Umthambeka residents invited to a meeting

Residents of Umthambeka and the New Bondhouses are invited to a community meeting to be held at Tembisa West College.

The meeting will take place on Saturday, July 16 at 8h30 am.

According to one of the organisers, Mr Develd Monyai, the issues that will form part of the discussions will include community policing forums, patrollers and neighbourhood watch, service delivery and budget allocations.

The residents recently submitted a petition to the Ekurhuleni council concerning their grievances.

They requested council to act speedily in response to their grievances.

“For the past five months we have been experiencing water cuts without anyone from council explaining to us what the problem was.

“Attempts to try to engage our local councillor to solve our problems proved fruitless. He does not seem interested helping us resolve our problems, we felt as tax payers it is needed to bring these matters to council’s attention,” the residents stated in a petition.

The residents said they depend on the electricity as their source of energy but it is unreliable as it goes on and off, and damages their electrical appliances.

Mr Monyai said their streetlights are not working.

“We have been experiencing a high number of housebreakings for the past months. We are requesting a high mast (Apollo) to be installed in the area to reduce the level of crime.

“We are also requesting speed humps. We have in the past experienced accidents of people being knocked down by speeding motorists while crossing Musa Street. We have children who are crossing this busy road to and from school which is exposing them to danger,” said Mr Monyai.

A request for comment was sent to Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality’s on Monday, July 11.

At the time of going to print, no comment had been received.

For more information about the meeting contact Mr Raleaka at 0719345807, Mr Monyai at 0847955230 or Mr Tsibi at 0721275797.