According to Randfontein Executive Mayor, Sylvia Thebenare, Randfontein is a story of success, with a few minor hickups here and there.
I beg to differ. Besides for the more obvious problems like the thousands of potholes that litter every road, and the disgusting state of the town’s cemeteries and open spaces, the town is plagued with lawlessness of every kind.
We are talking here about a municipality who has, for the past two years, spent hundreds of thousands on annual “breakaways” for ANC councillors within the municipality, despite it being illegal to do so.
The Herald has been met with a steady, dead silence from the municipality with regard to this issue despite numerous attempts to get the official story.
This, coupled with a very questionable green drop certification, recently awarded for the quality of our waste water treatment, and a number of other issues, not the least of which is the municipality’s refusal to make public a report from forensic audit company KPMG into alleged fraud and corruption within the Randfontein Local Municipality, makes one wonder what Thebenare bases her conclusions on.
Is it the approximately 4 000 houses built during the last 20 years, or the old age home and early child development centre in Mohlakeng which cost taxpayers millions?
This is not much of a consolation for residents living outside Mohlakeng, who are plagued by electricity problems, broken street lights, the ever-present potholes of course, and rampant crime, to name but a few.
What are your views? Send us an email at randfonteinherald@caxton.co.za, and we’ll publish your comment.
