According to Loe, the mayor, in his speech at last week’s council meeting, spoke of his amazement that 11 000 youthS had arrived in Alberton.
He said this far exceeded the expected 5 000 that them metro had planned for.
He also spoke of the older family members who had stood in queues as place holders for their children and grandchildren, so that those youths could be elsewhere, standing in job queues, said Loe.
She said that this statement showed just how out of touch Gungubele and his MMCs were with the real challenges faced by not only the youth, but every resident in Ekurhuleni.
Loe said the overwhelming response to the job summit did not surprise her in the least.
Besides its innovative and practical policy on government providing youth wage subsidies, the DA had, for several years, been offering solutions to every sphere of government on youth unemployment and other major issues affecting residents, she added.
During her response time to the mayor, Loe spoke of the disgraceful lack of proper toilets and the terrible state of existing toilets in Ekurhulenis informal settlements.
She pointed out that the DA would continue to engage in the correct manner and use the council chamber and oversight committee meetings to discuss the issues the council faces and would not degrade itself to the faeces-flinging politics employed by members of the ruling party in the Western Cape.
If the DA resorted to such tactics, she assured the mayor, members in the Ekurhuleni Council Chamber would be neck deep in human excrement.
Loe, restricted by time, managed to mention only a few instances of the complete lack of proper ablution and toilet facilities available to hundreds of thousands of Ekurhulenis residents.
She informed the mayor that she had had enough of bringing these problems to his attention, only to be ignored, and that her next step would be the Human Rights Commission, in the hope that there may, finally, be some action taken.
