Displaying 15 comments. Click to see more.
Kgodisho | Akasia | Not fully | Ignorance of the land invasion by both foreigners and local forming informal settlement around our areas viz Amandasig, Orchards | Good loving and respectful citizens who support each other. | We need Leaders who knows and respect leadership. By firstly being led and to be authentic, honest, truthful, respectful of humanity, selfless and delivery driven. Lastly passionate about the country and its futuristic plans for generations to come. Provide professional workmanship in all services and inspectorate on quality be done and planning and monitoring be awakened. The Taxes that we are bleeding from working class is shameful that we cannot see its use because of mismanagement or glueless personnel occupying critical positions of serious decision making. Our President needs to wake up and safe our infrastructures which is diminishing as being destroyed. At least Mr. President please FEAR God rather than man. You have been allowed to be in this position for a reason, please don't drop the ball. You can do it . |
Matt | Primrose | No I am not | The AND supporting workers are sabotaging our areas. I don't like the DA but how can they improve our area when the workers employed to work are working against us? Increase in power and water outages, regular non collection of trash. | The weather. | You all need Jesus. |
Collin | Windsor East | No I am not | Disgraceful state of infrastructure . Sewage leaks occur on almost a daily basis . Roads are potholed to a degree where only full resurfacing will suffice. Electricity Distribution Boxes and substations are not maintained , the distribution boxes are in many cases left open both to the elements and to vandals/saboteurs - there is also a safety aspect to open electrical infrastructure , one that places children and other vulnerable persons at risk . Finally water leaks in enormous numbers suggests the collapse and decay of that fundamental infrastructure. | What is to enjoy ? Collapse of education and basic infrastructure , coupled with rampant corruption and / or inefficiency of those tasked to provide or maintain such services ? | Monthly reporting sessions from Ward Councillors . |
D | No I am not | Infrastructure collapse and pathetic service, and also pathetic service at the municipal offices. | We need to be able to privatise service delivery, electricity generation and water and sanitation services. | ||
Charles | Robin Hills | No I am not | 1. Municipal services are non-existent 2. Impossible to contact any municipal department as telephones are NOT answered. 3. Municipal offices are degraded, dirty and in in dire need of maintenance. 4. Road marking are non-existent, Traffic lights are non-functional and road signage in desperate need of maintenance. 5. Electrical infrastructure has been abused and is non-compliant with national safety requirements. 6. Traffic law enforcement is non-existent. 7. Pot holes abound. 8. Crime, grime and yet more crime 9. The neighborhood is tatty, parks are not maintained verges are unkempt , pavements littered and impassable. 10. Holes dug by municipality on verges, pavements and in the roads are never corrected and restored. | 1. The weather 2. Beautiful countryside 3. Many trees and shrubs | Get rid of the corrupt, criminally infiltrated, incompetent and dysfunctional ANC sooner rather than later |
Lindy | Loevenstein | No I am not | Wanting to introduce extra payment per month for services that should be provided for from the rates and taxes collected. | ||
Neville | Somerset West | Not fully | Too numerous to mention. Street lights out, traffic lights not working after load shedding, potholes in many places | ||
Phoebe | Plumstead | Not fully | Out water pressure is often very low at times or there isn't water at all. | Our scenery and wild life. | |
Tina | Hillary | No I am not | |||
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. | |
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 | |
Erika | Centurion | No I am not | With the water restrictions implemented on the 4th of October in Tshwane we are now also paying more for our water usage, almost double in some cases. But what really gets me angry is the fact that although the increase was done with the restriction which was 4 October, we will be paying the higher prices from our previous meter reading in our case 23 September. How can this be justified. To me this comes down to stealing our hard earn money! | I love our country. This is my home and I would never leave. We have the best weather and are one of the most beautiful countries in the world. | |
Theresa | Gen. de Wet | No I am not | Garbage collected every third week, mostly on a Sunday and then not all is taken either. And then the rates went up at the end of June 2022, go figure. No services, but the inhabitants of Mangaung must pay more for no service !!! Roads in Bloemfontein are full of potholes. Sewerage running in the street without any work being done on the problem. Lack of water for days on end for supposed maintenance, which then breaks down immediately afterwards again. Streets in Bloemfontein strewn with litter, pavements full of weed, grass on main road middlemen not cut. Bloemfontein, the once City of Roses, can now be called the City of Garbage, thanks to the mismanagement of the Municipality under ANC rule. | Our people, well most of them, who are not in political positions, have a spirit of ubuntu. We have a beautiful country, beautiful nature reserves and wonderful people. | Working together with honest NPO's who are focused on service delivery and helping the poor. There are enough ideas already, if we all stand together and work together, change will come. |
Adriaan | Val de grace | No I am not | The roads are falling apart and we have plenty of water supply problems. We pay ever increasing property taxes and get poor or no service. The issues were raise with the municipality, but they never seem to fix anything until it is a crises. |