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  • @carteblanchetv
    @carteblanchetv  2 місяці тому +16

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  • @UrsulaZA
    @UrsulaZA 2 місяці тому +45

    11:17 thank you! Thank you Carte Blanche for the AMAZING journalism and letting South Africans know what’s going on in our country. Not even the dead is at peace, thank you anc!

  • @o.c2231
    @o.c2231 2 місяці тому +63

    Back in the day when people were civilised, cemeteries were sacred and respected places

    • @therealmncwanegwabeni7263
      @therealmncwanegwabeni7263 2 місяці тому +3

      So true, today they rob you and leave you for dead when you visit the grave yard.

  • @Robwheddon2010
    @Robwheddon2010 2 місяці тому +181

    The whole program was summed up in the last 10 seconds. When a resident casually urinates in front of the cameras on some loved ones grave. If there was ever a bigger insult, i have not heard of it.

    • @Mantaray911
      @Mantaray911 2 місяці тому

      You're easily offended aren't you Rob. Don't take life so seriously son, one day you'll be pushing up daisies so take a chill pill and relax.

    • @brianbritz4959
      @brianbritz4959 2 місяці тому +7

      Can you imagine if that was the grave Chris Hani or Nelson Mandela what would happen, what the reaction would be?

    • @Smart.Ventures
      @Smart.Ventures 2 місяці тому +2

      You are spot on. That act of urinating on a grave on national television says it all!

    • @brideofchrist8295
      @brideofchrist8295 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Smart.Ventures Diabolical

  • @ianvanstaden3108
    @ianvanstaden3108 2 місяці тому +91

    This Mayor should be fired, period. Mismanagement, dereliction of duty....

  • @vigilante7616
    @vigilante7616 2 місяці тому +99

    They are always "hearing it for the first time"
    Sickening

    • @jacquelinejohnie2598
      @jacquelinejohnie2598 2 місяці тому +1

      Exactly!!! She's obviously playing ignorant. It's all about not being bothered whatsoever as long as they get their salary at the end of the month.

  • @NkanyisoK
    @NkanyisoK 2 місяці тому +256

    They keep voting for the ANC!

    • @Wiseman424
      @Wiseman424 2 місяці тому +23

      You've beat me to it.
      I was about to type the same thing

    • @corteztt518
      @corteztt518 2 місяці тому +20

      He dropped the apartheid into the conversation so that it dilutes the incompetence

    • @SpotonwithTP-qz6wq
      @SpotonwithTP-qz6wq 2 місяці тому +13

      @@corteztt518 Apartheid really took place and thousands were slaughter have the decency to let those who were affected by it speak about it whenever and however they want.

    • @corteztt518
      @corteztt518 2 місяці тому

      @@SpotonwithTP-qz6wq so these people are mismanaging the graveyards of people who died during apartheid and some disrespectfully sleeping on top of them; yet some idiot is using apartheid as an excuse to not clean them up?

    • @Khado819
      @Khado819 2 місяці тому +19

      And yet the same ANC can't even respect their former head of the Eastern Cape grave.

  • @jonibegood7870
    @jonibegood7870 2 місяці тому +57

    I think we should have a parliament sitting with Carte Blache & several investigative journalists asking questions directly to the ministers; that would be interesting

  • @adornbeautysa
    @adornbeautysa 2 місяці тому +165

    This mayor has no idea because she is truly not on the ground working.

    • @Mantaray911
      @Mantaray911 2 місяці тому +4

      She has a matric certificate?

    • @Tripleexel
      @Tripleexel 2 місяці тому

      I mean when the people reward you with landslide victories for not doing your job what do you expect?

    • @michaeltownsend4644
      @michaeltownsend4644 2 місяці тому +6

      @@Mantaray911makes no difference. Frankly they don’t care. Perhaps we should try a little cultural appropriation and also stop giving a f¥

    • @OoberIets
      @OoberIets 2 місяці тому

      This is how they spend coloured people's money. Shameless beings.

    • @JeanRandles-f5e
      @JeanRandles-f5e 2 місяці тому +2

      Sy lieg

  • @Buntutatana
    @Buntutatana 2 місяці тому +40

    Carte Blanche !!! Thank you for the brilliant active journalism 👏

  • @vusimaseko7716
    @vusimaseko7716 2 місяці тому +84

    One person once said "the leadership of a country is a reflection of its citizens".....

