KwaDukuza Municipality executive committe has identified the Women's Month as part of their campaign to find ways to optimize the impact of government's service delivery by paying attention to the core functions as enshrined in Chapter 7 of the South African Constitution.
These sentiments were echoed by Mayor Thulani Khuluse during the launch of the 'Service Delivery Month Initiative' at KwaDukuza Library, Stanger, on Tuesday morning.
"KwaDukuza Municipality will during the Women's Month embark on a focussed campaign to address service delivery backlogs in all our wards.
We are guided by our own mandatory Customer Satisfaction Survey, together with the comments and submissions made by the public during the Mayoral Izimbizo and we've resolved to address the need to impose the public confidence in our system of governance" explained Khuluse.
Our Heads of Departments, he said, have a responsibility to revitalise the Customer Complaint System in line with the Batho Pele principles and attend to concerns to the customer (our residents) satisfaction.
"The Electrical Engineering Services department will undertake a number of activities, including street lightning, replacement of faulty traffic lights and the cleaning and replacement of kiosks.
And the Civil Engineering Services will engage in the rennovation of the municipal buildings, cleaning of the railway bridge, road maintanance and the excavation and laying of the storm water pipes in different wards.
It must be noted that KwaDukuza Municipality was worst hit in February 28, 2009 when it suffered a national catastrophe of heavy floods that caused damage worth millions of rands to physical infrastructure, such as houses and playing fields.
Municipal Manager Mduduzi Zungu also added that they have drawn a longterm process that will focus on empowering their learners on career opportunities in the tourism field and the promotion of agriculture to fight against poverty.
"We are implementing various community gardens in Doringkop, Darnall and Shayamoya in partnership with the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs.
We also aim to create some 960 contract jobs for our youth development programme that shall evolve around the young people" said Zungu.
Opposition party ward 6 councillor Ann McDonnell from the Democratic Alliance endorsed the launch of the Service Delivery Month Initiative, however she sounded a warning that the municipality should not squeze in a single month programmes that should be implemented throughout the full year calendar.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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