Ladysmith Civic Association to hit streets over service delivery concerns
The Ladysmith Civic Association says residents in the flood-hit town will be taking to the streets to highlight ongoing concerns over poor service delivery.
"Enough is enough, tell us what you're going to do. It’s now 2024,” says the association’s chairperson Maseehullah Gaffar.
He says the towns in the grip of a power and water crisis, and some homes have been without the resource for 21 days.
Gaffar says the municipality's flood alert sirens weren't activated last month, which is why communities weren't prepared for the disaster.
The Christmas Eve floods claimed the lives of more than 20 people and caused widespread damage to homes and infrastructure.
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Gaffar says they've given the Alfred Duma Municipality seven days to respond to their demands:
"We want proper service delivery at the Alfred Duma Municipality, we go days-on-end without water supply. The entire town was faced with at least seven to eight days outage.
"One is the electricity outage that we encountered twice in eleven months over a period of more than five days. The food losses uncounted the household is astronomical, let alone the losses encountered by businesses at large."
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