Ditshaba Kopano Residents Movement manifesto summary
Ditshaba Kopano Residents Movement · 2026 local government elections
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Housing and title deeds
Water and sanitation
- Prioritise local pipelines from dams to communities to ensure clean household water. p.1
- Audit and adjust valves to stop water pumping to external districts while local villages remain dry. p.1
- Eliminate sanitation backlogs to protect community health and dignity. p.1
- Ensure corporate programs build local water networks as required by extraction licensing covenants. p.4
Electricity and energy
Roads and public transport
Waste and refuse collection
- Eliminate backlogs in sanitation and refuse systems to protect community health and dignity. p.1
- Establish structured weekly collection schedules across all rural nodes. p.2
- Dismantle private contract middle-men brokers for waste collection. p.2
- Insource security staff and cleaners for permanent employment with benefits. p.2
Safety and policing
- Support the South African Police Service by building functional community policing forums and subsidising them with operational kits and a monthly stipend. p.2
- Provide permanent security for all local schools with specialized fencing and contracted guards. p.2
- Establish a permanent municipal monitoring task force to manage undocumented immigration and enforce legal status permits. p.2
- Collaborate with street committees and local forums to enhance community safety and policing efforts. p.8
Jobs and the local economy
- Establish local skills academies offering free accredited certificates and practical training in various trades. p.3
- Create sustainable small business incubators with free internet, trade tools, and business coaching for local microenterprises. p.3
- Implement a youth apprenticeship mandate requiring contractors to employ and train at least 40% youth from local wards. p.3
- Relocate district administrative offices to boost local economic circulation and create administrative jobs. p.5
- Attract industrial investors to process local minerals in newly built factories to enhance local economic activity. p.5
Rates, tariffs and municipal finance
- Stop the misuse of local revenue and end elite political waste on luxury vehicles and expensive consultants. p.5
- Implement automated municipal billing systems for commercial operations and large corporations to fund development. p.5
- Establish structured weekly collection schedules across all rural nodes to improve municipal finance. p.2
- Relocate district administrative offices to boost local economic circulation and create jobs. p.5
- Attract industrial investors to process local minerals and enhance revenue without over-taxing citizens. p.5
Corruption, governance and accountability
No summary for this topic. Here are the manifesto’s own words instead.
“Implementation Strategy: Perform a full spatial audit of all broken, incomplete community halls, agricultural irrigation installations, and storage facilities to repair and return them into full public utility. 5. Building Suitable and Dignified Housing Universal Housing for All Needy Residents: Overhauling the housing allocation system. Implementation Strategy: Deploy a strictly transparent, non-selective waiting register that prioritizes childheaded households, the elderly, disabled residents, and vulnerable families, completely ending political favoritism. High-Quality Construction Oversight: Ensuring robust structural integrity.”View in manifesto (PDF page 3)
“Implementation Strategy: Enforce strict measures to escalate community voices so that residents participate directly in drafting, scoping, and adopting mining and corporate agricultural SLPs. Rigorous Municipal Compliance Oversight: Ending the systemic corporate negligence. Implementation Strategy: Deploy a multi-stakeholder monitoring team to ensure corporate programs build local schools, water networks, and paved roads exactly as legally bound by their extraction licensing covenants. Special Investigative Task Force: Rooting out deep corruption, bribery, and corporate fronting. Implementation Strategy: Partner with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and law enforcement to track”View in manifesto (PDF page 4)
“Attract industrial investors to process our chrome, platinum, and vanadium locally inside newly built factories. Revenue Protection & Anti-Waste Strategy: Financing our layout securely without over-taxing citizens. Implementation Strategy: Stop the misuse of local revenue. We will end elite political waste on luxury vehicles, expensive consultants, and lavish catering. All commercial operations, mega-mines, and large agricultural corporations will face proper automated municipal billing systems to fund our development layout. 9. Inclusive Empowerment: Targeted Support Programs Permanent Support Programs for Women and the Disabled: Building systematic financial inclusion frameworks.”View in manifesto (PDF page 5)
Informal settlements and land
Not addressed in this manifesto.
Support for indigent households
- Overhaul the housing allocation system to prioritise child-headed households, the elderly, disabled residents, and vulnerable families. p.3
- Ensure robust structural integrity in housing through high-quality construction oversight. p.3
- Enforce a unified standard building framework to eliminate cheap, cracking, or crumbling housing structures. p.3
- Guarantee that all future housing builds are initiated exclusively on serviced stands with title deeds. p.3
By-law and municipal law enforcement
Not addressed in this manifesto.
Youth, sport, arts and libraries
Not addressed in this manifesto.