Khwae wanted to know their performance during the financial years 2011 to 2013/14 and in response assistant Minister of Local Government Botlogile Tshireletso made the stunning admission that the local authorities were performing badly in filling vacancies, de-bushing and road maintenance.
Tshireletso further attributed poor performance to high staff turnover in some of the districts. Unfortunately, the response did not specify the figures with regard to vacancies that exist in each of the districts, what was being done to address the problem or indeed whether there was recruitment on-going. These revelations come a few weeks after another story that teachers do not want to work in places like Salajwe, approximately 60 kilometres from Letlhakeng village, resulting in pupils going to school and finding no one to teach them. The failure to fill vacancies by these local authorities not only contributes to high youth unemployment, but also means that residents are forced to travel long distances to access services they could otherwise obtain at home.