    • @senselessza1
      @senselessza1 2 місяці тому

      Or is not the other way around

    • @vusimaseko7716
      @vusimaseko7716 2 місяці тому

      @@senselessza1...is there any difference?🤔

    • @senselessza1
      @senselessza1 2 місяці тому

      @@vusimaseko7716 a fish rots from the head

    • @vusimaseko7716
      @vusimaseko7716 2 місяці тому

      @@senselessza1...it "rots from the head down"...☺️

  • @deirdrelewis1454
    @deirdrelewis1454 2 місяці тому +36

    If people don’t respect the living, how can anyone expect them to respect the dead?

  • @karenhyman6974
    @karenhyman6974 2 місяці тому +28

    I cannot believe this? The disrespect, the lack of care for the living and the dead.

  • @marcjohnsouthon3962
    @marcjohnsouthon3962 2 місяці тому +15

    We're overtaxed but still we must pay for private security, private Healthcare, private cemeteries. It is so disheartening what South Africa has become.

  • @AyandaGumede-x3t
    @AyandaGumede-x3t 2 місяці тому +20

    It's the Mayor's response that infuriates me even more😤

  • @carolmsimang6224
    @carolmsimang6224 2 місяці тому +29

    I couldn't finish watching😢. This is heart breaking😢

  • @deanoclothier8426
    @deanoclothier8426 2 місяці тому +47

    Key words: ".... we deploy these comrades to these positions...."! Therein is the problem!

  • @Anarch-Y5
    @Anarch-Y5 2 місяці тому +28

    This was just heart breaking man

  • @deanoclothier8426
    @deanoclothier8426 2 місяці тому +41

    Well done ANC!

    • @DavidHarsant1
      @DavidHarsant1 2 місяці тому +11

      not just anc. The DA also never maintained the Howick, kzn cemetry. I had to bury my mother in the middle of an unkept cemetry, had to pay the funeral parlor extra to cut the grass a bit so they could bring the casket in. And to this day not even an apology even after bring this to their attention. All these parties are the same.

    • @ThabaniTBowseHadebe0909
      @ThabaniTBowseHadebe0909 2 місяці тому +4

      Everytime I think We reached a new low. Nie man!

  • @lindaberg9161
    @lindaberg9161 2 місяці тому +34

    South Africa....you have fallen way way down.....this poor country changed !!!!

  • @Randomperson-tf5ho
    @Randomperson-tf5ho 2 місяці тому +3

    I’m very grateful for what you all do, it’s important to expose truth and bring issues to the attention of the people of our country. As saddening as it is, I think it’s important for us to all be aware of what’s going on around us. Well done!

  • @ferdinandrobbertse4103
    @ferdinandrobbertse4103 2 місяці тому +76

    She is enjoying the KFC too much to be bothered what is going on around her. Viva ANC Viva! Amandla!

    • @Ricardo-y7n
      @Ricardo-y7n 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ferdinandrobbertse4103 I can Evan hear her breathing ☠

    • @BradleyLord-e3i
      @BradleyLord-e3i 2 місяці тому +1

      😂​@@Ricardo-y7n

    • @ngceboshezi7676
      @ngceboshezi7676 2 місяці тому +3

      😂😂😂

    •  2 місяці тому

      😂😅

  • @lindleydaniels1273
    @lindleydaniels1273 2 місяці тому +42

    Just to put things into perspective... If they paid a certain company R1million to maintain all 33 cemeteries and 1 crematorium... And that company does this cycle every 4 months, the municipality would have spent R30million in that decade. There is a whole R20million in excess that is not accounted for here and these people are lucky to maybe have the grass cut every 3 years.

    • @heatherjooste4966
      @heatherjooste4966 2 місяці тому +2

      Why does no official check that the work is actually done !!!

    • @jacquelinejohnie2598
      @jacquelinejohnie2598 2 місяці тому +2

      It's all about having fingers in the pie!

    • @lindalagrange8754
      @lindalagrange8754 2 місяці тому

      Once again, corruption and greed.
      For goodness sake build homeless shelters and then this won't happen

  • @Tripleexel
    @Tripleexel 2 місяці тому +72

    Videos about Eastern Cape shock me man

    • @pontshomosiea6187
      @pontshomosiea6187 2 місяці тому +6

      You'll be more shocked if you visit any province and see what the ANC has done to the people; the ANC is heartless, merciless and evil to say the least.

