Die opdroog van die departement van gemeenskapsveiligheid, paaie en vervoer se geld wat vir die herstel van paaie toebedeel is,\u00a0dwing boere in die Vrystaat om te betaal om die toeganklikheid te verseker van paaie waarvan hulle afhanklik is.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cN\u00e1 een derde van die regering se finansi\u00eble jaar is die geld reeds uitgeput, wat net genoeg laat om die departement van gemeenskapsveiligheid, paaie en vervoer se opgeblase, top-swaar personeelstruktuur te dek,\u201d s\u00ea Francois Wilken, president van Vrystaat Landbou (VL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Wilken het die departement, ondanks herhaalde pleidooie van boere, geen nuwe laervlak-werknemers soos pik-en-graaf-werkers of padskraper-operateurs aangestel nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit het boere genoodsaak om afgetrede padskraper-operateurs op hul eie koste aan te stel om kritieke landelike paaie begaanbaar te maak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die stand van die departement se geldsake is bevestig nadat die Clocolan-Marquard-padprojek (R708) tot stilstand geruk het, en ook n\u00e1 terugslae in die hoogs aangeskrewe slaggat-herstelprojekte wat deur die Wesselsbron- en Senekal-boerevereniging, in vennootskap met die Sentrale Universiteit vir Tegnologie (SUT), Vrystaat, gedryf word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nJaar n\u00e1 jaar stort padprojekbegrotings in duie onder die gewig van wanbestuur. – Francois Wilken<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In ‘n verklaring het die departement bevestig dat hy nie oor die geld beskik om alle dringende padonderhoudsbehoeftes oor die provinsie heen te hanteer nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terwyl die departement waardering uitgespreek het vir die samewerking tussen belanghebbendes, het Wilken op ‘n vergadering langs die Lesotho-grens op 29 September gewaarsku dat boere nie meer die geldelike las kan dra om staatsinfrastruktuur te herstel wat die bre\u00ebr gemeenskap bedien nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBoere se geldsake is onder geweldige druk. Selfs waar die landbouwaardeketting tot padherstelprojekte bydra, filter die koste eindelik terug na die boer, deur ho\u00ebr insetkoste. Dit is nie volhoubaar nie,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Vrystaat is ge\u00efdentifiseer as lanseerterrein vir ‘n InfrastructureSA-projek wat deur die nasionale tesourie finansier word en deur AgBiz en AgriSA geko\u00f6rdineer word. ‘n Opname om kritieke vervoerroetes van ekonomiese belang te karteer wat dringend herstelwerk benodig, word gedoen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die VL het die vordering wat bereik is met provinsiale paaie waarvan die onderhoud na die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Padagentskap (Sanral) oorgedra is, verwelkom, en bevestig dat hy konstruktief sal voortgaan om op hierdie front betrokke te raak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met die re\u00ebnseisoen wat voorl\u00ea \u2013 wanneer paaie wat swak onderhou is, vinnig agteruitgaan \u2013 het die VL ook belowe om te help om die toewysing van hulpbronne wat binne die departement oorbly, soos dreineringspype, gruis en teer, te ko\u00f6rdineer aan gemeenskappe waar boere steeds die herstelwerk self kan uitvoer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilken het egter beklemtoon dat die sistemiese probleme binne die departement nie ge\u00efgnoreer kan word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJaar n\u00e1 jaar stort padprojekbegrotings in duie onder die gewig van wanbestuur. Voorkeur aan die ontwikkeling van nuwe kontrakteurs en werkskepping deur die ge\u00efntegreerde-openbare-werkeprogram (EPWP) bo geakkrediteerde kontrakteurs met bewese prestasierekords; lang verkrygingsvertragings; en die praktyk van middelmanne wat tenderfondse afsuig, vererger alles die krisis. Hierdie kwessies laat die departement nou toenemend in regsgedinge beland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Jack Armour, kommersi\u00eble bestuurder van die VL, het bevestig dat die organisasie steeds wag op ‘n reaksie op die memorandum wat in Februarie aan die LUR oorhandig is, waarin hierdie einste kwessies geopper is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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