ANCYL joins municipal fray

The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the Bojanala Region has added their voice to the concerns of residents of Madi-beng about poor service delivery from the Madibeng Municipality.
Mr. David Masike, chairman of the ANCYL in the Bojanala Region, told Kormorant at a protest march by appro-ximately 3 000 resi-dents of Mothutlung to the municipal building in Brits on Friday, that the problems in Madibeng will be taken up with the ANC’s Regional Task Team in a week’s time.
The residents announced during their pro-test that they no longer accept Clr. Dipuo Mabiletsa as their ward councillor and handed over a memorandum to the Executive Mayor of Madibeng, Clr. Sophie Molokoane-Machika, giving the municipality seven days to respond to their demands.
Masike said that the current unrest in Madibeng can be ascribed to a lack of political leadership and the fact that the leadership does not respond to the community’s concerns.
He said that the people in the municipality who should respond to these concerns are the mayor and the members of the mayoral committee but they don’t. According to Masike the ANC Youth League in the Bojanala Region will be tabling a document at the ANC Regional Task Team. They will be asking for intervention by the ANC or alternatively the redeployment of the mayor and mayoral committee.
In their memorandum the community mem-bers of Mothutlung alleged that Clr. Mabiletsa is unable to attend to her responsibilities as ward councillor because of other responsibilities.
They said that the councillor apparently refuses to speak to the community un-less she calls a meet-ing and that she is acting as a labour broker. They demanded investigations into a number of municipal projects in Mothlutlung, threatening mass action if the municipality failed to respond.
The municipality indicated that they are still studying the memorandum.

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3 February 2010