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CA say they will not attend “consultative” meeting
News Date: 22 August 2008
Mr André Naudé, chairman of the Chairpersons Association, said on Wednesday that they will not attend the
This, he said, was due to the short notice they received regarding the meeting, making it impossible to change their already busy schedules. Other invitees, including the Soutpansberg Ratepayers Association, the agricultural sector and the Soutpansberg Chamber of Commerce, also expressed the same view.
“No agenda has been forwarded to us either. It is unfortunate that dates, venues and times had been imposed unilaterally by the municipality without consulting any of the above organizations in respect of an acceptable time, date and venue,” said Naudé.
“In the meantime, it has come to our attention that 14 of the municipality’s graders are at present not operational, due to the fact that the municipality neglected to take out licenses for these machines; sewerage is still spilling out at the maximum security prison, bad audit reports have been reported in the newspaper and still the municipality prioritizes the dividing name-change issue, rather than focussing on reallly important service delivery,” Naudé added. He said it seemed as if theWritten by
Andries van Zyl
Andries joined the Zoutpansberger and Limpopo Mirror in April 1993 as a darkroom assistant. Within a couple of months he moved over to the production side of the newspaper and eventually doubled as a reporter. In 1995 he left the newspaper group and travelled overseas for a couple of months. In 1996, Andries rejoined the Zoutpansberger as a reporter. In August 2002, he was appointed as News Editor of the Zoutpansberger, a position he holds until today.
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