Herman Mashaba

Economy
Herman Mashaba has pledged to relaunch and expand Johannesburg's Inner-City Revitalisation Programme, reduce delays in business licensing and municipal approvals, and prioritize support for township economies, small businesses, and informal traders through formalization initiatives.

Infrastructure
Mashaba has proposed an "Operation Fix Joburg" infrastructure recovery plan prioritizing water, electricity, roads and sewer networks, committing to double the pace of pipe replacement and road resurfacing achieved by the current administration, which recorded more than 200 kilometres of water pipe, 160 kilometres of sewer pipe, and 938 lane-kilometres of resurfaced roads over three years. The plan includes a triage-based system directing resources to the highest-risk infrastructure failures first.

Security
Mashaba has committed to recruiting an additional 2,500 Johannesburg Metro Police Department officers on top of 1,500 recruited previously, while continuing to reclaim hijacked buildings, restore order in the inner city, and reinstate functioning municipal courts to enforce city by-laws.

Immigration
As part of ActionSA's nine-point local government plan, Mashaba has pledged to address illegal immigration in Johannesburg through closer coordination with national law-enforcement and home affairs agencies, tying enforcement to the party's broader public-safety and building-reclamation efforts.

Governance
Mashaba's manifesto, titled a "Declaration of War on Broken Municipalities," commits to a comprehensive financial health audit of Johannesburg within his first 100 days in office, redirecting more than R2-billion in wasteful expenditure toward infrastructure, requiring lifestyle audits for senior officials, and increasing transparency in tenders and contracts, alongside merit-based appointments free of political patronage.