New Joburg Mayor hits the ground running
ALEXANDRA – Relevant officials have until October 7 to relocate the recyclers to a location already identified for the move, says Mayor Moerane.
The new Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Mpho Moerane, and Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs) hit the ground running soon after their swearing-in ceremony, to accelerate service delivery in Moerane’s home township of Alexandra.
The City’s leadership was accompanied by Region E director Liziwe Ntshinga-Makoro when they descended on the impoverished township which has a serious backlog of service delivery.
The mayoral blitz follows complaints from residents about power cuts due to vandalised mini-substations, illegal dumping, as well as faulty streetlights and blocked storm water drains.
Moerane and his MMCs began the oversight visit with a demand for feedback from Ntshinga-Makoro on recent commitments made by officials during a recent visit in the region by the late mayor Jolidee Matongo.
Moerane issued a new timeline of October 7 for officials to ensure that all that was promised to residents in the previous oversight visit, was fulfilled.
One of the undertakings was the relocation of recyclers who had taken over a whole street in Lombardy East and turned it into what resembles a dumpsite, with the street completely covered in flattened plastic bottles.
“It can not be that property owners who possibly have worked all their lives to pay off their bonds are not protected from actions of others that devalue their hard-earned properties as it has been the case in Lombardy,” Moerane said.
The mayor and MMCs went on to plant trees at the sports centre, and handed over fruit trees (lemon, peach and apricot) donated by City Parks to residents to encourage them to be self-sustainable. Joburg Roads Agency was also in the township to unblock storm water drains.
