Moot community meeting hopes to get municipality to attend
Fed up Moot residents will host a meeting this Tuesday as residents feel they increasingly need to take matters into their own hands.
A meeting will be held by the Queenswood Residents Association this week to address residents’ concerns over power interruptions, community safety, service delivery, and lawlessness in the area.
The meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 10, at 19:00 at the Nellie Swart primary school.
The meeting comes as residents have been increasingly taking matters into their own hands by painting road markings, cleaning rubbish from the streets, maintaining pathways and infrastructure, ensuring community security and cutting grass and overgrown areas.
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“It feels like we have to start taking things into our own hands,” said Sonja Nagel, a spokesperson for the community interest group.
“If all our tax is wasted with people that don’t want to work, we have to find our own people that will.”
The meeting will include residents from the entire Moot area.
Organisers were hoping that representatives from the City of Tshwane would be in attendance to hear residents’ complaints.
“We have been trying for months now to invite the MMCs and department heads to a community meeting but didn’t get any response from them.”
Previously, the association said that they had met with ward councillor Roelof Fourie, but that they had never had any reaction since the meeting in April 2022.
It then filed an official complaint which was sent to the speaker and chief whip.
To date, the association has received no response.
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