BREAKING NEWS: “Accelerated” service delivery …to nowhere
BRITS – Election time is around the corner and many South Africans are anticipating a better future for this little colourful rainbow nation of ours. If you paid attention, a dull meaningless phrase thrown around to blanket the masses is: “accelerated service delivery” in many of our communities.
One that you will notice being said a lot before the elections. My question is, why doing the work in a “accelerated” manner when it’s normal service delivery that heaps up with a lack of skill to complete the work in a professional and timeless manner.
No! That will never happen in this day and age. I find it rather peculiar that it takes a hand full of community members to work on the roads, cut the grass and try and make the towns operational in a manner of days. But, it takes weeks and groups of workers to fix a pothole, to correctly fix a water leak, to paint a piece of road or to trim the trees causing power failures for many families in the community.
How ignorant has our society become to celebrate when a pothole is fixed? You don’t see this kind of behaviour in a well-structured society. We need to celebrate tradition, the beauty of our town, yet that has been forgotten years ago. There is no more “Brits Skou” – the Veldskoen Festival, the Christmas lights in town. No, because the lack of responsibility, work management, tradition and most of all the pride we had has washed away into an overflowing drain.
Primindia is a prime example of how the Tax payers money go to waste, how blocked overflowing sewers are left for weeks that turn into months with no repair or lack of accountability of the pollution it causes to the nearby Crocodile river.
We as community members are left for days without water, put on restrictions but the burst pipes are left to flow and waste precious water. How is that fair?
A list of “accelerated service delivery” that is being done by the Madibeng Municipality is a joke, why? Because this needs to be done on a daily and weekly basis. Not monthly nor yearly!
– Fixing potholes (needs to be done immediately, many reports of car accidents specially on the Wagpos and Bethanie roads are reported)
– Re-gravelling strategic gravel roads (can be done monthly not yearly, especially on busy roads that community members in rural areas use)
– Maintenance and marking of internal roads (left for years for motorist to wonder where to drive)
– Grass cutting (the grass grows out weekly, not monthly and is left uncut at street corners to block the view of oncoming traffic for motorists)
– Attending to water leaks (that is never done on time and left for weeks to months with no repair work, wasting precious water we pay for)
It’s sad seeing this little town of ours crumbling away with the handful of community members trying their utter most to keep it together. What will the majority of our community do to rectify this headache that has caused thousands of households in Madibeng so much problems in their everyday lives? When will the people see the wool being stretched double over their eyes? Wake up people!
