The municipal manager of the Musina Municipality, Mr Nathi Tshiwanammbi, made time to interact with all municipal workers to seek their input on the municipality's service delivery operational strategy.
Tshiwanammbi had two separate meetings. The first one was for the office-based staff and another one was for the field service delivery staff.
He said having the meetings was important because the municipality had closed its last financial year at the end of June. "It is always good to start the new financial year with a clean slate, despite all the challenges we are faced with. We might have limited resources and manpower, but if we have happy employees, we can go an extra mile in delivering basic services to our people."
Tshiwanammbi says he understood that some labour formations existed that represented the employees in the workplace. "We do have engagements with the workers' unions from time to time, but it was important to give each individual worker an opportunity to voice out their opinions in the workplace. An employer who does not interact with employees is likely to fail due to poor performance of estranged workers who do not know where to direct their thoughts. Like all other meetings we conducted with the workers previously, we are still going to meet workers occasionally to motivate them to put more effort into our service-delivery mandate."
One of the workers, Mr Charles Mokwena, said the workers were doing their best to deliver efficient services, but they had challenges that needed to be addressed. "We are happy that the municipal manager has organized this meeting, so that we can air our views. We hope that the issues we raised here today will be taken into consideration urgently, so that we can execute our duties with ease," said Mokwena.