ANC set to audit muni

MALAMULELE – THE ruling party has commissioned a service delivery audit of the Thulamela Municipality in order to ensure improvement of service delivery to the Malamulele area.

This was according to ANC Limpopo secretary, Nocks Seabi, when he addressed the media last Tuesday. Seabi said the ANC had recommitted itself to continue to ensure effective service delivery in all areas of the Thulamela Municipality.

“Our commitment includes engaging with government to ensure the existing Thulamela municipal office located in Malamulele is strengthened to provide extensive municipal services.

“We must, however, condemn acts of violence and vandalism taking place in Malamulele as a way of the community expressing it’s unhappiness about the decision of the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB). The burning of schools and any other buildings, public or otherwise, will not change that decision, but will only derail community development. In this regard, we call on law enforcement agencies to find and bring to book perpetrators of the barbaric act of burning schools,” he said.

“We reiterate our condemnation for the blockade or placing in jeopardy the education and future of school going children. It is important to remember that at some point, in the near future, the service delivery challenges in Malamulele will be a distant memory, but the missed opportunities for learning and prosperity for our young will always haunt us. Let the doors of learning and teaching remain open in Malamulele,” he said.

“We accept the decision of the MDB as an authority tasked with determining municipal boundaries,” Seabi said.

DA Limpopo caucus spokesperson, Stephen Mbedzi, said the ANC had left the people behind. “Nowhere does the ANC show its concerns over the total shutdown of social and economic activities in the area,” he said.

He further said the crisis was an ANC crisis, created by the ANC, fuelled by the ANC, and unsolved by the ANC.