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President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses ANC councillors at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on September 15, 2025.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged African National Congress (ANC) councillors to emulate municipalities governed by the Democratic Alliance (DA).
He has outlined the service delivery action plan, which was adopted by the ANC’s National Executive Committee meeting over the weekend.
Ramaphosa addressed party councillors from across the country at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg as he detailed what they expect from the councillors in their municipalities, as they prepare for the 2026 local elections.
He conceded that South Africa’s best-run municipalities are those governed by the DA.
Ramaphosa says, “We control a number of municipalities, it is hugely painful each time when the Auditor General comes to report to Cabinet and those municipalities that do best are not ANC-controlled municipalities and I can name it here, there’s nothing wrong with competition, they are often DA-controlled municipalities.”
“We need to ask ourselves what it is that they are doing that is better than what we are doing. There’s nothing wrong with us saying we want to go and see what Cape Town is doing, what is Stellenbosch doing, how they craft everything.”
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