Serving the Community together.
The current Act 94 of 1998, Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act, known as TRANCRAA, legislates for the process required to allow the residents of Farm 39 to decide whether they want to become part of TWKM, or a Community Property Association (CPA), or another approved “entity”.
Read Report: FARM 39 PART 4.1 FINAL
The Budget and IDP are required to fulfill a number of essential functions:
As we see the situation from Ward 2, there is scope for much improvement on all counts above, the single most important failing being consultation with the community. Decisions taken by TWKM that concern the public often seem to be taken with no regard for the public or for the Government policy on public participation.
Click here >> Draft Budget W2F Comment Summary 18_20
Click here >>TWK Reply on W2F Budget Report
The Ward 2 Forum has been inundated with calls in respect of the marked increase of flies in the area over the last few weeks. In a bid to assist with the numerous questions received, herewith some facts collated about the vectors that we hope will answer some of those questions.
Whilst there are numerous species of flies, only a few are commonly found to be a problem in the Greyton/Genadendal area.
This is part 2 & 3 in a series of 11 articles
published to shed some light onto the complex, sensitive and increasingly critical issue of the transformation of Farm 39. It attempts to address the lack of information available and the enormous apathy toward the subject, and to generate community support for its prompt solution.
Confirmation that Municipal Housing Land is available in Greyton.
Click this link for the full report: HOUSING UPDATE – 2 Apr’17
In 1998 it must have seemed such a straightforward task for the Government – to create and issue an Act to provide for the transfer of specific land to a municipality and/or to other legal entities, and to provide for associated matters. The Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act (1998) seems to have been introduced with little consideration of the specific history of the areas concerned, in fact not even a definition of the areas, without a set of objectives relating to community benefits or the means of achieving them, and without clear and consistent management of the whole process.
Farm 39 lost 18 years Part 1 – Contents and History
