DA Frontier Constituency Leader Andrew Whitfield said Tuesday 2 September that he had submitted an application under the Promotion of the Access to Information Act (PAIA) regarding the administration of Makana Municipality.
DA Frontier Constituency Leader Andrew Whitfield said Tuesday 2 September that he had submitted an application under the Promotion of the Access to Information Act (PAIA) regarding the administration of Makana Municipality.
“This application form will be asking to get access to the documents of the Kabuso investigation, which implicated individual officials and politicians,” Whitfield said.
He said that they were submitting the application on behalf of the public to access the documents filed by the Kabuso Auditing firm implicating municipal officials in the maladministration that led to Makana being placed under administration last week.
Whitfield said further that they intended to lay charges against these individuals who were found guilty of interfering with the administration of the municipality.
"The DA will now deal with matters from the ground, it will no longer be talking to the Mayor or any other official but rather hear the issues from the people who are facing these challenges," he said.
Nokonwaba Matikinca, shadow MEC for Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs, said after visiting the township that she was going to lay charges with the Human Rights Commision against the government of the Eastern Cape.
"Sewage going into someone's house is a violation of those individual rights," she said.
Also part of the delegation here to get first-hand information on the problems plaguing the municipality, was Nosimo Balindlela, the DA’s shadow minister of Water and Sanitation.
Balindlela said she hopes that things will change for the better now that the municipality has been placed under administration.
"These issues are not new, but were rather neglected by Municipal officials," she said.
On Monday 1 September they visited Zolani, an informal settlement, where they saw a busted sewage drain which had deposited sewage and dirty water into a family home.
"In another area we visited we were refused drinking water because the residents said the water was contaminated," Balindlela said.
She stated further that the municipality needs to employ good people who know the job and are skilled to help with the situation, completely eliminating nepotism.
