Act for sake of the frail who must travel road of pain
IAM one of the senior citizens from Centane and I am proud to have been born and bred in this place, but I’m not happy with the bad roads, especially the one to Tafalofefe Hospital.
It has got worse and worse to an unbelievable degree. When one considers the pain that we feel as patients who travel on the road from Butterworth to the Tafalofefe Hospital on a daily basis, the matter gets even worse.
We have even visited the offices of the local municipality and gone all the way up to Bhisho, but with no response.
Four years back the taxi drivers blocked all roads to Centane with the intention of getting help. But up to now there has been no action.
I am making a plea to all of those who feel any pain about this situation to please take action.
We have seen that there is a lot of money which has been wasted in our local municipality, Mnquma.
Suddenly everybody wants to be in the municipality or in parliament. But what have we done to fight corruption? Think of those who have fallen for this freedom. What do our consciences tell us?
Let us be united and fight corruption so that services are delivered to our people. Comrades wake up. — Mzonke Matshona, via e-mail queue from 3am or 4am in order to be helped on a particular day, failing which they will be turned away and will to have to start the arduous process again.
One hardly needs to point out that being in the middle of the veld at 3am offers no guarantee of safety from the marauding thugs that afflict our society and to which Mthatha is not immune.
The pertinent question – one that begs a responsible answer – is what is the municipal management doing to rectify the situation and make it user friendly?
All of those who earnestly withstand the queue and it's drudgery happen to be paying customers, so the revenue is there to source land or a site in a safer location and build a modern centre with proper booking facilities so that the people of Mthatha are treated humanely!
I implore the powers that be to take Mthatha residents into consideration and empathise. Come on now, it is not too difficult a proposition. — Sityhilelo Malusi, Mthatha