    • @sibusisondlovu7706
      @sibusisondlovu7706 2 місяці тому

      You often wonder what the PREMIER OF EASTERN CAPE DOING and his COUNSELORS are doing.

  • @MizzTH-G
    @MizzTH-G 2 місяці тому +29

    She is so ignorant. I cannot believe she is oblivious. I have friends buried there and my dad was cremated there. I’d never chance a visit there 😢😢

  • @katlegomogapi
    @katlegomogapi 2 місяці тому +5

    A clear sign of the state of leadership in the nation.

  • @SpotonwithTP-qz6wq
    @SpotonwithTP-qz6wq 2 місяці тому +24

    This is sad people in the comments attacking and blaming government rightfully so, but at the same time making excuses for people building shacks in graveyards, when we have plenty of unoccupied land its embarrassing to say the least. Two wrongs don't make it right those people should be ashamed of themselves sies maan.

    • @therealmncwanegwabeni7263
      @therealmncwanegwabeni7263 2 місяці тому +1

      100% if we dnt respect our dead, who must respect them. We are the problem, we allow lawlessness and then point to another person. How do you build a shack on top of someone's grave and think that is okay.

  • @Roosta-tq8uq
    @Roosta-tq8uq 2 місяці тому +18

    Why apartheid have to be brought up 30 years later for the clear failure of the true culprits the ANC is to blame for SA decay

  • @thami.rubushe
    @thami.rubushe 2 місяці тому +36

    Our leaders have failed us. I honestly have no more faith in our government. I feel like crying.

    • @antonvrb1510
      @antonvrb1510 2 місяці тому +6

      Do not allow poor leadership to upset you. Be strong, or you will be crying for the rest of your life. Be strong!!!

    • @LM-rg9lj
      @LM-rg9lj 2 місяці тому +2

      The leadership of running municipalities is too big if a project for these people..ayi I give up...this mayor ruined this place

    • @LM-rg9lj
      @LM-rg9lj 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@antonvrb1510 or vote smart😢

  • @devannaidoo2547
    @devannaidoo2547 2 місяці тому +15

    Well done ANC you even managed to F the dead .....Viva ANC

  • @khosimnguni9919
    @khosimnguni9919 2 місяці тому +7

    This is beyond despicable and embarrassing. The corruption knows no bounds ...... completely disgusting!!!

  • @kzp5249
    @kzp5249 2 місяці тому +14

    So disrespectful & dishonoring, V sad. How can municipality not care for the community?

  • @jessicakruger7
    @jessicakruger7 2 місяці тому +18

    You simply cannot keep making the same mistake and expect a different outcome each time. These people vote the same each time and here we are again/still..

  • @yangagaqa9208
    @yangagaqa9208 2 місяці тому +24

    Her don’t care attitude says it all

  • @mpr1462
    @mpr1462 2 місяці тому +20

    The whole country looks like this, shameful, and we want investors coming to SA. They can't even maintain cemeteries, let alone urban areas and supply clean water. Service delivery is a no show
    "No man to be trusted, everything's corupted once man touch it"

  • @fionavanderhaer4934
    @fionavanderhaer4934 2 місяці тому +11

    I was Speechless whilst watching this. Goosebumps, Disgust, Anger, Shocked, Perplexed and..and..and..😮
    Useless incompetent hopeless Mayor incl predecessors. Urinating on sacred land!?
    AND they continue voting the same, Yohhh 😮

  • @markbooysen9412
    @markbooysen9412 2 місяці тому +6

    It is deeply troubling to witness the construction of shacks on graves, as it reflects a profound disregard for the sacredness of the deceased and the legacy they leave behind. “When the dead are not honored, the living have lost their way,” as Lao Tzu reminds us. The desecration of burial grounds not only dishonors the memory of those laid to rest but also reveals a collapse of respect for life and heritage. “A society that does not respect its dead has no respect for life.” The graves, which should serve as places of reverence and reflection, are being treated as mere land, severing the sacred thread that binds generations. Such actions demonstrate a dangerous erosion of humanity and cultural values. “Those who desecrate the dead show contempt not only for the past but for humanity itself.” We must restore dignity to these spaces, for “the way we treat the dead reflects how we value the living.”

