Tshwane Mayor Nasiphi Moya, who ActionSA officially named as its mayoral candidate on Saturday, vowed to secure a clean audit.
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The incumbent Tshwane Mayor Nasiphi Moya, whom ActionSA officially named as its mayoral candidate on Saturday, vowed to secure a clean audit if her political party is elected to power during the much-anticipated November 4 local government elections.
Moya’s candidacy was unveiled after the DA and Freedom Front Plus recently announced their Tshwane candidates, Cilliers Brink and Willie Spies, respectively.
Addressing party faithful in Nellmaphius following her mayoral candidacy announcement, Moya asked the electorate to usher her into power for the next five years.
"The work of restoring the capital is well underway, and that is why I am asking residents for five more years," she said.
She told her audience that the past 18 months of her tenure as mayor were about stabilisation.
"When I took office in October 2024, I inherited a city in crisis. The finances were unstable, infrastructure was deteriorating, and service delivery systems were failing," she said.
Moya served as the deputy mayor under the DA-led multiparty coalition headed by Brink, who was recently elected the second deputy federal chairperson of the DA.
She remarked that the Auditor-General previously identified deep institutional weaknesses within the city administration.
"I knew that if we wanted residents to believe in local government again, we had to confront those problems honestly and directly. Investigations into corruption and irregular expenditure are underway. Internal controls are strengthening, consequence management is improving, and accountability is slowly returning to the institution," she said.
She said that while important challenges remain, audit qualification areas have already reduced significantly during her term as Mayor.
"Our goal is clear: we want Tshwane to achieve a clean audit. And if residents entrust me with another five years, that remains my commitment," she said, adding that residents need a government that spends public money responsibly.
Earlier this year Moya's administration came under fire from opposition parties after the Auditor-General's 2024/2025 financial year report revealed the municipality received another qualified audit opinion.
The FF Plus slammed the current administration, citing that the audit report revealed incorrect asset valuation, inflated financial statements, and understated contingent liabilities by over R4.3 billion.
The DA said the audit report on the metro's performance confirmed "that the city has gone backward under the ANC-led coalition of Mayor Nasiphi Moya".
“Unauthorised, Irregular, and Fruitless and Wasteful (UIFW) expenditure – wasted money - has increased by R5 billion to R23 billion in total, while the city has failed to act on the findings of completed investigative reports,” the party said.
On Saturday Moya told ActionSA supporters that investor confidence had weakened and communities had lost trust under the DA-led multiparty coalition
She said:"After years of instability and political chaos, many people had simply stopped believing Tshwane could recover. The city had lost direction, and residents could feel it. My focus as Mayor, and our collective focus as a coalition government, had to be stabilisation. That is the work I have focused on over the past 18 months."
She mentioned that she had met families stretched to the breaking point by unemployment and stated, "that is why creating the conditions for economic growth must remain our central mission over the next five years".
"That is also why, in April 2025, I led the adoption of the Tshwane Economic Revitalisation Strategy, or TERS. TERS gives us a practical plan to rebuild Tshwane’s economy. It commits us to growing Tshwane’s economy to an average of 3.9% by 2029 and creating at least 80 000 new jobs. Those targets matter because behind every job statistic is a person trying to build a future," she said.
Moya said the recent Madlanga Commission of Inquiry revelations showed that ActionSA acts swiftly when the integrity of its own members is compromised.
She was referring to WhatsApp chats between Organised Crime Unit officer Sergeant Fannie Nkosi and MMC for Corporate and Shared Services Kholofelo Morodi that showed Morodi shared confidential municipal documents on land lease tenders with Nkosi.
Morodi, a former ActionSA deployee, was placed on special leave and subsequently recalled from her position.
Moya expressed the intention to act against corruption at the same pace her party demonstrated against Morodi.
"And that is the same commitment I want to continue bringing to the fight against corruption and maladministration inside the City of Tshwane," she said.
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