Residents march against cadre deployment
Community members irate with local councilor.
HLAMLANI – On Tuesday angry residents of this village near Bushbuckridge, took to the streets in their fight against a local councilor who they accuse of cadre deployment in the employment of workers in a water project in the area.
“The councilor even had the guts to publicly announce that if a person was not a member of the ANC, that person would never be employed at the water project. That is what we are against because a person has a freedom of choice even when it comes to joining political parties,” said COPE’s Mpumalanga Youth secretary, Abigail Mapaila.
Members of the community in this village blockaded the road leading to the house of the councilor in question, while armed with a memorandum in which they demanded that the councilor be removed because she failed to act according to her mandate as a councilor, but discriminated against possible employees just because they were not ANC members.
“As COPE in Mpumalanga, we support the community of Hlamalani for their fight against nepotism. Mpumalanga is for the people of the province and all who live in it. No one qualifies to be discriminated against and political affiliation should not be the basis on which people are employed,” said Mr Sizile Ndlovu, COPE provincial secretary.
