The year 2013 has come and passed, indeed, a year the country took some really great knocks with the deaths of legends Jacob Matlala and former President Nelson Mandela.
It was the year in which we reminisce about the massive decline of service delivery in the Govan Mbeki municipal area on an unprecedented scale since 1994.
It transcends description about why those incompetent, non productive employees remain intact in their positions of employment.
This is despite a loud outcry from the community in relation to their shortcomings in their respective fields of service, while some councillors falsely believe their deployment is some form of calling and a profession instead of a commitment to serve the people who voted for them.
While there has been a rapid expansion in the size of the township, the reverse is true when it comes to the development on infrastructure of certain basic things, such as sewage and electricity, have remained stagnant through the years and were never upgraded to cope with the current high demand.
We have also experienced a gradual exodus of highly skilled artisans from the Govan Mbeki Municipality.
It is hard to tell if their replacements were people of equal skills and acuity, judging by the problems we are currently experiencing, constant power outages, potholes, inaccessible roads, garbage, blocked sewage and drains that have even earned the township the nickname of Land of Many Rivers.
The qualified audit report from the Auditor General that has found the municipality wanting has been of no consequence since no heads have rolled.
Not even any stern action from either the provincial or regional legislatures to rid and uproot the dead wood within the municipality, especially the ones who hold office with dubious academic credentials.
It does not require the wisdom of the Biblical Solomon to unscramble and distinguish between the correct from the incorrect, but only the application of simple logic.
For instance, if a chauffeur is hired and cannot execute the duties to the maximum, is such a person retained or fired?
Mzwakhe Ntshalintshali, eMbalenhle.
