THE INTERVIEW : Ex-Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink seeks second chance to ‘finish what we started’

Cilliers Brink, the former mayor of Tshwane, is seeking a second chance to complete the work he began. He is promising a bigger role for private companies in the city's infrastructure and assets through public-private partnerships and private management contracts. Brink argues that stronger governance is key to addressing the city's deep inequality and service-delivery failures.

His three pledges focus on corruption, crime, and service delivery. He plans to fire corrupt officials and tenderpreneurs, create an anti-corruption hit squad, expand crime-fighting technology, and bring greater private-sector involvement into water, electricity, roads, and public lighting. Brink rejects the notion that private sector involvement would come at the expense of poorer residents and promises to establish an anti-corruption hit squad reporting directly to the mayor and city manager.