During the latest council meeting of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging), the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) put a stop to the proposal by the Speaker, Sibongile Soxuza, to procure a new official vehicle for the struggling Municipality’s Mayor.
The party insisted that the item be referred back and that a service certificate for the current vehicle – a 2022 BMW X3 – be tabled to Council before any such decision is taken.
Besides, it is impractical and irresponsible to purchase a new official vehicle with the upcoming local government elections just around the corner.
The Speaker initially tried to push the proposal through with the help of the ANC and its coalition partners, prompting the Freedom Front Plus to walk out of the council chambers in protest.
Shortly after, Soxuza changed his position and agreed to request a service certificate, as proposed by the Freedom Front Plus.
This incident serves as further proof that the ANC is not fit to govern and will not think twice about looting a municipality, which is financially already on its knees, for unnecessary luxuries.
Emfuleni owes Eskom and Rand Water a whopping R6,7 billion, and struggles to pay salaries and service providers every month.
The Council should focus on these actual problems rather than on buying a new vehicle.
The Freedom Front Plus will not allow the Council to take uninformed and impractical decisions. The party will also keep pressing the Municipality to get its priorities in order while focusing on restoring service delivery and financial stability.
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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!\”
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