An open letter to Vaal residents
Why is Vereeniging and Vanderbijilpark today still looking like ghost towns as if they were attacked by the cowboys?
Dear residents of the Vaal,
I write this open letter to you not as a master but as a product of the Vaal, I write this letter as a resident of the Vaal, born, grew, struggled and continue to struggle in this region with a rich political history and still has got nothing to show.
Politics aside fellow Vaalies, Vaal remains a ghost region poor and under developed. The little we used to pride ourselves with is gone, everything varnished before our eyes.
Let us ask ourselves the following questions honestly:
Why is Evaton/ Small Farms still this way?
Why are the old townships like Sharpeville, Boipatong, Bophelong,Sebokeng and many others still without proper roads, why are we subjected to dust?
Why is Vereeniging and Vanderbijilpark today still looking like ghost towns as if they were attacked by the cowboys like in the old movies?
Why are young people of the Vaal unemployed in their numbers despite Vaal hosting Arcelor Mittal, Cape Gate and many other big companies?
What happened with the Kwa- Masiza Project, where is the money, who put his hand in the cookie jar?
Residents of the Vaal, indeed we have the right to vote like many other South Africans do, we have freedom to associate with or join any political party we so wish and indeed everyone’s right to vote for a political party of his or her choice must be respected. The time for political black mail has long expired.
(This is a shortened version of a letter from Patrick Sindane, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Head of Organizing and Mobilization. Sindane, who is from the Vaal, is also an EFF member of Parliament. A full version of this letter will appear in Sedibeng Ster newspaper next week.)
