Good morning Premier Stanley Chupu Mathabatha.
Tomorrow, you engage in your annual ritual of delivering the State of the Province Address to the long-suffering people of Limpopo Province. We hope that 2023 will be better than 2022 and that the province will show progress from the previous year. The entire province will be waiting in anticipation to listen to you as you deliver good to the embattled province. As ActionSA we wish you well in your address.
However, we wish to remind you about the promises you made last year and hope that tomorrow your address focuses on those promises and what you have done to turn them into reality. We ask you to use this year’s address mainly to report on progress made hitherto.
To assist you, in case your memory fails you, we highlight some of the key issues you should address, as well as developments that took place after last year’s address.
Hereunder are the issues we have identified as ActionSA:
- The economy
Last year the Premier talked of the industrialisation of the province through a post-Covid Provincial Socio-economic Recovery Plan characterised by mega projects in manufacturing, tourism and agricultural sectors. Where are these mega projects located Mr Premier? How many of the 48 000 jobs promised have materialised since Sona 2022?
- Limpopo Science And Technology Park
In the previous SoNA you stated that “The establishment of the Limpopo Science and Technology Park, which is a visionary and catalytic project to transform our provincial economy, is underway”. What progress has been made about this invisible project since your last address? In what way is this project drive competitiveness?
- Municipalities
What are you going to do about the incompetence and corruption in municipalities that have failed to provide services to the long-suffering people of the Limpopo Province. Wherever you travel yourself you are confronted by huge practical evidence of service delivery failure in Limpopo municipalities and what are you doing about it?
As you travel your convoy has to negotiate endless potholes in the province that your municipalities run; the thirst of the people of Limpopo is written all over the faces of the poor that you address on a regular basis as you do your job and we want to know what master plan do you have to address this water crisis in our villages; corruption still reigns supreme in all your municipalities and the recent developments at Sekhukhune District Municipality, your home base, is a case in point.
What is it that your so-called District Development Model has achieved in changing the lives of the people of Limpopo since you launched it? May you please give examples of the success of this new approach?
- Zebediela Citrus Estate
Mr Premier, the failure of the Zebediela Citrus Estate will remain an albatross around the neck of your government. Last year, in your SoPA delivery, you reported about a partnership between Bjatladi CPA and Humansdorp Co-operative for the revitalisation of the citrus orchards.
Would you please be the bearer of good news to the families that are supposed to benefit from this scheme by announcing practical results emanating from this project? Please be merciful and end the nightmare of these communities in Zebediaela
- Giyani Water Scheme
After many years of failure to supply the 55 villages of Giyani with water can you please announce the good news that the thirsty poor people of Giyani will finally get water? In December last year, you joined President Ramaphosa in a community meeting in Giyani to announce that finally, water will gush out of the taps in Giyani.
It was Ramapahosa, Minister Senzo Mnchunu and yourself that promised the people of Giyani will have their water next month. As the leader of the province, may you please confirm publicly at SOPA that indeed the president and you will keep your word and end this man-made modern tragedy in Giyani. The month of February ends next week and we are into March. The people are very thirsty Mr Premier.
ActionSA Open Letter to the Premier of Limpopo Stan Mathabatha on the eve of the 2023 SOPA Delivery
Good morning Premier Stanley Chupu Mathabatha.
Tomorrow, you engage in your annual ritual of delivering the State of the Province Address to the long-suffering people of Limpopo Province. We hope that 2023 will be better than 2022 and that the province will show progress from the previous year. The entire province will be waiting in anticipation to listen to you as you deliver good to the embattled province. As ActionSA we wish you well in your address.
However, we wish to remind you about the promises you made last year and hope that tomorrow your address focuses on those promises and what you have done to turn them into reality. We ask you to use this year’s address mainly to report on progress made hitherto.
To assist you, in case your memory fails you, we highlight some of the key issues you should address, as well as developments that took place after last year’s address.
Hereunder are the issues we have identified as ActionSA:
Last year the Premier talked of the industrialisation of the province through a post-Covid Provincial Socio-economic Recovery Plan characterised by mega projects in manufacturing, tourism and agricultural sectors. Where are these mega projects located Mr Premier? How many of the 48 000 jobs promised have materialised since Sona 2022?
In the previous SoNA you stated that “The establishment of the Limpopo Science and Technology Park, which is a visionary and catalytic project to transform our provincial economy, is underway”. What progress has been made about this invisible project since your last address? In what way is this project drive competitiveness?
What are you going to do about the incompetence and corruption in municipalities that have failed to provide services to the long-suffering people of the Limpopo Province. Wherever you travel yourself you are confronted by huge practical evidence of service delivery failure in Limpopo municipalities and what are you doing about it?
As you travel your convoy has to negotiate endless potholes in the province that your municipalities run; the thirst of the people of Limpopo is written all over the faces of the poor that you address on a regular basis as you do your job and we want to know what master plan do you have to address this water crisis in our villages; corruption still reigns supreme in all your municipalities and the recent developments at Sekhukhune District Municipality, your home base, is a case in point.
What is it that your so-called District Development Model has achieved in changing the lives of the people of Limpopo since you launched it? May you please give examples of the success of this new approach?
Mr Premier, the failure of the Zebediela Citrus Estate will remain an albatross around the neck of your government. Last year, in your SoPA delivery, you reported about a partnership between Bjatladi CPA and Humansdorp Co-operative for the revitalisation of the citrus orchards.
Would you please be the bearer of good news to the families that are supposed to benefit from this scheme by announcing practical results emanating from this project? Please be merciful and end the nightmare of these communities in Zebediaela
After many years of failure to supply the 55 villages of Giyani with water can you please announce the good news that the thirsty poor people of Giyani will finally get water? In December last year, you joined President Ramaphosa in a community meeting in Giyani to announce that finally, water will gush out of the taps in Giyani.
It was Ramapahosa, Minister Senzo Mnchunu and yourself that promised the people of Giyani will have their water next month. As the leader of the province, may you please confirm publicly at SOPA that indeed the president and you will keep your word and end this man-made modern tragedy in Giyani. The month of February ends next week and we are into March. The people are very thirsty Mr Premier.