Grootfontein Municipality is currently without a Chief Executive Officer but plans to fill the vacancy next year.
The Acting Chief Executive Officer, Indileni Lungameni, reports that the council has received 30 applications for the position.
The Grootfontein Municipality recently began consulting with stakeholders as part of its process to prepare its budget for the financial year 2024/2025.
The Grootfontein Municipality says they have on numerous occasions pleaded with residents, businesses, and institutions to engage their finance department and make debt-settling arrangements; calls, the council says, appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
Grootfontein Municipality is constructing houses to relocate current single-quarter residents and for the old structure to be demolished.
Grootfontein Municipality has started implementing some of the initiatives outlined in its Strategic Plan for 2024–2028.
Street vendors in Grootfontein are calling on their municipality to fast-track the construction of an open market to allow them to flourish in their businesses.
The vendors of Grootfontein have been in desperate need of an open market for years, as selling on the streets is not conducive.
The Grootfontein Municipality has donated plumbing and electrical equipment to the town's state hospital.
The donation by Mayor Talitha Garises follows complaints by medical staff who were serving patients in dark rooms and having broken ablution in many ward rooms.
