In the year from April 2025 to April 2026, the Tshwane Metro lost 85,000 jobs — a drop in the number of employed persons of more than 6%.
In the same period, Cape Town added 57,000 jobs — an increase in employed persons of more than 3%.
This has been revealed by employment figures released this week.
Tshwane’s job losses under the ANC-led coalition and its ActionSA mayor track increased power outages, water losses as well as skyrocketing property rates and service charges.
Recently the DA averted an attempt by the coalition to suspended city manager Johann Mettler on trumped up charges, in essence a full-on assault on good governance in the nation’s capital.
Mayor Nasiphi Moya and her administration have been as bad for the economy of the capital city as they have been for service delivery and good governance.
ActionSA wants to point to quarterly statistics to claim success in this terrible situation, so as to hide what has happened over a longer period. They are, in fact, showing us an upward blip on a downward trend.
What the nation’s capital needs to grow is:
- Less corruption and more value for rates, tariffs and charges;
- Law and order at City Hall and in the streets; and
- Infrastructure solutions that give businesses and industry a reliable supply of services.
These priorities are at the heart of the DA’s pledges to the people of Tshwane and our manifesto to take back the capital city, and to get it working.
Tshwane cannot afford the coalition chaos and the revolving door of mayors experienced in the past decade.
The DA has a plan to get the basics right, restore reliable services and create the conditions for businesses to invest and jobs to grow.
What we need now is a decisive mandate from the people of Tshwane in the 4 November local government election.