  • @raymondmaphophi2847
    @raymondmaphophi2847 2 місяці тому +47

    "M not aware of that... This is the first time hearing it here" oh we're cooked 😢

    • @WamzaPoswa
      @WamzaPoswa 2 місяці тому +1

      Haybo a whole mayor, we are doomed in Buffalo city especially East London. Beaches are the same mess

  • @prodnine236
    @prodnine236 2 місяці тому +16

    Sadly yet another official member who’s clearly not fit for the position.

  • @lolasoares1464
    @lolasoares1464 2 місяці тому +13

    Where do all these people come from ? All these informal settlements….no government in the world can keep up with that ! Vicious circle.

  • @morakanemorakane9830
    @morakanemorakane9830 2 місяці тому +3

    Not respecting the remains of their fallen heroes is beyond embarrassing.

  • @MuhammadNoorMia
    @MuhammadNoorMia 2 місяці тому +6

    The mayor most probably lives a lavish lifestyle while the poor starve that’s the story of SA

  • @nr.ONEproductions
    @nr.ONEproductions 2 місяці тому +13

    So sad to see the state of our world we live in...😢

  • @sherryscholtz9299
    @sherryscholtz9299 2 місяці тому +3

    Thank you for this, Carte Blanche. It's just the tip of the iceberg in BCM. If you dig deeper......and I'll leave it just there.

  • @wickedvideos4653
    @wickedvideos4653 2 місяці тому +41

    bufalo city voted and you get what you vote for

    • @JohnTerblanche-l1r
      @JohnTerblanche-l1r 2 місяці тому +2

      More like survived, these people are so poor they just want to leave this prov. EL has been ignored since apartheid, only construction here is road maintenance, even then only the highways.

    • @JohnTerblanche-l1r
      @JohnTerblanche-l1r 2 місяці тому +4

      In essence i dont think they vote mate, anyway you would think da is smart enough to use this but nah in 10y only saw 3 da chaps who waved their flag from highway bridge and one mean look and they got into their posh car and drove off.

  • @jeremyrogers4839
    @jeremyrogers4839 2 місяці тому +3

    Whatever Govan and fellow Carte Blanche team get paid, they deserve more.

  • @dk.650
    @dk.650 2 місяці тому +15

    The mayor is a disgrace. She says she gets her information from the Daily Dispatch newspaper. She must go.
    Then, bcm increased the electricity surcharges on paying customers. Added around R430 per month on pre paying customers, and added 700 to 67, thus post paid customers now pay 767 per month, just to enrich the bcm crooks.

    • @JohnTerblanche-l1r
      @JohnTerblanche-l1r 2 місяці тому +2

      And locals keep stealing in these informal areas, went you report it and it gets cut they toy toy on the rare occasion.

  • @ZukileNgwaja
    @ZukileNgwaja 2 місяці тому +6

    Please visit Komga township cemetery where sewer is all over the place, terrable.....

  • @Laifahamuli
    @Laifahamuli 2 місяці тому +10

    So heartbreaking

  • @thinadlamini4671
    @thinadlamini4671 2 місяці тому +21

    🤦🏾‍♀️... And once again I remember why I'm critical of my own Municipality. They truly failing the people of Duncan Village. 🚶🏾‍♀️

  • @shaheenbhoola
    @shaheenbhoola 2 місяці тому +22

    Disgusting, deplorable, desecration of the departed dead.

  • @antonvrb1510
    @antonvrb1510 2 місяці тому +17

    Mayor of "take the money and dont worry" town.

  • @dumirose9174
    @dumirose9174 2 місяці тому +3

    This is the South Africa of the Anc, with no barriers, no boundaries, no borders,no accountability, no measurements,no dignity, no Ubuntu, it's a state of disgrace

  • @Mewzis
    @Mewzis 2 місяці тому +2

    In a democracy you get a government you deserve.

  • @sibusisondlovu7706
    @sibusisondlovu7706 2 місяці тому +3

    Most Top ANC politicians are from Eastern Cape - But they allow this to Happen . However the Eastern Cape people in Buffalo City still VOTE FOR ANC.

