Seshego Ext 133 plans to boycott funerals this weekend
The community here say since moving to the area in 2018, their households still don’t have water or electricity.
POLOKWANE – The community of extension 133 in Seshego plans to block the area’s cemetery entrance from being used for burials on Saturday from 08:00.
A poster currently circulating on social media is lobbying support from locals for their cause.
Those who spoke to Review said this effort was their latest resort in several attempts to get attention from the local municipality to deliver services in a satisfactory manner.
The members of around 2 000 households were allocated to their Reconstruction Development Programme (RDP) houses in 2018 and has since then, had to rely on the delivery of water through truck tankers. They still do not have electricity, the organiser of the protest, Beefie Nkoana said.
Nkoana mentioned that a lack of especially electricity is an invitation for criminals to commit offences in the area.
Two years ago, a 12-year-old girl was raped at night and another fell into a pit toilet.
“We can’t even experience loadshedding because we don’t even have electricity. We rely on containers of water and the trucks only visit the area intermittently,” he said.
During a meeting with municipal officials and Nkoana as a representative on September 14, the Polokwane Municipality committed to include the area in the supply of water through the Seshego Water Treatment plant that is to increase capacity by 10mega litres per day before November, Nkoana said.
“They started with electricity projects in 2022 but these were terminated. Yet the municipality bills us for electricity and water every month.”
Comment could not immediately be sourced from the municipality.
Meanwhile, Mayor John Mpe and a member of the mayoral committee for water, Alfred Moakamedi visited the plant near zone 4 yesterday to monitor progress which they said was satisfactory at over 95% completion.
Residents still feel they had been let down after the municipality postponed the commissioning period from November, as was said by the mayor during a meeting at the Ngoako Ramahlodi sports complex last year.
