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Stefan | Potchefstroom | No I am not | |||
Kelvin | Bethlehem | No I am not | What municipality? No roads, no management, no service… | ||
Rita | Lennoxton | No I am not | They charge us so much for services, and have load shedding, but they have a big useless building where most of the time the lights are on in the building and car park at night. The whole town is full of potholes and sewer leaks. The street lights are on during the day and off at night. | ||
melinda | Parkhurst | No I am not | |||
Zasquea | Vereeniging | No I am not | Selective garbage disposal - they skip weeks on end. No notification when working on electricity causing major disruptiveness and damage. Town looks like a rubbish dump because they do not keep or clean, there is no pride. No notification when working on water related issues. Roads are falling apart. No assistatnace from municipal officials when you are at their offices. How is it possible for them to "close the HQ" due to non rent payment if we pay every month. Disgusting attitude from labour and office staff...there is no customer service etiquette. Storm drains are not maintained for over 7 years causing street and houses to fload with massive storms. If a drain is cleaned...that rubbish is left right there in the driveway or street, filled with broken glass, ripped plastic and awful smelling mud. This is dagerous especially when we have 2 primary school on both sides of us with small children passing the house and some playing in the street. Traffic lights are stolen due to them not working for years on end causing more and more car accidents. I cant remeber the last time our street lights were fuctioning...the street has been in complete darkness each night for years. | We as a community are storg when we stand toghether. We help eachother and care for 1 another. We support small businesses. We look after the safety and security of each other. We try and do what the municipality fails to do by trying to to keep the roads pothole free and clean...but we do not have the resources. We try adding some light on our street using our security lights so that the passing cars can have some guidance while driving at night. We as the people are something that most countries would be proud of for having...yes there are a few rotten apples, but most of us are working and fighting for a better future for us and our countrymen woman and children. We have some of the most sought after resources in the world. We are amazing workhorses. We have the potential of being 1 of the strongest countires in the world with the proper leaders. South Africans is a force to be reckond with...if we are allowed to show the world our power. | |
Di | umbilo | No I am not | It is beyond filthy, litter everywhere, sewage running in the streets, potholes and worst of all "repaired potholes" which actually cause more harm. Tenders given to incompetents to repair the potholes means they dig them up, then simply cover with a dump truck of gravel - damaging tyres, windscreens until the rains come and the hole once again opens...Streetlights and cables are stolen in broad daylight - there is zero policing and crime control. One goes to report a robbery and the police look at you as if you are mad - the first question is "do you have insurance?" When you say "No" they then say " but why are you here? We just give ref numbers for insurance purposes" and this they say without even the saving grace of being ashamed at their useless services. | Nothing at the moment - it has been run into the ground. One can't go for walks or runs anymore for the stench of sewage and rubbish. It is also not safe to even think of getting any exercise here. It is where I raised my family and planted trees which are now mature. Do you know what it feels like to realise you have to sell at any cost and just leave? The only hope is to go to the Cape. | Let's start a rates boycott. Get a class action going against the thieves that have destroyed out city. Pay our rates into a trust that can be used to supply the services we are not and have never received. |
Sue | Not fully | NMBM has been defunct, under the cANCer for years. We had a DA mayor for a short while but disgruntled cANCer "cadres" were losing out on the money pot and tenders so he was booted out. Since then things have gone from worse to simply horrifying and sad. We now have a coalition in power led by DA; which at the moment seems to be strong. Retief Odendall is visual/visible, on the go, being seen, walking and talking to the people of the bay, addressing their concerns. Street lights are being fixed. Potholes are being fixed. The cable theft is being addressed. He is on the forefront of the water crisis that is crippling the bay, Our streets are being cleaned (I cringe at the dirt/rubbish and general squalour that is evident especially when the cruise ships dock or foreigners hurridly drive through PE to Garden Route etc). Street markings being painted. When people scream, shout, protest and burn tyres (destroying more road infrastructure in the process); because they have set up a shack (egged on by ex cANCer cadres as a 'free vote') where there is no infrustructure at all; the Mayor is there, with his coalition leaders; trying to find solutions to the problem. The only time the cANCer cadres were out and being seen and making empty promises, was near local or general elections. I dont care WHO is in power, they could be pink with