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So, what is a Municipality?

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Let’s explain a Municipality in a nutshell:

  • Many years ago people began to congregate together
  • Each person provided for their own food, water, transport, sanitation etc.
  • More people came along to live in the area
  • The area became a village
  • People realised that the village would benefit from shared services
  • A group of villagers volunteered to build the shared services
  • The village got bigger and people were permanently employed to administer and maintain the shared services
  • The villagers needed people to watch and communicate their collective needs and concerns to the ‘administrators and maintainers’ of the shared services
  • And so politicians were born – voted in by the people to watch over the basic services provided to the village to ensure that the village stayed prosperous and attractive
  • Initially these politicians were people of influence in their community who volunteered their services – today they are highly paid professionals.

Nowadays some of the beasts called politicians actually forget that they they have been placed in positions of trust by a community and need to SERVE them first – choosing rather to ascribe to the dictates of their political party only.

 

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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.