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500,000 People in Freestate Goldfields Denied Their Basic Human Right To Water by ANC Corruption & Plundering of Municipal Coffers!

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Half a million people in the Free State Goldfields region experienced the devastating results of municipal thievery and Ace Magashule’s cadre deployment legacy, when taps were dry since Friday. Today, a full half a million people in areas such as Welkom, Odendaalsrus, Virginia, Riebeeckstad and Ventersburg were without running water.

All the reservoirs are empty and plans were desperately being made to shift around and fix old water pumps. The direct cause of the crisis is a pump that broke and the water supplier, Sedibeng Water, being left without funds because of non payment of debt by the local ANC controlled municipality.

Peter, a local resident told us that it is now 4 days and 4 nights that they are without municipal water. They have to manually carry water in buckets to use the toilet. Worse however, is that in Riebeeckstad there is no drinking water for sale, and in Welkom the stock is almost all sold out. Drinking water is a very basic human right and t
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Cape Town Municipality demolishes shacks at illegal informal settlement

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Spokeswoman refuses to say how many shacks in Zweledinga were destroyed after the Cape Town municipality decided to demolish parts of it.

The shacks were flattened over the weekend in the Khayelitsha area, but municipal officials refuse to say what the number was destroyed.

Councilor Malusi Booi responded elusively, saying it was operational information that could not be provided.

He says the city council rejects any attempt of land occupation and this also applies in urban areas as has been the case, and has therefore acted purposefully.

Booi confirmed that they had a court order permitting them to demolish the shacks, and after Saturday’s clearing of the site, building materials and corrugated iron lay everywhere with other illegal squatters’ property.

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White Residents go to Court to Take Over Municipal Services After Black Municipality Collapses. They Have Already Taken Over Water Treatment Plant After Water Stopped Running

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The municipality that serves the area comprising Swartruggens, Derby and Koster, south-east of Sun City, in the North-West province has totally stopped functioning and that includes each and every service, even basics like the provision of water. Local residents led by the Rate Payers Association  have declared an emergency and have started to provide the services themselves!

The reason that the municipality can’t provide any services is because all municipal workers are on strike, because the municipality has taken the pension contributions of the workers to pay for other “expenses”. The local residents are already working shifts to run the water treatment plant according to Mr Carel van Heerden of the local ratepayers association who was interviewed by Netwerk24.

The association had to obtain a court order last week to prohibit striking workers from intimidating community volunteers who now operate the water treatment plant . The intervention by the ratepayers
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Is Malema’s Racebaiting A Cover For “Pay to Play” Corruption? Malema’s Sugar Daddy, A Corrupt Tenderpreneur, Bought Pretoria Mayoral House But Doesn’t Pay Rates & Taxes!

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The secret identity of the man who bought the famous Pretoria mayoral mansion in 2017 has been revealed for the first time! It has also been revealed by Maroela Media that Tshwane municipal taxpayers, still pay the municipal bills for the house because the new owner has never transferred the municipal accounts to his name. The total account still paid by the Tshwane municipality is about R10,000 per month, but the property tax is still calculated on the previous valuation of R3,8 million. The house was sold for R5. 1 million in 2017.

The account also includes water but an amount of only R6,45 is asked for electricity! The new owner wanted to stay anonymous after he bought the house at St Patrick Rd 135, Muckleneuk in 2017 but documents obtained by Maroela Media show that the house was bought by a company called DMFT Property Developers whose only director is David Mabilu, a well known supporter and funder of Julius Malema.

Mabilo married in Mauritius in 2011 and
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R200,000 Spent on Luxury Rental Car by Mokopane (Potgietersrus) Mayor Andrina Matsimela, Even Though Bankrupt Town is Under Administration!

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In another example of #TheAfricanWay, it has been revealed that the bankrupt municipality of Mokopane, which is the old Potgietersrus in Limpopo, has spent more than R200,000 on the rental of a Mercedes Benz C-class for the mayor of the town. Andrina Matsimela has being transported around in this luxury vehicle since July last year.

The municipality has been placed under administration since December last year. A municipality is placed under administration if it can not function on its own anymore. Documents in the possession of Korny Dekker, a DA councilor, proves the payments for the car hire as reported by Netwerk24.

According to information from the Auditor General, the municipality has incurred irregular expenses of R1,17 billion for the last 3 years. There were several violent demonstrations in Mokopane last year which saw residents from the black township march on the municipality and emptying bins in the streets. Shops had to close their doors. The reas
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Fire Destroy De Aar’s Courts After Explosion Because De Aar’s Volunteer Fire Service Has 30 Year Old Firetruck With Leaky Hoses

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Is civilization too complicated for Africa? A huge fire destroyed De Aar’s Courts. The volunteer fire squad arrived with the town’s 30 year old fire truck but could not extinguish the fire due to leaking fire hoses.

De Aar was shaken by a huge explosion last night at 21:45. Only about 2 hours later a huge fire was spotted at the local Magistrates Court. The part of the building that was destroyed houses the Roving, High and Regional court. So in effect De Aar don’t have Courts anymore.

The suspicion is that the fire was started by electricity supply to the town that was too high, because of faulty equipment. De Aar do not have a fulltime Fire Department and only uses a voluntary fire service. When they finally arrived with the town’s 30 year old fire truck, their efforts to put out the fire were hampered by fire hoses that were leaking. A spokesperson from the municipality says there is no money to finance a full time fire service.

If they are not blaming “apa
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#TheAfricanWay: Orange Free State Too Dangerous To Live in? Winburg & Kroonstad Have Dead Pigs & Raw Sewage in River & Dam, Too Polluted to Purify!

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Winburg and Kroonstad’s water has become so polluted that it is not possible to purify it with chemicals anymore. The water supplied in the pipe system and coming out of taps in the towns has become so polluted by raw sewage, that it has become impossible to drink because of the serious health hazard.

In Winburg the water that is coming out of taps is grass green since 28 December 2019. The DA has now laid criminal charges in terms of the Water Act against the Mayor and municipal manager for criminal negligence for their failure to provide clean water, but what will that help?

 

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Local residents have placed pictures on Facebook of dead pigs that float in the water in the Vals
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