Nellmapius Task Team protecting the municipality workers attending to service delivery of power failure
Residents of ward 15 in Nellmapius, Tshwane have appointed a task team in their community to help safeguard the municipality workers who attend to the service delivery issues in their ward. The task team vows to guard the municipality workers until the strike comes to end.
The task team escorts municipality workers from their depot each time there is a need to fix municipal properties like electric cables, sewerage and waste removal to the ward. They stay with them while they are busy rendering services and escort them back to their workplace.
The man behind the task team, Brisco Tshabalala, told TSHWANE TALKS he has been guarding the municipality officials for the past four years because every time there are strikes community members don’t allow the municipality vehicles to go in.
“We keep service delivery going in our wards and we won’t let anyone disrupt them or to threaten them while they busy working as long as we are around the municipality workers will come and do their job and go back safely without any problems,” Tshabalala said.
He said since the beginning of the municipality strike, service delivery has been difficult to get and refuse is not collected, sewage are blocked, power outages takes forever to be fixed because some officials fear for their lives and the don’t want to attend to the issues on the community.
“We won’t let anyone disrupt the service delivery of ward 15. Anyone caught stopping the municipality workers from doing their job will have to face the wrath of the community,” he said. “We work hand in hand with the police and we have good working relationship with them and sometimes the police send vans when we catch criminals”.
Nellmapius Task Team protecting the municipality workers attending to service delivery of power failure
“I want to thank the members of the task team from the bottom of my heart for risking their lives and leaving their families behind and making sure that our community are safe and are getting service delivery at all times whenever they need it,’ he said.
Rosina Matlala (50) who lives in ward 15 said that “we want to thank the task team since they begin, we are feeling safe in our community and we are proud of them and they are risking their lives to make sure we are safe at all times and may God bless them,” said Rosina Matlala (50).
