{"id":45180,"date":"2024-04-25T10:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/municipality-hosts-cleaning-campaign-20240423\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:16:28","slug":"municipality-hosts-cleaning-campaign-20240423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/municipality-hosts-cleaning-campaign-20240423\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipality hosts cleaning campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Executive mayor of King Sabatha Dalindyebo (KSD) Local Municipality, Councillor Nyaniso Nelani, said they are planning to increase the sum of the fine given to people illegally dumping rubbish, to R10 000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelani said this forms part of a cleaning campaign held by this municipality with other stakeholders at Ngangelizwe Township in Mthatha, last week. There are three wards that benefited from this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said they had worked together with their sector departments, such as OR Tambo District Municipality (ORTDM), to ensure that this campaign was successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelani said,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Blockquote\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_d9e63096\">\n<div class=\"text\">This is the beginning of the campaigns led by Community Services, of cleaning and ensuring that they make our areas clean and green. We also want to revive the open spaces and beautify them. This is the old campaign; we are trying to complete the vision that we have as the KSD. This is not the first campaign, because they hosted another one in the intersections to this township recently, but the one that we are hosting today is the mother of all campaigns.<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that they were trying to come closer to communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelani added that they wanted to work with the community members of Ngangelizwe Township to ensure that they keep their area clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe notice that even though we are working so hard, there are still people who do not want to do what is right. We clean all the illegal dumping sites and open spaces, but still people continue to throw rubbish anyhow. 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