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Martie | Heilbron | No I am not | Disgraceful circumstances! Heilbron falls under Parys. 150km away. If we have elecricity or ESKOM problems we have to wait for technicians from there or Frankfort to come. This week we have been without power for two days which results in no water because they cannot pump without electricity. Our streets are like bundu badhing tracts. No upkeep at all. Towns people are supplying stuff and money to have some streets fixed but when rain comes we are back to square one again! Rubbish removal is contrated out, so if they have broken pick-up vehicles, we suffer because there are no replacements or alternatives. Then black bags stay on street corners for weeks, exposed to bagdiggers and stray dogs. If you don't clean your sidewalk, it stays overgrown. (this is why we pay rates and taxes for the municipality to keep this clean!) the local day workers who are hired for this kind of job, sit on the sidewalks or lie on the grass and wait for time to go home. Stormwater runoffs are blocked and overgrown, sewage drains are blocked, broken water pipes are left without repair (I dont know who pay for these losses) Even the town hall and office buildings and workers are a disgrace! Dirty, eating while they help you if you are lucky! 4/5 sitting in one office chatting away as if you are not there! Or offline! Utility bills are always late and incorrect! Staff cannot even work out or know how to calculate tariffs! Cattle wonder through town and if your yard is open there is nothing left of the garden. Crime is high, druggies on the streets, workless people wandering around! Dogs are poisoned. Poor response from police and if you go to the police station to be helped the response is just as poor. Which was once a beautiful rural town has become a drugnest and a disgrace to the country! | Nothing | |
Colin | RAMSGATE | No I am not | Totally not supplying services yet giving themselves fat increases and embezzlement | See above | |
Debbie | Yes I am | Best run province | The ease of logging a call. Speedy response, CLEAN SUBURB | ||
wayne | bordeaux | No I am not | Service delivery is sub par. Potholes unmanageable. JHB water restituion a year or more behind. Decay increasing. Vagrants sleep wherever they want. Filth and pollution everywhere | The potential for a great country to rise from the grips of the mafia cartels under the leadership of the ANC | |
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 |
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 | |
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. | |
Katherine | Honeydew | No I am not | Uncleaned verges. Potholes. No road markings. Missing stop signs. Frequent power failures outside of loadshedding. Non working traffic lights and street lights. Lack of any visible policing. Hijacked old farm plots. | Get rid of the ANC and put into power a strong willed ethical leader. | |
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. |
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. | |
Cathy | No I am not | I am not happy with the way the City of Cape Town is driving densification in our area which has a dire lack of resources able to support this. They are only concerned about supporting developers and not about the residents and do not put any of the money they get from these additional rates back into the community. Table View is beginning to look like a slum with frequent water outages and sewage spills in the streets. The roads are also full of potholes and if they get repaired it is such a rubbish job. They are also not interested in engaging or listening to the residents, their support is 100% skewed towards developers who put up horrible tenement-type buildings. | I enjoy the people in the community who support one another but this has nothing to do with the City of Cape Town. | There should be a moratorium on ANY building until the sewage works in the area is upgraded and ANY future plans for development should have services in place BEFORE development commences. I also want them to put more effort into decent buildings and green areas in our suburbs and not letting developers put up any old shit! | |
Heather | Boksburg | Not fully | resources have not been well managed or maintained in past years, this has led to a deterioration in service delivery and increased crime | there is a strong community engagement and spirit | |
Joan | Umtentweni | No I am not | Waste collection is non existent in the rural areas, and the management of waste is poor AIP removal non existent | We pull together as a community, everyone looks out for each other | Train those responsible for verge maintenance in AIP removal and give them pride in their work Institute a proper recycling system in the district so that people get rewarded for recycling Educate children about the environment |
Leslie | Randfontein | No I am not | |||
Jacobus G | Booysens | No I am not | Counselor not doing there Jobs. Services not up to standerd and there billing is in a mess, People that get paid but not doing there Job's. Get people that wanted to work and make a difference. | Nothing, it was the place to stay,not anymore | Yes, start to lock up corrupt officials |