The Independents supporters marching through Komani in campaign t-shirts

Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality · Komani

They watched the potholes grow for ten years. We're done watching.

"Abanacebo... thina sinecebo." They have no plan. We have one.

The Independents did not start in a boardroom. It started on these streets, in a community that has carried poor governance for years and decided that carrying it quietly was no longer the plan. Your vote is your voice. Speak up.

The question nobody in council will answer

R95m
Residents patching a pothole by hand in Komani

Act one · The promise

Ninety five million rand was signed off to fix Komani's streets. Residents were shown which roads, what materials, what timeline. That was the deal on paper.

Most of that money is now unaccounted for. The roads it was meant to fix are the same roads it left behind, and every winter the same streets flood the same way they did before the tender was ever signed.

A resident using a compactor to repair a Komani street

Act two · The gap

Close-up of hands repairing a pothole in Komani

Act three · The response

So people stopped waiting. Residents have been mixing their own tar and closing potholes themselves, with borrowed tools and no budget, because a flooding street doesn't wait for a council meeting.

That is the gap between what was promised and what was delivered. Closing it, properly, with accountable spending, is the case for change we're bringing to every ward.

KC

Mayoral candidate

Ken Clark, and five ward candidates standing beside him.

The Independents emblem: three figures standing together

Ethical Leadership · Dedicated Service

We are not a branch office of a national party, dropped in to chase a seat. We are neighbours who watched Komani's money disappear into tenders that never delivered, until we decided to stand for something better ourselves. The three figures in our emblem stand shoulder to shoulder for a reason. Independent voices, carrying each other.

Read our core values

From the ground

What we are seeing and saying this week.

Accountability

We walked the R95m road tender route with residents of Ward 03

What the paperwork says was delivered, and what is actually standing on Ntlangano Street.

Community meeting

Ward 10 public meeting, date and venue to be confirmed

Samantha Alexander will take questions directly, no script, no minders.

Announcement

Six independent candidates, one shared standard

Why we chose to run as independents rather than under a party banner.

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This does not work without you on the ground.

Volunteer for a ward walk, host a meeting in your yard, or just tell us what your street needs fixed first.

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