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Kutlwanong in Odendaalsrus road signage
Residents of Kutlwanong in Odendaalsrus have accused councillors within Matjhabeng Local municipality of interfering with the hiring processes in community development projects.
They say the leadership of the municipality has failed them, as projects meant to improve their area are given to contractors from outside Matjhabeng through the back door.
They claim their area is left with dilapidated infrastructure and high youth unemployment.
The residents, including young people, marched to the municipal offices in Welkom demanding urgent intervention from the municipality on issues of unemployment, economic exclusion and deteriorating service delivery.
The marchers have given the municipality seven working days to respond to their memorandum of demands.
Some residents have accused the council of bribery, nepotism and exclusion.
“Councillors and the mayor of matjhabeng are failing us. When there are job opportunities they don’t go to us as the community of kutlwanong, they hire through the back doors. They don’t even make a raffle and pick someone from the area.
“The issue is recruitment. You must have a bribe and sometimes nepotism takes place, especially by ward councillors”
