Howard Skeens, Sunward Park, writes:
It’s proven to be an “unwritten law” over the years that the incompetence of municipalities is directly proportional to the number of street name changes. Therefore, the more street names that are changed the more incompetent are the local councils.
“Badges of Mega Incompetence” are awarded to municipalities where the city/town names are also changed.
Ekurhuleni metro is following the same street name path. We know they are incompetent and the recent street name changes have merely highlighted the degree of incompetence – on a measuring scale Ekurhuleni metro can now happily record extreme incompetence level being attained.
The Boksburg Advertiser has recently informed us that many metro police vehicles are languishing in non-manned workshops and that many refuse collection vehicles are also inoperable. The latter owing to a serious lack of funds.
The above obviously negatively impacts on the residents.
On top of this, we have to contend with poorly maintained roads, including downright dangerous potholes, regular power outages (non-maintained electrical equipment) and how efficient are the sewage plants – may be polluting rivers (the source of our drinking water)?
Lack of planning for years and spending our money on the current mayor’s dodgy whims have resulted in the above.
Instead of prioritising scarce funds for critical repairs, the money is allocated to street name changes. If maintenance is not that important what about allocating our money to needy NGOs?
Can you believe there are still people voting for these no-hopers! Oh well, it’s a better life for all … I mean for some.
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