It is the beginning of the year, but government doesn’t want to waste
time with provision of service delivery to the people.
Following the door to door campaign that was conducted in October 2019,
the Gauteng Department of Social Development together with other government
department staged a multi-departmental service delivery blitz at AMF Church in Rustervaal.
Community members say they need a development centre that will help young
people with easy access to information.” Our children are not working and the
sad part is that many of them are unemployable, because they don’t have skills
to compete” says 37-year- old Arita Van Rooyen who is a mother of three daughters
and they all not working.
Community Development Supervisor Doctor Nkuna said it was important for
the department to come and honour the promises they made to the people of
Rustervaal during the visit by the former MEC.
“We uncovered so many challenges the last time we visited this place, so
we realised that bringing different government departments in one place will
bring some relief and help minimise some of this challenges the community is
facing, during our door-to-door we found out that there are people who have no
Identity Documents and was a serious concern.”
Nkuna stressed that many people in the area are unemployed and level of
illiteracy is high amongst other challenges. Substance abuse and gangsterism is
the order of the day among young people, high teenage pregnancy and lack of
access to information.
“We are happy with the turnover even though we had some challenges
because many people expected Home Affairs to come with their mobile truck, but
we still hope this will make a huge difference to this community.”