'We inherited a broken city': Morero admits Joburg struggles amid service collapse

Morero’s swan song: Defiant jabs at Cape Town can’t hide Joburg’s R5.3bn crisis

In his final State of the City address, outgoing Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero delivered an upbeat farewell filled with cherry-picked statistics and swipes at political rivals. However, the optimistic tone was overshadowed by a crippling R5.2bn Eskom debt threat and widespread municipal collapse.

'We inherited a broken city': Morero admits Joburg struggles amid service collapse

Mayor Morero: Cape Town doesn't care about basic human needs

In a State of the City address delivered on Wednesday 20 May 2026, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero took an unexpected swipe at Cape Town, accusing the Western Cape’s economic hub of neglecting fundamental human survival needs. Speaking at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Precinct, Morero sought […]