Posters a thorn in residents’ sides
Residents asking councillor to keep promise and remove posters
It has been two months since the municipal elections but residents from Roodepoort and Florida are still seeing red over campaign posters.
Just before the municipal elections, some of the campaign posters for the ANC candidate councillor in Ward 84, Rudi du Plooy, were pasted onto substations and a bridge in the area. When Du Plooy was contacted about this, he promised to remove the posters and started with the process the very next day.
Now, two months later, the residents are complaining that there are still posters on some of the substations and the ones pasted onto the bridge over Hamberg Road are all still there.
Du Plooy was exasperated when contacted about this matter. “People are not complaining about the abortion and other posters pasted onto bridges and substations, but are quick to complain about political posters. Does this mean they condone the messages displayed on the other posters?” he said. According to him, he feels that people should move on and stop complaining about small things, the elections are over. “It is not only these posters that are pasted onto substations, there are other political party posters still up as well, some from the DA and EFF too,” Du Plooy said.
He indicated that he is out of town at the moment, but, as soon as he is back he will attend to the matter. “What I want to know is, what is the real problem behind these complaints? Do people really care about the location of the posters or is it something else? If these complaints continue I will have no other choice than to go to court and sue them for libel,” Du Plooy concluded.
According to the Johannesburg Metro Police Department’s (JMPD) spokesperson, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar, residents can lodge a complaint with the by-law management, as this is a violation of the City of Johannesburg’s by-laws. “The Director for by-law management is Mathokokoza Kgaswame. He can be contacted on 011 490 1630 or by email to mathokokozak@joburg.org.za.
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