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Ina | PARYS | No I am not | Gehalte van dienslewering laat veel te wense oor!! Kwaliteit van water is 'n skande. Gereelde kragonderbrekings a.g.v. hopelose instandhouding. Ongekwalifiseerde vakmanskap. Slaggate oral waar mens ry, eintlik nie gate nie - slote, dongas!! Wat word van ons munisipale belasting? Het dit nie hoog tyd geword dat belastingbetalers standpunt inneem nie. . . | Die gemeenskap van Parys (inwoners) moet betrokke raak, self inspring , saamwerk.. | |
Heléne | No I am not | Excessive electricity bills. We need to pay a private contractor to deliver water, remove our rubble, cut grass on the pavements. Volunteers are cleaning the main streets but there is no follow through from the municipality. People dump their trash right under the board that state there will be a fine for illegal dumping. It is now six months since the dumping is there with no follow up. The legal dumping site is a nightmare. Not only for residents to go there, the employees but also for the poor people that goes there to look for some source of income. What happened to all the promises? | This is still platteland and near the bush. And all the new developments that creates more jobs. | Communication from all parties and agreed and followthrough of decisions. | |
William | Brackenhurst | No I am not | Takes too long to repair water leaks and assist with issues. Potholes don't get fixed in local area. Price increases are high on water and electricity and readings are not always correct, but we have to pay | We look after each other with the security and help the local police fix their vehicles and try to prevent crime in our area | Reduce councilors and ministers, why do we need all these deputy ministers. Action against corruption and support the people your supposed to serve and not your political party |
Jeannie | Lester Park | No I am not | We are held to ransom by an incompetent ANC council who care nothing for their residents but only about feathering their own nest. The incompetence and lack of professionalism is dire. Pietermaritzburg's is filthy! The infrastructure is broken, service provision, pride in work, accountability, is lacking and we are coerced monthly to pay for services which aren't rendered. Why are rate payers not empowered by legislation to hold their municipalities to account. | The 10% exists who don't want to live in filth and abide by the rule of law. If, only they were also in the political class. | |
melinda | Parkhurst | No I am not | |||
Jaco | No I am not | The exceptional very high rates and taxes the residents are paying to the municipality do not reflect the terrible poor state of the complete city and surroundings. Roads are a nightmare. The CBD is in shambles and a shame to any decent human being living in this air polluted city. Apart from being the second worst Eskom debt city, the water is undrinkable and days without any water. Can anyone with some common sense continue to live in this backward city called eMahlaleni | The nature out of any nearby city or dwellings | Establish or create a competent crime free and fraud free government | |
Pieter | PROTEAPARK | No I am not | Financial mismanagement Unfunded budget Inadequate provision for infrastructure maintenance | Lifestyle and space | There is a constant shortage of nurses and teachers to name just two. Allow the private sector to train these people - not just government |
Jan | STANDERTON | No I am not | No existence - they do nothing but fill there pockets with money, no maintenance , no service delivery, no water, no street lights, no refuge pic-up, street are strawn with litter, do not repair water/surage leaks. | ||
John | No I am not | There is little to no maintenance being completed across the board. Durban was once a blue flag beach attracting tourism to the province, now there is so much effluent in the water it is no longer safe to bathe in all driven through the lack of maintenance by the municipality. It is amazing that the parties who are paid to enforce environmental compliance are the very same parties that are guilty of non compliance. It is high time that the people in office are brought before the courts to answer for the lack of action on all fronts. Rate payers pay for a service that is not being delivered as such this is a breach of contract. | That there are still people who care. | Communities need to come together and oust the useless individuals whom simply sit on their rear ends and collect a pay cheque for doing little to nothing. Local community management should be performance based as what is found in the commercial market. Non performance should be rewarded with consequences. Positive contribution should equally be rewarded with positive consequences. | |
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. | |
Glyn | Napier | Yes I am | It's well run, problems are sorted pretty quickly. The town is clean. Our police here are very good so far as the law allows them. | ||
Coenraad | Piet Retief | No I am not | They got local load shedding because they allow people to steal the electricity. the person who fix the electricity by pass fusses that cause cables to blast and blame it on "old" cables. Funds get lost and business's who legal operate get targeted because off load shedding. The streets are full op pot holes and where the trucks travel, the road is disintegrated. Locals had to fix what they could with their money. Water pipes that bust regularly. they are completely in competent. | same minded peolle | get people who is righteous to control money and decision making |
Jan | Durbanville | Not fully | Vat te lank om gate in strate te herstel | ||
Gareth | Chintsa east | No I am not | Garbage disposal is infrequent, and management of our estuary is non existent, we don't have lifeguards on our beach anymore in Chintsa East. | I love the fact that non-government workers in individuals work together to help the government do its job even though we pay taxes for said jobs to be done! | Turning plastic into plastic bricks. This is not a new idea in is being done all over the world...we can upcycle trash into something that can be used to build things for our community. |
Belinda | Roodewal | No I am not |