STAFF from a North West municipality competing in the Southern African Inter-Municipal Association (Saimsa) games in Buffalo City Metro have been ejected from their hotel.
The participants from Ditsobotla Local Municipality, which is currently under administration, yesterday said they were kicked out of Gonubie Hotel because their accommodation bill had not been paid.
BCM is hosting close to 10000 participants from various municipalities in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Swaziland in a range of sporting events.
The games started on September 21 and end today.
Close to 70 participants from Ditsobotla then returned home leaving only their soccer team behind.
The municipality was established through the amalgamation of former Lichtenburg, Coligny and Biesiesvlei transitional councils.
Soccer player Vuyo Manyaka said they remained behind because the team was “doing well” in the games.
Manyaka said the entire municipal team had to sleep in a bus on Wednesday evening after learning the bill had not been settled.
“We left the hotel on Wednesday morning to play our different sporting codes and around 10am we were informed that we needed to fetch our belongings and leave the hotel because the bill was not paid,” he said.
“We slept in the bus on Wednesday. The following morning our teammates went back home.”
Manyaka said his understanding of the matter was that the bill was supposed to have been settled by the Ditsobotla municipality.
His teammate, Daniel Kesimolotse, said they had since been washing at local garages around East London.
Gonubie Hotel declined to comment on the matter when contacted yesterday.
Ditsobotla’s chief financial officer Leeto Dintwe said staff members had taken part in the games “on their own”.
“They know the municipality is under administration and could not afford to pay for them to go to the games.” — arethal@dispatch. co.za
Hotel kicks out municipal team
The participants from Ditsobotla Local Municipality, which is currently under administration, yesterday said they were kicked out of Gonubie Hotel because their accommodation bill had not been paid.
BCM is hosting close to 10000 participants from various municipalities in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Swaziland in a range of sporting events.
The games started on September 21 and end today.
Close to 70 participants from Ditsobotla then returned home leaving only their soccer team behind.
The municipality was established through the amalgamation of former Lichtenburg, Coligny and Biesiesvlei transitional councils.
Soccer player Vuyo Manyaka said they remained behind because the team was “doing well” in the games.
Manyaka said the entire municipal team had to sleep in a bus on Wednesday evening after learning the bill had not been settled.
“We left the hotel on Wednesday morning to play our different sporting codes and around 10am we were informed that we needed to fetch our belongings and leave the hotel because the bill was not paid,” he said.
“We slept in the bus on Wednesday. The following morning our teammates went back home.”
Manyaka said his understanding of the matter was that the bill was supposed to have been settled by the Ditsobotla municipality.
His teammate, Daniel Kesimolotse, said they had since been washing at local garages around East London.
Gonubie Hotel declined to comment on the matter when contacted yesterday.
Ditsobotla’s chief financial officer Leeto Dintwe said staff members had taken part in the games “on their own”.
“They know the municipality is under administration and could not afford to pay for them to go to the games.” — arethal@dispatch. co.za
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