Mpumalanga residents have blocked the R573 Moloto road, east of Pretoria, where ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa was to use is a direct reflection of citizens’ discontent over the ANC’s 30 years of unfulfilled promises.
Ramaphosa was supposed to use the road to visit the AmaNdebele Kingdom as part of the ANC’s 112th birthday public engagements before this weekend’s January 8 Statement celebrations. The residents barricaded the road with burning tyres.
Chief among residents’ discontent is over the lack of service delivery and unresponsive ward councillors elected to advance their interests in the municipal council.
In Thembisile Hani Municipality, KwaNdebele, three decades of democracy has only seen increased inequality where empowerment has primarily benefited a small politically connected elite. The community has not been afforded essential services due to high levels of corruption and political patronage.
In 2021, the Municipality violated residents’ right of access to sufficient water as enshrined in section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (“Constitution”), according to the South African Human Rights Commission report.
Therefore, the community of Thembisile Hani has been taken for granted by the ANC-led government.
We can only fix South Africa if we fix essential service delivery and invest in critical infrastructure. ActionSA will place the service delivery needs of our residents at the centre of everything we do and ensure that municipal budgets respond to the pressing needs of residents.
Lily Mine communities
The community around Lily Mine blocked Cyril Ramaphosa and questioned him about the lack of progress in retrieving the bodies of Solomon Nyirende, Yvonne Mnisi and Pretty Nkambule, which Fikile Mbalula promised that Lily Mine would open soon and the remains recovered during May Day Rally of Cosutu in 2023.
The community demanded President Ramaphosa tell his Secretary-General to stop misleading the community by giving them false promises that the Mine would open in three months after May 2023.
As a party which values social justice, the Lily Mine victims’ families granted ActionSA Power of Attorney to pursue criminal civil litigation, and now ActionSA will use the Power of Attorney to achieve the following:
- Ensure the amended Business Rescue Plan is voted on within 14 days of the Constitutional Court ruling. The plan stipulates that mining operations at Lily Mine resume, and a new shaft will be dug to help retrieve the three miners’ bodies.
- Write to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for the plans to pursue prosecution instituting any against those the courts have found liable for the tragedy. If they do not institute charges, ActionSA will approach the National Prosecuting Authority to possibly get Nolle Prosequi to launch a private prosecution.
- Launch civil action to ensure that the families of the three miners are compensated for the impact the tragedy has had on them for more than seven years.
Other issues the community raised to the President included the greater unemployment due to the closure of Lily Mine following the tragedy.
ActionSA also wants to remind President Ramaphosa on the Lily Mine matter that the Constitutional Court has already refused to grant Vantage Goldfield’s leave to appeal a ruling which determined that the adopted Business Rescue Plan and its amendments should be submitted to creditors for a decision. ActionSA believes that the business plan be urgently tabled to creditors for implementation.
Once the creditors are met and agree on the implementation, the Mine will be open; former mine workers will return to work.
In the end, for the affected Lily Mine families to find closure, the Mine must retrieve the bodies of Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule, and Yvonne Mnisi.
ActionSA, under the leadership of Herman Mashaba, wants to reiterate to the people of Mpumalanga that, as we approach the 2024 General elections, we pledge to all South Africans that our policies will champion these challenges nationwide, illustrating the transformative potential of an ActionSA-led government that can and will, fix South Africa.
Ramaphosa’s Prickly Welcome in Mpumalanga Reflects Public Discontent Over ANC’s Unfulfilled Promises
Mpumalanga residents have blocked the R573 Moloto road, east of Pretoria, where ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa was to use is a direct reflection of citizens’ discontent over the ANC’s 30 years of unfulfilled promises.
Ramaphosa was supposed to use the road to visit the AmaNdebele Kingdom as part of the ANC’s 112th birthday public engagements before this weekend’s January 8 Statement celebrations. The residents barricaded the road with burning tyres.
Chief among residents’ discontent is over the lack of service delivery and unresponsive ward councillors elected to advance their interests in the municipal council.
In Thembisile Hani Municipality, KwaNdebele, three decades of democracy has only seen increased inequality where empowerment has primarily benefited a small politically connected elite. The community has not been afforded essential services due to high levels of corruption and political patronage.
In 2021, the Municipality violated residents’ right of access to sufficient water as enshrined in section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (“Constitution”), according to the South African Human Rights Commission report.
Therefore, the community of Thembisile Hani has been taken for granted by the ANC-led government.
We can only fix South Africa if we fix essential service delivery and invest in critical infrastructure. ActionSA will place the service delivery needs of our residents at the centre of everything we do and ensure that municipal budgets respond to the pressing needs of residents.
Lily Mine communities
The community around Lily Mine blocked Cyril Ramaphosa and questioned him about the lack of progress in retrieving the bodies of Solomon Nyirende, Yvonne Mnisi and Pretty Nkambule, which Fikile Mbalula promised that Lily Mine would open soon and the remains recovered during May Day Rally of Cosutu in 2023.
The community demanded President Ramaphosa tell his Secretary-General to stop misleading the community by giving them false promises that the Mine would open in three months after May 2023.
As a party which values social justice, the Lily Mine victims’ families granted ActionSA Power of Attorney to pursue criminal civil litigation, and now ActionSA will use the Power of Attorney to achieve the following:
Other issues the community raised to the President included the greater unemployment due to the closure of Lily Mine following the tragedy.
ActionSA also wants to remind President Ramaphosa on the Lily Mine matter that the Constitutional Court has already refused to grant Vantage Goldfield’s leave to appeal a ruling which determined that the adopted Business Rescue Plan and its amendments should be submitted to creditors for a decision. ActionSA believes that the business plan be urgently tabled to creditors for implementation.
Once the creditors are met and agree on the implementation, the Mine will be open; former mine workers will return to work.
In the end, for the affected Lily Mine families to find closure, the Mine must retrieve the bodies of Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule, and Yvonne Mnisi.
ActionSA, under the leadership of Herman Mashaba, wants to reiterate to the people of Mpumalanga that, as we approach the 2024 General elections, we pledge to all South Africans that our policies will champion these challenges nationwide, illustrating the transformative potential of an ActionSA-led government that can and will, fix South Africa.