Non-violent Rule-of-Law service delivery protests focussed on solutions
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Violent “liberation struggle” service delivery protests focussed on destruction
Fitting the Bill
Carte Blanche
19 April 2009 07:00
 Date: 19 April 2009 07:00 ** Producer: Bernadette Cook |
Driving down this derelict and pot-holed road you'd be forgiven for thinking you're in Zimbabwe. But it's a familiar sight in towns around South Africa where infrastructure is crumbling due to a lack of maintenance.Read more »
Here in Sannieshof, in the North-West, municipal neglect has left Carien Visser angry.
Carien Visser (Sannieshof Ratepayers Association): "The worst stages of that was round about 2005 when we started experiencing no service delivery. Buildings and everything going dilapidated, no water, the sewerage running down our streets, faulty accounts, street surfaces going, our township outside without water, without sanitation."
Bongani Bingwa (Carte Blanche presenter): "This is the Sannieshof Hotel. If you are a visitor to this town you will most likely stay here. But instead of being greeted by pretty tourist sites you've got sewerage flowing down the main street."
A visit to the unkempt Sannieshof sewerage works soon revealed why.
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