Siyonzana received a memorandum of demands from aggrieved  Mangaung residents. He says that he will be working hand in hand with the Free State Provincial Government, the municipal management, and leadership of the MSDF and MCC to urgently address issues that are at the forefront of the metro's reoccurring maladministration.

OFM News previously reported that the submissions delivered in a much-anticipated sitting of the Parliament's Select Committee of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), stamped the assertion that the Mangaung Metro is in a state of government paralysis.

Also read: NCOP's Mangaung sitting gets underway with impassioned submissions

This after Siyonzana and senior management was lambasted by members of National Parliament and this selected committee.

Also read: Mangaung mayor management team in hot water

Meanwhile, Siyonzana promised residents of Mangaung that the metro, together with the Provincial Government, will immediately commence with the implementation of solution-driven plans and processes addressing some of the issues that residents have highlighted.

OFM News/Kekeletso Mosebetsi and Lee Simmons