ANC chief whip Jongizizwe Dlabathi and MMC for Human Settlement Lesiba Mpya visited Ramaphosa informal settlement on September 16 to enquire about the challenges residents are faced with.
During the door-to-door community assessment, issues such as electricity and houses were raised by concerned residents.
In some of the houses visited, residents were not keen to voice their grievances to Dlabathi, saying they have lost hope in the ANC.
According to Dlabathi, the visitation was part of the continuous interactive engagements with the community to check how they are living and what the status of service delivery in the area is.
One of the young people in the area, Siphiwe Mlilo, said for the past few years they have been having problems with electricity.
“The electricity in this area is like a visitor, it comes and goes numerous times. This is caused by illegal connections in the area. There’s an open electricity box where illegal wires are connected from the box to people’s house. We have reported this numerous times, but it seems our pleas have fallen on deaf ears,” Mlilo said.
Mlilo raised issues regarding infrastructure and water in the area.
Another resident, Magauta Mphuthi, told Dlabathi she needed a house because she has been renting forever.
“Because we don’t have a home of our own we have decided to leave Gauteng and go back home to Limpopo because both of us are no longer working due to the pandemic,” Mphuthi said.
Dlabathi highlighted that electricity and houses was their first priority and they will do everything in their power to deliver services to the people for their betterment.
Mpya added they have re-blocked phase one and two of Tokyo informal settlement in Ramaphosa.
He said that area will be electrified and stressed that the energy department will only electrify the re-blocked part.
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