purple spots, but just DO YOUR JOB. You are voted in by the people, work FOR THE people. | I love SA, I love Africa; there is no where else like it. All of our people are resilient. There can sometimes be an amazing sense of Ubuntu. But, I do worry about my future; especially with the total collapse of the government health system, Eishkom, looting and general disregard for the people in this country who are taxed to death; and now the threat of "legal landgrab" under the proposed "expropriation bill" which is nothing but a thinly disguised land grab aka Zimbabwe 2.0 | WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GREATER GOOD. Stop worrying about the color of the person for the job; if they are 10000% qualified; support them, dont place obstacles in their path (because they are cutting off your income revenue stream by stopping corruption and trying to save a grid from total collapse). We all know why De Ruyter could'nt do it anymore; it was all sabotage, so the powers that be can point fingers. | |
Albert | Alberton | No I am not | Waste removal is always late, potholes are everyware, parks are not beeing managed, streetlights are not fixed for over 3 years now, constant overflowing of sewage system. Municipal managers are not doing their job eg. 20 municipal workers will be assigned to clean stormwater drains, 2 will work and therest will sit around doing nothing, this normaly happens on a Sunday when thay get paid double. Waste dumping site is unsafe and you get mugged by vagrants. Drug dealers operating right accross the police station and the police refuse to do anything about it. | Our community gets together through Afriforum to adress some of the issues which the municipality fails to do. | Fire the useless and prosecute the corrupt. |
Dietrich | Kuilsrivier | No I am not | We are charged an availability fee for electricity even though electricity is not available during loadshedding. We must receive discount on the availability fees for all the time when electricity is not available. | The fact that service is relatively better than the rest of the country. | Much more frequent roadblocks. Recently 1000 criminals were apprehended and illegal firearms confiscated through simple road blocks on a single day. This must be done every day of the year at random places all over the country to catch criminals and smugglers off guard. It is a relatively cheap solution as law enforcement simple wait for cars to pass by and search them. The inconvenience is worth it. |
Philile | Centurion | No I am not | The readings for utilities are not a true reflection. I use handigas stove and solar geyser. I live with my 6 year old and we normally don't use the TV. Our fridge is the only appliance that is consuming power 24/7. Load shedding has been hitting us. Bills are rising monthly. Worse being that the meter box is always unsecured and they left it like that when they came once to check something. | Unicipalities should not use rates as revenue. They need to have proper facilities where they charge minimal (e.g. below Virgin Active) and allow people to enjoy those places. San Parks charges very little and we still visit them. People love gated complexes with swimming pools and club houses to host their kids parties because municipalities long abdicated their role to the developers. Municipality is the Mother Developer. They need to own their space. | |
Brendon | Bloemfontein | No I am not | They misuses public funds contributed to fix the whole town and fails to mentain the roads everywhere is potholes tapwater is having too much chemicals it's like they do not know how to measure the chemicals used to clean water and sometimes taps have dirty water so please help us | It's that people are fighting for the services and sometimes are being met but not on time | |
John | Oatlands North | No I am not | Failed disfunction al Muni that has many years of failed Audits. Calls to have Mayor and Muni Manager dismissed went legal and Govt intervened. The dissolution of Muni managers and councellirs are key to rebuild a functioning muni. Till then, closure of businesses occur (40 in 2018, pre covid exodus). In Aug 22, 4 busy closing. Consequences is that the 3000 odd employed people feeding the 100 000 unemployed is shrinking. End result is hungry angry residents. Violence like July 2 roots is not something we want in our amazing town. | It's the Ubuntu spirit of our community. | |
Shaun | Fichardtpark | No I am not | General infrastructure is not managed. Service delivery is almost non-existent . | We have a neighbourhood association and the community jumps in to full the gaps where the municipality fail. | |
Madeleine | Middelburg | No I am not | Ongoing strikes and no service delivery. Residents are still paying for services every month . No waste removal for weeks and water readings have been estimated resulting in a high levies end of month. Pipe bursts are not attended to , leaving residents without water for days while fire hydrants are open and water get wasted. | ||
Estie | Ferndale | Not fully | Potholes and burst pipes are abundant. They are attended to, but it takes days or weeks (in some cases months) to be resolved, and then not always fully. Lots of rubbish in the streets, on street corners, in Randburg CBD. traffic lights are out for weeks on end. Disregard of the rules of the road, not only by taxis, but now also by general motorists, as there are no legal consequences. | Nature. We have a beautiful country. |