• Anonymous supporter writes:
Dear Sir (Mzi Khumalo, Executive Mayor of the Rand West City Local Municipality)
In this first week of 2018, I want to publicly and unilaterally declare my heartfelt sympathy with you, that you have to be mayor of such a filthy, dirty, unkept, stinking and potholed town as Randfontein.
I mean, I can just imagine your embarrassment as you drive on the main arterial roads and you have to duck and dive to avoid the potholes an prevent a major accident. I am sure you don’t even want to think of the less important roads in the residential areas, especially on the plots.
Speaking of the plots, you must have been hot under your collar when your relatives and friends visited you over the festive season and were sometimes forced to use the plot roads. Having to drive slower (because of the potholes) their eyes could roam over all the chicken coups and the low-roofed old pigsties now converted into living quarters for poor people.
Not to mention the very dirty squatter camps, of which two are on main roads, nogal. If they passed Jabulani before 8am, they would have had to duck not to be hit by the night foul and raw sewage being emptied from two-litre plastic pails. If they passed Jabulani at night they would have had a hard time with potholes and avoiding the drug peddlers and buyers.
And, Mr Mayor, the very revolting farm offal and chicken gizzards shop on our main road cannot be your fault. Surely you would have sent the owners of this disgusting unbuild shop with the nauseating colour scheme to the town or Aureus. Surely they do not manage this shop because of poverty, not if you look at the premises, and surely you would immediately realise the danger to the traffic and pedestrians being where it is, not to mention the degradation of the properties in the area. Enough!
Ag shame, Mr Mayor. It is not your fault the town looked so horrible over the festive season! After all, the whole area has sector meetings once a month where council representatives must discuss all these problems with community leaders.
I am so sorry for you for not having an official opposition on the council. What is the role of the opposition other than reminding the council that the voters and the taxpayers and the residents of the town, in the light of the enormous amounts they pay, [deserve better] albeit only a clean and pothole-free festive season?
My dear Mr Mayor, this must all be too much for you and nobody will even one day be able to say “rest-in-peace” because the graveyard is a disgrace and no place for you to spend eternity.
What would you say if we name the responsible municipal workers publicly in the newspaper, with their direct telephone numbers so that the public can get hold of them straight away and not bother your telephone operator as either she or your telephone number is out of order? You should try and phone yourself sometimes.
Oh, Mr Mayor, my heartfelt condolences with your pitiable position, but your new increased privileges will surely compensate for all these terrible conditions and problems you have to face. A very fine 2018 for you and your wonderful council.
