EDITOR – A response to the recent petty politicking in the South Coast Sun by Frank Horn.
You now have our attention regarding the appalling state of affairs in our once proud town, Amanzimtoti.
Perhaps you could enlighten us, as to what influence MessrsVan Belkum,and Beetge have over the paid custodians (the authority) of this area that have allowed our once model facilities to degenerate.
To name but a few:
- Beach Road and beach parking areas being controlled by aggressive vagrants and malingerers posing as carguards.
- The previous waterboard building in Rosslyn Road is now derelict and the gardens unkempt.
- The parking area and garden outside the police station is littered and unmaintained.
- The school, a place of learning, behind the police station is unkempt and is allowed to dispose of its waste over the fence into Raleigh Road.
- With regards to the new crèche in Raleigh Road, infrastructure and landscaping remains unused and unmaintained.
- The taxi rank area is being used as a dump and the litter washes into the lagoon between the road and rail bridges.
- The collapse of infrastructure through lack of maintenance, resulting in the pollution of our water courses, the bird sanctuary included.
- The queues and hangers-on waiting for something for nothing (grant payouts) can leave so much litter of junk food and airtime vouchers, which also ends up in the stormwater system.
- The hawkers that set up their wares on the pavements.
- The vagrants setting up camp in the open space abutting the N2.
- The beggars at the robots.
Is this the idea of an enhanced service delivery?
Is it perhaps a once proud people having inherited everything on a plate that now have no respect for the infrastructure? With a sense of entitlement and no sense of community, they have now lost their dignity.
Proud people respect their surroundings and are prepared to maintain them, for mahala if they have to.
Hats off to all those proud volunteers working towards restoring dignity in our community.
An old adage: If it looks like one it is… hence “Durtbin” now transporting their problems to “Amanzimtati.”
Sirs, if you have any influence within the authority, now is the time.
