Jameson Park residents marched to the Heidelberg municipal offices on November 29 to protest against poor to non-existent service delivery.
The march started in Jameson Park where community members marched along the R23 to the municipal buildings.
The march was peaceful, with no incidents.
“There are a lot of concerns that need attention,” said community member Priscilla Raeto.
Raeto read out the concerns and addressed the executive mayor of Lesedi Local Municipality, Mluleki Nkosi.
The concerns include bad roads, road signs, long grass, a broken down community hall, promises made to
develop sporting facilities, electrical issues, electrical breakdowns that take days to be rectified, escalated rates, taxes and water accounts.
Jameson Park residents raised the same concerns to LLM in 2017.
Raeto said, “Mr Mayor you and other officials have visited us in the past few months and heard our grievances, but no feedback has come from your office.
“We are demanding that our issues get urgent attention.”
Nkosi took ownership of the memorandum and after signing the document addressed the gathering.
“We will scrutinise the memorandum and look into the concerns. We will revert to and address the issues as soon as we have gone through the document,” said Nkosi.
“We see the issues in a serious light and will be addressing them as soon as possible.”
Raeto concluded, “We are giving the municipality 21 days to respond to the memorandum.”
