Central SA
EFF claims ANC’s factional battles are tearing Mangaung apart─── 15:54 Wed, 23 Mar 2022
The Free State EFF has placed what it terms ongoing political developments that have translated to service delivery challenges at the ANC’s doorstep.
The EFF’s Provincial Regional Chairperson, Gopolang Lipale, tells OFM News that the ruling party’s factional battles are tearing the Mangaung Metro Municipality apart at the expense of residents who are forced to stomach poor service delivery, as sewage spillages, that are no longer a sore eye for the metro.
He says the ANC is quite aware of the challenges that the metro is facing, however, politics are at the forefront and the leading party is neglecting the metro, leaving it to collapse, rather than trying to work and restore it to its former glory.
Lipale says today marks 142 days since the mayor, Mxolisi Siyonzana mayor?, which he calls the “dying monster”, assumed responsibility of leading the council. He says that of those days that went by, there was not even a single day that was spent by the metro’s management on how to best lead and take the city to its former glory.
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OFM News previously reported on the latest protests that have been taking place at the headquarters of the metro these past two weeks. Last week saw some of the metro’s workers going on strike due to unpaid salaries, while this week a Mangaung pressure group has barricaded the premises calling for the metro council to be dissolved.
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The Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), said in a statement that a meeting set to discuss the status quo at the metro was postponed initially to give the mayor, Mxolisi Siyonzana, and his team time to prepare answers for some of the burning questions. However, Committee Chair China Dodovu says the metro's team has shown complete disregard for the work of the committee by attending the sitting unprepared. MPs reminded the metro’s team that the constitution empowers the committee and the NCOP with the authority to approve the dissolution of the municipality.
