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STATE OF THE CITY: Morero’s swan song — defiant jabs at Cape Town can’t hide Joburg’s R5.3bn debt
In his final State of the City address, outgoing Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero delivered an upbeat farewell filled with cherry-picked statistics and swipes at political rivals. However, the optimistic tone was overshadowed by a crippling R5.3bn Eskom debt threat and widespread municipal collapse.
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