The EFF and DA picket outside the provincial legislature ahead of the state of the province address by Premier David Makhura, 26 February 2018. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
David Makhura is talking service delivery and growth in his state of the province address in the provincial legislature on Monday morning.
The Gauteng government plans to grow the economy, create jobs as well as fight crime and corruption in 2018. He is also expected to focus on education in his speech.
Watch a live stream of the speech below.
However, uneasy bedfellows the DA and EFF, who together managed to wrest control of most Gauteng urban metros from the ANC in the 2016 elections, are not buying it.
They protested in the chilly weather outside the provincial legislature on Monday.
They accuse the ANC of having stolen from the poor through corruption and mismanagement. During the past term, wasteful and irregular expenditure has continued to rise, according to the Auditor-General, including in the Gauteng province.
Ahead of the 2016 elections, Makhura implored voters not to punish the ANC in the province for their dissatisfaction with then president Jacob Zuma. The ANC in Gauteng had consistently opposed Zuma’s leadership and several Gauteng leaders were at the forefront of his ousting following the December ANC elective conference.
The DA has repeatedly expressed its ambition to take over the running of its second province in 2019. It already governs the Western Cape.
Follow some of Makhura’s comments from his speech below:
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