Cape Talk, Monday afternoon

The airport shows that people still need are living in shacks. They still need to catch a taxi to get to work if there is a security guard at the airport. And because there was this kind of chaotic situation, it is a representation of the imbalance in Cape Town. Oh, my word. No, I mean, Mandy, that is just grasping at straws, if ever I've heard it. I mean, the minibus taxis dominate public transport around the whole of South Africa. Is the

Suggestion that minibus taxis should not be as dominant a player in public transport. That is the case in literally every part of South Africa. We are trying slowly to expand other public transport offerings like the enormous MyCiTi bus extension that we are currently building into Kailich and Mitchell's Plain. That is the largest public transport construction project happening anywhere in South Africa today. But minibus taxis in South Africa are the dominant provider of public transport for the huge

Majority of South Africans. That's not a Cape Town situation. That is a South Africa situation. And when this dispute that they are busy having actually has nothing to do with the government, this is two warring taxi associations, Carter and Codeta, who are in dispute with one another. And they are incapable of resolving that dispute peacefully and lawfully and resort constantly to these violent disruptions. So I really think that that analysis is clutching its straws. Absolutely.

Was something that people were talking about on Friday. It's not a fabrication or anything like that. It's definitely. Do you think people are trying to leverage that argument that Cape Town is a tale of two cities? Well, I mean, I think that is absolutely the narrative that our opponents will always go with. That's the first thing they reach for. But it simply is not borne out by the fact Cape Town has the best services in South Africa.

It delivers the most houses in South Africa. It creates the most new jobs for the poor in South Africa. As I said on Saturday, there are more working streetlights today in Kailicha than there are in Sandton. So it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that our opponents will continue with that narrative because it's all they have. It's the only narrative they have. But I hope that more discerning voters and residents will see straight through it. And I think that they will. Of course, we're two days away from elections.