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President Cyril Ramaphosa, the premier of the Free State, the province's Cogta MEC and 14 others are at the centre of a court challenge before the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein over service delivery in the embattled Mafube Local Municipality. Lobby group AfriForum and the Mafube Business Forum launched the court challenge on behalf of residents and the business community in Frankfort.
Service delivery issues in the embattled Mafube Local Municipality are at the centre of a court application lodged against President Cyril Ramaphosa and 16 others.
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the Mafube Business Forum announced today at a media conference that they are going to challenge Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa and 16 other respondents in the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein tomorrow (27 January 2022) to ensure service delivery in the Mafube Local Municipality – specifically in Frankfort. Frankfort, Tweeling, Villiers and Cornelia are managed by the Mafube Local Municipality. Despite Frankfort being the hometown of Sisi Ntombela, Premier of the Free State, residents of this former upscale town receive no municipal services. The municipality is officially bankrupt; regular water shortages, no refuse removal, a dysfunctional sewage system and potholes are but a few of the problems that all residents of this town have to deal with. Moreover, the municipality has not sent any municipal accounts for various years now.
First published by the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper
Garbage lines a muddy dirt road on the outskirts of Frankfort, Free State, leading to an old quarry, the town’s dumping site. A bakkie stops at the foot of the trash-covered hill to the quarry and offloads bags of refuse by the road. Another bakkie follows, then another.
The quarry floods when it rains and water trickles through the trash towards the Wilge River, a tributary of the Vaal River.
Rubbish lays alongside the banks of a stream that runs into the Wilge River. The rubbish comes from the Namahadi Township outside Frankfort because of the lack of refuse collections. Daily Maverick / Shiraaz Mohamed