Karoo councillor fined once more — for repainting pedestrian crossing and parking spaces at church

ANC governing style: "We reserve the right to be useless".

Should failing to maintain painted lines not be enforced and punished equally? Instead of wasting resources perusing this do gooder they should get their act together and do their jobs!

Oh yes, you MAY NOT make life better for your fellow human beings . What are you smoking , ANC ? Power obsessed ?

and what about private fixing potholes, or arranging pointmen at traffic lights? Also against the law?

If they half as serious about painting the lines as in fining people who do, all the lines would have been painted and the point would have been moot.

"lead to anarchy" Bwaa haaa haaa - said with zero sense of irony whatsoever!

If the "anarchy" that Tyali is referring to is service delivery, then yeah! Bring it on!! Surely there are bigger issues to resolve than going after the people that does the job for you? You go Councillor!

What an idiotic case! Pursue those incompetent or lazy councilors who are not applying themselves for 'the people' to do what they are supposed to do. Managing a municipality is more than just 'selecting your next fancy vehicle'!

The municipal official responsible for the upkeep of the roads should be charged with derelict of his or her duties instead of the councilor being charged. Precisely this attitude discourages citizens from wanting to make a difference in their community.

Refreshing a pedestrian crossing would not constitute the painting of a line, word, sign or advertisement. The question therefore resolves into whether it could constitute painting a "mark" - not a road marking. No marks for the council, though.

Aberdeen's road markings are repainted annually, the roads retarred every two years and pavements neatly maintained. Street and traffic lights are all functional. Oh wait. I'm thinking about the Aberdeen in Scotland.

Who is persuing Eldridge Ruiters and laying complaints? Is it the underworked police in the area just finding something to do or are there particular 'persons' in the community who lay the complaints? Why?

Good grief! Do these people WANT to look ridiculous? Eldridge Ruiters should be commended for initiative, public mindedness and going beyond the call of duty. He is an example of the type of person we need in this country.

They'll be arresting us next for protecting our homes and hiring security companies. "That's the police's job!!!" Yes it is and they are completely and utterly useless; just like everything the anc touches.

This emanates from the Mad Hatter's tea party. The summons' validity is questionable since there are alterations indicating that whoever completed it is elsewhere in time or is incompetent. Leave aside the waste of resources. Three police officers and two vehicles to issue a summons. Insane!

Thanks to rotten ANC governance, lack of maintenance, and in-bred corruption in nearly every municipality, South Africa is now crumbling to the extent that citizens are trying to rebuild the mess before total collapse arrives. And the ANC fines them for it? Elections 2026 will boot them out.

This article deserves to be sent overseas. The media there would just love it. Another nail in the coffin of the failed state.

In doing a fantastically good deed, Mr. Ruiters has unfortunately given his detractors just the reason they looking for to justify their actions - pedestrian crossings are painted white not yellow.

The bottom line is that this demonstrates that municipal management is failing to do its job ie. maintain the towns infrastructure. They are the ones that should be held accountable (to rate payers), charged and then fired.

And the Darwin Award goes to.... Community works together to help each other, especially when help is glaringly needed. He is not making new marks, he is not breaking anything. He is helping YOU, so accept a little help and see it grow in YOUR community.

The summons date was altered. Surely that is not permissible.

If he changed road markings (colour, shape, words) - fair enough. If he simply added paint to the same place where paint had been applied and the markings effectively changed nothing except for better visibility, I don't see the problem. Personally, I would have asked for written permission - etc.

Does this convince you that there is not a snowballs hope in Hell of the country finding its' way to serving communities and by extension, achieving the outcomes required of a country in the 21st century? Petty bureaucracy to frustrate a DA Member who is showing up the Councillors as useless.

This prosecutor will probably oppose bail on the grounds of National Security against the councilor. A man with a huge ego and very little common sense.

There's more than a little of Orwell's 1984 to this.

Cadre excellence at its very finest. The accused should go open a criminal case at the SAPS against the responsible salary-grabbing cadres at the council, for recklessly endangering the safety of road users by gross dereliction of their duties.

Where I live we (residents) have repainted all the kerbs at street corners and the street names thereon. This has caused us no problems. But we are advised (by DA councillors) not to retouch actual road markings or otherwise paint on the roads. This comes down to issues of legal culpability.

The venal ANC placeholders there couldn't possibly do a better job of clarifying their real positions. You'd need to be pretty deep in their cult to mistake them for being anything other than on the take.

Surely this must warrant 15 years in C-Max. He can share a cell with the other heinous criminals who may have been caught directing traffic.

I wonder if this would be good way to start the final civil disobedience campaign to rid us of the ANC and the other Bell-Pottinger parasites? Have thousands and thousands of people on weekends painting road markings and filling potholes, each one wearing a F#ck the ANC T-shirt?

The by-law in question is the Camdeboo Municipality Roads and Traffic By-law, published in EC Provincial Gazette No. 1634 on 11 December 2006. Camdeboo Municipality was a predecessor of Dr Beyers Naudé municipality. It is uncommonly silly to bother to enforce it in this case though.

If the municipality applied the same fervor to maintaining the road markings, as is required of them, rather than harass someone who cares and is prepared, at no cost to the town, to keep the road markings painted and clear, then I could understand their action. Maybe if he was not a DA member?

Give this man some paint.

Ha Ha Ha Ha. We don't even need this good man to highlight how useless and corrupt the council is.... The blind see it. The deaf hear it. Even our dead live this horrorshow.

You’ve got to hand it to the man: he’s clearly enjoying the publicity. It’s a brilliant PR campaign.

Final step would be to check which officials home is painted yellow...that should tell a tale.

Will a paint company please donate as much road marking paint to the gentleman in question so that he can continue with his good work. He can marshal as many like minded residents in joining him one Saturday to complete the job. The council needs to be grateful not vindictive

Tyali would be an ideal candidate for Mike Graham's Plank of the Week

SA "law enforcement" - the appointment of completely UESELESS & INCOMPETENT OFFICIALS. They are clueless as to doing real work; so 'pick' on someone doing good. Look at the pic - how many vehicles do you need for ONE person? Call for murder etc...the reply: "sorry, no vehicles available"

How dare you show up the ANC as incompetent!