News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Coalition crumbles and cloak and dagger dealings in Joburg metro

The city of gold has been the bronze standard of coalition politics since 2019. Eight different mayors, multiple speakers, MMCs, persistent infighting, and even the smaller, minority parties are now quarrelling about allegations of spying on councillors. All while the metro’s list of service delivery woes grows.

The game of thrones, with its political musical chairs for coalition manoeuvering now even has smaller parties pitted among each other in the government of local unity in the City of Johannesburg where local service delivery has suffered and urban decay has set in, in more recent years.

Central to the latest bout of inter-political unhappiness is a long-winded investigation into an alleged device used to spy on councillors.

Our metro reporter on the story Alex Patrick is joining us in this edition of The Lead.
Later in the show, the police’s top brass head to court against each other.

Finally, Home Affairs teams up to introduce bank app-first ID and passport applications.

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