more comments - Dear South Africa

Displaying 15 comments. Click to see more.

Anita	La Mercy	No I am not	Pot hole roads, power outs due to poor maintenance, litter all over, some places still no water supply... Need I go on....	The people who work and try to make things work	1. Instead of jailing drug addicts and criminals and leaving them to feed off the system, while doing nothing, introduce hard labour. Make them pay back to society by making them clean roads, fill potholes, do maintenance. 2. Reintroduce practice skills into schools I. E. Woodwork, welding, handcrafts, sewing, building, mechanics, electronics, so that when kids leave school they at least have a skill and a way of earning their keep. People who can use their hands have the means to have an income.
Nathalie	Stormsriver Village	No I am not	They are unable to perform basic accounting functions, charge the incorrect amount for refuse (charging me for a business), including charging amounts for a previous year, and then when contacted said they will send it to their supervisor. No response. After several emails to follow up they just start ignoring my emails.... this has been going on for more than a year now. I stopped paying. I even tried contacting the EC public protector - no reply.
Gerrit	Three Rivers	No I am not	The place is falling apart. Private companies and individuals are trying to maintain the infrastructure at own cost. No need to remind anyone that Escom, has now written off millions of rands of debt against this municipality. Will that be needed again in a year or two when the money paid in by residents are squandered (Stolen) and Escom not paid for their services?	Nothing
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.
Tsepiso	Qwaqwa	Not fully	Services delivery (Water) and infrastructure	Working together	Please use the qualified and experienced individuals in all positions not nepotism
Werner	Pellissier	No I am not	The ANC plunders, steals and destroys, and the results can be seen everywhere in the Mangaung Metro. Hardly any services are run as they should, and used to be run 15, 20 years ago. The ANC has effectively bitten off the hand which has been feeding it since 1994. I say again: if you want to steal, maintain the infrastructure which allows you to do so, lest you destroy everything, and yourself, in the process. Be clever about it. Have some savvy.	Private citizens jumping in to fix and maintain things which the municipality is too useless to do, or do not have the skills to do.	The solution is simple: get the ANC out of Mangaung and allow us to manage our own metro with or without the help of a political party which is actually interested in promoting the health and wellbeing of citizens. Allow us to take over the reigns and kick out this ANC owned municipality and all of its ghost employees. Simple.
Portia	Alberton	No I am not	We go weeks without our bins being collected, while we are charged for services not rendered.	compared to other places, it is still safe
Laetitia	Oudtshoorn	Not fully
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.
Francois	Carletonville	Not fully
Liza	Centurion	No I am not	Even though we keep paying our Metro bill, I feel penalized. This new stages for water is not exeptable. It is not the consumers fault, that eskom did not prioritize pump stations. The water are there but now we are held randsom to get it. My Metro bill is catching up with my house payment and will soon overtake it. This is unreasonable. AND UNEXCEPTABLE! We are made to pay for money that was stolen.	We have a beautiful contry and montley good people.
Joe	Durbanville	Yes I am	Good service delivery & friendly	Good service delivery & friendly	Keep left & pass right !
Leslie	Brakpan dalview	No I am not	Since 2008 utility billing overcharge . On bogus meters electric and water . No meter per shop or meter per flat . Allowcation . Covid over charge . ? 2022 past 2017 redundant meters return on billing . No paper work or comunication on meters . Removed or replaced . Charging for meters not on site. Do as they please when they please . New meter on bill charged with no conformation . Of the status of the meter . Revers R5. Then charge R10. Same meter same billing date . Unethical	The ability they have to over come the suffering from day to day and there survival from the high crime rate . And unemployment . They still hope	Business is good when 98% of the country is contributing to the power that drive it in itsself. That is not the case here . Where 80% of the country is in survival mode . Stealing ;,and demolishing : etc : "10%" The old regime have the wealth :And the "10%"New regime have the contract project . For close associats : And both are not Activating the 80 %. Of the country . TO get them all on board .to contribute . There are many new better energy ideas but we still on switch of : housing :food : etc The cost today is astronomical. hence using the scrap ,steel ,bricks ,ash . Food etc only with a united honest effort with the right attitude . We can bridge this gap of 20%//80% to 98% . It can be done we are one for the children. .
Tumiso Eugene	Bluedowns	No I am not	Municipal members in the employ of The City of Cape Town Harass and extort residents in Thier allocated areas that they service	Positive vibe, unity, thriving economy and family values.	Education reforms with the greater Cape winelands and city of Cape town as, it is primary based on tourism and entertainment whereas member from other provinces (Gauteng for example) have been employed in the province and yet they are locked out of greater working opportunities within the City and Province due to unfair competition.