Mayor says he is coming back to Springs

Mondli Gungubele, Ekurhuleni’s Mayor promised the residents of Everest/Guguletu that he will visit the Bakerton Community Hall before the end of the month to give feedback on issues of concern to the community.

At a meeting with the Ekurhuleni editors in Boksburg on Thursday, he said Everest/Guguletu is an area with a lot of challenges, as raised at a public meeting in August.

He feels it is important to provide feedback to the residents about their issues.

He explained at the meeting the municipality has some principles it is focusing on.

First they focus on service delivery by to maintaining the services in the developed areas and by developing in the under-developed areas.

Secondly, the metro is focussing on the re-organising of the city’s transportation to be able to compete world-wide.

The third principle is to make it a city everyone wants to live in and to ensure residents have quality of life.

He also said one of the metro’s biggest challenges is the call centre.

This centre was upgraded from a staff compliment in the 40s to the current 280-strong staff members and they are investigating shorter shifts for the call centre operators and better relations between these operators and the public.

Gungubele also said the making of Ekurhuleni into a digital city was delayed and it seems that the metro will only have wifi in major centres in three year’s time.

The aerotropolis is still in its making, as the strategic road map was recently completed.

Gungubele says this aerotroplis will  eventually also benefit towns like Springs and Kwatsaduza.