'State capture never ended': Hill-Lewis backs Rasilingwane to clean up Ekurhuleni

June 10, 2026 · 2 min · Episode 44

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Geordin Hill-Lewis discusses the DA's campaign to combat corruption in Ekurhuleni, supporting Khathu Rasilingwane as the solution.

'State capture never ended': Hill-Lewis backs Rasilingwane to clean up Ekurhuleni The DA has launched its Election Pledges to the people of Ekurhuleni, declaring it a definitive promise that the city will be rescued from crippling institutional corruption and structural collapse. Speaking at the party's campaign launch alongside the DA's mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni Khathu Rasilingwane, DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis pulled no punches about the scale of the crisis he said was facing the municipality. Hill-Lewis claimed that "State capture never truly ended in Ekurhuleni". Instead, he argued, the metro had "mutated into the epicentre of a Gangster State" where he stated political corruption was enforced through fear. "Every contract, every service, everything is corrupted, so that politicians and senior officials can steal millions and millions out of the city. And their corruption is protected by gangsters who will murder to keep it quiet," he said. According to the DA, the everyday struggles of Ekurhuleni residents were a result of a deeply entrenched criminal network. The DA is positioning Rasilingwane as the "strong medicine" needed to deal with corruption. The party…

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Guests: Geordin Hill-Lewis, Khathu Rasilingwane

Topics covered

state capture
corruption
Ekurhuleni
politics
DA election pledges

Keywords

state capture
corruption
Ekurhuleni
DA
election pledges
political corruption
Gangster State

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Organizations: DA

Places: Ekurhuleni, South Africa