The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) in Mossel Bay is inundated with complaints about poor service delivery and the unsustainability of sky-high tariffs.
The party learnt of a recent case where the Municipality imposed a levy of R22 million on an Afrikaans school to be constructed in the Hartland estate in Hartenbos.
This is the amount Hartland Akademie will have to pay once the school’s enrolment reaches one thousand pupils. The developers were dealt this shocking blow after two years of administrative red tape and delays, including a rezoning application.
According to the original planning, the school was meant to open in November 2025, but construction has not even begun.
At present, there is only one academic single-medium Afrikaans high school serving predominantly white feeder zones in the Southern Cape, namely Hoërskool Outeniqua in George, while English- and Xhosa-medium schools abound in a region where more than 70% of the population speaks Afrikaans as their mother tongue.
The demand for Christian Afrikaans schools is overwhelming and urgent, especially seeing as the Western Cape Education Department recently terminated 2 400 teaching posts and a further 1 200 educators resigned.
The Freedom Front Plus urgently appeals to the Mossel Bay Municipality to adjust this levy and offer the developers other incentives to facilitate the construction of the school.
This is not only in the best interest of 70% of residents, but will also create much-needed jobs for economic growth.
It is no use if the mayor and his councillors appear in photographs when projects are launched, make promises to developers, and then nothing comes of it.
Mossel Bay residents deserve better.
FF+ Manifesto on Good governance: Ensuring effective and efficient governance.
Mr. Peppermint
So I\’m real good friends with this guy named Juan Ted. Now, Juan is a pretty unbelievable guy. He can steal ANYTHING he wants to. Literally anything. It could be the shirt off your back, the wallet in your pocket, or I\’m even sure he\’d find a way to steal your house (And your spouse too). So anyway, one day Juan and I are sitting around watching TV, and they announced that the hope diamond will not be on display anymore and is now getting moved to an undisclosed location. So as we hear this, Juan says \”I\’m gonna steal it\”. Now I know how good Juan is at this kind of stuff, so I just tell him good luck and he goes on his way. Eventually he narrows his search down to a small cave in South Africa. When Juan gets there, he doesn\’t see any guards or anything outside the cave, so he just walks in assuming he was wrong about where the diamond was. He wanders around for a while until he sees a long lit hallway with the hope diamond at the end of it. Confident in his abilities, he strolls over to the diamond and picks it up before realizing its a trap! Suddenly, red lights flashed, armed men came running out, sirens went off. You could hear one of the men say under his breath \”We finally caught Juan Ted.\” But Juan, being the best thief in the world, said \”Not quite. On the count of three, I will disappear.\” As the men looked around confused, Juan began to count. \”Uno. Dos.\” And he disappeared without a tres.
Rocky Highway
Van der Merwe goes to Paris to watch the Boks take on the Brits at the world cup.
Whilst in Paris, he walks around, gaping and staring at everything – so much so that he walks smack bang into a fire hydrant which hits him so hard on the family jewels that he has to be rushed to hospital where the doctors tell him they have to remove his testicles.
Van goes berserk, he bites and snarls at every one and he won\’t let anybody within 10 metres of him. Eventually they find a South African doctor in the hospital and get him to talk to Van.
He walks up to Van and tells him \”Hey Van, die ouens moet jou knaters uithaal.\”
Van replies \”O, okay, ek dog die bliksems wil my test tickets vat.\”