DA chief whip, Andre du Plessis, says that it does not strike trust into the hearts of residents of the metro when even something as simple as a regularly planned meeting was unable to go ahead as scheduled.
“This is not a case of unforeseen circumstances as the microphones have been problematic for some months with several of them not working at all.”
The DA commends the council for arranging for engineers to come to the council chamber to repair the system.
“However, the day before the meeting is too little too late, because it does not allow time for a contingency plan if the problem is bigger than expected – as happened in this instance,” says du Plessis.
“While the chamber is used from time to time for other meetings, it is largely empty and, once again, bad planning was allowed to prevail and the repairs did not take place during the four weeks since the last council sitting.”
Du Plessis says it is totally unacceptable that the Speaker, Patricia Kumalo, mayor Mondli Gungubele and the Executive allowed a young boy, who was saying the prayer at this month’s meeting, to be humiliated by a public announcement system that did not work. – @IschkeBoksburg
