Service delivery – who cares?

Editor

Why is the municipality employing unqualified people to repair the potholes in our town?

No sooner the potholes have been repaired they begin to reappear.

What is the council doing about it?

Is this just another ploy by council to create jobs for pals?

We are struggling to make ends meet with the ever rising cost of fuel, food, school fees, electricity tariffs, rates and taxes. So come on Municipal Manager, pull up your socks. You have a job to do.

Deliver or please step down.

No ifs and buts.

It is just failure on a mega scale.

Why should I, as a loyal ratepayer, allow my money to be used to keep incompetents in jobs that they couldn’t do?

The incompetents are sitting pretty and having a mighty laugh at the suckers who pay them: you and me.

President Zuma in his statement said that civil servants that do not perform in their duties should not be in that position.

Likewise municipalities that are not delivering should be investigated.

There are people who can barely afford three meals, and here we have unnecessary spending of our hard-earned money.

It’s easy for council to jack up rates each year with no consideration for the man on the street.

Where are Breen Buckus and Tim Jeebodh these days? Sitting pretty, I suppose.

A while back I remember seeing a picture of the duo in the Estcourt News repairing potholes in Outspan Road. Now that they are councillors, we do not see or hear from them yet they drive over these potholes daily. Quite characters these two, having joined every political party until they nestled with the ruling party. Shame.

Oh, by the way what is the latest with the Uthukela District Municipality?

I suspect this was just another ploy used by this duo to get their votes in the election that got them where they are sitting now.

And the voter is sitting with a huge water bill for which they are still indebted to Uthukela.

Come ratepayers, do not sit on the fence and as for me, I know where my vote is going to in the next election.

Big Daddy

The challenge of potholes is being addressed in the form of a structured program.

There are areas that have been completed and we also have some challenges with regards to the supply of needed material for the potholes, which has been the challenge throughout the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Ms PN Njoko

Municipal Manager

A copy of this letter was forwarded to Mr Tim Jeebodh, no response was received at the time of going to print.