Empty promises of job creation and prawn farms
Solly Msimanga recently visited a site where Bosasa planned to establish a prawn farm. He questioned if this was the same prawn farm that Gauteng Premier David Makhuru promised in his State of the Province Address in 2015.
On 12 February, Solly Msimanga was officially sworn in as a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
“This is step towards achieving my dream of bringing about the real change that Gauteng residents are in desperate need of,” he said.
By taking his seat in the Legislature, Msimanga wants to hold the Premier of Gauteng, David Makhura, accountable for failed promises made over the past years.
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In 2015, during his State of the Province Address, Makhura made a promise to establish an aquaculture project for breeding prawns on the West Rand. This project would have created over 6 500 jobs.
Four years later, the project is only a distant memory.
Msimanga visited the Bosasa-linked company Bio-organics in Windsor Road, where another prawn farm was to be established. This project was originally a brainchild of the Bosasa Group, which has now been renamed to African Global Operations, and is alleged to have received the full support of the provincial government.
In the past few months, claims of corruption and bribery between Bosasa and top politicians have come to light. In a statement released by Msimanga, he alleges that it is not a coincidence that Makhura and Bosasa had both envisioned prawn farms on the West Rand and both had failed.
Msimanga said that he would be tabling questions in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature to establish if there is a link between the Bosasa prawn farm and Makhura’s prawn farm and if any funds had been allocated to this project.
According to Msimanga, another example of these empty promises was illustrated when they visited the Chamdor Industrial Park where a number of businesses had closed down due to lack of investment and no plan to revive the local economy.
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