Municipality Watchdog - Public Swimming Pools

The Municipality Watchdog have a big concern regarding our public swimming pool facilities. The facilities were closed by the Mogale City Local Municipality about 6 years ago. Summer is around the corner and there are no swimming pools in our City. We are calling on the city to upgrade and reopen this facilities.

Municipality Watchdog - Refuse Removal

The Municipality Watchdog will sending a letter to the Mogale City Local Municipality and asks them to refund the residents of Mogale City. The reason for the refund is as follows.

• During the Municipal strike residents were charged for services not rendered
• Residents were incorrectly billed
• For refuse removal that is not schedule

The Municipality bought 8 brand new trucks and currently only have 4 trucks in operation and then the council also making us of an outsourcing refuse removal company. Residents of Mogale City Local Municipality are also having a bad log on refuse removal and sometimes only empting the bins late at night

Municipality Watchdog - Bob van Renen Stadium

The Municipality Watchdog are currently compiling a list of schools in the West Rand, the reason for this is as follow. • We want to send a letter to each school and encourage them to get the parents involve to sign a petition • We will then submit this petition to the Mogale City Local Municipality, Provincial Government and the National Assembly, we will also forward a copy to Kaizer Chiefs • We want the see the stadium rebuild and even better as before. In 2003 the Mogale City local municipality announced that they going to upgrade the facilities and it will then be known as the Amakhosi stadium and the cost implications were then R840 million, but 6years down the line nothing has happened and is currently a white elephant . Should the upgrading start now the cost implication will be R1.2 milliard. Should you wish to assist in this matter please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Municipality Watchdog - Presidential Hotline:

Presidential Hotline:

Today (16 September 2009) President Jacob Zuma called on the public to contact there Local Municipality or provincial government first to resolve any problem that you may before calling the Presidential Hotline. The Presidential Hotline was launched on Monday (14 September 2009). The hotline received 7261 calls between 9:00 and noon that day with about 40 calls per minutes. The average holding time per caller was about 80 minutes. How sufficient will this hotline be? The hotline is already costing R4m and will have about 21 full-time employees working at the Union Buildings. President Jacob Zuma's hotline will initially cost R1.5m a year.


Contact the Presidential Hotline on 17737 toll-free .

Please give us your views on this issue.....

Municipality Watchdog - Damaged Roberts, Street Poles and Vandalized stop signs

How is it possible to take over 2 months to install new traffic lights on the R28, Robert broom drive. The unit that were stolen to complete the installation cost is R32000-00, who have paid for the replacement unit, trust me the residents of Krugersdorp . I would like to know and I think residents of Krugersdorp would also like to know how this unit was stolen and were where the guard that were suppose to be on duty.


Response to Damaged street poles:

What is the Mogale City local municipality response on this issue and what are they going to do about it. How are the going to enforce this .Who are the municipality going to held responsible for the damage or is it like the cable theft issue, you as a resident report cable theft and nothing is being done. What is the mogale City Local Municipality doing about illegal advertising on municipal property and vandalism of council property?

Municipality Watchdog- Survey, Sponsorship and Community input, Cleanest Town Contest.

Over the following weeks we want to post a survey to see where local Municipalities are failing there residents and how they can improve service delivery.

We also want to see the Municipality Watchdog official launch, but we cant do it alone, I invite Community for there input and would like to see people and local business to assist in this as I cant do it alone.

We will need some sponsorship, if any person or business can assist on this matter please contact me.

We also want to launch the Cleanest town initiative and reward Municipalities and there workers that go that extra mile. We will also like any person that can assist in this

Municipality Watchdog - West Rand

We are proud to announce that we are Launching the Municipality Watchdog West Rand
Campaign (Krugersdorp, Randfontein, Westonaria, and Roodepoort). But it is not
limited to these areas. We would like to hear from you. If you staying in this
areas and having troubles with your Local Municipality please send me any comments
and photos.

We would like to hear your comments on the following issues:

1. What is your view about cable theft in our cities and how can our Municipality's
prevent this of happening.
2. Do you feel Municipal workers need to go on strike and how does this affect
service delivery in your area?
3. Do you think is responsible for that street pole or traffic light that were
damaged in an accident.
4. How do you feel about the Bob van Reenen stadium , who is the right full owners
of this stadium, would you like to see the stadium to be restored or rebuild to the
stadium that we previously knew.
5. How do you feel about illegal dumping in our city?
6. How do you feel of illegal advertising on sub stations, robots and stop signs?
7. How do you feel over our billing system.
8. Do you think local municipalities can improve service delivery to its residents?
9. What do you think about the poor state of our roads and drainage system?
10. Is there still public swimming facilities in your city, would you like to see
the two public swimming pools in Mogale City to re open.

Municipality Watchdog - Street Lights (Krugersdorp)

We received a lot of complains from Mogale City residents about the street Lights that is not working for a period of 2 months and longer. We would like to hear from you "the Public", please feel free to email me your complains at info@municipality-watchdog.co.za or visit our website at www.municipality-watchdog.co.za. Please remember "Your voice is Power. We will be launching a petition very shortly.

Municipal Watchdog

This is a Watchdog that will keep a close eye on the service delivery of the Mogale City Local Municipality and other Municipalities in South Africa. Over a few weeks there were a lot of reports published in the Krugersdorp News about poor service delivery from the Mogale City Local Municipality. We would like to hear from you. Please visit our website at www.municipality-watchdog or email me at info@municipality-watchdog.co.za. Hope to hear from you soon (Your voice is power)