Former mayor Parks Tau requested to open Noordgesig clinic
“If this empowerment does not happen, we will not allow this clinic to open"
Noordgesig Service Delivery Task Team (SDTT) request that seventy percent of the work force in the newly built clinic must be from the area.
Chairperson of the SDTT Raven Martin said they understand that the clinic must have professionals but general labourers must be from the area.
“We understand that the place is a necessity to the community and to the senior citizens.
“If this empowerment does not happen, we will not allow this clinic to open,” said Martin.
He asked how the clinic can be opened if the youth is not economically empowered.
“The area is drug infested because our youth is unemployed,” he said.
Martin said the SDTT request that their clinic should be opened by the former mayor Parks Tau because when the project was started he was still the mayor.
“This is not a political matter, but we want people who have been part of the building of the clinic to open it. We need to give credit where credit is earned,” he said.
He said they will not allow SMMEs from outside to come to the area and utilise what is meant for the community.
They want management of the clinic to call a public meeting to identify cleaning companies within the area.
“We are sick and tired of people who work in the area; we are not trying to promote racism because the area is integrated with different races.
“We are demanding that anyone from here must be hired at the clinic and people within Ward 29.
SDTT will engage with the Walter Sisulu Safety Management to ensure that the youth benefit there economically. All government sectors must benefit the community.
He said they want the clinic to honour people from the area such as Nurse Violette who was the first nurse at the clinic and Charles Peterson who was a health community worker.
“We need to remember people who were very hands-on in getting the clinic up and running. We want to make sure that their pictures are put in the clinic.
An official from the Department of Health, Nico Molapo, said, “I did phone office of the executive mayor to inquire about the matter outlined above but he was unavailable.”
Molapo stressed that the Noordgesig Clinic is still under construction and emphasised that he’d follow up on the issue with the mayor’s office.
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