DA Mayoral Candidate for Johannesburg, Helen Zille, has upped the ante on her social media-driven election campaign.

After swimming in potholes and canoeing in a rubber dinghy through Joburg’s streets, her campaign last night dropped the first in a series of videos showing the decay of the Johannesburg Metro Centre, formerly known as Johannesburg’s Civic Centre.

The building has seemingly been abandoned and left to ruin over the past three years, since it was vacated in 2023. The Daily Maverick recently gained access to the building and published horrific photographs in February this year, detailing how this was allowed to happen.

Now Zille and her team have done the same, gaining access to the property, days after being chased away by security guards. 

In the video, Zille and her team are also chased by guards, “captured”, and escorted out, later finding another way in.

The Joburg Mayoral Candidate has teased the next instalment of the video series.

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