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People’s Pulse is where communities say what they need, watch what happens next, and hold the answer to a date. Live polls, public reports, sessions and briefings in one record — running across 1 communityand counting.
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Where should the next R1.2m of ward discretionary budget go?
3 184 residents have already answered · Closes Friday, 18:00
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Currently viewing Ward 42, Ekurhuleni (All areas / Gauteng / Ekurhuleni / Ward 42)
Water line Q&A is live now — 412 residents in the room· Ward 42
now38 new votes on the ward budget poll· Ward 42
4 minPR-2440 verified by two block listeners· Ward 42
5 hWard 42 · past 90 days
with a public reference number
network average 65%
6 on the platform
The Pulse
Every poll here is tied to a decision that is actually on the table. Results are public the moment you vote, and the leading answer is what gets tabled first.
Council opens the ward allocation window on 12 September. The option with the strongest mandate is tabled first, with the full breakdown published here.
Responses are clustered by block and shared with the community policing forum every Monday morning.
Pulse Sessions
Town halls, Q&As, hearings and listening sessions. RSVP, set a WhatsApp, SMS or email reminder, send your question ahead, then read the commitments that came out of it.
The maintenance manager takes questions on the eastern line valve replacements, live, with answers captured into the public record as they are given.
On the panel: N. Dlamini (Metro maintenance manager), Retired plumber panel
Joining is free. Data-light voice room for residents without airtime for video.
Feeds the public record:PR-2418PR-2402poll · budget-priority
Questions submitted before a session are read into the room. Every commitment made gets an owner and a deadline, then moves into the accountability record and the priority ranking until it closes.
Pulse Reports
Reports from the same street and the same fault are clustered, verified locally, then escalated with a job number and a name attached.
Metro crew on site; valve replacement scheduled Thursday.
Confirmed by ward committee; escalated to energy depot with a job number.
Two clean-ups completed. Fencing quote sat unsigned for 11 days — reason published.
Community Briefings
Reported on the ground, not rewritten from a press statement. Read in five minutes, share in one.
ReportWe walked the four worst blocks with a retired municipal plumber and put the numbers next to the metro's own maintenance record.
InterviewNomvula, 24, coordinates volunteers in Phase 2. She explains what young people want from local government procurement.
Every question asked, every commitment made, and the deadline attached to each one.
Pulse Map
Built from every poll vote, report and session question in the last 90 days — weighted by how many distinct households raised it, not by how loud anyone was. The same ranking rolls up to any municipality, province or the whole network.
214 reports · 1 216 poll votes · 3 sessions raised
168 reports · night-time safety poll leading
131 reports · two clean-ups logged
433 poll votes · strongest among under-30s
96 reports · one intersection signed off
Pulse Action
Nothing on this list needs money. It needs residents present and counted.
Open floor on the water line schedule, with the metro's maintenance manager confirmed to attend and answer directly.
Tabled at the district health engagement once we reach 1 500 verified signatures from residents.
Every block needs one resident who collects issues from neighbours without smartphones and logs them here.
Bring gloves. Skips, fencing material and refreshments are confirmed by three local businesses.
Accountability
Four steps, all of them public. If something stalls, the reason is published too — including when the answer is no.
A poll vote, a reported issue, a question at a Pulse Session, or a WhatsApp voice note. Every route lands in the same record.
Reports from the same street and the same fault are grouped, verified by the local committee, and given a public reference number.
Clustered issues go to the responsible department with a job number, a named official and a date. All three are published.
Every commitment carries a deadline and an outcome — delivered, delayed, or refused, with the reason given in plain language.
“We stopped asking residents to trust us and started publishing the paper trail instead.”