During a recent discussion with a group of businessmen in Parys, it was highlighted that the Municipal by-laws are on the Ngwathe website but that there is an evident lack of will by the Municipality in making them public and enforcing them.
In any normal society where a Municipality enforces these laws, law and order is enforced ethically and with integrity. It would appear that looking at the town as a whole, our Municipal Manager is in default and in breach of his Oath of Office in maintaining a town with a clean business audit and proper maintenance of infrastructure.
The photograph in the Parys Gazette (16 May) of the area outside the Town Hall voting station taken on 8th May – voting day, shows a pavement that is broken, filth lying all around and trash that had not been collected. This is a good example of public littering.
It is public knowledge that there are a number of growing businesses owned by illegal foreigners carrying fake I.D.s. and operating under false names. Money leaving this country and deposited in those countries’ accounts. Taxes not being paid.
Home Affairs together with SAPS are not vetting these businesses, neither are they implementing random checks for finger prints and I.D. documents for legal registration. Again in any normal society this would not be allowed and foreigners in breach of the local law, would be repatriated to their country of origin.
SAPS in tow with Home Affairs are the only certified Government forces that have the authority to make arrests. Why are they not forging ahead and implementing the full force of the law?
The pavements are for pedestrians, prams and wheelchairs and yet the hawkers spread themselves and their goods far and wide making entrance to any shop, especially in Kort Street, very difficult to enter. It’s a free for all because by-laws are not enforced.
Workable Hawker stalls have been built at the taxi rank but are not being used. Is it because the company who built them was employed by Ngwathe, got the tender, but overlooked the fact that there is insufficient space for a spread of goods or sufficient cover during rain?
We have not had water running through most of the pipes in the town, in fact four times this week.
It is obvious that the Municipality is still employing unskilled people to maintain what is every citizen’s human right – the accessible right to clean drinking water.
I suggest instead of paying yourselves first, you get your act together, Ngwathe and start working for the people who pay your salaries. This would be good business practice!
