JOHANNESBURG - Ditsobotla residents are heading into the 4 November elections demanding better service delivery.
Although Boikhutso's raw sewage problem seems to have been resolved, the township is far from achieving overall cleanliness.
Residents said the area still needs much attention, raising concerns about sanitation and service delivery in the struggling Ditsobotla Local Municipality.
Kupong Ralikontsane, Ditsobotla Local Municipality administrator, said a lot still needs to be done.
"We have to work with our communities to stabilize revenue. This water does not have money. That's why we now depend on all these grants to try and stabilize this. But if everybody comes to the party, we also pay for our services. The new council will hit the ground running in terms of additional resources that will be at our disposal. We are hoping that through electricity, when Eksom is here, we will also be able to raise our revenue a little bit. But people must also pay for rates and taxes.
"But with the current resources that are here, we are trying to fix a problem where destruction of this or what happened for the last 15 years, since 2011. And we're trying to fix that in a very short space of time. So those counselors will also need time. We are fixing the administration. We have one substantive municipal manager, no Section 56 managers.
"We are in the process of appointing those Section 56 managers. Now that the finances have stabilized, we can afford them. We need to appoint them so that when we withdraw, there's continuous provision of services by a substantive leadership in the municipal space."