Alex Parliament offers advice to government on how certain challenges can be tackled
By Jonk wa Mashamba
news@alexreporter.co.za
Alex Parliament, in conjunction with residents of Ward 116, Councillor Marema and law enforcement agencies recently disconnected illegal connections in Marlboro and surrounding areas.
This after ward 107 and 108 residents took part in a protest against the residents of Marlboro.
Marlboro residents were accused of illegally connecting power from substation (16th Vasco).
Alex Parliament president , Vincent Ndima, said he could not bow down when his people stayed in the dark.
It is alleged that the substation was affected due to an overloaded circuit, leading to a complete blackout in the areas.
Ndima stated that his office would make every effort to exercise the powers as enshrined in the Constitution. ” People shall govern,” he said.
Ndima said his parliament, established in 2018, had aimed to address social ills.
“Social development currently is our top priority. In terms of social development, we are referring to enhancing not only the standard of living of our fellow masses, but we aim to mentally and emotionally train our people to be able to make means of utilizing available resources to better the general structure of the community of Alexandra.
” Our objective is to make sure that service delivery and other basic needs that are meant to suppress poverty and stimulate growth within townships, are given to our residents without failure.
” We will ensure that solutions offered by government are executed with extreme precision.
“However, this does not mean that the parliament awaits approval from government to liberate our people. We are a self driven organisation that believes in this saying ‘for the people, to the people, by the people’.”
“As we all know that our people have been previously disadvantaged, where applicable, the parliament offers advice to government on how certain challenges can be tackled.”
He gave an example of the infamous July unrest.
“During that time, the SAPS could not secure all the major service supplying infrastructures, but the parliament had to intervene and offer alternative solutions on how to at least protect Alex Mall, as Pan Africa Mall had already fallen victim to the unrest.
“One of the examples I can give of current strategies implemented by the parliament, is the introduction of township Olympics where sporting activities are reintroduced to our young people, as means of fighting the addiction of drugs and alcohol abuse by our youth.”
He stressed that they will actively monitor all learning institutions in Alex, to ensure that learners were safe. He said his parliament had been engaging with the department of education to ensure that structures such as SGBs should be held accountable in as far as teaching and learning is executed without interruption.
” Safety and discipline are adhered to by both learners and teachers. As a result of that engagement, the parliament was able to liberate not only learners of Alexandra high schools with the moral of discipline, but the remark was stretched to as far as ensuring that the department fully understands that there will never be a time where people of Alexandra wait for intervention from government.
” Alexandra Parliament is there to push through those bearers because it is a people’s motivated pressure group.
“With regards to combating crime, the parliament has been working hand in hand with an entity that is currently developing an app that will enable to fast track many EMS protocols. Such as reaching police services without being redirected from one line to another, but actually contacting the direct station one resides near to.
“Or maybe if one wishes to report an incident, without actually having to dial the emergency line. The app will enable our residents to just press a panic button directly from their personal cell phones , which will then transmit a messages to all EMS service providers,” said Ndima.
He said the mission of his parliament was to ensure that people knew that they had the power to fight these socio- economic issues that “we face, through education, skills development and other basic training that is relevant towards combating these challenges’.
” We want to have a community that is not only governed by politicians, but also residents who understand the policies and implement strategies posed to them. Also, we want out people liberated by 2024.
