Mboweni slams 'filthy, embarrassing' Joburg CBD streets after Rwanda visit

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Finance minister Tito Mboweni has bemoaned the state of downtown Johannesburg's streets, describing them as filthy and embarrassing.

 

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I was so shocked(The right word is disgusted) when I drove there last week.

Your ANC allowed unlawful settlement of foreigners what do you expect

That's what happens you have paid minister that are not doing their jobs, over crowding of undocumented foreigners, unclosed borders, lazy municipality Street workers and lastly A person who doesnt respect himself nor the next person. TX TITO

ChrisGibbonsSA When will we put our prisoners to work - man hours worked to reduce sentences - could clean up a lot & make them feel productive

Thanks for telling us what we already know. Rather tell us how the govt plans to fix it tito_mboweni

Sandton is next, prostitutes are creeping in

And Gauteng, in general, is in miserable state

HermanMashaba progress report.. The finance minister is ashamed n embarrassed by ur city...

Reminds one of the time JZ did his stint in one of the townships and ‘cried’ at the state of poverty laughable

Yet another self admission of failire by an anc comrade that will be interpreted by our dumb electorate as sympathy for their cause and thus re-election. Empirically the dumbest nation on the planet. anc thumamina

One of the few intelligent statements coming from a member of the ANC.

Marabastad too

True. He has spotted a problem. He must discuss it with his golf buddies to clean down town

Ma_LoJ I am sure the ordinary citizens have been complaining too - no one noticed

The majority of South Africans litter in the name of 'job creation'. Truly sad state of affairs around the Country

And guess who is living there. 🤣🤣

So every thing said here on Twitter Streets is real even the press will wright about it

CBD of Pretoria is just as bad.Maybe worse.Our store has been broken into again.Streets are filthy.CCTV cameras not working.Drain covers stolen.Street lights not working.

The very same CODESA person, same people who sold us out when they were fearing the white man back then.

ChrisGibbonsSA I drove through on Boxing day!.. How can resident make such a mess!

ChrisGibbonsSA Maybe of you get the Somali traders to do their bit... we'd have less of a problem.

One party or man can't do it alone we have to change our ways,the other day I reprimand some one for dropping papers on the floor I got a reply we crating jobs.

Charms32240902 Fully agree with him.....it's disgusting HermanMashaba clean the city please

It's rich coming from an ANC minister, he should pay a visit to the North West and see how residents maneuver their way through rubbish because of collapsed municipalities, then the two if us would sit down for tea and talk about 'filth'😴😴

He should visit his hometown, Tzaneen, where nothing is cleaned-not even the floors or counters of the municipality.

Legacy of the ANC, just like any other town in SA!

Hi koho mi swi vona swi malume, Mara se mi swivonile hi nwina fumo

Honestly speaking its disappointing compared to How it was to what it is now crying to our beloved city

Abramjee Blame the illegal immigrants. Teach them that you do not throw your thrash in public street

tag Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Somalians and Ethiopians

cci_network Election time , trying the old tested method of blaming DA run city as a failure

Thank you HermanMashaba for helping us with this problem. tito_mboweni please can you do something as well sir. We NOW all know that our way of living is disgusting... Can we do something about it together as South Africans.

SonjaPHD He went to Rwanda and saw Kigali City is one of the few best cleanest city in the world. He can't compare it to any city in South Africa. Kigali is good example how citizens must treat their own cities

Not only Johannesburg Tito. All the cities of SA are now dirty and you know the cause. You allowed people to sell on the walkways meant to be used by the pedestrians

Where was he 15 years ago. It is lije this even more than 15 years ago.

As for Pikitup employees i fill for those man and woman, its easy to pick refuse bags with waste, but cleaning human shit, urine, dead rats, rotten remains of meat every where now Herman Mashaba and that cow head tweet was drilled by the same people who are making noise here.

Is this really news where have you been for the last 20 years

He should be telling his comrades ANC who opened borders for all the illegal aliens to come and mess our country with drugs and crime. Call it xenophobic if you like. I don't fucking care.

only now in 2018 and in 1994 1996 1998 2000... when was governor did he not walk the streets?

His party created such mess, so please let him blame it to his own party n let alone Our_DA HermanMashaba CityofJoburgZA as they have been working hard to clear up the mess around City of Joburg.

He must not just condemn but he must act, he is in charge, he is a Cabinet Minister.

HermanMashaba

You haven't seen pta cbd! There's no culture of environmental ethics or responsibility. Law enforcement also needs to come to the table with bilaw implementation

Wow why didn’t he tweet anything when the corrupt anc at that time were busy destroying and looting our coffers

That is true u can't even breath there

Not the only thing abour SA to be embarrassed about....

jcwLIFE tito_mboweni should come see the Durban beachfront and the streets of Chatsworth

Thank you...it's nice to know our leaders finally noticed something we already knew

He is 100 percent right

Naare Tito o phela kae cos the truth is this is a problem in the whole country. Finally u smelled the coffee now act.

