Kgetlengrivier Municipality

CORRUPTION KILLS: Four local Koster men have died while trying to unblock a blocked sewage drain which local residents have been complaining about since 2005! Nobody knows why the Kgetlengrivier Municipality even exists or what it is there for, because they don’t render any services, except to take ratepayers money and divert it into their own pockets. Even the rescue had to be done by private citizens as the firemen were unable to!

Four men of Koster in North West province are dead because of the local ANC controlled municipality, that just steals and pay themselves fat salaries, but don’t provide any actual services. Connie Cloete (61) and Chris Pretorius (73) decided to open a blocked sewage pipe in the town themselves on Friday afternoon. The blockages was causing an unbearable stench in the area and residents have been complaining about this since at least 2005, but the local Kgetlengrivier municipality is beyond useless and local governance
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The municipality that serves the area comprising Swartruggens, Derby and Koster, south-east of Sun City, in the North-West province has totally stopped functioning and that includes each and every service, even basics like the provision of water. Local residents led by the Rate Payers Association have declared an emergency and have started to provide the services themselves!

The reason that the municipality can’t provide any services is because all municipal workers are on strike, because the municipality has taken the pension contributions of the workers to pay for other “expenses”. The local residents are already working shifts to run the water treatment plant according to Mr Carel van Heerden of the local ratepayers association who was interviewed by Netwerk24.

The association had to obtain a court order last week to prohibit striking workers from intimidating community volunteers who now operate the water treatment plant . The i
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