I am a citizen here in the Gauteng region and have lived during the past and present rule and cannot see why local Government cannot come up with practical solutions, solving service delivery problems.
I have noticed that the buck always ends up blaming the poor and needy citizens of this country. People in administrative positions should ask the question, why local Government cannot solve these problems.
To citizens it is very easy; you don’t expect the community to do the job of people employed by local Government, without getting paid. I basically follow a lot of problems experienced between local Government and its citizens on a daily basis.
I go the extra mile; you need to have the right person for whatever it takes to do your job professionally to better the lives for all its taxpayers.
We have all experienced trying to log a complaint, spending long hours and days per telephone and through the newspapers and nothing gets done. Local Government does not even pay a cent towards these losses.
Senior citizens, the poor and needy get it the worst. Let’s not run the people down, especially the poor, sick, illiterate and disadvantaged. It is high time local Government got its act together and employed skilled people who can come up with solutions to solve these problems.
Up until this date and time I have never met a person in local Government who can come up with practical solutions to solve problems saving millions or billions financially both ways – the taxpayer and local Government.
If you say it is a culture to complain rather than find solutions, I think it’s right to say that the only way to stop this before it becomes a culture, is to put a system in place, but nobody wants to take their job seriously and put a regular planned maintenance schedule in place with inspection carried out after every job is carried out.
Arthur, Palm Ridge