The anc is filthy and fire pool embarrassing tito_mboweni

Abramjee Over populated that's y....Foreign Nationals all over the Streets of Jo'burg!!!!

Forgot who dun it? You homies bru...

Who lives in downtown Joburg. Teach those human beings to clean up after themselves. They litter worse than pigs.

In my view this says a lot about a world in which our ministers reside. It is a very clean world, one which is so different from what we experience on daily basis. It is really a pleasure not a previlage in SA to be a high level public servant 🤞🏽😊.

Abramjee Over populated that's y...Foreign Nationals all over the Street!!! OurBelovedCountry

tito_mboweni blame it on cosatu2015_ and Nehawu. They’re trying to sabotage Our_DA and HermanMashaba in CityofJoburgZA. We’ll still vote for him next time.

OfficialBCMM Just come to East London, it’s even worse than Jhb.

THEY TAKE PRIDE OF THEIR SUROUNDINGS

That's joburg for you, I am a fireigner myself and I blame my fellow brothers and sisters for changing joburg to this untidy and filthy way HermanMashaba do something different now or never.

COME TO DURBAN IT IS FILTHY ANC DONT CARE

EFF relevance has really caused these old ANC folks to seek attention anyhow. Doesn't matter whether what's been said is stupid or not. So long as they say something just to appear relevant.

Come to Alexandra Tsutsumani and see, every available little place is being occupied by shacks even under those huge Eskom pylons

tito_mboweni dear Mr Mboweni we all feel the same as you do. Please help us to make our Jhb a PROUD and clean city again! You have the power to implement the change you wish to see.

Abramjee The whole country is filthy and embarrassing

What he saw is far better than what you would see next to M1 in Newton...Over 20 years of ANC Rule.Still far better that Port At John,the dirtiest town I ever visited...WHAT A DISGRACE FEOM PEOPLE WHO REJECTED BC? These are the results-NO CONSCIENCE-NO PRIDE BUT ARROGANCE!

Been to the Free state lately? It’s becoming four by four country only

And?

Wonder if that is also the result of the previous government... just asking.

Tito,are u Minister of Health? Can u check for us how Thuma mina couldn't see half a million deposited in his account?

It's the foreigners 🧐

CBD🤗taxis and rubbish that's Jozi for you ya nkga

You should see Durban and Pietermaritzburg. In comparison, downtown Johannesburg looks like Monaco. tito_mboweni

I hope no one blames apartheid about littering around every corner of our country ,those apartheid day people knew that littering was a crime .

gumede783 He should stop being embarrassed and tito_mboweni help HermanMashaba to root out foreigners that make CityofJoburgZA to look like HotelRwanda ....takeoutAllforeigners out there undocumented

What’s new Mr Magoo? Did Tito Mboweni just arrive from space or something? Downtown Johannesburg is FILTHY - if it was clean we’d call it uptown Johannesburg. 😎

State of decay is all due to lawlessness created by the ruling party. Look at CT is a fact, by-laws enforcement is an order of the day. We can't go beyond the borders to compare sir charity begins at home. tito_mboweni

Has Tito been living on another planet for the past couple of years? Towns have becoming slums under the ANC administration.

Let's do something about it. Tweets won't bring back the cities

HermanMashaba

Ask him who is running the Province. Makhura l m warning you out of love and l m really warning. It is serious indictment against you not Mashaba in this case...

ikemaboe Well then tell your people to stop littering and use the f ing dustbins.

Abramjee Im from the Jo'burg city centre Was proud of it Now i call it a sqatter camp No rules, no regulations no pride..nothing Daily i see, more especially the illegal immigrants, they have no respect for our City CRY OUR BELOVED CITY

Even Durban

Tell that to the people who live there

And this is news to him, is it?

And who is to be blamed

Thats a reflection of the government he serve, national, provincial snd local.

Tito speak to your bro Herman who has no flippin clue on to how to run a metropolitan and is only good at spewing xenophobic garbage against fellow Africans to appease his DA masters as well as against fellow black citizens coz he thinks he is no longer Black like me.

What good do you think HermanMashaba can achieve if what he tries has to be approved based on the EFF's low standards? The EFF is BAD for government.

What does he propose as a solution?

Thus jhb for you..but you hear politicians and city management calling it a world class city .

it is a shame to see our beloved city which was once our pride to walk the streets today going through hillbrow is a nightmare why why why

Has he seen the rest of our cities?

