DEAR Editor,-
Mr Simon Soboyisa, it worries us as the people who had been disadvantaged for years with resources and always being misinformed by previous regimes, but you misinform the people in the name of the democratic government by using your status and government resources wrongly.
Your letter commenting on the ward 25 community march leaves a lot of questions, especially to the people who were part of the organisation and those who took part. We all know that you had capitalised on the untimely passing away of Tata Madiba to quickly arrange the Gamalakhe memorial service as a counter to the march that was to take place, and since we were all touched by Nelson Mandela’s death, we postponed the march. You know the truth.
Towards January 28th, you used all the tactics, including threatening some employees in the municipality that their jobs would not be secure if they did not discourage the people from taking part in the march, and you further, through municipal resource networks with others in your smear campaign, of which we all not yet know why you are doing this.
We humbly request you to excuse yourself in the battle of being against the people, because for so long we were thinking it was a racial matter when this was raised by most oppositions, but now we all see where the problem is.
Your counting of the participants was totally wrong, but we know that you were expecting people who were forced to participate, but actually it was only the committed and principled people in attendance, because the majority were thinking of their stomachs after your threats, which spread through the whole ward.
Please change your behaviour, as you are dealing with human beings. In the job you are ‘deployed in’ as your brother, who is your reference in the struggle for the betterment of communities? Living in a glass house means not throwing stones at the outsiders.
SIFISO MAVUNDLA
