Action SA leader Herman Mashaba has been spewing a load of bull in his attempts to justify his decision to hitch his wagon to the ANC in Tshwane after years of telling us he would never touch the organisation with a barge pole.

Last week, Mashaba outdid himself when he said that the super-incompetent former mayors of eThekwini and the City of Joburg — Mxolisi Kaunda and Kabelo Gwamanda — “left behind cities in far better condition than [ousted mayor Cilliers] Brink does in Tshwane”...