{"id":270729,"date":"2025-10-17T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/?p=270729"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:21:30","slug":"neem-raadsvergaderings-ook-na-ander-dorpe-vra-drakenstein-groep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/neem-raadsvergaderings-ook-na-ander-dorpe-vra-drakenstein-groep\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Neem raadsvergaderings ook na ander dorpe&#8217;, vra Drakenstein-groep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die Concerned Drakenstein Residents-groep (CDR) het &#8216;n beroep op die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit gedoen om minstens een keer per kwartaal &#8216;n raadsvergadering \u2013 wat gewoonlik by die munisipale hoofkwartier in die Paarl gehou word \u2013 na ander munisipale dorpe te skuif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die CDR-leier, Bazil Jacobs, s\u00ea dit is belangrik dat raadsvergaderings vir alle inwoners tot so ver as Saron toeganglik gemaak word, aangesien die raad nie net verteenwoordigend van die Paarl is nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ons boodskap is eenvoudig. Die raadsvergaderings [van die huidige raad] is nog net een keer in Wellington gehou \u2013 met die verkiesing van Stephen Korabie as burgemeester. Die ander twee kere wat dit nie in die raadsaal was nie, was dit in die Paarl-stadsaal en met die begrotingsrede in die Hugenote-gemeenskapsaal in die Paarl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My vraag is, is Saron, Gouda, Hermon, Mbekweni en Simondium dan nie deel van die Drakenstein nie? Hoekom kan ons nie een keer per kwartaal &#8216;n uitsondering maak en die raad na die gemeenskap toe vat nie?&#8221; het Jacobs vandeesweek ges\u00ea. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Jacobs beskik elk van di\u00e9 dorpe oor die geriewe om &#8216;n raadsvergadering te kan huisves.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wat is die rede hoekom ons dit nie kan doen nie? As dit begro-\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tingsverwant is, moet ons bekommerd wees as die raad nie bereid is om geld aan sulke belangrike aangeleenthede te bestee nie. 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