Group calls for service delivery from GTM
A local non-profit company aimed at improving service delivery, Mopani Action Citizens (MAC), delivered their first two letters to the Greater Tzaneen Municipality (GTM) this week, introducing themselves to the GTM.
The MAC delivered letters to officials at the GTM on July 10 and receipt was acknowledged on July 13. The letters request the GTM to produce the Auditor General’s report for 2022, which should be published on the GTM’s website. It further requests that the GTM send all outstanding court cases against the GTM, outstanding settlements, the outcome of the investigations into sewer pump stations, and the water reticulation in the Greater Tzaneen municipal area, to them.
It requests the agendas and minutes of the GTM engineering department’s meetings from July 1 until now. The GTM has 21 calendar days to comply and deliver the documents and to the MAC. Ben van Coller, the chairperson of the MAC, invites residents of Tzaneen and the Mopani region to join the organisation.
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“We need every person’s support. We request that the residents of Tzaneen and the surrounding areas join us, and we ask the community to make a contribution to make a positive difference in our area. It cost R200 for a household to become a member,” says Van Coller. Van Coller’s fellow directors of the MAC are Halima Omar, Uwe Kroh, Hertzog Landman, Sello Manyama, Kirit Patel, Hennie Smit, and Hannes Muller.
One of the objectives of the MAC is to facilitate collaborations with ratepayers and vested interest parties in the monitoring of the collective services due, by the respective municipalities in and around the Mopani district and to validate the effectiveness thereof in accordance with the Municipal Structures Act of 1998, while being appropriately constituted with open-line communication structures to fully benefit all relevant stakeholders in a non-partisan environment.
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The MAC aims to watch over the interests of members, regarding the activities of local government. In addition to other objectives laid out in the MAC memorandum of incorporation, it also aims to protect, maintain and improve the service delivery and accountability of local government and its environs for the benefit of all residents, and visitors to, the area.
It further reads that it aims to promote and seek accountability by state organs in their rendering of public services and identify and confront inefficient, non-productive departments and individuals within appointed municipal structures, through the offices of municipal managers as a first option. It says it wants to remain empowered to revert to the judicial system, to enforce and improve required and expected municipal service delivery.
The MAC also aims to collaborate with other ratepayers’ associations or similar organisations. “We hope to have the website running soon where we will keep our members and the community informed of our progress and will get input from the community as well,” says Van Coller. For more information, contact Ben van Coller at 083 709 8000.
