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Автор: Michael Beaumont
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      The Accidental Mayor Published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 1953/000441/07 The Estuaries No. 4, Oxbow Crescent, Century Avenue, Century City, 7441 PO Box 1144, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za

      First published 2020

      13579108642

      Publication © Penguin Random House 2020

      Text © Michael Beaumont 2020

      Cover photograph © Gallo Images / Cornel van Heerden

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      ISBN978 1 77609 554 4 (print)

      ISBN978 1 77609 555 1 (ePub)

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      Contents

       7.Into the snake pit

       8.‘Outright, shameless looting’

       9.Coalition

       10. The ANC in opposition

       11. The most difficult partner

       12. The state vs Herman Mashaba

       13. Diphetogo: real changes

       14. A most unlikely ally

       15. The fourth estate

       16. The final throes of a dying horse

       17. The end of the beginning

       18. What is wrong with local government?

       19. The future

       Acknowledgements

       Index

       Abbreviations

      ACDP: African Christian Democratic Party

      AIC: African Independent Congress

      ANC: African National Congress

      ARP: Alexandra Renewal Project

      BEE: black economic empowerment

      COPE: Congress of the People

      COSATU: Congress of South African Trade Unions

      DA: Democratic Alliance

      EFF: Economic Freedom Fighters

      FF+: Freedom Front Plus

      IDP: Integrated Development Plan

      IEC: Independent Electoral Commission

      IFP: Inkatha Freedom Party

      IMATU: Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union

      IRR: Institute of Race Relations

      JMPD: Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department

      MoU: memorandum of understanding

      NFP: National Freedom Party

      NPA: National Prosecuting Authority

      PA: Patriotic Alliance

      SACP: South African Communist Party

      SAHRC: South African Human Rights Commission

      SAMWU: South African Municipal Workers’ Union

      SAPS: South African Police Service

      SARS: South African Revenue Service

      UDM: United Democratic Movement

       Foreword by Herman Mashaba

      On 22 August 2016, I was elected the executive mayor of the City of Johannesburg. It was with a desperately narrow majority formed by seven political parties at the time. Our task was to meet the astronomical expectation of delivering change in Johannesburg to people who had been forgotten by one successive government after another.

      I was not a politician, either by experience or desire.