MEMBERS of Public Assets Community Based Tenants and Owners Association (PACTOA) hosted their fifth anniversary celebration, at Windsor Hotel in Mthatha, last week.
Spokesperson for PACTOA, Zamikhaya Songca, said this celebration started on September 1, when they started celebrating Heritage Month. He said this organisation was formed in 2017; it assists people who are less fortunate.
“Today we are hosting a celebration of our five-year anniversary and PACTOA is still standing on its promises. This organisation will never stop speaking the truth and doing what is right,” said Songca.
He added that they are not a political organisation but their aim is to assist people who have different challenges. Songca confirmed that they are not a housing association but they saw a lot of government buildings that were being used by criminals.
“As PACTOA, we saw that there was a need to take those buildings and keep them so that each and everyone who has a problem about them to come forward so that we could negotiate.”
He said all the community members should join this organisation so that they can fight the corruption that is taking place in South Africa.
The regional convener for the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO), Vuyolwethu Notununu, confirmed that this organisation had played a major role in cleaning the King Sabatha Dalindyebo Local Municipality by doing different things. He said they used to collect children who were living on the streets and put them in one place, where they cooked soup for them.
“When community members used to sleep next to the post office, waiting for their (SASSA) money, we used to work together with the members of PACTOA and took them to the safety place where we also cooked soup for them. We are still working close with them even now,” said Notununu.
He said government was supposed to work with PACTOA in order to clean Mthatha area.
Notununu confirmed that they had also made an alliance with the taxi association because they wanted to find solutions to the problems Mthatha is facing, when it comes to crime.
Secretary for the Zimbane Land Claims Committee, Mkhululi Maxhwele, said they had heard about PACTOA and were in the process of forming a partnership with them.
“We have hosted many meetings with them and saw that they were doing great things for communities,” said Maxhwele.
