{"id":53024,"date":"2022-09-22T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/beurtkrag-kry-skuld-vir-swak-diens-20220921-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:07:21","slug":"beurtkrag-kry-skuld-vir-swak-diens-20220921-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/beurtkrag-kry-skuld-vir-swak-diens-20220921-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Binnelandse Sake gee beurtkrag die skuld vir swak diens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Om bloot jou burgerlike plig by die departement binnelandse sake se gebou uit te voer, blyk \u2019n groot kopseer vir talle inwoners te wees.<\/p>\n<p>Valleiers s\u00ea hulle is keelvol vir die beweerde gebrek aan dienslewering by die plaaslike kantoor van binnelandse sake. Lang rye, stelselfoute en die vlak van hulp wat verleen word, laat talle mense onthuts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Standard <\/em>het in Maart vanjaar berig oor die lang rye en gebrek aan dienslewering by hierdie tak. Na wat van inwoners verneem word, is hierdie kwelpunte onveranderd.<\/p>\n<p>Mayanise Cupido, \u2019n inwoner van Roodewal, was onlangs \u2019n slagoffer van diefstal en is in die proses haar ID en dogter se geboortesertifikaat kwyt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEk probeer nou al drie weke lank om net di\u00e9 dokumente weer by binnelandse sake te hernu. Ek werk ook elke dag van 08:00 tot 16:00, so, om tyd af te vat om dit te gaan doen, is moeilik. Ek was nou al drie keer daar \u2013 een keer was die stelsel van lyn af, die ander keer het ek amper \u2019n uur en \u2019n half in die ry gestaan en is toe ingelig dat hulle nie meer mense daardie dag gaan help nie \u2013 dit was blykbaar te naby aan sluitingstyd. Ek is toe weer verlede Dinsdag (13 September) soontoe en is ingelig dat die stelsel landswyd af was,\u201d vertel sy moedeloos.<\/p>\n<p>David Hlabane, \u2019n woordvoerder van die departement van binnelandse sake, s\u00ea hulle het die afgelope week \u2019n landswye krisis met hul hoofstelsel gehad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns hoofstelsel het Maandagmiddag (12 September) \u2019n grootskaalse probleem ondergaan. Die departement het twee kragopwekkingseenhede asook \u2019n ekstra battery wat aan die stelsel in Pretoria gekoppel is, maar weens beurtkrag en ander faktore buite ons beheer is die stelsel onderbreek en was dit vir twee dae tegnies van lyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns het spoedig gewerk om die probleem te herstel en dit is tans iets van die verlede. Ons kon nie ID\u2019s, paspoorte of tydelike paspoorte uitreik nie,\u201d het Hlabane bygevoeg.<\/p>\n<p>Cupido beaam sy weet nie wanneer sy weer \u2019n waardige ID sal h\u00ea nie en is erg gefrustreerd met die situasie.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Smith-Lewis, \u2019n inwoner van Rawsonville, s\u00ea sy het al twee keer in een week vir langer as twee ure in die ry gestaan en is telkens net ingelig sy moet maar op \u2019n ander dag terugkom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie feit dat stelsels nie werk nie en dinge lank vat pla my nie so erg nie. Die manier waarop mense hanteer word \u2013 veral deur die bestuurders \u2013 is wat my verstand te bowe gaan. \u2019n Glimlag kos niks nie; om jammer te s\u00ea, kos ook niks nie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Die diens is na bewering ook stadig wanneer beurtkrag die dorp tref. <em>Standard <\/em>het die plaaslike kantoor van binnelandse sake op vyf verskillende geleenthede oor twee dae probeer kontak via hul telefone, maar oproepe bly onbeantwoord \u2013 gedurende beurtkrag en ander ure wanneer die krag wel aan is.<\/p>\n<p>Die teendeel geld egter ook, want sommige s\u00ea hulle is vinnig gehelp.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Walters van Worcester het op haar beurt aan <em>Standard <\/em>ges\u00ea sy het einde Augustus om haar paspoort aansoek gedoen en dit in minder as twee weke ontvang. \u201cDalk was ek net gelukkig. 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