The City of Johannesburg’s Executive Mayor, Dada Morero, invited residents of Ward 80, Region A, to a community engagement at the Rabie Ridge Community Hall to voice their grievances.
This meeting follows several complaints that residents have been raising with the ward councillor, Melody Hlatshwayo, who also had the opportunity to address the community.
In her address, Hlatshwayo thanked the community for honouring the invitation from the mayor and told residents that she has been escalating the issues they have been facing to the mayor, and that hopefully today change will take place.
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“I would like to welcome our honourable mayor, stakeholders and also thank the community for making it today. We were supposed to meet with the mayor in January, and unfortunately, we were struck by the issue of no water… So I know that those are some of the challenges that delayed this meeting because you had to solve them,” said Hlatswayo.
Community members seized the opportunity to raise their concerns and air their grievances, such as unemployment, poor service delivery, lack of infrastructure in schools and unresponsive police officers.
Resident Adam Campbell, addressing the mayor, said, “I’ve got several issues, but I won’t raise all of them because it’s a long list, so I will just summarise them.
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The first one is the issue of land occupation, issue of housing, issue of schools and tertiaries, a 24-hour clinic, and economic empowerment.”
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In response to the residents’ grievances, Morero, said, “Speaking on the biggest problem that the community and the whole of Midrand has been facing, is having no water. So the real problem here is that everyone has no water because most of you don’t even have meters, yet you are still consuming water.”
He added that they were going to address this problem in Ivory Park, Ebony Park, and Rabie Ridge.
To hear in-depth about the residents’ grievances, go to our TikTok page and watch the videos there.
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