With the 2026 local government elections approaching, Ward 94 residents can get to know the candidates vying to represent their community. Meet the candidates, learn more about their priorities and find out what they hope to achieve if elected as ward councillor.

All candidates were invited to submit responses to questions. The responses published below are included here. This article will be updated as further candidates submit their responses.

The areas include Lonehill, Witkoppen (part), Fourways Gardens, Beverley, Kyalami Park, Kyalami AH, Glenferness AH and Treesbank AH.

David Foley, a DA candidate for Ward 94

In one sentence, who are you?
My name is David Foley, a well-known former executive in the IT industry with 40 years’ experience, 35 years being in a management and senior management roles. I have been a committed member of the Democratic Alliance (DA) since 2006 where I started engaging with the DA structure to have an influence in my ward/community. I have put my name forward on November 4 for the local municipal elections.

What are the biggest issues facing your ward currently?
All services over time have deteriorated, especially the road infrastructure.

What practical solutions would you prioritise should you be named councillor of your ward?
Back to basics for the entities to do their jobs effectively, with defined, measurable service level agreements to enable consequence management for non-delivery.

What is one misconception about you or your party that you would clarify?
The DA is for all South Africans, and we serve to the best of our ability.

Should your party’s candidate be named mayor, what issue should they address first?

• The financial situation and driving private/public partnerships. We all need to work together to fix Johannesburg.
• The state of service delivery.
• Turning the City of Johannesburg into a professional organisation.
• Infrastructure renewal.
• Address the organised crime syndicates in the City of Johannesburg.
• Step up law enforcement.
• Increase safety on the roads, as driver behaviour is unacceptable.

Nandi Ndaba, an ActionSA candidate for Ward 94

In one sentence, who are you?
I am a Fourways resident, a mother and a legal professional who has spent almost a decade fixing broken systems inside large organisations – and I am standing for Ward 94 because I would rather help fix this city than keep writing legal opinions explaining why it is failing.

What are the biggest issues facing your ward currently?
Four, and they are connected. Water reliability: Lonehill has lost water to leaks caused by the very pipe-replacement work meant to stop them. Electricity, including traffic signals that stay dark for weeks at a time on our busiest intersections. Roads and road safety, where failed signals, illegal taxi ranks and congestion at intersections have turned ordinary commuting into a daily risk. And growth: developments are going up faster than the bulk infrastructure beneath them can carry. These are not new problems, and none of them are mysterious. They are maintenance and management failures that have been allowed to accumulate because nobody has been held to account.

What practical solutions would you prioritise should you be named councillor of your ward?
Four things, all of which a ward councillor can actually do. First, a public ward fault register. Every fault logged with the city gets its reference number, its department and its promised date published, updated monthly, so residents can see what has been fixed and what has been ignored. You cannot manage what you cannot see. Second, a standing escalation with JRA and City Power on the intersections that fail repeatedly – not a fresh complaint every time, but a named list with a repair-by date against each one. Third, pressure management and leak repair on the Lonehill and Witkoppen mains before the next dry season, and honest communication when supply is interrupted. Fourth, hold new developments to their infrastructure obligations. Where bulk capacity has not been proven, I will object – and I will insist that contributions collected in this ward are spent in this ward.

What is one misconception about you or your party that you would clarify?
A misconception about me is that I am a parachute candidate. That I was handed this ward by a party. I live in Fourways. My daughter is growing up here. I sit at the same dead traffic light on Witkoppen that everyone else does, and I have queued behind the same water tanker. The other assumption is that a corporate lawyer is somehow remote from municipal problems. It is the opposite – I have spent my career reading the contracts and audit findings behind exactly these failures. I know precisely where they come from.

Should your party’s candidate be named mayor, what issue should they address first?
The money and the management, in that order, because nothing else is affordable until those are fixed. Johannesburg loses roughly 45% of the water it buys and about 27% of its electricity, more than R8.5b a year, while carrying a R220b infrastructure backlog. That is not a budget problem; it is a collection and maintenance problem, and it is the single largest recoverable source of money the city has. Alongside that, fill the senior vacancies and stop the churn. Stop cadre deployment; hire on merit and competence. The auditor-general has been explicit that instability in the city manager’s office and in finance is undermining performance. A city that changes its leadership every few months cannot maintain a pipe, let alone plan a decade of infrastructure. Stability first, then delivery becomes possible.

Other candidates are encouraged to email the editor, Aimee McGill, at Aimeed@caxton.co.za.