{"id":91547,"date":"2025-10-14T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:19:06","slug":"ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa Questions Cape Town&#8217;s Service Delivery Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa said the City of Cape Town cannot claim to be the best-run metro when the standard of services in its townships remains poor.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing to backtrack on last month\u2019s praise for DA-run municipalities, Ramaphosa today told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that Census data showed Cape Town had performed the worst between 2011 and 2022 in providing services to the city\u2019s disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n<p>He was answering a question from the African National Congress (ANC)&#8217;s Kenny Mmoiemang on whether the government has identified the main causes of poor service delivery in the townships and informal settlements of the metro that has been run by the Democratic Alliance (DA) since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One cannot stand on Table Mountain and say I am doing better than others. You need to demonstrate that on a per capita basis, you are changing the lives of people. That is what\u2019s required.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said while the City of Cape Town is often lauded for its clean financial statements, budget analysis shows that, on a per capita basis, the city is spending less in poorer communities than in affluent areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may well say yes, on the audited financial statements, it is shown that yes, it has done well, but in the end, what really matters is the impact on the lives of the people. And if a metro is said by census data to have performed worse than the average metros, that metro should be worried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the City of Cape Town cannot claim to be the best-run metro when the standard of services in its townships remains poor. Appearing to backtrack on last month\u2019s praise for DA-run municipalities, Ramaphosa today told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that Census data showed Cape Town had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-91547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ramaphosa Questions Cape Town&#039;s Service Delivery Record - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa said the City of Cape Town cannot claim to be the best-run metro when the standard of services ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ramaphosa Questions Cape Town&#039;s Service Delivery Record\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa said the City of Cape Town cannot claim to be the best-run metro when the standard of services ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-14T15:51:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-14T16:19:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/10\/sm_1760445892.318556.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ramaphosa Questions Cape Town&#8217;s Service Delivery Record\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-14T15:51:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-14T16:19:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record\"},\"wordCount\":263,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/10\/sm_1760445892.318556.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ramaphosa-questions-cape-towns-service-delivery-record\",\"name\":\"Ramaphosa Questions Cape Town's Service Delivery Record - 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