Moya is asking Pretorianians for another five years

Dr. Nasiphi Moya, ActionSA’s choice for mayor in Tshwane. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media)

Dr. Nasiphi Moya, the mayor of Tshwane, is asking for another five years at the helm.

Moya was officially named ActionSA’s mayoral candidate in Tshwane on Saturday in Mamelodi.

In the upcoming municipal election, Moya will face, among others, Cilliers Brink of the DA, her predecessor.

Dr. Nasiphi Moya is once again ActionSA’s choice for mayor in Tshwane. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media)

Brink served as mayor of Tshwane from March 2023 to September 2024, with Moya as his deputy, before ActionSA and the ANC joined forces and removed him as mayor of the capital.

Brink was then replaced with Moya.

“We did something brave. We removed a failed DA government and my only wish is that we had done it earlier,” Michael Beaumont, the national chairman of ActionSA, said on Saturday about Brink’s removal in Mamelodi at the time.

“This is because we took the city and gave it to the most capable leader in the Tshwane City Council – Dr. Nasiphi Moya.”

‘Just five years’

“It is truly an honor to stand before you here in Mamelodi today,” Moya said in her acceptance speech on Saturday afternoon.

“Mr President, Ntathe (Herman) Mashaba, it is with deep humility and gratitude and a full heart that I accept the nomination as ActionSA’s mayoral candidate.”

Moya is ActionSA’s first executive mayor since Mashaba founded the party in 2020.

Nasiphi Moya hugs Herman Mashaba with her announcement as ActionSA’s mayoral candidate in Tshwane. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media)

“I am asking the residents of Tshwane for another five years to continue with the recovery of Tshwane and to deepen the progress we have begun to make together. My vision for Tshwane is very clear – I want us to once again build a capital that we can all be proud of.”

Moya has been serving in the mayor’s office for about 18 months.

“When I took office in October 2024, I inherited a city in crisis,” she said in Mamelodi on Saturday.

“The finances were unstable; infrastructure collapsed and service delivery systems failed. After years of instability and political chaos, many people simply stopped believing that Tshwane could recover.”

According to Moya, over the last 18 months she and her coalition government have only focused on restoring stability in Tshwane.

“The work to restore the capital is well underway and that is why I am asking residents for another five years.

Dr. Nasiphi Moya is once again ActionSA’s choice for mayor in Tshwane. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media)

“The reason why we are only asking for five years is because the first 18 months were about stabilizing the city,” she explained. “The next five years must be about recovery. When you recover, you put it in a permanent state.”

Beaumont also believes that Tshwane was in a state when Moya took over as mayor.

“The metro council that Moya inherited owed Eskom R7 billion, had unfavorable audit findings and provided services to only some. But not to all,” he claims.

According to Beaumont, the metro’s debt to Eskom has since shrunk by R2 billion.

According to Beaumont, Moya also ensured that Tshwane’s capital budget was supplemented by R700 million and she was the first mayor in ten years to expand the Tshwane Metropolitan Police.

Nasiphi Moya, Herman Mashaba and Michael Beaumont in Mamelodi on Saturday. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media)

“And when she was confronted with water tank mafias – what did she do? She cut the water tank budget by 79% and bought the city’s own water tankers,” Beaumont pointed out in Mamelodi on Saturday.

If you ask Brink’s party, they will tell you again that oya put the so-called water tank mafia in control of the city.

However, Beaumont insisted on Saturday that Moya is fighting corruption relentlessly: “More than any mayor before her.”

According to Beaumont, Moya also showed leadership when one of ActionSA’s members in Tshwane was implicated before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry.

“At the end of the day, you can only measure a leader and a political party by how they react to a situation. And how did she react? That mayoral committee member was suspended the same day and fired five days later.

“And if you look around the city, it’s easy to understand how the opposition has nothing to talk about. They run around pointing out potholes and power outages without realizing that they brought that crisis to the City of Tshwane.

“Our mayor is too dignified to stoop to their level. She just keeps delivering,” Beaumont argued on Saturday.

He believes voters now have a choice to make. “They can choose to go back to the failures of the DA and ANC or they can choose a new path.

“Our mayor in the City of Tshwane has shown the people of the city, the people of Gauteng and the people of our country that they do not have to choose between blue failures and yellow failures.

“There is a new option. It is a green option,” Beaumont said on Saturday.

According to Mashaba, Moya has shown over the past 18 months that where ActionSA leads and governs, there is stability and significant improvement.

“It will be difficult, if not impossible, to form a government without ActionSA after November 4 this year,” Mashaba believes.

“Remember, ActionSA is committed not only through words, but also deeds, to fixing our broken municipalities. Residents of Tshwane, the future of your city is in your hands,” Mashaba told supporters in Mamelodi on Saturday.

“Residents of Tshwane must realize that they are in an interview at this moment,” said Beaumont for his part.

“You have two candidates – the candidate who did the job and delivered, and you have the candidates who failed and broke your institution. Who are you going to appoint?

“If the residents of Tshwane want service delivery, job opportunities and the end of corruption, there is only one person they can appoint and they know exactly who they can appoint – Nasiphi Moya.”