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Koster Skool - Kaskar Kompetisie
Ek her die volgende brief met vrae aan die M.M van Kgetleng rivier Munisipaliteit gestuur - ‘n rukkie na die 9de April 2018 se openbare vergadering vir wyk 3. Die M.M het uitdruklik daardie aand gesê dat  die publiek welkom is om vrae betreffende die begroting, dieste ens. aan hom  te stuur Hy SAL dit antwoord!. Ek het onderstaande vrae die eerste keer op die 20 April aan hom gestuur – na die Web-adres wat hy aangegee het. Ek het hom 3-keer geskakel en gevra dat  hy onderstaande vrae moet beantwoord en dat ek dit in elk geval gaan plaas – of hy antwoord of nie. Hy het NIE geantwoord nie!        Ek sal bly wees as lesers wat  hierdie munisipaliteit op die oomblik moet ondergaan, die vrae goed deurlees – dit gee dalk net ‘n goeie oorsig van die ABSOLUTE SKANDELIKE minagting van die AG se aanbevelings en die voortgang van ontsettende geldverspilling van die belastingbetalers se gelde… (Die vrae is in Engels sodat almal in die gebied – ook die Engelse lesers, dit kan lees.)
Questions in connection with Municipal Meeting in ward 3 on Monday, the 9th of April 2018.
Thank you for the privilege to ask questions in connection with this meeting about the 2017 AUDIT outcomes for this local Municipality. (I am working mainly from the short ( compiled) booklet that had been handed out at the meeting.)
Point 1.3 ( page 5) of the Audit  states that this municipality “ needs to develop, implement and monitor stringent internal controls to ensure that the financial statements are free from MISstatements…”
Further the municipality FAILED to address the prior year’s findings in relation to predetermined objectives and NON-compliance with laws and regulations.”( read the middle paragraph of the AG’s report on page 12.)
At the meeting it had been stated by the M.M. that the Municipality aims to show a surplus of R5 million for the current financial year. Page 8 of the audit shows a few figures, but all and all the amounts that count up the deficit are much higher, and will ever grow while 82% of equitable share will keep on being spend on employee related costs. ( point4.4)  This municipality is MORE THAN R 50 MILLION in arrears!( see q. … for explanation of expenditure_
Question 1(a): Can you explain to us how the municipality aims to show a R5mil. surplus  for the new financial year?
Q1(b): Are you planning to start updating the “indigent register” that is being named in point 4.4 and will it contain ALL the inhabitants?
You are accused by the AG, that you, as leadership:” has not provided an effective environment to prevent material corrections to the financial statements, findings on pre- determined objectives and compliance deviations from occurring during the current and prior financial year. Thus, to the AG., ( as well as to the inhabitants of this municipality,) it seems that: ”the leadership does not seem to be protecting and enhancing the interests of the municipality”
Q1(c): Do you plan to change the current situation, or do you also think (like most inhabitants) that the situation is irreversible?( I heard from a trustworthy source that you are still ignoring facts and figures in the planning for the new financial year’s expenses!)
Q2: Do you plan collecting all the outstanding moneys on Municipal accounts in all the wards of the towns and townships, or will some be earmarked to be milked dry, while other wards and townships’ debt will be cancelled – AGAIN!!, as usual? (NB: I am absolutely aware of some of the ever rising amounts on some accounts in say, Reagile and that those amounts are perpetually being cancelled.)
Q3: Does the municipality have the will to change its current spending habits to obtain a “healthy financial position” ( as stated 0n page 8 : under point 4.4.? )
Q4: With one eye on the deeper meaning of “ubuntu”(stating that I should not point out your mistakes or correcting them,) who will be in control of budgetary and the development of internal controls and the appropriate monitoring thereof and who will be allocated to ensure compliance? ( p. 9, under 4.6)
Q5:  How does the municipality plan to better the situation under point 5.1 on page 10 ( unauthorised expenditure =R62 586 808 , together with the prior years’ = R 108 986 135 – not being dealt with) Irregular and fruitless and wasteful expenditure, amounting to   : R9 747 667, with the prior years’ of R 11 061 886 , that had NOT been dealt with)  Also: irregular expenditure of R 36 290 801 that had been incurred in the current year and irregular and wasteful expenditure of R 20 363 290 801 from prior years  that had NOT been dealt with accordance  with section 32 of the MFMA.
