Metro’s ‘lazy staff’
A giant pothole in Court street has been left unfixed for a month now. The hole is filled with water and poses a danger to residents and motorists.
Tshwane metro’s service delivery is being questioned, with residents in Proclamation Hill and Pretoria West complaining about the lack of service delivery in their areas. According to Nagesh Chetty, chairperson of the South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) in Court street, a giant pothole has been left unfixed for a month now. The hole is filled with water and poses a danger to residents and motorists.
“The hole is due to a water leak that has been left unfixed for a year now. Water-related repairs are not done immediately. We are tired of the Tshwane metro’s lazy staff not doing their work.”
Chetty said that it took the metro six to eight weeks to respond to the community each time.
Residents from Proclamation Hill in Silicon, Colbalt and Kaait streets were without electricity for two days even though their accounts were not outstanding.
Only after Chetty contacted the mayor’s office on Monday night regarding the matter did residents see a team of workers repair the electricity on Tuesday.
“We have been without electricity since Monday and meat worth about R800 became inedible. The lights are fixed now, but it is unacceptable that when we call them they tell us that they are sorting it out,” resident Alta de Wet said.
She also mentioned that they have been struggling to get their street lights fixed and that it was unsafe. The other problems raised by Sanco were meters not being read, street lights in some areas not being fixed, the increase in the theft of cables, bins and fencing and the metro’s alleged lack of service delivery in these areas.
“We now see ongoing problems between the metro and the community. If this is the way the employees of the metro continue to operate, we will ask all our people to break every meter as of next month and not pay any rates, taxes or electricity. It is bad not to pay, but the metro cannot allow our people to live without service for 48 hours,” Chetty emphasised.
Residents are not happy at all with the service they get from the Tshwane metro because they pay rates and taxes, but their cries for better service seem to be falling on deaf ears. Rekord contacted the Tshwane metro regarding the residents’ problem and a comment was promised to be delivered before going to print. Nothing, however, materialised.
