Editor –

With the much-anticipated and long-awaited national and provincial elections done and dusted, the potholes quickly filled (albeit the grass has already started growing through them), food parcels handed out, water accounts halved, new vehicles purchased and yellow plants dispatched by province, what is left to do until the local government electioneering begins?

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Lots… Week after week, letters written to this newspaper seem to go unanswered and correspondence by Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality is not forthcoming, supposedly because all were preoccupied with the elections.
It seems like management could not care less about meeting with the Ratepayers Association, but had time to do public relations pictures with the new vehicles! Where have you been while the proverbial Rome burns?

Yes, the ruling party triumphed once again at provincial level; how they did it is beyond me. Municipalities under their watch were placed under administration… they were “shocked” to see the state of these towns and cities (Pietermaritzburg, which is where they are based), poor audit outcomes and YOU DID NOTHING to mitigate this throughout the last five years!

Time to SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT!

We, the ratepayers, cannot be paying our hard-earned money for you to continue this corruption and ineptitude!
You have brought this town to its knees – irrespective of the results of the election, you cannot in all honesty claim that it is the will of the people. It will take some divine intervention and ABSOLUTE willpower to get things up and running as close to normal as possible.

If you have no interest in serving the people and are only interested in filling your pockets, GET OUT!
We certainly do not need people without integrity governing our towns.
We will continue to pray for this beloved town of ours; once the jewel of the Midlands.

Concerned Citizen

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