Mbombela municipality spends R24 million on new service fleet
To enhance service delivery in Mpumalanga’s capital, Mbombela Local Municipality (MLM) has allocated R24 million to acquire 51 new service vehicles.
MBOMBELA – To enhance service delivery in Mpumalanga’s capital, Mbombela Local Municipality (MLM) has allocated R24 million to acquire 51 new service vehicles.
Representatives of MLM, as well as Produkta Nelspruit, gathered at Mbombela Stadium on Wednesday to launch the new fleet. Executive mayor Mr Sibusiso Mathonsi was among the officials.
“We are excited that we finally have the fleet. Our intention is to improve service delivery and to set a good standard of infrastructure maintenance, not just in the city centre, but across Mbombela.”
Mathonsi says the municipality wants to enhance law enforcement by integrating the new vehicles with law enforcers on motorcycles, and the police.
Among the vehicles are nine Ford Ranger super-cab bakkies (a single cab with a short extension), five double-cab and 27 single-cab bakkies, seven trucks and three tractors. These were displayed at the event, however, the trucks were still being built.
The vehicles are allocated to the departments of water and sanitation, waste management, parks and cemeteries, by law enforcement, environmental awareness, facilities management, traffic technical and roads and storm water.
Seyenza Consultants, Produkta’s BEE company, obtained the government tender in September and produced the vehicles a month later. “Nelspruit Ford provided all the bakkies,” says Mr Gideon Visser, dealer principal of Produkta Trucks and operations director of Seyenza Consultants.
“Produkta Nelspruit, who own Seyenza Consultants, provided the trucks.” According to Mathonsi, the fleet will be stationed at the various departments and tracked and monitored centrally, “so they will not be taken advantage of”.
