The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality launched its Mayoral Outreach programme in Kariega on Monday, 23 September 2024, following a robust community engagement meeting which was led by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Zolile Williams last week.
During last week’s meeting at Tamboville Multi-purpose Centre residents raised sharply their service delivery queries and in the interest of good governance and improving service delivery across the Metro, NMBM committed to engaging with communities regularly to hold both the political and administration leaders accountable on commitments made to residents.
Leading the delegation on Monday was NMBM Council Chief Whip, Cllr Wandisile Jikeka together with Acting City Manager Mandla George, Ward Councillors from Kariega and Executive Directors of various directorates. The wards represented included Ward 42 to 51.
The City gave an intensive report on work done since last week following a wide range of complaints that were reported to the MEC.
Chief Whip Jikeka said: “We were here to give feedback to residents of the area about what we have done ever since we were here. We gave them the report, some are happy and others are not as the report is not a conclusive report. This was a progress report. We have since committed that in 14 days we will come back again and give the latest report on other matters that were raised. Today new complaints were registered, we will also be in contact with other sector departments so that when we come back they can also give feedback on matters that relate to them.” He added that electricity complaints that were registered last week were resolved while the NMBM roads department also highlighted the streets that have been fixed so far.
“The programme will visit all NMBM clusters, this was just the start but we will be visiting all the clusters in our City,” said Cllr Jikeka. The City’s resettlement plan for hundreds of flood victims from Lapland was welcomed with applause by residents following a report that a service provider is currently on site to construct the prioritised 154 temporary houses.
NMBM Human Settlements Executive Director, Tabiso Mfeya said: “The feedback given today is that the work on the Van Rooyen site which is meant for the resettlement of part of Lapland, work has started there in essence. By the of last week, we had cleared up the site and we started pegging now in terms of the lay out plan. There is a sizeable number of sites that have been pegged which has allowed the contractor to move in on site and start with the construction of temporary residential units. According to the implementation plan of the contractor we expect that by 4 October 2024, we will have 20 units constructed on the site and that in mid-November we will have the entire 154 erected.”
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