Principal with fishing rod and plastic ducks at pothole-dam
School may soon charge money for this fishing pond.
What do you do when a hole in front of your school gets bigger and bigger, and the municipality doesn’t respond to your requests to fix it?
You take your camping chair, fishing rod, and a few yellow plastic ducks, and make a video.
Kanonkop High School principal Martin Fourie is totally fed up.
His repeated calls to the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality have simply been ignored.
Yesterday, his frustration reached a peak.
He put his camping chair next to the waterhole to show residents that another Kimberley Hole is emerging in town.
Fourie said that if things continue like this, they may soon charge residents a fee to use the pond.
The video may be funny, but it actually isn’t.
It shows residents’ frustrations that are reaching a breaking point.
From Mhluzi, the information is that the residents are so fed up with poor service delivery that the mayor, Clr Mhlonishwa Masilela, and most of his mayoral committee members will not be re-elected in November.
This is probably the root of the problem; they do not care because they will no longer serve on the council after November.
Service delivery, such as garbage removal, also ground to a halt yesterday, while Municipal Manager Mandla Mnguni tries to put out fires.
After first apologising to residents for not removing garbage, he said on Tuesday evening that council members are talking nonsense that garbage will not be removed.
Council members immediately hit back with ‘he is lying’.
Residents of Gholfsig, Kanonkop, Extension 18, Mineralia, Clubville, parts of Extension 24, and parts of Nasareth have not had their refuse collected.
Some neighbourhoods’ garbage has not been removed for the last three weeks.
Councillor Johann Dyason said that the water leak in front of Kanonkop High School had been fixed, and the mayor had undertaken that the hole would be filled yesterday afternoon.
When he got there at 07:00 this morning, ‘Fourie’s Duck Pond’ was still there.
“Everything is falling apart,” Dyason said.
Roberts Estate had a huge burst pipe, and at Tulip Street, a pipe was repaired only to burst again.
“There is crisis upon crisis.”
