Members of the Tshwane ANC Youth League picketed outside the Tshwane House Municipal offices on Thursday demanding that Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya must start taking into consideration matters affecting the youths of Tshwane.
Tshwane SASCO Regional Chairperson Jerry Masalesa told Tshwane Talks that his organisatiion was in support of the picketing conducted by the ANC Youth League against City of Tshwane Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya.
“We seek clarity regarding Mayor Moya’s wrong-doings in the Municipality and we have been made aware that Mayor Moya doesn’t take issues affecting the youth seriously; there’s no bursaries that are issued to the young people of Tshwane; whatever is done by the Mayor does not empower the people of this region,” said Masalesa.
Malesela decried Mayor Moya’s campaign of demolishing illegal structures in Tshwane as some of those structures belong to young people who are not aware of the City of Tshwane’s by-laws in terms of which Moya is demolishing the illegal structures.
“We have many challenges at schools due to the City of Tshwane’s campaign to cut off water and electricity at schools which have not paid for these services because our opinion is that it is not the schools that actually owe the City of Tshwane Municipality money but that it is the Gauteng Department of Education which is indebted to the Municipality,” said Tshwane COSAS Regional Secretary Kagiso Maziya.
Maziya also condemned Mayor Moya’s decision to demolish illegal structures because according to him those structures belong to people who are trying to make ends meet and that the demolition of their structures will compel them to go into the townships and commit crimes against black people in order to survive.
Regional convener of the ANC Youth League in Tshwane Thabang Mahlomuza told Tshwane Talks during the picket that they are picketing against the Mayor as serious allegations of corruption have been levelled at her.
“We also want youth unemployment to be declared a national disaster and the Mayor must prioritise youth unemployment in Tshwane and we don’t understand why the Mayor has money to renovate her personal homestead and personal swimming pools, yet she doesn’t have money to fund bursaries for students,” said Mahlomuza.
He said as “the first line of defense we no longer want to be ignored because the majority of the 2 million youths in Tshwane are unemployed.”
Be that as it may ANC chairperson and Municipal Deputy Minister Bonzo Modise reassured residents of Tshwane that the coalition government of ActionSaA and ANC won’t collapse as it was under the custodianship of a structure known as Political Management of the Coalition (PMC) led by Premier Panyaza Lesufi and ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba.
“Though we have differences and come from different political parties, we will eventually find one another because the coalition has been insulated against party political differences to make sure that service delivery continues unhindered,” said Modise.
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