA supporter, she had no intention of changing her vote when she went to the polls on Wednesday. But her concerns extended well beyond party politics.
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