GOOD Speech delivered during the George Municipality Council Meeting by Roxaan Vorster, GOOD George Municipality Councillor:
The Mayor, in his foreword, just as in the MM’s foreword, says the following: “It is with a strong sense of responsibility and commitment that I present the review of the IDP.”
As a GOOD councillor, I regret today that I cannot share his sentiments about our responsibility as councillors towards the community of George. The document was provided to us yesterday afternoon and consists of 532 pages. I cannot in any way give the community of George the assurance that this document speaks in the interest of the broader George community.
All operational and financial processes begin with the IDP. The IDP is the primary document in which the service delivery expectations of the community are captured in a strategic plan, following many public participation processes between the council and the community. I am of the opinion that we, as councillors, are failing our community by treating the document as just another rubber-stamp exercise.
From page 251 onwards, Ward Priorities and Planning, after all the red tape in the preceding pages, the important sections are finally shared. This section deals with the expectations of the community and how these are captured and budgeted for in the strategic planning documents. It is important that this be workshopped with us as councillors and presented in a short explanatory summary so that the community’s needs and priorities can be ensured in the revised document, as contained in the 5-year IDP and strategic plan.
At this stage, Speaker, I cannot say with conviction that the expectations of our communities are being addressed.
GOOD Manifesto on Community Development: Involvement in various community development projects.
voodoo queen
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!\”
Lord Nikon
My teacher pointed at me with her ruler and said that at the end of this ruler is a dumb. Then I asked which end and I got a detention.