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Bucket Toilets Scandal – Don’t make unkeepable promises

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Athol Bucket
DA NMB Mayoral Candidate, Athol Trollip, inspects broken pipes and large ditches in a Missionvale roadway.

Dear MyPE

“All Missionvale township residents will be able to flush a working toilet by April.” said Infrastructure and Engineering Head, ANC Councillor Andile Mfunda, on 11 February 2016.

Today, on 03 May 2016, Missionvale residents still live with the indignity of bucket toilets, showing up yet another broken promise from the Jordaan ANC government. A litany of broken promises from Jordaan continues to grow.

Missionvale residents are still forced to use bucket toilets, but now with this toilet promise broken by Jordaan’s administration they now face the added risk of falling into deep, open trenches dug out by the municipality for this broken toilet promise.

According to Stats SA, a tragic truth is that 35% of all bucket toilets in South Africa are still located in Nelson Mandela Bay.

“I have given strict deadlines, because the issues of Missionvale are long overdue. Our people have suffered enough.” said Mfunda, but those strict deadlines have come and gone, and still the ANC-perpetuated indignity and suffering persist. At the hands of the ANC, our people are forced to use bucket toilets in perpetuity. The ANC government does not care to rectify the bucket toilet crisis.

This adds to the growing list of broken promises under Mayor Jordaan; no delivery of a metro police service, no eradication of bucket toilets, no weekly refuse collection in all wards, no resolution to the Red Location Museum stalemate, and frequent no-shows at important meetings.

The ANC cannot be trusted to keep promises. Because if President Zuma can get away with 783 criminal counts of corruption and fraud, and with breaking the constitution, then so can ANC mayors.

The DA will call Councillor Andile Mfunda to appear before the Municipal Public Accounts Committee to explain what led to this ongoing crisis and broken promise.

The DA will also table a motion in council regarding the slow delivery of services in Nelson Mandela Bay.

But in this year’s election, voters can vote for change by voting for the DA.

A DA-led Nelson Mandela Bay will eradicate all possible bucket toilets in our first term of office.

The people of Nelson Mandela Bay need to be led by people of integrity, and that is why the DA is committed to improving service delivery, stopping corruption and creating jobs.

The DA is ready to govern the Bay. By being honest and responsive, a DA-led government in Nelson Mandela Bay will make our Metro safe again, provide opportunity, deliver better services and work tirelessly to redress economic inequality.

Regards

Athol Trollip

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