Challenge to ward councillors: fix roads

ON THE eve of elections, all parties come closer to the people – including kissing children, giving food parcels to the poor, engaging in “hand-shaking campaigns” in malls, and at bus stops and train stations, attending church services, sports and cultural events. Worse, since 2009, izimbizo have been abandoned – clearly leaders are afraid to account, also because factionalism in the ANC sees our people being used for factional wars.

I am challenging councillors, MPLs and MPs, through the media, to compare the quality of the roads connecting the R102 and N2 from Groutville High School to Umvoti Toll Plaza, from the R102 to Cranbrook which passes through Wards 9 and 10, and compare them to the road from the R102 at Shakaskraal to Tinley Manor Beach, the road that passes Palm Lakes and private schools. This road has a low traffic volume and not more than 300 houses compared with the ones to Cranbrook and Groutville High School, Umvoti Toll Plaza through the N2. I raised the issue of street lights with some councillors, whose responses were unsatisfactory, to be extremely polite.