ActionSA is concerned about the indifference of the Tarkastad Police Station’s leadership to the neglect what is a notoriously scarce resource in the Eastern Cape.
Upon arriving in the Enoch Mgijima Municipality, ActionSA was greeted by a police vehicle, belonging to the Tarkastad Police Station, wasting away on four flat tyres. Residents of this neglected rural town lamented that the police vehicle has been in this inoperable state for close to six months, despite police vehicles being in very short supply.
It has become apparent that the neglect of state resources goes beyond police vehicles.
It’s been 5 years since the Enoch Mgijima Municipality was handed the Tsolwana Licence Testing station in Tarkastad to operate. To this day, the testing station has never been open to the public and has never been occupied by government officials to operate it. This white elephant remains unused meanwhile its residents are subjected to more than 60 kms of travel time and unaffordable expenses to the neighbouring towns to apply for or to renew driving licences.
It goes without saying that a driver’s licence improves one’s employability. However, residents cannot acquire this in their own town, where a perfectly good licensing station stands empty, with lights on and guarded by a paid security company. More wasteful expenditure for services residents of Tarkastad will never enjoy.
To allow state resources to deteriorate in the midst of all this impoverishment in the Eastern Cape is both, immoral and irresponsible.
We urge the provincial government, as the custodian of the resources through which basic services are meant to be delivered, to hold those responsible for mismanaging state resources accountable. We implore the Provincial Commissioner of Police to take seriously the matter of the deteriorating condition and shortage of resources within the police service of the Eastern Cape in general.
Tarkastad citizens deserve a well-capacitated police service that can decisively deal with the ever-increasing crime rate, amongst other issues plaguing this community.
A Municipality that cares about its citizens is easily identified by the way it manages its assets. The deplorable condition of municipal and provincial assets in Tarkastad speaks volumes about this town’s neglect by the amalgamated municipality and province government.
ActionSA is sending a reminder to the incumbent ANC government on the eve of the by-election, to either shape up or be shipped out by the residents of this town who have been neglected for far too long.
State Resources Rotting Away in Enoch Mgijima Municipality, Despite Their Shortage
ActionSA is concerned about the indifference of the Tarkastad Police Station’s leadership to the neglect what is a notoriously scarce resource in the Eastern Cape.
Upon arriving in the Enoch Mgijima Municipality, ActionSA was greeted by a police vehicle, belonging to the Tarkastad Police Station, wasting away on four flat tyres. Residents of this neglected rural town lamented that the police vehicle has been in this inoperable state for close to six months, despite police vehicles being in very short supply.
It has become apparent that the neglect of state resources goes beyond police vehicles.
It’s been 5 years since the Enoch Mgijima Municipality was handed the Tsolwana Licence Testing station in Tarkastad to operate. To this day, the testing station has never been open to the public and has never been occupied by government officials to operate it. This white elephant remains unused meanwhile its residents are subjected to more than 60 kms of travel time and unaffordable expenses to the neighbouring towns to apply for or to renew driving licences.
It goes without saying that a driver’s licence improves one’s employability. However, residents cannot acquire this in their own town, where a perfectly good licensing station stands empty, with lights on and guarded by a paid security company. More wasteful expenditure for services residents of Tarkastad will never enjoy.
To allow state resources to deteriorate in the midst of all this impoverishment in the Eastern Cape is both, immoral and irresponsible.
We urge the provincial government, as the custodian of the resources through which basic services are meant to be delivered, to hold those responsible for mismanaging state resources accountable. We implore the Provincial Commissioner of Police to take seriously the matter of the deteriorating condition and shortage of resources within the police service of the Eastern Cape in general.
Tarkastad citizens deserve a well-capacitated police service that can decisively deal with the ever-increasing crime rate, amongst other issues plaguing this community.
A Municipality that cares about its citizens is easily identified by the way it manages its assets. The deplorable condition of municipal and provincial assets in Tarkastad speaks volumes about this town’s neglect by the amalgamated municipality and province government.
ActionSA is sending a reminder to the incumbent ANC government on the eve of the by-election, to either shape up or be shipped out by the residents of this town who have been neglected for far too long.