Carlos Da Rocha ward 66

What is ward 66?
Ward 66 is my home, it is a demarcation, set out by the South African government. In my opinion, wards are where politics actually start, I think.
I stand corrected, but the way I see it, wards are the forefront of politics. It is where political parties in my opinion, should show the residing people of the community what they are made of.


Wards are in a way, governed by the ward counselors. Ward counselors are there firstly, to put the best interests of residents before anything else and here would be the best opportunity for them to show voting residents what their political parties are made of.
I'm not a ward counselor, but I'm a ward committee member and I assist the ward counselor voluntarily in the running of the ward.

I have been doing it for 4 years now and fortunately for my ward counselor, I have also been like a whip, making sure that service delivery for ward 66 is existent. As I go along with this post, I will show you how and






what I mean about me being like a whip.
In South Africa, most wards are either poor communities or middle class or rich communities, however ward 66 strangely enough falls under all three categories.
I personally live in the poorer side of ward 66, so guess what? When it comes to service delivery, being poorer means that not so many people are to interested, so service delivery becomes practically none existent. That is where I had no choice, but to step in and in a sense, take ward 66 by the horns.
Ok, so now it has come to this. I'm ready and prepared to run for ward counselor of ward 66.
In fact, I'm not just ready, I am going to run for ward counselor of ward 66 !
Yes, I understand that this post is part of my campaign to run for my ward and as usual when an individual is campaigning, promises of a better life in the ward are always there!!

Promises of better service delivery are always forthcoming and after the elections, nothing gets done in order to keep such promises.
Obviously, then one has to wait 5 years before the next election, before one picks another ward counselor. In the meantime, our property value deteriorates, unsavory people move into our neighborhoods, good people start moving out, and then!!!!!!... Disaster strikes and our suburbs suddenly become slums! Our houses suddenly are not worth the ground that they are built on and what we all worked so hard for, suddenly is not worth a penny!
Now you ask, what makes me different from anyone else??? That's easy!! I have a passion!
I have been doing counselor standard work in ward 66 now going for five years. I don't have to make promises and I will not make promises. I don't need to! Why? Because I have a track record of my hard work in ward 66,
and I don't have to say anything, because I have proof of my achievements. My track record speaks for itself!
I will post only some of the news clippings and once you been through them, then you, not me, decide if I deserve to be your next ward counselor. You decide if you will vote for me, when the time comes.
I also think that its very important, to tell you that the articles that I am showing you here, are but only a few, of many newspaper articles about my work.



































Dear fellow community members, every single article posted above, happens to be related to me. It is all about my ward service delivery and other campaigns, that I have fought on behalf of the community. There are many, many more newspaper articles of course, the ones posted above, are obviously the more prominent ones and most are front page articles, but believe me when I tell you, that these articles are but a drop in the bucked!
As you can see, I'm very passionate about my community. I also believe that a community like mine, needs someone like me, to look after them.
I intend to do everything in my power, to make sure that the people living in ward 66, people across the socio-economic divide, have the same kind of service as any other person across South Africa. After all, we are all tax payers of this great Country!