Joburg launches 'Bomb Squad' to curb crime and grime

THE City of Johannesburg has roped in several former bosses to serve in its “Bomb Squad”, led by ANC Veterans League president Dr Snuki Zikalala, to help fix the municipality for the next two years.

- LOYISO SIDIMBA

Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero yesterday announced that Zikalala, a former SABC news executive, would lead the team and be its only member to be remunerated.

Three former Joburg city managers, Blake Mosley-Lefatola, Mavela Dlamini, and Professor Trevor Fowler, will be joined by the municipality's other erstwhile executives, Gerald Dumas (ex-chief operations officer), former community development executive director Philisiwe Twala-Tau, who is a representative of the SA Local Government Association, and former chief financial officer Reggie Boqo.

Also part of the Bomb Squad are Morero's advisor Vicky Shuping, National School Government principal and member of the city’s performance audit committee Busani Ngcaweni, economic and social policy researcher Dr Khwezi Mabasa, EFF senior researcher Dr Gumani Tshimomola, and Audrey Mothupi, Systemic Logic Group chief executive.