Council concerned with illegal waste dumping

Olefile Serokolo | Thursday November 23, 2017 14:33

Addressing the on-going ordinary full council meeting, Letlhogela said such actions jeopardised their efforts of lobbying investors and tourists to the town.

She said it was important to keep the town clean and for all residents to make sure that the town maintain its position for being the cleanest in the country. The annual ‘clean up the world’ campaign competitions were held in Francistown on September 21 and Selebi-Phikwe scooped the first position.

On another unpleasant note, Letlhogela said the crime rate has increased in almost all categories since 2016.

She noted that one of the contributing factors is the high presence of illegal immigrants in the town and the fact that a lot of people in the town are currently not working. “Areas mostly affected by the crime are Phase 1, Phase 2 and Mmadinare village.

The public around our town is urged to be cautious and ensure their properties are not left unguarded during the festive season. Hence, the need to guard our homes and businesses during the festive season,” she said. She, however, noted that fatal accidents have remained under control.

On other issues Letlhogela said the aftermath of the closure of the BCL Mine has started to be evident now as there are a lot of vacated shops and empty office spaces due to business reduction in the town. She said the district continues to experience relocation of poverty eradication businesses to other districts.

She also explained that community service day has proved to be beneficial to the council.

She stated that through the initiative they have been able to conduct a community service day for pothole patching on September 8 in both Selebi-Phikwe East and West constituencies, which yielded positive results by surpassing the monthly target, they set as a council.