DA engages with residents
DA KZN chairperson Dean Macpherson said he was shocked to hear that there is a resident who is filling potholes themselves across the municipality.
The DA KZN chairperson, Dean Macpherson said he was stunned to learn that a sign erected by a resident in Pumula on being without water for 52 days, was allegedly taken down by the Ugu District Municipality.
Macpherson was speaking to Fever at the Alfred Evans Hall in Sea Park when he visited the South Coast last week, ahead of the 2024 general elections.
“While speaking to residents on the South Coast, I heard a crazy story that they put up a sign to say they had been without water for 52 days and Ugu rushed to have it taken down but they can’t put the water back on. The municipality is more interested in trying to keep this a secret than actually trying to fix the problem,” he said.
He added that another resident told him that they are filling potholes themselves across the municipality.
Macpherson said: “Residents are so fed up with a municipality that just does not care about them. It takes their rates and spends them on anything other than residents. The municipality needs to focus on people and not politicians.”
Explaining his visit on the South Coast, Macpherson said: “We were here to encourage residents to register to vote, I was impressed that we registered a number of people. I was also here as the chairperson of the party to oversee our team, to meet with our structures and activists and I got a briefing on the state of our constituency down here. I am very pleased with our leadership down here and the work our councillors are doing. This part of the tour I am doing in KZN to get our structures ready for the elections because now that we have every possibility of building on the back of the work that we have been doing with the IFP. We are confident that a new majority coalition can be born.”
DA Ugu Constituency Head, Edwin Baptie said they are aware of how difficult the water situation is on the Ugu District.
He said the crisis is because of poor governance and the government not doing what it should be doing, adding that the solution thereof is a political one.
Meanwhile, one of the residents at Alfred Evans Hall told the DA leadership that he fears that if the public does not change the current government in the 2024 national government elections, those elections could possibly be the last free and fair elections South Africa will ever have.
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