Villagers demand better roads
GTM mayor, Cllr Ralepane Mamekoa addressed the residents and promised that he would engage with the Road Agency Limpopo (RAL) to find out about the progress of the Ga-Riba road. "I will visit your village along with RAL management to reveal when the construction of the road will start," Mamekoa promised.
BURGERSFORT – Angry residents from Ga-Riba protested at Greater Tubatse Municipality (GTM) on Wednesday
March 16 demanding a better road be erected in their village.
The residents said they had been promised a road by the Limpopo government years ago. “We are struggling without a tarred road. No one wants to come to our area, we lack basic services. The worst is that our cars are damaged by the gravel road,” said one of the protesters.
GTM mayor, Cllr Ralepane Mamekoa addressed the residents and promised that he would engage with the Road Agency Limpopo (RAL) to find out about the progress of the Ga-Riba road. “I will visit your village along with RAL management to reveal when the construction of the road will start,” Mamekoa promised.
On the day, Mamekoa said the visit to the village would be around March 17 to 20. According to one of the residents, on Tuesday March 22 the mayor had not yet visited the village. “We were told that he had rescheduled and would come to address the community on March 24. If he does not come, we will be left with no choice but to stage a massive protest to GTM,” they threatened. The residents claimed they were told by the RAL’s representatives that the money for the tarred road had been released in the 2015/16 financial year. “We suspect that the money for Ga-Riba might have been shifted to other projects or misused by the ruling party’s big wigs,” they said.
