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

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'!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"