Mawende Jack, The New Age Residents from several township wards marched into the Port Elizabeth city centre under the banner of the SACP in protest against lack of service delivery and political interference by ANC leaders in the Nelson Mandela municipal affairs.
Among the demands by the party and Cosatu members were for the ANC regional leadership to cease meddling in Nelson Mandela Bay municipality’s administration. They also called for the release of the Kabuso forensic report findings and for those implicated in the report to be criminally prosecuted. The probe, which was instituted by the provincial government into corruption in the municipality, found widespread corruption that implicated senior ANC regional leaders and business people in tender irregularities. The SACP Mbuyiselo Ngwenda district deputy secretary, Msingathi Sipuka, said residents, especially in townships, were faced with huge service delivery problems daily. Among those were deteriorating infrastructure, poor health services, sub-standard refuse collection, unreliable meter reading, high unemployment, crime, HIV-Aids and widespread corruption. The march by the SACP members appeared to have been directed at certain ANC regional leaders, including party chairman Nceba Faku. The party claimed Faku’s businesses were involved in the Nelson Mandela Bay’s major housing and other infrastructural projects. Last week SACP leader and human settlements director Mvuleni Mapu spoke of rampant interference by the ANC regional headquarters in the affairs of his directorate, including in the payment of contractors. “We are even told who to pay and from which funds,” Mapu said. Last week the party and SA Municipal Workers Union came out in support of mayor Zanoxolo Wayile on the appointment of Bhisho-seconded acting municipal manager Themba Hani. [email protected] Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
