Please find attached soundbites in English by Cornél Dreyer
Please find attached soundbites in Afrikaans by Cornél Dreyer
– DA objected to the RMLM’s 2026/27 Budget and IDP because it fails to prioritise infrastructure and roads maintenance.
– DA calls out failed governance and demands accountability from the municipality.
– Increasingly residents are forced address service delivery failures privately due to the continued collapse in governance and service delivery.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) objected to the adoption of the Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality’s 2026/27 Budget and Integrated Development Plan (IDP), which once again failed to allocate sufficient funding towards maintaining critical infrastructure and roads maintenance in Zeerust and throughout the municipality.
The ongoing collapse in governance, failed service delivery and lack of infrastructure maintenance, increasingly see residents taking hands to address service delivery failures.
Residents in Mooi Street privately funded and brought repairs to the road without any support from the municipality, yet the municipality expects residents to service their municipal accounts monthly.
This is a damning indictment of the ANC-led RMLM’s failure to fulfil its constitutional responsibility to maintain essential infrastructure. The approved IDP and budget allocations demonstrate a municipality that is disconnected from the daily struggles of residents, who are being forced to carry the burden of failed basic service delivery.
Roads are the arteries of local economies, providing access to schools, clinics, businesses, and homes. When residents are forced to resort to “DIY governance”, it highlights the collapse of accountability and the growing failure of the municipality to serve its communities.
Residents in Ramotshere Moiloa have two choices, to either continue take responsibility for services they already pay for through rates and taxes under an ANC-led local government or they can register to vote DA in this year’s local government elections.
If residents in Ramotshere Moiloa want a government that delivers quality basic services and maintain infrastructure, then they must vote for the only party that can deliver in local government, the DA.