The South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) is fed-up with the deterioration of Matjhabeng.
According to Tshepo Davids, Sanco provincial spokesperson, the Matjhabeng Local Municipality is currently going under. “It is painful for residents to see the municipality going from bad to worse because of a lack of proper leadership that have the interest of seeing a better growth of the municipality,” he said in a statement released on Friday, 4 November.
Sanco is in consultation with other stakeholders that will convene an emergency imbizo on Wednesday, 9 November, in Welkom Central Park to address the problems plaguing Matjhabeng.
Among the issues to be discussed are service delivery, the employment of friends and ANC delegates in publicly advertised posts, wasteful and fruitless imbizos, the Letsema campaign, and the 200 general worker posts that were advertised and then frozen to accommodate branch delegates to achieve political scoring.
The imbizo will also address the R600 000 that was put aside for the mayoral cup but is now missing, the appointment of a new municipal manager who is from the Eastern Cape, the black service providers who are owed money by the municipality and who have been side-lined to accommodate white-owned service providers, as well as the bursaries and educational assistance from the municipality that was stopped when the new administration took over in 2021. The issue of squatter camps that are not being formalized or granted service delivery is also on the agenda.
“Soon we will request a meeting with provincial government officials to discuss the problems of the residents, and we will use social platforms and media to report,” said Davids.
