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Our Service Delivery Nightmare – Worse in Kouga so be Grateful

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On 30 June I had the fortune to pop in to Jeffreys Bay – part of the Kouga Municipality.

On arrival in J-Bay I did that instinctive thing that we all do: grabbed my phone and laptop intending to do a bit of work whilst my partner visited a client.

And, what did I see? NO SERVICE.

So I did what everyone has been doing since time imemorial and restarted my device.

And still NO SERVICE.

Apparently the protracted loadshedding has rendered a number of Mobile Cellular Stations useless as their battery backups fail from over use or from being stolen. There was no power in Kouga and it was expected to be off until 6:00 pm.

Then it was off to check in on a mate staying in a Guest House who asked me to excuse the rather strong man body odour emanating from him and son as there was NO WATER. The water shedding in Kouga is from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

‘Luckily’ for him the Guest House owner has rigged up a pump to extract water from what is termed a ‘stream’ next to the guest house that exits onto the beach. I have my doubts whether it is a stream or storm water runoff.

We popped into a local restaurant for coffee in the morning and the same one for lunch later. The morning’s bill was easily settled via card and machine. The lunch time bill was a bit of a challenge as the card machines did not work anymore – they had run out of charge. We were asked to please pay via EFT or cash. EFT was a challenge as with no service that transaction was impossible plus the ATM was dead. Fortunately between us we managed to scrape together the bill in cash.

Hang in there guys – the frog in the blender has just had the speed increased and if you are not carefull you WILL be caught in the blades and turn the blender red.

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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.