Lesufis Sopa Lacked Interventions To Solve Challenges: Analyst

Political analyst Dr Dale McKinley says Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufis State of the Province Address SOPA lacked the required interventions to address the challenges facing the province . He says the challenges include crime.

McKinley says the province should not have established the Crime Wardens Unit because it duplicates the work of the police.

"Let us take for instance Panyazas green bombers, the wardens, 12 000 of them. But yet what we see the Police Minister indicated the other day that the Gauteng crime rate has seriously escalated. At times what appears on the surface and what is the reality in the day-to-day experiences are very different. I think there is a feeling that the premier has been much of a grandstander and not much of a deliverer."

Infrastructure plans

Lesufi has announced some infrastructure plans, saying he has instructed teams at the Johannesburg Roads Agency JRA to repair potholes within 72 hours of it being reported.