  • @tebohomaholi6738
    @tebohomaholi6738 2 місяці тому +8

    This mayor seems to not be aware of everything

  • @helenduplessis4166
    @helenduplessis4166 2 місяці тому +8

    So so sad! 😞

  • @merciapeters8147
    @merciapeters8147 2 місяці тому +1

    She knows about it.The ANC has amnesia when it gets to their own.Keep voting for them 👏 👏 👏

  • @avuazahc1966
    @avuazahc1966 2 місяці тому +5

    Thats another arrogance we experience daily from ANC leaders. Im not even surprised that she does not see anything wrong to get info from Daily Dispatch about Buffalo City wellbeing. South Africa will only move forward when citizens eventually vote out ANC without allowing them back in any form of help like GNU nonsense.

  • @lindapark7181
    @lindapark7181 2 місяці тому +3

    That mayor is cadre deployment at its finest. Must be the only mayor in the entire world who relies on the local newspaper to tell her what's going on in the area. Unbelievable. Big question - where is the money that has supposedly, according to her, been spent on upkeep of the graveyards? Such disrespect for the dead.

  • @Bobbejaan329
    @Bobbejaan329 2 місяці тому +3

    This is so painful. But I’m also side eying the locals. Growing up we would go to the graves of our relatives and clean it up ourselves. Even now we do the same and I’m talking about going to a gravesite also in the cities. Government needs to do better there’s no denying it but the dead are ours we also need to play a part in up keeping their final resting place.

  • @BongChoke
    @BongChoke 2 місяці тому +15

    When you make someone with grade 3 mayor this is what happens. Ai my beloved Emonti. 😢

    • @andiledlamini6135
      @andiledlamini6135 2 місяці тому

      Funny she got a llb

    • @andiledlamini6135
      @andiledlamini6135 2 місяці тому

      She got a LLB degree😂😂😂useless mayor

    • @WamzaPoswa
      @WamzaPoswa 2 місяці тому

      Politicians don’t respect citizens, with these deployments

    • @BongChoke
      @BongChoke 2 місяці тому

      @@andiledlamini6135 she and Oscar went shopping together for their "qualifications".

  • @SandileButhelezi-cx5vt
    @SandileButhelezi-cx5vt 2 місяці тому +2

    ANC doesn't respect the living, why would they now respect the dead 🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @Chessy26
    @Chessy26 2 місяці тому +17

    I always just wait for that point where, the narrator disclose how many millions went missing 😂😂😂

  • @khanyizar
    @khanyizar 2 місяці тому +1

    Watched this one with tears streaming down my face, my mom is burried in Haven Hills cemetery, Trees are growing in the cemetery. A few families going an cleaning the graves doesn't really help of the rest of the cemetery is not taken care of. At one point cemeteries would get burnt as means to cut grass. This is the case in most cemetries in and around East London. Sad sad one indeed.

    • @ArleneSpencer-p3u
      @ArleneSpencer-p3u 3 дні тому

      I grew up in East London.. it was a beautiful little town 30yrs ago. Now it disgusting. Filth everywhere , total destruction. Oh mmmm I forgot that it's apartheid fault ....
      r I g h t

  • @andre_venter
    @andre_venter 2 місяці тому

    The ANC is sending a strong message, they're saying "This is the respect we have for South Africans". When they say these kinds of things we must listen, it'll help us to make better decisions in future.

  • @ca9968
    @ca9968 2 місяці тому +6

    Wow!!!
    That mayor seems like a perfect candidate for the job she holds...and further down the drain SA goes...
    Viva Comrades, VIVA!!!

  • @gina3498
    @gina3498 2 місяці тому +4

    Complaining about living in a cemetary but they literally put their own shacks there! The eastern cape is a mess

  • @ChantiWassermann
    @ChantiWassermann 2 місяці тому +4

    May their families members rest in peace 🙏❤️‍🩹🕯️

  • @mcebisimbusi7777
    @mcebisimbusi7777 2 місяці тому +2

    ANC is showing them flames🔥🔥🔥🔥✅

  • @Ratsatsi
    @Ratsatsi 2 місяці тому +4

    Is there anything being done correctly in the EC?

