Let us urge youth to register to vote, says EIC

Acting mayor says there is a good story to tell

The Village Voice

Collins Chabane Local Municipality mayor Shadrack Maluleke has urged communicators and ward committee members in the municipality to tell people what the municipality is doing.

He said the municipality’s communicators are doing well but they could also do better.

“As a municipality we are doing well but there is more that can still be done, “said Maluleke before adding, “but the message that will be in the public eye is when there are challenges those challenges will overshadow any good done by the municipality.”

The mayor was addressing the Collins Chabane Local Municipality Communicators Forum at Malamulele Civic Centre on Friday. He said there has been many projects in the area and some have been completed. He says people deserve to be updated about what the municipality is doing.

He said the local communicators must strive to make sure people get “the good story” about service delivery.

Speakers included Home Affairs regional manager Zamba Maluleke and IEC general manager Thivhulawi Molondo, and Thomas Maluleke from the local Malamulele Hospital who represented the Department of health.

Maluleke talked about so many challenges in his department including the problems of so many foreign nationals in the area who sometimes use fraudulent means to get ID’s.

Mulondo said there are a big number of people in the forum area who have not registered to vote.

He said there is a general apathy amongst the youth and there is also a problem of old people who have lost interest in voting.

“Let us persuade people to register to vote because that is the number that is being used when the government allocates the budget, “he said.

Maluleke who said there has been no case of cholera recorded in the area also sensitized people about the malaria pandemic.

Programme director Raymond Hlungwani said they were happy with what the speakers offered and hoped to invite them in future.