Posts tagged with 'service delivery'

 

Continuous service protests by barbaric protesters in SA threaten people’s safety

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The incident near Uniondale in the Southern Cape where a farmer, according to media reports, shot at protesters who were reportedly participating in a violent protest action and blocking roads serves as proof that these service delivery protests can lead to the loss of life as members of the public may feel that their safety is being threatened.

The police are investigating a charge of attempted murder against the man, but one must ask to what degree his personal safety, the safety of his family and his property were under threat.

Every person in South Africa has the constitutional right to defend their personal safety as well the safety of their family and to prevent any damage to their property. Violent service delivery protests could compel other people to use violence in order to exercise this right of theirs.

The investigation into the matter must be conducted and finalised as soon as possible so as to determine whether the farmer acted in
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African mentality in SA exceeds all expectations – Is there still environment where education can take place peacefully – Violence is destroying education system, burning down schools in black neighbourhoods is increasing

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Violence in and at schools is destroying the education system of the country. The burning down of schools in black neighbourhoods is one of the increasing trends. As residents become angry about service delivery, schools and libraries are being burnt down.

One of the major problem that currently exists is cases of assault and murder on school grounds. In Johannesburg, a 16-year-old pupil was stabbed to death by a fellow scholar last week.

Furthermore, there were cases in Pietersburg, Tlhabane, Mondeor and Lentegeur where attacks on scholars by scholars occurred. Calls now come from communities that schools should be placed under police and / or military guard. Is it an environment where education and especially education can take place peacefully?

On a positive note, in the years of the existence of the Movement of Christian People’s Education, there was no incident of violence at the 35 CVO schools under their control.

Is it becaus
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Prepare for total collapse, led by municipalities – recent collapses of basic services at several municipalities are not irregularities, they are omens of nationwide collapses

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The recent collapses of water services in Grahamstown and the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast are not anomalies. They are harbingers of nationwide collapses.

The auditor-general, conveniently for the government, waited until after the State of the Nation address by President Cyril Ramaphosa to release his annual report. The president should be appropriately grateful.

The bad news from Kimi Makwetu is that more municipalities are near collapse and non-compliance has increased. The AG’s staff is also increasingly being threatened with violence and hampered in its work.

The good news? Well, not much.

For the past years every single AG’s report into the financial state of municipalities has shown an accelerating downward trend. Every year, the AG has bemoaned the lack of decisive leadership at the very top of government and the fact that there are no consequences for corruption and incompetence. Every year, nothing substantial is done, setting
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Township Alexandria, where most residents are supporters of ANC regime, is yet again protesting over no service delivery

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The protesters in Alexandria are at it again, they started blocking roads by throwing burning tires on access routes.

Traffic has been disrupted while prospective car rental workers have been hurled out of vehicles to prevent them from working.

The ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has already set up an inter-ministerial task team in April to address the unrest in the area and to come up with solutions.

Almost 60 days later and nothing came of the promises.

The action creates the feeling that government supporters continue to stumble from one protest march to another without really solving the problems.

Meanwhile, state money is being wasted on committee that needs to be investigated, without the investigations leading to material action.

-Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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The Road Traffic Inspectorate refused to attend N3 truck attacks because they are not paid for callouts

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Over and above their overtime, Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) officers used to be paid for callouts to emergencies but the introduction of a new rule on overtime has put a stop to that resulting in minimal to no staff available to attend serious incidents.

This was revealed in a report by The Witness in which RTI is alleged to have known about the imminent violent attacks on trucks at the weekend, but did not put enough officers on the roads because of the clampdown on overtime pay.

The recently-introduced rule says that officers cannot exceed 520 hours of overtime a year. Previously, officers would get paid for callouts to emergencies over and above their overtime payments.

But now there are concerns that there will not be enough officers available for emergencies — especially on weekends.

40 RTI Officers dropped
The report claims that more than 40 officers at the Pietermaritzburg RTI office alone were dropped
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Punishment doesn’t really fit the crime! – What the disgraced eThekwini mayor will earn while on special leave at the taxpayer’s expense after her toilet tender scandal

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The punishment doesn’t really fit the crime on this one.  Zandile Gumede may be on “special leave”, but her salary payments won’t be taking a break.

Embattled eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede begins 30 days of “special leave” on Monday, as mandated by the ANC’s Provincial Executive Committee Meeting this weekend. The members have claimed this will allow them time to decide what happens next with the official, who is facing a slew of corruption charges.

