Mhlekazi,
Listen carefully. I said "it risks being a white elephant".
But also, don't lie. You have always owned that Clinic as the City's initiative. The statement on 10 March 2025 is clear:
"Hikhensile Clinic will replace the old facility, providing a modern and fully equipped healthcare environment that meets the City of Johannesburg's Health Department's standards."
Link:
joburg.org.za/media_/Newsrooโฆ
Why would you start something you can't finish? You should have secured cross-funding before the project started.
It was never stated that the R28-million will not yield completion.
You can't throw your hands in the air. The residents in that community are unhappy. Do something about it, quickly!!!
Dumelang Lukhona . Shem i welcome your sudden interest in Ivory Park and hopefully it extends beyond election season. Mara let me offer you a civics lesson!
In terms of the Constitution, building and maintaining clinics is a provincial mandate that is funded by national and provincial government. The City of Johannesburg has no legal obligation whatsoever to build clinic infrastructure. None.
And yet when we found a condemned building in Ivory Park that was too small, unsafe, and a genuine health risk to nurses and patients, we didn't make videos. We dipped into the City's own budget and allocated seed capital over two consecutive financial years to fast-track a solution.
The result is a brand new, modern 2173mยฒ facility. (Phase 1)
Phase 2 is not abandoned. We are engaged with both provincial and national government to ensure it is funded and delivered, because we understand that intergovernmental coordination is how you finish the job.
So you are standing in front of a clinic the City built voluntarily, beyond its constitutional mandate, for a community that needed it and calling it a white elephant. ๐Nami Angazi Lukhona