The newly inaugurated mayor of the Makhado Municipality is contemplating the rehabilitation of streets around Louis Trichardt town as her first strategy to deal with poor service delivery in the Municipality.

In an interview with Mirror on Monday, Cllr Mavhungu Luruli said she was aware of the conditions of the roads in her municipality and that she was considering fixing them as a start of good things that are coming to Makhado.

“Our street-rehabilitation projects will kickstart this month (February). There are also many other burning issues that we will include in our Integrated Development Plan (IDP),” she said.

Luruli seems to know a lot about the challenges the people of the Makhado Mu-nicipality are faced with, since she has been a councillor at the very same municipality since 2000 and was an Exco member until 2005.

According to Luruli, community members around the Makhado Municipal area of juris-diction must expect a lot of changes still to come, which include plans to visit tribal authorities, so as to strengthen the mutual understanding between the municipality and the communities which it serves.

She appealed to the local motorists to cooperate with the contractors who will be fixing the damaged streets. “Community members will be kept updated on the pro-gress,” she promised.

Luruli, who is also the deputy chairperson of South African Local Government Association (SALGA) in Limpopo, is once more appealing to the community members of Makhado to have confidence in the new management at the municipality. “If only people can be positive towards the new management and become cooperative, then there will be progress,” Luruli em-phasized.

According to a financial report, the municipality is currently being owed well over R1 million in outstanding depts. The mayor is now encouraging all the people who owe the municipality money to settle their accounts and by doing so promote service delivery. “We had introduced a turn-around strategy that will enhance our capacity to be more pro-active and responsive to the needs of our people. This is the strategy that would enhance accountability, performance and effective service delivery to our people,” said Luruli.