Baie dankie!
Op 23 Maart het ek in die dorp siek ge-raak. Graag wil ek net die volgende vriende wat aan my hulp verleen het bedank: Cathy, Bernice, die ambulansman wat my gestabiliseer het, vriende, die dokter en personeel, en ook die vriendin wat my motor huis toe geneem het. Ek waardeer dit. Mag die Meester u wonderlik seën. U weldaad sal ek nooit vergeet nie.
– Jean Arries, Oudtshoorn
Vir wie moet ek stem?
Om hierdie vraag te beantwoord, moet ek as Christen ’n ingeligte besluit neem. Daarom is ek innig dankbaar vir die inligting wat ’n bekende Christelike tydskrif bekend gestel het.
Christene moet as verantwoordelike burgers die Almagtige op alle terreine verheerlik. Ons moet die bose teenstaan en geregtigheid laat seëvier. Daarom is dit ons plig om te stem.
Gaan gerus na www.savotersguide. org of info@christianaction.org.za om inligting te kry oor Bybelse beginsels vir Afrika.
– Eden, Oudtshoorn
More questions
Thank you for publishing my letter of concern in your edition of 4 April 2019.
The comments of the speaker are noted which leads me to respond as follows.
Are all 13 ward committees operational? Do they meet on a regular basis, as required? Are proper minutes kept? Are these meetings open to the public in observer capacity? Where and when are the meeting dates advertised for the various wards?
Ward committees are, I believe, non- political and are there to support the sitting councillor by bringing to attention problems and suggested solutions pertaining to each ward, some unique to a particular ward. These items can and are often used when planning the following year’s budget and prioritising and co-ordinating the process of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP).
These meetings can and should be used by the chairman (councillor) for reporting back to his team on developments and decisions, especially those which effect them directly.
Members of these committees are, I believe, paid a stipend for their services to their communities.
Without proper working ward committees I am left wondering how a sitting councillor can make representations for financial assistance and other assistance for his ward, especially if representations directly from residents (rate payers) are ignored as well.
– Brian Spenceley, Oudtshoorn
Municipality responds
The Oudtshoorn Municipality responds as follows to Brian Spenceley’s letter:
All 13 wards in the Greater Oudtshoorn are operational. Ward committees are meeting bi-monthly, this year’s meetings started in January 2019. Minutes are taken at all meetings.
Ward committee meetings are “committee meetings”, meaning members of the committee are invited to attend. The ward councillor, who is also the chairperson of the meetings, may however determine whether the committee meetings are open to the public and/or inte-rested parties.
The municipality has uploaded the ward committees’ scheduled meetings for 2019 on the municipal website for the public to take note of the meetings (http://www.oudtshoorn.gov.za/resource-category/ward-committees).
Ward committee members do receive a stipend on a bi-monthly basis for meetings attended and including services rendered to the community.
