Post can’t even do snail mail
ON entering the Post Office one is made aware of their motto: “We deliver. whatever it takes”. It should actually read, “We don’t deliver. we don’t care what it takes”. I ordered a birthday present from the US. It was sent on May 5 and arrived in Johannesburg on May 8. It has not been seen since.
I was given four phone numbers to call. The phones have obviously been impounded as no one answers – tried “eleventy-hundred” times.
I met the branch manager who tells me her hands are tied. To what? I am frustrated beyond belief. — Name supplied, via e-mail seriously cash-strapped municipalities is totally ludicrous. Why was the King Sabata Dalindyebo comparison made?
The main reason was obviously that it pays one of the highest stipends of all the local authorities. But it is almost bankrupt and this may well be one of the reasons why.
One can now also understand why many other Eastern Cape local authorities also experience serious financial constraints as they also apparently pay more than BCM.
There would be no objections to higher stipends being paid if ward committee members were doing a fine job in their various wards but one just has to look around to see this is not the case.
I don’t disagree with giving people decent increases, but these should be performance based. If the ward is in good shape, well looked after and run, and problems and grievances are speedily attended to, there would not be half the problems we now have.
I’m sure, if wards were well looked after, ratepayers would not object to decent increases. But a lot of people are just in it for the money and do not have the ward’s interest at heart. Further, if they do not pull their weight they must be worked out of the system as soon as possible, in a process guided by legislation. — Clive Muller, Hamburg