The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has repeatedly requested both the previous Mayor of the Drakenstein Municipality, Conrad Poole, and the current Mayor, Stephen Korabie, to reduce the size of the Municipality’s Mayoral Committee.
This Committee has taxpayers shelling out thousands of rand every month, while its members are not in the office very often. The party’s pleas keep falling on deaf ears, though.
Drakenstein has only four directorates, but there are currently eleven mayoral committee members.
The Freedom Front Plus proposed that the Committee be cut back to a maximum of five members. This would result in a saving of approximately R461 341 per month (more than R5,5 million per year) – money that would be much better spent on urgent infrastructure maintenance and service delivery.
In the party’s view, establishing inflated, expensive mayoral committees merely facilitates the remuneration of a political elite at the expense of taxpayers.
In a country where municipalities spend only about 2% on infrastructure, the proposed saving of R5,5 million per year in Drakenstein is a practical implementation of the Freedom Front Plus’s official policy to enforce fiscal discipline, cut back on excessive political salaries and restore priority to essential service delivery.
The Freedom Front Plus believes that Drakenstein residents deserve better than an inflated Mayoral Committee that delivers little tangible results.
The party will keep insisting that taxpayers’ money be spent responsibly and that service delivery be prioritised.
On 4 November, residents have the opportunity to vote for the Freedom Front Plus to ensure that taxpayers’ money is sensibly spent.
Freedom Front Plus Support Base: The party primarily draws support from Afrikaners and other minority groups.
Demo Zero
Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”
Cumulo
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