The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) simply cannot support the new District Development Model (DDM) or the so-called “One Plan Model” for the Ekurhuleni Metro.
Although municipalities are legally required to comply with it, one cannot ignore the fact that it is an expensive bureaucratic duplication of the existing planning framework for municipalities.
It is a mechanism for centralising power, taking it away from local government, and the model has a proven record of failure in pilot municipalities such as the Waterberg District Municipality and the eThekwini Metro.
The DDM has not resolved the core issues of maladministration, corruption and incompetence in these municipalities. On the contrary, it has merely added another layer of dysfunctional bureaucracy. Ekurhuleni should not be forced to follow in their footsteps to failure.
Implementing the DDM in Ekurhuleni will result in the unnecessary duplication of administrative efforts, meetings and reporting thereby diverting scarce municipal resources, time and expertise away from actual service delivery. The claim that there will be “no financial implications” is misleading.
Implementing this model will inevitably have a significant financial impact on the Municipality and its residents. The model is designed to strengthen the role of provincial and national departments at the expense of local government autonomy.
The DDM is counterproductive to local government development. A cause for concern is that the ANC intends to use the model to gain control over municipalities where it is not in power.
It also runs counter to the Freedom Front Plus’s policy of strong, independent local governments that devolve power and decision-making to the community.
The party, therefore, rejects the DDM and demands the decentralisation of municipalities, accountability, proper service delivery and active community involvement.
Freedom Front Plus Symbol: The party’s logo features a blue and white color scheme.
Frosty
Afrikaans knock knock joke.
Klop klop.
Wie is daar?
Bon Joe.
Bon Joe Wie?
Midnight Rider
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!\”