Mashaba & DA are running that place and should do something about it

There are millions of people out of work that can assist to clean up.

Clearly he has not been to Bloemfontein, probably even worst. They must appoint municipal police with sjamboks who patrol the streets and donner those who are responsible.

Really you joking

Uqinisile Governor !

He is not wrong

Tito must have been hibernating. All ANC managed cities and town are filthy. All transformed to slums over the past 24 years of mismanagement and looting.

gumede783 Congratulations ANC !

Decolonise the country , no street cleaners in the good old days when there a few tribes and more cattle, the times are changing but the thinking still back then, eg witch burning, etc viva

We way too many foreigners in that town

We should not only blame the local authorities for not cleaning up the waste. The local community is to blame because they don't care for their surroundings. Illegal dumping of waste is a huge problem in South Africa.

Littering should be criminalized. Some people lack respect for the environment. Recently I have seen grown men bring out their pipi and urinate on poles in public glare

Sir, its is your own people that is messing up the cities. They don't respect themselves, their cities, their country and their environment. Check the rest of the country. It's filth all over.

I agree with Tweeto TitoMboweni on this one ☝️. The dealers just throw away their plastic wrappings anywhere on the streets after unwrapping their wares. The cleanup people are there, bt can’t keep up with the mess generated. They leave some lying on the streets! HermanMashaba

I am quite sure it wasn't like that before 1994, in the Eastern Cape towns that were NP admin then were so clean very attractive even to tourists that's history...

Downtown, controlled by illegal foreigners. Marshalltown controlled by citizens.

The motormouth Mayor Mashaba won’t like this fiddling

He is a leader in the country. He must get his peers to work on reviving Jozi

Abramjee Are journalists just following people on Twitter then writing articles about their tweets Started noticing this a lot lately. Talk about jobs going digital

If we can have bins removed 24hrs 365 days u can make it

What is he doing about it?

Close the borders those drug dealers must gk home ull see the difference. Abahambe

Abramjee I truly don't understand why Tito Mboweni wants to distance himself from this government. He's been part of government since 1994. Every dirt that is there, he's part of it

Asina-Mayor

It's almost country wide & becoming radical by the day. Whoever thought that refuse collection can get so cpmplicated!

Abramjee Mara tweets are now news nyiabora yaz

Abramjee You and Mandela open the boarders and you act like you don’t know we’re not stupid

Abramjee What did he expect, they are failing the nation

Abramjee Littering must become a criminal offense with a penalty of doing cleaning duty for 4 hours if caught littering

Dam straight it's about time someone notices

That is what happens in Africa where there is little or no control. He should know that

Journalists are lazy they camp on twitter timelines wow 😳

also with uncontrolled crime

BrianAdams52 Most of the country is in this state.

Cc HermanMashaba

BrianAdams52 The most filthy parts of our South Africa is in the hearts of the corrupt. Who constantly keep getting away with all the looting and corruption- for years. Why? Ask our government.

Come to the Eastern Cape and see the filth ,we are led by clueless , incompetent and shameless people

This is nothing but supreme arrogance believing that surely another African city can’t be cleaner than SA!!!

gumede783 Thanks to 22 years of ANC mismanagement!!!!!

ANC likes to talk and talk action dololo

gumede783 But didn’t slam bemoan the state of downtown Johannesburg after visiting Singapore?

Seeing that most responses highlight public-urinating and the like, would it be then safe to call Johannesburg a 'shit-hole'? Mr. M said, 'If we don’t throw dirt around and the municipalities collect rubbish regularly, we can achieve a lot”. I like dreamers though, but do they?

tito_mboweni u may encourage development in the area by tax incentives. Indeed downtown is decaying but 1st is security or perception of security ask eThekwiniM how do they achieve it.

Over populated that's y

Did you interview him?

Do you have any source for 'news' other than Twitter ?

The effort from the CityofJoburgZA is not enough. The amount of filth is just beyond. Men urinating on every pole or corner on the streets. All we get from CleanerJoburg is excuse after another. It’s the minor things that win people over Pikitup isn’t doing that right now

Very true

batho ba batsho le ditshila ↑↑ ...ho hle ase teng fela ! direnke, ditsi kaofela tsa rona di ya nyontsha

Close the borders before they come back

Same with Durban

Tito Mboweni was part of the cowardly Mandela cabinet which threw open the border gates as a thank you to African countries, for supporting the ANC during apartheid!The results are there for everyone to see,and finally even elites like Mboweni see the folly of their actions!

Fordsburg and Mayfair are just as filthy and disgusting. Public Health should close down all restaurants in this area 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮

Kanti where is HermanMashaba

Any south African who knows Joburg CBD will agree with the minister

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