The municipality requests the community to protect electrical cables from cable thieves.

The municipality claims that the residents owe R909 557 309 in unpaid services.

Yet, after the repairs are apparently completed, residents are still left high and dry.

"A municipality cannot be run by friends and family who don't even have a Grade 12 qualification. Everyone is acting, but nobody steps up to take the blame for the failures."

According to Ntekele, the electrical demand far exceeds the supply that the municipality is capable of providing.

To date, not a single pothole had been repaired in Hardewyk Road, where the initial repairs were said to start.

The contractor, employed by the municipality to rehabilitate the road surface, has since failed to rehabilitate the site in question, and has left a large amount of building waste in its wake.

Klagtes gerig aan Msukaligwa Plaaslike Munisipaliteit val doodluiters op dowe ore.

One would assume that the stream of vacancies advertised by MLM for horticulturists, groundskeepers and other positions relating to parks and grounds maintenance, Ermelo would be a beacon of neatness. This is, however, not the case.

A project of a New Ermelo Primary School, sits at 22% progress. EFF councillors, however, raised the question as to why new schools are being built while the existing schools are literally falling apart.

The warning from MLM had been laughed off, and the refuse dumping has, in fact, increased exponentially.

Dissatisfaction has also been directed at the behavior of municipal refuse collectors, who allegedly contribute to the pollution issue faced by residents.