However, it seems that Gumede will be sitting in the naughty corner at the taxpayer’s expense. The conditions of her absence mean that she will still receive a full salary for effectively doing nothing over the next month.

How much money does Zandile Gumede earn?

As a municipal mayor, her yearly salary works out to be R1.35 million – which is roughly the same as what Julius Malema makes as the leader of a “minority party” in Parliament – it’s good wo
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Anger at poor public service delivery in SA townships: ‘If this is freedom, then I don’t want it,’ says Eastern Cape granny –But still the majority people are voting for the ANC

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Eighty-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa cuts a defeated figure, sitting outside her crumbling home in Dlibona village in the small Eastern Cape town of Flagstaff, GroundUp reports.

Her adult children can’t get IDs, so the family of six survives off her old age pension.

Family and neighbours say the government has failed her, as she lives in “deplorable” conditions. The family shares two one-roomed mud houses, one of which is barely standing after heavy rains last month.

They collect water from a river in the village. The pit toilet built by the municipality was destroyed, so they use the bushes to relieve themselves.

Nontsasa said she does not feel like she is living in a modern day, free South Africa.

“If this is what they call freedom, then I don’t want it. This is not real freedom. This is freedom to starve, freedom to be exposed to the rain and wind, freedom to live like wild animals.”

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Mayhem and havoc broke out at Steynsrus as illegal protesters destroyed infrastructure and looted town

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Following havoc and mayhem that took place, recently at Steynsrus and Kroonstad where critical infrastructure and resources were destroyed, the Provincial Commissioner of the police in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Mondli Zuma spat fire, condemning the perpetrators, masquerading as concerned and affected citizens whereas some have criminal intent of cashing on the misery of citizens.

The narratives of the General are deducted from the incidence of violence that broke out since Monday morning, 15 April 2019, wherein some community members went on the rampage damaging property. The actions of some individuals who jumped on the same wagon with concerned citizens and in the process, set alight offices and a vehicle belonging to the Department of Social Development as well as damaging others are described as barbaric.

They proceeded and violently looted shops belonging to foreign nationals and locals.

General Zuma did not mince his words when talkin
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#AlexandraTotalShutDown – LIKE SARAFINA SAID, “BURN! BURN! BURN!”

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I am yet to meet a People who are more than ready to destroy their own environment in an effort to “make a statement” about their need for adequate service delivery.

For this “statement”, Black South Africans are always ready to burn down their own neighbourhoods, reside in ashes and wait for the same useless ANC government (which heavily relies on White people’s taxes) to rebuild the same neighbourhoods they had burned to the ground.

Therefore, whenever a Black community makes a “statement” towards a local government, what they really want to say is, “we don’t really care about our lives. Which is why we are ready to destroy ourselves just to get your attention.”

For no people who have a real understanding and appreciate their value would do what Black South Africans do whenever their illusions turn around and bite them. And what are these illusions?

[You will never see Indians
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A tale of two (broken) cities – Mahikeng, the former pride of North West for its cleanliness and progressive policies, is now overrun with potholes, refuse and debt thanks to the ANC-regime

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Mahikeng, the former pride of North West for its cleanliness and progressive policies, is now overrun with potholes, refuse and debt. Driving is a gamble and drinking tap water is an extreme sport. Mthatha is much the same.

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A song cut from one of motswako rapper Mo’ Molemi’s albums could provide the best evidence of just how long Mahikeng’s residents have endured driving on potholed streets.

The track Maspala (municipality) was supposed to have been included on the album Motsamai seven years ago.

In it, Molemi sings in Setswana: “Kere somebody thiba dipotholes, kara yame ya tlola every time I am on the road. Ke a go kopa maspala thiba di pothole; go konega rim every time I go home.”

Loosely translated, it says: “I say somebody fix the potholes; my car bounces every time I’m on the road. I beg of you municipality fix the potholes; rims get damaged every time I go home.”

For the past few weeks, Maspala
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Discovery apparently is more focused on profit than on service delivery to patients – patients signing in at certain hospitals now have to pay an extra R5000

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Discovery’s medical scheme announced at a very late stage that patients signing in at certain hospitals would have to pay an extra R5000 or go to an approved clinic.

The arrangement will be implemented from February 1, 2019 and doctors are not happy with the announcement.

Experts point out that the medical scheme is apparently more focused on profit than on service delivery to patients.

Such new measures are found to be unacceptable by many members of the scheme, but it appears that objections to Discovery’s management and decision-makers have fallen on deaf ears.

Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
This report does not necessarily reflects the opinion of SA-news.

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