MBABANE MUNICIPAL ONLY HAS EXCUSES

Editor,

It is no secret that the Mbabane Municipal Council is probably the worst performing municipality in the country.
In Manzini, Matsapha and Zulwini, new roads are being constructed, old roads are being resurfaced, street lights are being installed and bushy areas are being cleared.

When it comes to Mbabane, all we hear year after year is the same old excuse; ‘we are being owed rates and that is why we cannot deliver’. So what makes Mbabane so different from other towns in Swaziland?

Are Mbabane folks not the same as the rest of the Swazi people? Does it mean that only Mbabane people do not pay rates, while those from other towns around Swaziland do?

If so, maybe Mbabane ratepayers have valid reasons for not wanting to pay rates.
They do not see any results from doing so. The infrastructure in Mbabane has been steadily deteriorating for over 20 years, so the fact that the municipal council is being owed over E20 million in rates does not hold any water.

E20 million is less than half of what the Mbabane Municipal Council collects in a year, so what was stopping them from doing their jobs for the past 20 years?

They recently resurfaced a section of the main road entering Mbabane from the highway, at a cost of less than one million Emalangeni.
This means that they could probably resurface every street in the CBD with less than E20 million.
However, I seriously doubt that will happen in the next 10 years. I think that their excuse in 10 years time will be; ‘WE ARE BEING OWED

RATES SO WE CANNOT DELIVER’.

Former Mbabane ratepayer

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