The truth about Midvaal Municipality
The ANC's charade conducted in Midvaal on Sunday typifies their attitude in government in Gauteng. In essence, it equates to a combination of a failure to deliver services after nearly 20 years in government coupled by the reality that people are looking elsewhere for a new political home (see report).
The automatic response of the ANC is therefore to identify a DA-run Municipality (Midvaal), ignore its record as the best performing municipality in Gauteng, and to conduct an exercise of very selective and insincere conversations with residents.
Here are some of the facts that the ANC have quite conveniently managed to miss in the charade they conducted on Sunday:
- The Midvaal Municipality has reduced unemployment from 24% to 10.7% since its tenure in government began in 2000.
- This has been achieved, amongst other key factors, by an economic growth of 15% per annum over the last decade.
- The following represent the change in levels of basic service delivery since the DA took over in 2000 from the ANC:
a. Water : 98.2% (2001: 90%)
b. Electricity: 89.3% (2001: 68%)
c. Sanitation: 93.5% (2001: 73%)
d. Refuse removal: 84% (2001: 58%)
e. Residents living in informal dwellings: 8% (2001: 15%)