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Cllr Mkhwanazi said her ward worked closely with Home Affairs last year and held an Identity Document (ID) programme at Kwethu Primary School for oSizweni residents.
What has your Ward Councillor done for you in the past four years?
Cllr Happiness Mkhwanazi says she has spent the past four years implementing change in Ward 30.
Among the upliftment projects she highlighted, the main one was bringing electricity to the area.
“Last October we received an electricity contract from Eskom which assisted in lighting up about 200 households in the Emasimini Farm Area, which had been in the dark from 2014. We are busy with another group of houses that need electricity, close to the Emasimini Sport Ground, providing a prepaid system.”
Cllr Mkhwanazi said the committee has also been involved in a housing project in the Emazoweni Greenfield Area in oSizweni.
“Fifteen houses have already been built,” she elaborated, “and those will be occupied by the oSizweni Handicraft Centre members who are disabled.”
She estimates that around 100 houses should be built in that area, but attributes budget restraints as a challenge.
“We are experiencing a bit of a challenge there because of budgets, but we are hopeful we will recover financially as a municipality soon.”
Cllr Mkhwanazi said her ward worked closely with Home Affairs last year and held an Identity Document (ID) programme at Kwethu Primary School for oSizweni residents.
“We worked with the Home Affairs office to provide IDs for community members who didn’t have ID documents or had lost theirs. We helped two young male adults, Melisizwe Zulu (22) and Njabulo Khumalo (23) get their IDs for the first time. We have also absorbed them into the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) programme.”
The South African Government states that EPWP is one of the key programmes aimed at eradicating poverty and providing income relief through temporary work for the unemployed. The unemployed youth are placed in different short-term work projects within the municipality, in order to generate an income for them.
Another ongoing project, she continued, was that of roads.
“We have repaired the potholes on the one road running close to Buhlebentuthuko Higher Primary School. Currently we are working on on the AO0103 road which will soon be tarred; it is a gravel road at the moment. Another gravel road which should be properly graded starts close to Kwethu Primary School.”
Mkhwanazi said families from poverty-stricken backgrounds in Ward 30 were supported with food parcels through the Ward’s Poverty Alleviation Food relief Programme.
“Last year we assisted 45 families because we understand the plight of poverty in some of the areas in oSizweni. It is our job to identify families who are really struggling and help them in any way possible.”
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