Vaal Party manifesto summary

Vaal Party · 2026 local government elections

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Release suitable land for housing purposes with a credible infrastructure and operating plan. p.25
Judge housing and land decisions by their ability to create functioning communities with services and opportunities. p.25

Secure water quality, pressure, and sanitation through a public scorecard overseeing various water and wastewater aspects. p.8
Build reliable energy and emergency repair capabilities for critical water and wastewater assets. p.8
Reduce losses through metering, maintenance, leak repair, and accurate billing. p.8
Publish measurable water and sanitation standards covering service continuity and quality. p.28
Prioritise leaks, meter accuracy, and pollution prevention in water and wastewater management. p.28

Protect electricity revenue through accurate metering, fair tariffs, action against theft and transparent cash priorities. p.5
Build reliable energy, backup, spares, emergency repair and process-control capability for critical water and wastewater assets. p.8
Develop a Greater Vaal industrial strategy around energy-related industries and technologies. p.24

Maintain and renew public infrastructure through a permanent municipal maintenance system for roads and networks. p.5 p.24
Establish the Greater Vaal Compact for regional cooperation on transport and logistics, including public transport and freight. p.8 p.30
Adopt funded maintenance plans for roads and municipal networks to protect their value. p.24

Publish dependable collection schedules and manage routes, crews, fleet availability and service failures through operational data. p.6
Restore predictable waste collection, route control, fleet availability, disposal discipline, recycling pathways and systematic action against illegal dumping. p.27

Focus municipal enforcement on by-laws, traffic, environmental health, and lawful municipal policing arrangements, while working with SAPS. p.6 p.27
Modernise by-laws and ensure the complete enforcement chain works from inspection to municipal follow-through. p.6
Use safer public-space design, lighting, and reliable maintenance as part of crime prevention. p.6
Support community policing forums and cooperation on violence against women and children and substance-related harm. p.27

Create transparent graduate, internship, apprenticeship and entry-level pathways linked to municipal needs, with open advertising and fair selection. p.23
Expand the ability of people and enterprises to produce, earn, employ and invest through public action. p.15

Build budgets from credible revenue and cash-flow assumptions, protect payments to suppliers, and disclose material liabilities and changes. p.5
Protect electricity, water and rates revenue through accurate metering, fair tariffs, action against theft and transparent cash priorities. p.5
Reduce physical and commercial losses through metering, maintenance, water balances, leak repair and accurate billing. p.8
Publish enough information for residents to understand decisions, spending, and results to ensure financial credibility. p.23
Publish plain-language budgets, tariffs, by-laws, standards, contracts and performance information in reusable formats. p.28

Tie audit findings to named responsibility, funded corrective action, deadlines and verifiable closure. p.4
Build an institutional ethics partnership with training, advice, risk assessment and annual certification for governance roles. p.4
Restore performance agreements, consequence management, audit response, risk controls and reliable institutional memory. p.23
Protect procurement, recruitment, licensing, grants and administrative decisions from political interference while ensuring democratic oversight. p.23
Make municipal procurement accessible and transparent while preserving capability, value, integrity and lawful competition. p.25

Not addressed in this manifesto.

Apply lawful credit control consistently, with lifeline access and indigent support for qualifying households. p.5
Provide transparent indigent support and lifeline access to qualifying households through one verified register. p.23

Modernise by-laws and ensure the complete enforcement chain works from inspection to municipal follow-through. p.6
Focus municipal enforcement on by-laws, traffic, environmental health, and lawful municipal policing arrangements with SAPS. p.6 p.27
Restore municipal court capacity and the full evidence-to-adjudication chain for enforceable by-laws. p.27
Benchmark by-laws against high-performing municipalities and adapt rules to the Vaal's context. p.27
Update small-vessel and Vaal River by-laws with clear safety and enforcement provisions. p.28

Operate libraries, community centres and cultural facilities with programmes, information, access standards and accountable governance. p.7
Build weekly Saturday-morning under-10 multi-code sport with equipment, volunteers, qualified support and organised councils. p.7
Re-establish professionally governed sports councils and use lawful facility leases for public access and maintenance. p.7 p.10
Modernise libraries as active centres for information, assisted digital access, research, civic learning and lifelong education. p.26
Maintain existing libraries, cultural centres, sports grounds and recreation facilities, adding in underserved communities as needed. p.27