Residents from Sweetwater in King William’s Town (KWT) barricaded the road that links East London and Breidbach to Bhisho and Zwelitsha in a service delivery protest yesterday.Close to 100 residents took to the streets at 3am to close off the road by setting tyres alight.
The protesters said they had decided to protest after Buffalo City Metro (BCM) executive mayor Alfred Mtsi failed to respond to a memorandum calling for his intervention in service delivery issues in the community.
Community leader Nodyabo Dyosi said that on November 18 they had staged a peaceful march to the KWT municipal offices where their memorandum was accepted by a councillor on behalf of the mayor.
Dyosi said they gave the mayor and his office seven days to reply.
Their grievances were about a lack of schools, roads not being tarred, no taxi rank or police station and the old two-room RDP houses were falling apart.
BCM spokesman Keith Ngesi said: “Some of the issues raised by the residents are being looked at by the newly established Rapid Response Task Team that was put in place by the mayor to respond swiftly to these kinds of concerns.” — arethal@dispatch.co.za
Sweetwater turns bitter on services
Close to 100 residents took to the streets at 3am to close off the road by setting tyres alight.
The protesters said they had decided to protest after Buffalo City Metro (BCM) executive mayor Alfred Mtsi failed to respond to a memorandum calling for his intervention in service delivery issues in the community.
Community leader Nodyabo Dyosi said that on November 18 they had staged a peaceful march to the KWT municipal offices where their memorandum was accepted by a councillor on behalf of the mayor.
Dyosi said they gave the mayor and his office seven days to reply.
Their grievances were about a lack of schools, roads not being tarred, no taxi rank or police station and the old two-room RDP houses were falling apart.
BCM spokesman Keith Ngesi said: “Some of the issues raised by the residents are being looked at by the newly established Rapid Response Task Team that was put in place by the mayor to respond swiftly to these kinds of concerns.” — arethal@dispatch.co.za
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