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Snoticed drastic changes in administration and in terms of political leadership within the city. The City is much better in terms of cleanliness, as catch pits are being cleared, grass is being cut in the CBD and in residential areas; a great amount of attention is being paid onto the cemeteries, to address all the challenges and clear backlogs.
We are addressing the issues of electricity supply, streetlights and eradicating potholes. We can safely say, since we came in, there has been a huge improvement. People should not lose hope on our government.
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because since I have been active politically, I have been driven by the passion of working for the people. This gives me a full responsibility to go and champion the interest of the people. There have been quite interesting and challenging moments.
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year, we will be completing the reticulation because water is ready to be stored onto the reservoir.
There are two more reservoirs that will also be built. We are starting a programme of educating our people about the importance of paying for our services. It is not that people don’t want to pay, it’s a matter of them being educated about the importance of paying for services. We also have a programme called an indigent register, where all the people who can’t afford to pay
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water and electricity. We are urging them to come forward and register for those free basic services.
We want to assure our people, that by working together, we will achieve more. Our future plans are to make sure that the IDP is being fully implemented. Our people should get better service delivery. We are not going to compromise on service delivery. Our infrastructure must talk to the challenges that our people are facing. We must address these challenges. Where there are no decent roads, electricity or tap water in a household, we must then be able to provide. Our people voted for us because they believe in an IDP. Ours is to then cascade it into a programme of action of the municipality which is going to be our IDP. Our IDP is aimed changing the lives of our people for better.