While the Mayor of the Merafong Local Municipality (Carletonville, Fochville, Wedela), Nozuko Best, boasted about improved service delivery in her 2025 State of the City Address, police were forced to use rubber bullets to disperse protesting community members outside the Carletonville Civic Centre.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) suspects tempers would have flared even higher if residents knew the State of the City Address cost a staggering R3,5 million.
The money should have been used to pay off some of the Municipality’s debt (exceeding R2,8 billion) to Eskom and Rand Water, which continues to grow monthly.
The Gauteng Legislature’s Committee for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) also expressed concern this past week about Merafong’s deteriorating financial situation, resulting in prolonged service disruptions.
Infrastructure in Carletonville’s central business district continues to decay, while the Municipality’s own performance assessment shows it achieved only 34% of its service delivery targets in the past financial year.
So, while the Mayor dreams of solar farms and promoting tourism, the Municipality cannot even manage basic tasks such as replacing broken streetlights or fixing potholes.
Her address once again demonstrated that she and the ANC are totally out of touch with what is happening on grass-roots level.
The only way to save Merafong is to oust the ANC at the polls.
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Lekker – great / tasty [lack-err] An Afrikaans word that has multiple meanings and which can be used in various contexts to describe many things from people to food to inanimate objects. It is used to convey the meaning of great, delicious, nice or fun. Make sure to roll the ‘r’ when pronouncing the word.Example: “That new movie is lekker!” / “That bunny chow was lekker!” / “I’m lekker, bru!”
Cosmic Presence
A new teacher enters a classroom full of students.
The teacher stands at the front of the room and greets the students, \”Good morning, class.\”
None of the students say anything. One boy at the back of the classroom stands up, \”Good morning, teacher.\”
Puzzled, the teacher carries on. The following morning, the same thing happens. Day after day goes by, and it\’s the same routine.
One morning after greeting the class and the same student standing and greeting, the teacher has had enough, \”Why is it, that every time I walk in and greet the entire room, only you stand up and greet me?\”
In the most broken English, the boy replies, \”Because I are the only one here, what\’s name are Klass\”