THE City of Ekurhuleni had a mayoral council meeting, with mayor Clr Mondli Gungubele, addressing the council in the last session before elections.
The meeting took place on Thursday, June 23, at the Germiston Council Chambers, and discussed various topics.
Proceedings included congratulating the Ekurhuleni soccer club (Highlands Park) on their good form, and a scripture reading and prayer, before Speaker Clr Patricia Khumalo, went on to praise the work they have done in Ekurhuleni, namely the electrification and “blocking out” (process of rearranging clusters of shacks) of informal settlements, the world-class fire station in KwaThema, as well as education. “Ekurhuleni has done a lot for the education of our youth,” said Khumalo.
There were also dignitaries from the Japanese consulate, who thanked the Ekurhuleni Emergency Services who assisted the Japanese after the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
Reasons for performance problems by Ekurhuleni were listed, for example, as the inaccurate reporting of facts.
When the mayor took to the podium for his speech, he spoke of remembering the heroes like Hector Peterson from the youth uprising in 1976, but much of it was in the form of quotes by others like Albert Luthuli and Thabo Mbeki, such as: “The Bantu education was a system created by whites for blacks, to create and sustain a master-slave system,” he said. It must be mentioned Rabelani Dagada, a lecturer at Wits Business School (with a background in education), said: “The apartheid-era Bantu education system was much better than the current education regime. It was far better in terms of quality than the education our kids are receiving nowadays. That is where the problem is.”
The mayor continued his speech by saying they strive for a society of non-racialism, non-sexism, and economic freedom of all the people.
“Transformation is still a big problem for us, we need to do more in terms of this to ensure equal education and more, for all our people,” added Gungubele.
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