By Molefi Sompane
PARYS – Ngwathe Municipality Mayor Joey Mochela has vowed to improve service delivery and help create jobs, especially for the youth through apprenticeships.
Mochela told Public Eye in an exclusive interview on Saturday, October 28 that there would be learnerships meant to empower young people around Ngwathe.
“We have structures in place to tackle those things that we identified as a major challenge during the state of municipal address and we have made it clear that our youth will benefit in various skills empowerment programmes,” she said.
Mochela added that the local authority had fulfilled its promise toprovide stands for the community organisations such as churches, crèches and the people.
“We have made sure that many churches and crèches are given stands on which to build; we also gave our people places where they can live apart from providing electricity for the people who were previously disadvantaged,” Mochela said.
“We will continue improving people’s lives during this financial year so our people could feel the warmth of living in a democracy,” Mochela added.
She defended the fact that Ngwathe is concentrating on developing Parys only; the area which the premier Ace Magashule hails from. “Our people have been told lies that we are concentrating only on Parys but I am brave enough to tell you that all of our towns forming our municipality have been given deserved attention according to their needs.
“Why should we concentrate on providing services to only one town? It is all lies and we would like to call on our people to be patient about the services.we are working to ensure that they receive what they need,” she said.
Mochela admitted that there was still a lot to be done in all areas.“We have achieved a lot more than we expected since we got into theoffice, but we still need to do more. We appreciate the sterlingefforts by our district and provincial leaders who supported our thrust and we still think that more of things to be done in order to fulfill the mandate given us by the people who voted for us in power,” she said.
Mochela encouraged grade 12 learners in her municipality toperform well so they can be awarded bursaries.“I would like to call on this year’s matriculants to work hard so they merit financial assistance to further their studies. We will bewaiting for them to knock on our doors for such assistance if they deserve it,” added Mochela.