Vhutshilo, an Uber driver, gestures with annoyance at workers busily planting flowers along the verge of a major road into Sandton, a glitzy Johannesburg suburb known as Africa’s richest square mile. “You see this,” he says, “it shows they do have resources.”
His gripe is that the government is only spending money and getting things done to impress foreign visitors before the G20 summit next weekend, while the city’s steady decay has been ignored for years and millions of its residents suffer frequent electricity and water cuts, even in the wealthy suburbs.
#DeVilliera is slowly becoming a no go zone rubbish on the street illegal street, venders in both sides of the street and not even one South African forms part of the informal trading @CityofJoburgZA @JoburgMPD is nowhere near De Villiers
Who is responsible?@NkuliMbundu pic.twitter.com/qaZfvGPbYg— PSAFLIVE (@PSAFLIVE) January 23, 2023
