Umsobomvu Residents Association

10/01/2024

OUR HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF MARGARET PLAATJIES.

It is with shock and sadness to announce the sudden death of our own, fighter, Umhlali, ground force and a activist.

We are deeply shocked by your untimely death.

We wish you peace, comfort, courage and lots of love to your family at this difficult time.

Please take note that any memorial or funeral arrangements will be shared after consultation with the family.

24/01/2023

MEMORIAL PRAYER OF THE LATE SITHEMBISO "NKINTSI" OLIFANT.

Good evening to all members, followers and supporters of URA.

This notice serves as an invitation to a memorial prayer of the late Sithembiso "Nkintsi" Olifant scheduled as follows :

Date : 26 January 2023 (Thursday)
Time : 17h00
Venue : 2710 Operation Vula ( kwa Nomiselo)

URA NGUMHLALI, UMHLALI NGU URA.

10/11/2022

UMSOBOMVU RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION STATEMENT ON ATTEMPTS BY THE ANC TO RESCIND THE DECISION TO TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORMER MUNICIPAL MANAGER AND COPORATE SERVICES MANAGER.

The ANC in the Umsobomvu Sub Region is truly experiencing desperate times and the desperate measures that they are concocting to return the former Municipal Manager and Corporate Services Manager in the employ of the Municipality are not only foolish but will have serious consequences for their councillors.
After having threatened them with court action on the extension of the latter’s contracts and clear and concise advice by COGHSTA on the implications of the contract extensions the ANC seems to have foolishly decided to ignore all rationality and craft a plan to return the former Municipal Manager and Corporate Service Manager.
As URA we can report that we are aware of the legal advice from some bush lawyer that the ANC in Umsobomvu has received. In that the decision taken by Council to terminate the employment of the former Municipal Manager and Corporate Services Manager be rescinded by a council resolution.
That a letter be written to them by council retrospectively requesting them to serve notice until January, or until COGHSTA seconds someone to act as Municipal manager whichever of the two comes first.
The motivation for such a decision would be that the recently appointed acting managers would not have capacity or the institutional memory to deal with several outstanding issues, namely:
• Upcoming Audit
• Legal cases
• Organogram
• Currently unfinished infrastructure programmes
• Filling of vacant positions
We are even aware that a meeting took place yesterday Wednesday the 9th of November 2022 at one of the hospitality establishments in Colesberg with the same bush lawyer with one of the dismissed managers. Where the manager raised his dissatisfaction with the abrupt manner he had been dismissed. That his abrupt dismissal will put the municipality at risk of instability. That he takes exception with being labelled a political liability going toward elections, thus his removal.
That he believes the intervention by COGHSTA is not genuine but an attempt by an unnamed individual to get his hands in the Umsobomvu Municipality cookie jar. That this attempt by COGHSTA should be thwarted by forging ahead with the council resolution to reinstate them.
We wish to make it clear that as URA we will vehemently oppose any attempt to reinstate the former managers. It is a foolish attempt that will have dire consequences for ANC councillors who will vote for the motion. We will make sure that all cost born out of this process are paid from their personal finances.
The time for implementing foolish mandates at the expense of the poor has come to an end, any attempt to use the Municipalities resources to challenge any court process will be opposed.
In the last couple of weeks, we have uncovered several irregularities in the appointment of certain staff in the administration and in the Mayor’s Office. Appointments without advertisements, converting employees from contract to permanent, appointment of employees without the necessary qualifications and the usual nepotism of girlfriends and boyfriends.
An appointment with the Public Protectors Office has been secured for next week where all the necessary information will be presented and where updates will be given on ongoing investigations.

URA Ngumhlali, Umhlali Ngu URA

03/11/2022

UMSOBOMVU RESIDENT’S ASSOCIATION STATEMENT ON THE TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF THE MUNICIPAL MANAGER AND CORPORATE SERVICESS MANAGER

The Umsobomvu Residents Association (URA) has noted the appointment of Simphiwe Ncithiso- Acting Municipal Manager, Ncedo Thiso- Acting Chief Financial Officer, Aphiwe Khalankomo- Acting Corporate Services Manager. We wish to congratulate them on their appointment and wish them well in their responsibilities and hope that they will manage to stop the corruption rot and reverse the implosion of the Umsobomvu Municipality and put the institution on a positive service delivery path.
As URA we will offer our full cooperation and will mobilise the community to support the new management team in addressing service delivery issues in Umsobomvu.
As URA in fighting and raising issues of nepotism which were entrenched by the former Municipal and Corporate Services Manager as per the corruption report by the MEC of COGHSTA, we have always maintained that there are necessary skills within Umsobomvu Municipality to lead the institution, just that they were being overlooked for the ANC leaderships ill prepared friends, family, and concubines.

TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF MUNICIPAL AND COPORATE SERVICES MANAGER.

As URA we have since the service delivery protests and ultimate release of the corruption report commissioned by the MEC of COGHSTA maintained that the Municipal Manager and Cooperate Services Manager employment at the Municipality should be terminated as the report had fingered them as being at the centre of rot in the Umsobomvu Municipality.
We are today elated that higher authorities have listened to our call for the termination of their employment at the municipality. This is a victory for URA, the community and the fight against corruption and looting of resources of the poor. We have achieved what the ANC had failed in honouring the communities demands for the removal of the MM and the Corporate Services Manager.
The notion being peddled by little generals of corruption that these terminations were planned retirements should be exposed as desperate propaganda. For the record it should be noted that the ANC had requested the extension of the Municipal Manager and Corporate Services Managers employment contract.
If these were planned retirements, why would you have four Acting Senior Managers in an institution, these are signs of a Municipality in a leadership crisis.
This move was rejected when URA had raised their objection in that the council would be transgressing section (41) of the Local Government: Regulations on Appointment and Conditions of Employment of Senior Managers, in that the two were way past their retirement age and there was no special motivation for their retention and that there was necessary capacity in the Municipality to replace them.
The termination of employment had only been affected after URA had threatened to approach the High Court to interdict the extensions of the contracts of the MM and Corporate Services Manager.
So, it is disingenuous for the little generals of corruption and their teen soldiers to claim that these were planned retirement.
As URA we will continue the fight to rid the Umsobomvu Municipality of corrupt elements. Our fight to rescind the interdict on the implementation of the corruption report commissioned by the MEC of COGHSTA by those who are implicated in the report continues at the Northern Cape High Court.

URA NguMhlali, UMhlali useNguMhlali

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01/11/2022

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The Umsobomvu Residents Association has called for the appointment of the acting senior manager for corporate services at Umsobomvu Municipality, Birtus Kapp, to be declared null and void. The Umsobomvu Residents Association (URA) has called for the position of the acting senior manager for corporat...

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09/08/2022

URA SHOCKED BY THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OF A DEFENSELESS YOUNG LADY BY THE PIXLEY REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON OF THE YOUTH LEAGUE ANDILE PHOLOLO.

As the Umsobomvu Residents Association (URA) we are deeply shocked and disturbed by the alleged assault of a defenseless and young lady from Colesberg.

Reports are that the young lady is critical and has been admitted to Hospital with the possibility of loosing her eye after the alleged brutal attack by Andile Phololo.

What is of further concern is the complicit collusion by the Kuyasa Police Station in refusing the lady to open a case of assault.

This incident happens in a time where we experiencing crisis levels of Gender Based Violence targeted at defenseless and vulnerable members of society.

We call on the Kuyasa Police to swiftly arrest the elleged perpetrator and let justice prevail.

None are so previlaged that the law does not apply to them.

As URA we will be closely monitoring this situation.

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