Yesterday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) in North West paid a visit to Schweizer-Reneke to engage members of this rural community. During our engagements with members of the community, it became apparent that the failing ANC has managed to govern the Mamusa Municipality into the ground.
Rubbish in Ipelegeng, Mamusa. This is not an official dumping site; People in Ipelegeng, Mamusa live around this refuse; People in Mamusa are subjected to sewage spills due to the non-maintenance of water and sanitation infrastructure.
Only the DA has the experience in government to successfully improve on the ANC’s failures, especially in rural communities.
The Schweizer-Reneke community, like all other rural towns in North West, is forced to live under the failures of the ANC in government. The streets are awash with raw sewage, basic service delivery like refuse removal and the maintenance of roads are non-existent.
The Mamusa Local Municipality only has three service vehicles available, one for refuse removal, one cherry picker and a tractor with a trailer.
The municipality owes service providers money and therefore they cannot release vehicles that are in for repairs. This hampers service delivery.
The Sherriff has already attached municipal property in a bid to recover some of the debt owed, which further undermines the ability of the administration to ensure effective service delivery.
Mamusa is burdened by an Eskom debt of R70 million and there is no proper arrangement in place to prevent the termination of electricity to the area. Electrical infrastructure is simply not repaired or maintained.
The area is plagued by electricity supply problems and faulty/broken transformers cannot be repaired.
To top these serious service delivery issues, Mamusa also owes SARS R10 million. Pension fund deductions, UIF deductions, emoluments attachment orders, etc are not paid over to relevant institutions either.
This flagship of ANC failure has also received disclaimers on their annual audit reports since the 2012/2013 financial year.
The residents of Mamusa are tired of empty promises of service delivery by the failing ANC, on 8 May they will have the opportunity to remove the ANC through the ballot paper and vote for the DA, the only party that can deliver services and govern in the interests of the people.
A DA in government will create jobs, deliver quality basic services to all and keep rural communities safe through improved policing and root out corruption.