“If the municipal manager (MM) doesn’t go immediately, we will shut down this municipality and make it ungovernable.”
This sentiment was expressed in a memorandum of demands that the Tlokwe Local Entrepreneurs (TLE) handed to the executive mayor, Kgotso Khumalo, on Tuesday.

Community members joined the group of entrepreneurs when they marched from Ikageng to the Tlokwe City Council and reiterated their demands clearly. As reported in a previous edition of Herald, the group of local businessmen want local contractors to be given preference over outsiders.
Their memorandum of demands focused on the MM’s failure to follow supply chain management acts and regulations. Other grievances related to unemployment, electricity, municipal land and farms, bursaries, corruption, and security projects.
Fula Malefane, the chairperson of TLE, accuses Tlokwe of employing people from other municipalities instead of giving skilled locals a chance.
“As a community, we also request the executive mayor to reduce the percentage that is deducted from prepaid electricity purchases for services arrears,” he said.
On the issue of municipal land and farms, TLE wants to lease municipal properties and farms and is asking for all the documents relating to the lease contracts.
Malefane says the mayor should make it a requirement for contractors to donate one percent of the tender amount awarded for all major projects into municipal bursaries as part of his social responsibility.
He called on the mayor to investigate current construction projects for which many of the contractors had used local addresses to gain tenders.
“The projects include the resealing of roads, the development of van der Hoff Park, Sarafina stadium, Potch dam project, the Ext. 9 sewer reticulation and top structures, security tenders and other projects.
Khumalo was given seven days in which to respond to the demands.