  • @NeriahB66
    @NeriahB66 2 місяці тому +2

    This woman shouldn't be a Mayor..The cemetery is used for housing.May their Souls rest in peace under these ciiecumstances😢

  • @brendonmatthews621
    @brendonmatthews621 2 місяці тому +4

    That was painful to watch.

  • @bulelanimantshiyose2699
    @bulelanimantshiyose2699 2 місяці тому +3

    Interviewer: Do you know the true state of the cemeteries Mam?
    Mayor: Yes I know them, I’m a mayor I go around and see them
    Govan: But you didn’t know the burners were off at the crematorium
    Mayor: no I did not know because it was not even in the daily dispatch .
    All in all, she is out of touch with reality and she doesn’t know the state that the cemeteries are in unless the daily dispatch says it. I doubt she even reads the newspaper!

  • @eurafrican85
    @eurafrican85 2 місяці тому +5

    When I heard "buffalo city" I knew already

  • @GregoryMkhaya
    @GregoryMkhaya 2 місяці тому

    Best investigation Chanel

  • @anthonyafonso3599
    @anthonyafonso3599 2 місяці тому +7

    The most fertile soil in the Dorp . And... Their we go blame it on apartheid .

  • @jancovanderwesthuizen8070
    @jancovanderwesthuizen8070 Місяць тому +1

    How can that woman be in charge of anything, let alone one of South Africas Metros??

  • @JabulilejuliaMbele
    @JabulilejuliaMbele 2 місяці тому +2

    Can carte Blanche please come to emfuleni n question the major here please vaal is in shambles

  • @jennymason7835
    @jennymason7835 2 місяці тому +1

    This is shockingly disgusting. It is not ANC,it is people who have no respect, not even for the dead.

  • @AmoMoëti
    @AmoMoëti 2 місяці тому +7

    Eastern cape again?😢🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

  • @puja877
    @puja877 2 місяці тому +3

    ANC has failed this country

  • @brendandewett1682
    @brendandewett1682 2 місяці тому +3

    Flippen bad if u ask Me, East London is my place of birth but I'll never move back the whole city is a mess Ppl in power are only their for a paycheck the mayor has no clue what is going on in her own city

  • @stephenhubber9184
    @stephenhubber9184 2 місяці тому +2

    The rotten state of these cemetaries is indicative of the state of the ANC.

  • @lindosithole2441
    @lindosithole2441 Місяць тому

    I dont think I could be more traumatized, after watching this. And big shoutout to the journalist for being the eye that lets us see that things like this are happening, an absolute failure of state.

  • @marchamarais8322
    @marchamarais8322 2 місяці тому

    😮how are you so oblivious 😅
    Thnk you Carte Blanche
    Jhooo 👏

  • @snedaisy
    @snedaisy 2 місяці тому +1

    The mayor is something else💔
    She is a storyteller nothing else.

  • @azizsalanje3430
    @azizsalanje3430 2 місяці тому

    This is heart breaking.

  • @ChantiWassermann
    @ChantiWassermann 2 місяці тому +1

    Something must be done ✅👍 and would be fruitful to see follow up

  • @kevintjcoster
    @kevintjcoster Місяць тому +1

    The level of incompetence shown by the mayor is shocking 😲

  • @CitiesForTheFuture2030
    @CitiesForTheFuture2030 2 місяці тому +9

    In many parts of the world a festival or holiday is held where families get together to celebrate the lives of those that have passed. They visit the gravesite(s) & do a cleanup etc as a sign of respect & rememberence. In Mexico families members meet at the gravesite and have a picnic (Day of the Dead) - I actually prefer this to the usa halloween that doesn't celebrate anything but overindulgence. These holidays are not morbid, but rather a day of rememberence & celebration. Perhaps this is something all sa cultures should look at doing at least once a year whenever this is most convenient.
    I'm not giving the municipality a free pass here - graveyards need to be properly managed & maintained to avoid enviro impacts (especially ground water) and be a place of peace & rememberence. But all this takes a lot of money (monies allocated should not be mismanaged). It would be great if communities & municipalities (everywhere) could work together to keep graveyards looking presentable.
    In Curitiba (brazil) city green spaces are kept trim by herds of miniature sheep - no petrol lawnmowers or loads of plastic bags etc with cuttings ending up in landfills. In Singapore many parks are maintained by city gardeners supported by volunteers.
    Where there's a will, there's a way...