How on earth do you plan to rectify this condition – or : are you NOT planning it? Do you have the will and the know-how?(Or are you waiting for the UN to come and rescue this sinking Titanic?
Q6. Is the Accounting Officer of this municipality aware of the fact that he/she is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the SA standards of GRAP/and requirements of the MFMA and the D0RA , and that he/she had to be sure that the preparation of financial statements are :”FREE FROM MATERIAL MISSTATEMENTS, DUE TO FRAUD OR ERROR” Am I correct then , Sir, to presume that any FRAUD or ERROR should be reported to the SAPS and other related bodies? Is it plan of  the Accounting officer to assess the municipality’s ability to continue as an going concern, to disclose, as applicable, matters relating to going concerns on a healthy basis? If I consider the way your council ignores “Consequence Management” I truly doubt it! Reasonable steps were not taken to prevent the unauthorised expenditure of R171 674 674 . Your statement did not  include “lists of misstatements of current assets, liabilities, revenue, expenditure and disclosure items.
You did not table the the previous year’s annual report in the time permitted, you failed to adopt an oversight report containing your comments on the annual report. No effective steps were taken by the municipality to prevent the extravagant amounts spent as wasteful, fruitless and irregular.
It had also been brought to my attention that the way Procurement and Contract management are done in this Municipality, smells of nepotism and favouritism.
On p. 11 the findings on the Swartruggens Replacement of Asbestos Pipes and ….. did not meet its planned milestones “DUE TO LACK OF PROJECT MONITORING BY THE MUNICIPALITY ….”
Q7(a): Who had been responsible for monitoring, or was there no one? Is ANYBODY EVER being allocated to a task or project? Is ANYBODY EVER RESPONSIBLE and brought to book for work not being done?
Q7(b): Does the municipality have the will, the INTENTION and knowlege - how to start processing a “PROPER RECORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM  ( for reporting and maintaining information- sometimes on actual performances - as was named on page 12 in the AGSA’s key message?) Or will” interaction and response” as stated on p. 12, be enough-again?) for page 12 further states that: “no documented commitments were made by management…..”
Q8 (a):  What do these two findings above have to tell us? Were commitments made   - or not? And when will the taxpaying inhabitants of Kgetleng L.M. see them? ( we are especially interested in commitment towards internal controls, performance management and compliance with legislation.)
Q8 (b.): What is the idea of the management team to NOT IMPLEMENT the recommendations of the audit (“thereby left a vacant internal audit so that the municipality could not be assisted with risk assessment nor with the compilation of an ACTION PLAN to address the prior year‘s audit findings. Consequently, THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE TO NO IMPROVEMENT IN THE FINDINGS on reported performance information or – compliance with legislation.”) And then, Sir, you are proud of the report you received from the AG?? As you boastfully wrote in “Onze Nuus” of 2 months ago!
Q8(c): Is it incompetence, ignorance or cheek from the side of leadership to blatantly IGNORE the recommendations of the AG or- more horrible to think of - DELIBERATELY working towards a situation where the Government ( and now- the UN,) will have to intervene, and all Kgetleng’s debt will be hopefully cancelled? How else can the AG’s warnings and your DELIBERATE performance be understood?
Q9: With all the previous questions, especially Question 8b. in mind, can you PLEASE tell me on WHAT grounds did Kgetleng Rivier Municipality win a prestigious prize as best performing municipality in North West (under” People First”- quotation !)
Q10. You answer about the road building team that had been contracted by you and that started ripping and tarring the “Mayors streets” and then, suddenly left, is NOT true. You told people that the builders were afraid that their equipment would be burned in the uprising. The contractors told me that they had not been paid and they just left, because you broke contract and still own them more thanR2500000.00.
Now our sidewalks, roads and driveways are strewn with cement blocks and stones. Don’t be annoyed if you come to the Municipal offices one day and find that you cannot enter because of the said stones and rubble strewn in the exit and entrance… We did not hire the road makers well knowing that we could not pay them -and then told them to fix  Noord street and then the 2 roads passing the Mayor’s guesthouse! You did!
