Looking at my suburb and the street I live in, it is shocking that the people at the council have so little respect for me and expect me to live in such untidy and overgrown surroundings.
His majesty King Zwelithini recently explained in the press that the previous government ”has built a powerful government with the strongest economy”.
Such a government with its people could not tolerate filth such as is happening to us now.
I find that when I try to communicate with council employees I get the feeling they are superior to me and I am wasting their time.
There is a great need for council employees to respect us ordinary people and to realise that not one of them is above us as citizens.
Perhaps there is a serious need for training in human relations.
I have tried to write to the our mayor of Ekurhuleni regarding the apparent collapse of the cleanness and neatness of our streets and suburbs, but to no avail.
I have also tried to contact various people whom I know at the Boksburg council, but they did not answer the phone.
It seems a part of the problem is that that our mayor is too inaccessible to us ordinary people. When Boksburg had its own council I could even communicate and meet with the mayor and council staff.
At the time of the change to Ekurhuleni many people felt like me, that it would be impossible to really get close to the town management.
I strongly recommend that the City of Ekurhuleni be split up again and returned to its former form of individual city governments.
