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Jenny | Aston manor | No I am not | Where do I begin..Potholes every where...last week our water went off five times...other times..at least once weekly...apparent pipe bursts...street ligths not working ...power failures ...pavements not maintained and obvious main roads pavements. ...grass long in the few green open parks.. even when being cut once a year it is done awful . ..We are bullied into accepting 3rd world standards.....That is so sickening..I will never accept the low standards that the ANC brought into my country South Africa .. Government buildings are unkempt ...government institutions never ever answer a phone...there is no customer service ...incompetence and arrogance also are norm behaviours....corrupt officials...the list goes on and on.. | Stop having seminars on crime and stop having all these inquests where the officials are obviously guilty ..stop wasting the peoples money....charge them..and jail them....Fire all the corrupt officials...with no extra pay as what is the norm in this corrupt government ...employ new with skills based not on color and start from top going down to the lowest and fire all corrupt lazy workers...let the heads roll and stop crime from the top... | |
Nondumiso | Umlazi, F Section | No I am not | We have a lot of consistent issues with electricity breakdowns. Even before cables were introduced which caused mass disruptions specifically the line including Khabo Makhoba Place has been very chaotic and disruptive resulting in MULTIPLE protests and fires from resident. Secondly, the water issue is very essential to us. The President has announced an increase in the Rand water but will townships benefit from this addition? We can go a whole week without water and if we are lucky a few hours one day to fill our buckets and tanks. It is upsetting. | The people have taken it upon themselves to be a "community forum" they walk people after dark which comes in particularly handy during power cuts. It is also relatively clean with regular trash pick ups. There are businesses in the area that support the community in essentials like buying candles or charging phones at the local KFC. | We have pool but a community center can go a long way, where people can gather and be constructive. Also, it is time for solar street lights, because it becomes very dark and dangerous. |
Hazel | Queensburgh | No I am not | Specifically very poor quality Water Pipe repairs. "Repaired" on a Sunday Burt's again the following Sunday All road material removed is left lying in front of residence for weeks if not months. | My community is very caring. Shameful treatment by the Municipality. | |
Caroline | No I am not | They are relying on the Power of 8000(private citizens group) to do their dirty work, ie: empting dustbins, cleaning pavements, pruning trees, patching roads, mowing & cleaning the parks. | As South Africans, we are generally not lazy. South Africans are friendly. | ||
Carl | Ladismith | No I am not | They are incompetent fools and crooks. The town is falling to pieces and they are feathering their nests and farting around. | ||
Roy | Doorn | No I am not | for years we've had problems with sewerage, water supply, potholes, refuse removal. Actually all services. You name it, we don't have it. After a ward meeting in December where we heard the usual promises from the Mayor, no improvement. | lately not very much, | Employ qualified, skilled and experienced people. Politics must not interfere with service delivery. |
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. | |
Tsepiso | Qwaqwa | Not fully | Services delivery (Water) and infrastructure | Working together | Please use the qualified and experienced individuals in all positions not nepotism |
Ursula | Buffalo Flats | No I am not | Gosh - potholes - state of roads, Municipal grounds are not kept. Grass not cut in different areas e.g. pavements, cemeteries, schools. Illegal dumping is just ignored. People in Buffalo Flats claiming grounds to make their backyards bigger and park their trucks, after complaining to the DA and municipality, nothing is being done about it. The man even put a fence around "HIS" new backyard having braais there, kids cant play soccer there anymore. All because Quinton Kenny has connections in "HIGH" places. nevermind that he dumps his rubble on that ground too. Absolute failure of BCM and the political parties, shame they must be scared. | At the moment nothing. Electricity costs a fortune, everything is expensive, politicians and business people are just seeing to themselves and most are corrupt. the rich are getting richer and the poor becoming poorer. | just give another political party a chance to take over...don't wait till everything collapses. |
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. | |
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. | |
Patrick | Uvongo | No I am not | Maladministration and Corruption are rife in our Reynkonyeni and UGU District Municipalities. There is never funds budgeted for regular maintenance and thus also physical improvements, but the vultures regularly get above inflation rate salary increases. The recent initiation of the TIDY TOWNS initiative is providing much of the Uvongo areas service deliveries via private sector businesses and individual ratepayer funding. Even government has the cheek to say that they agree and support Private Participation, meantime they just smugly applaud the Tidy Town efforts and continue unashamedly with Annual Budgets that are designed to fill their pockets. | Our country overall requires major attention to repairing and rebuilding our mismanaged forgotten about road works, and not just in areas where current ANC councillors live! Our road transport of goods is crucial to our economy and then we must also look at upgrading ournationwide train and bus sytems. | |
Brian | Kew | Not fully | |||
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 |
Thomas | No I am not | Yes, vote for the DA, Action SA or FF+ |