    • @gregwochlik9233
      @gregwochlik9233 2 місяці тому +1

      Poland has a similar "All Saints' day" on 1 November. It is a day to visit the immaculate cemeteries all over the country. It is a cultural thing.

    • @CitiesForTheFuture2030
      @CitiesForTheFuture2030 2 місяці тому +1

      @@gregwochlik9233 I'm actually amazed how many cultures have such celebration days in their calendars. Tx for the info.

    • @nadinemeinie3380
      @nadinemeinie3380 2 місяці тому +1

      @@CitiesForTheFuture2030 the miniature sheep would be stolen and eaten, I promise you. There is enough money set aside for this, yet no one can tell us where it went to. Why not give the job to maintain the sites to the jobless then. At least there will be a mouth fed . And why are the auditors not questioned? Surely this can't be happening year in and year out.

    • @JohnTerblanche-l1r
      @JohnTerblanche-l1r 2 місяці тому

      ​@@nadinemeinie3380comrades have installed their own auditor. This is how anc corruption works all over sa in small muncipalities or rural ones. The local politicians benefit only in Stuttereim the poor burnt down the gov buildings now the gov hasnt even rebuilt it it stands there in the middle of the town still burnt down. The gov obviously dont want to broadcast their new residence because they are useless, the locals are also stealing illegal wood from gov land and loading into trucks to sell. No permits so they get off with free money. Anc is just not people who take pride in hard work and helping their communities.

    • @CitiesForTheFuture2030
      @CitiesForTheFuture2030 2 місяці тому

      @@nadinemeinie3380 Yes, the rot is widespread, incl auditors (not the first time) - par for the sa course unfortunately. My comment wanted to illustrate (1) everyone should be working together - gov vs personal responsibility (2) there are innovative low cost options.
      While sa is a medium income country, high poverty & unemployment means gov taxes falling on less people. And yes it would be nice if gov could employ all unemployed persons - but who pays? Our country has lots of challenges and gov is guilty of many sins, but that not negate communities doing their fair share (where appropriate) - we should be working together.
      BTW, sheep herds in Curitiba do have shepherds to care for them and are kept safe overnight - they're never left unprotected.

  • @FaithFab639
    @FaithFab639 Місяць тому

    It's not just the government failing us but we as the people/citizens failing ourselves.

  • @metsanemosehlane7891
    @metsanemosehlane7891 2 місяці тому +1

    The incompetence of the mayor is depressing, all she cares about is herself.

  • @UrsulaZA
    @UrsulaZA 2 місяці тому

    My parental family have been buried there, generations and years. The fact that you can’t even go visit.

  • @deckydeckstar825
    @deckydeckstar825 2 місяці тому +1

    How do people start an informal settlement? Where di they meet to discuss starting a new "area"
    Where did they live before.
    Im so angry, disgusted, and hurt. Couldn't finish the video 😢😢😢
    STOP HAVING KIDS YOU CANT AFFORD!

    • @Stephdk-k4x
      @Stephdk-k4x 2 місяці тому

      I totally agree. I'm not a nasty or heartless person but stop dragging children through a life you yourself are suffering through! If I couldn't feed myself or put a roof over my head why on earth would I bring another person into this life to suffer the same fate?

  • @Mantaray911
    @Mantaray911 2 місяці тому +5

    Imagine the size of the pumpkins when they start planting vegetable gardens there.

    • @Robwheddon2010
      @Robwheddon2010 2 місяці тому +2

      your insult shows your intelligence, lack of it

    • @JohnTerblanche-l1r
      @JohnTerblanche-l1r 2 місяці тому +2

      Vegetables in a cemetery.. if they living there they probably already have.

  • @AndreDMalan1966
    @AndreDMalan1966 2 місяці тому +1

    The Ward Councillor was "shocked" because he has done nothing to fix it. It has happened under his watch.

  • @rolindejager393
    @rolindejager393 Місяць тому

    My heart is broken for our country.

  • @LM-rg9lj
    @LM-rg9lj 2 місяці тому +2

    This, mayor is an example of ANC leadership.. 😢

  • @marynavanvuuren7679
    @marynavanvuuren7679 2 місяці тому +1

    Shocking!! 😭