The fleet was unveiled on Wednesday, August 7.
Gungubele said the new vehicles are the last piece of the puzzle in terms of State of the City address promises for the 2012/13 financial year.
“We took delivery of these vehicles by the end of June, this year, and we will soon be unleashing them onto the field, to render much needed services to our people,” he added.
In addition to the 48 ambulances purchased earlier this year for disaster and emergency management services, 18 more will be allocated to the department.
Waste management will receive 57 trucks, the EMPD 129 vehicles, health and social development will get two mobile clinics, while water services will receive 18 water trucks.
Gungubele said the vehicles were acquired to enhance existing service delivery programmes and equip staff with the necessary tools to carry out their mandate.
“It is our belief that the community must be taken on board to see just how some of the money paid for rates and taxes is spent in an endeavour to better their lives,” said Gungubele.
He explained that, as the city, the metro believes that the people need a proactive, organic and activist municipality, and “that is what we are prepared to give them at all costs”.
