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“THIS is not about politics, nor race, but people with a common cause and disadvantaged by the same institution,” he said.
“Whoever comes in, we will support them and build the town together, as we did with the administrator before he was ousted. We want to build not to destroy which is why there won’t be burning, looting or acts of vandalism during our mass march.”
Not so long ago the forum had penned a letter to both MEC for CoGTA, Xolile Nqatha and Eastern Cape Premier, Oscar Mabuyane. But Clark said the office of Mabuyane only acknowledged receipt of the letter, but gave no proper feedback.
He said they’d soon go to Mabuyane’s office for answers.
“The premier is a highly respected figure, whom we also respect and even on the day of the march we won’t disrupt the proceedings of the programme.
“All we want is for him to listen to us and provide a clear way forward that will get us out of the doldrums because the longer we wait and not act, the closer we get to the edge of the cliff.
“The municipality needs decisive leaders who are capable of turning things around in the municipality.
“And the current leadership has proven to lack such qualities.”
In the letter the forum had written to Bhisho they called for the invocation of section 139(1)(c) which is the dissolution of the current council.
Last year the municipality was placed under administration for various reasons which included failure to fill crucial vacancies, execute its mandate to deliver adequate basic services and unexplainable low revenue collection which has not improved to the desired figures.
