Service delivery is about improving people’s lives, not expedient election promises
A pastor and residents in informal settlements are opening their hearts to destitute children
About 40 Thembelihle children have not been admitted to schools yet, which parents have blamed on the Gauteng education department’s incompetency.
As school admission issues continue to plague Thembelihle pupils, activists battle to place students three weeks after schools have reopened.
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/ 27 January 2012
The Gauteng education department are dragging their feet to get pupils living in Thembelihle into schools in Lenasia.
With general secretary Zwelenzima Vavi favouring the ANCYL’s economic freedom march and president Sdumo Dlamini dead against it, whither Cosatu now?
Thembelihle residents have joined forces with their Lenasia neighbours to continue the fight for better services, this time at the negotiating table.
Residents of Thembelihle, south of Jo’burg, continued a service delivery protest after they were addressed by housing official Humphrey Mmemezi.
Residents of Thembelihle, who staged a protest over housing and water grievances, are set to discuss the issues with Gauteng housing officials.