Peaceful march held by Musina residents
Residents of Musina raised their concerns about service delivery in their area during a peaceful march that was held last Wednesday.
LIMPOPO – They also presented a memorandum to a representative of the Musina Municipality at the Nancefield office.
The memorandum was handed over by the residents’ leader, Mr Thomas Ndou. In the memorandum, residents demand the “immediate scrapping of all our debts, normalisation of water and electricity bills,” and they also demand the creation of jobs.He said that the municipality owed the Eskom more than 72 Million and they overcharge them to pay they their debts.
He said that the mayor had to see how the matter could be resolved before the community acted. “We are tired of the empty promises from the Musina Municipality. We need our people to get services like other villages under the municipality, where the residents are not paying for water and electricity,” he said.
Ndou added that they believed that their demands should be addressed “in order to avoid rolling protest marches, until our demands are taken seriously.”
He threatened that if the municipality did not commit itself, it “will face the full might of all residents”.
A resident, who wants to remain anonymous, also alleges that they are unable to access RDP houses in the townships because they are being occupied by foreign nationals.
The spokesperson of the Musina Municipality, Mr Wilson Dzebu, said that they had received the memorandum and would respond in seven working days.
