Tweespruit is a small town under the Mantsopa Muncipality in Ladybrand, Free State.

Our Ratepayers Assoc was formed in April 09.  We have had one meeting with councillors after they just did not arrive for a meeting the previous week.

Six weeks ago a local farmer Mr M.Oelrich (a former M.E.C.for agriculture ) informed us that our sewerage works was disfunctional and that raw sewerage was flowing into one of his dams & then into the dam from which the town gets water!  I sent report to “Volksblad”newspaper who published the story.  I got abusive phone calls from councillors “who gives me the right to go to the media?”and from madam speaker “I an ordered to fax her the article?  My reply: “I am a pensioner,you get a huge salary,buy your own newspaper!”   Two days later Director of Enviro Sorb Company phones me & faxes daming report given to muncipality in Sept 2005, in 4yrs nothing done! Not even a fence erected around settlement dam 60metres from local school into which raw sewerage is deposited.

Last scheduled meeting with mun councillors, muncipality did not arrive.   On Tuesday 11 August Clr Tladi phones me & tells me meeting @ 17h00 cancelled, mayor demands meeting @ 12h00 the next day Wednesday 12 August at 12h 00 as Free State Premier would be in Ladybrand on the Friday 14 August! From 11h50 five members of Tweespruit Ratepayers Committee present untill 12h30.Mayor & councillors did not arrive.

Landline calls useless -never in offices-cell phones on voice mail-do not return calls? Have sent registed letters to Premier & District Mayor, asking for a WRITTEN acknowledgment and a WRITTEN reply ! After a month the Political Advisor to Madam District Mayor Mr Makhetha phones me and asks me what my problems are? He had NOT read our registed letter of two pages.   He was replying to our letter.  I stated we requested a WRITTEN REPLY! He replied I must listen, as he was replying.I asked if he was writing a reply as he was speaking.  His reply :”No,I am the phone.”  Then realized that Mr Makhetha did not understand what the word “written” implies??