Q11: In connection with the perpetual water- problem experienced in our region, especially in ward 3 and Rand Save: in earlier years the three boreholes next to the Derby road, near the railway lines were sufficient to supply the town, township and railway of water.  In the same vicinity, a third hole had later been sunk- and there are also 2 other holes near the golf club. There are 2 additional equipped bore holes next to the railway line and those near the Koster golf club, with water streaming from pipes.
I don’t think the water supply problem will ever be solved at the rate that crisis – management is being implemented at the moment. Maybe now is the time to turn back to the old fashioned boreholes that did its work well in the past. So- by the way-why are these 5 equipped boreholes not being used for supplying this town with water? I understand that water lorries carry water from the boreholes at the golf club to Swartruggens, driving thousands of unnecessary kilometres each month, bringing advantage only to some of the well- known “ silent” co- owners of the trucks. (Doesn’t Swartruggens have bore holes and a dam that could be swept clean – before the rainy season  - and used,?)
Q12 Can no plan be made with the high mast lights in Reagile that are turned on perpetually? Although the excuse seems to be that the power isn’t from the municipality, but from ESKOM, it still is a meaningless waste of electricity, and is showing ignorance of the electricity crisis in this country.
Q13. Sir, had there been a Council meeting and voting to discuss the second Manager in you(r), the ( MM’s office ) whom we, the taxpayers have to pay ? Where does this larger stream of work suddenly appear from?
Q14. This is the JACKPOT question: Does this present municipality really has the wellbeing and development of the district, towns and townships at heart, or are most of them sitting comfortably  back in their pound seats, not really working for the good of all the inhabitants, but only for their own pockets? If the planned answer is “YES” Why do we see the councillors so seldom on the streets and mingling with the people or inspecting problem areas? Could part of the answer be that many of the councillors do not even LIVE in Kgetleng, and thus couldn’t care less for the place and the people ( and their problems?) I know, Sir, Koster doesn’t offer the smart and luxurious places that some of  you are currently using as your abode in Rustenburg.
You maybe do not be aware of this, but in the” very bad days” before 1994 – the Mayors and councillors of this Municipality received NO SALARY of ANY kind, and the mayor’s official motor  had only been used for official occasions But, we -, the inhabitants received excellent public services from them. So, now we start wondering exactly WHAT SERVICES are you receiving your extravagant salaries for…
It will be wonderful if you could answer my questions ( just as fluently you answered questions at the meeting on the 6th of April. At least we could read it at our own speed and not have to follow your fluent English at 250k per minute!)
Troubled Inhabitant ( of over 50 years) of Kgetleng.
Published: 19 June 2014
Grote Marico-Erfenisbewarings gebied Mei2018
Grote Marico-Erfenisbewarings gebied Mei2018
Op Vrydag,  die 20ste April 2018, kom heelwat belangstellendes van Swartruggens, Koster, Derby, Boons, Marico en Zeerust bymekaar  in die privaat museum van mnr Martin Stols van Swartruggens.Die doel van die byeenkoms was die stigting van ‘n Geskiedenis – Bewaringskomitee vir genoemde gebiede.
Me Riana Mulder, verbonde aan die ERFENISBEWARINGS-BEWUSMAKINSPROJEK ( EBB) wat sorteer onder die VOORTREKKER MONUMENT , is die spreker van die oggend. Sy vertel op ‘n insiggewende  manier van die doelwitte van die oorhoofse vereniging en van vele takke wat reeds landswyd gestig is.
Die vergadering besluit dat die dorpe en omgewing van die Groter Marico distrik, waar, terloops, vele veldslae en skermutselings plaasgevind het gedurende die 2de Vryheidsoorlog,  ook ‘n tak gaan stig.( Dit is gedoen, en die naam is soos in die opskrif.)
Heelwat van die belangstellendes teenwoordig lewer professionele insette oor verskillende aspekte van bewaring.
*Die gebiede Boons, Derby, Moedwil en Koster stig ‘n eie sy-tak onder die Groter Marico een. Die voorsitter is Me Madelé Heymans.( tel 014 5432 545) en die sekretaresse is me Stella Potgieter (  084 991 4303)
* Swartruggens se voorsitter is mnr. Martin Stols( tel 0825568861) en die sekretaresse is me Hannelie Husemeyer (tel  0829401957)
*Zeerust se voorsitter is ds. Stephan Botha,( tel 083743507)
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Published: 19 June 2014
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