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The infamous R25 road in Moutse that was awarded to a contractor has now resulted in a serious problem in the community that has to utilize the road, is up in arms.
The contractor that was appointed by Public Works in a tender to construct the road in terms of certain criteria’s, abandoned the contract in December of 2014, with the work being incomplete which has resulted in many accidents including lose of life in the same road, and caused serious safety concerns of the residents around it.
Even the local Taxi Association has been suffering due to the fact that the road is not only inaccessible but lacks safety standards to such an extent that it is more than likely to be involved in an accident due to the inferior quality of the road, than having a safe journey.
Having reached the limits of their patience this morning, the residents around the road decided to burn tyres and close the road off with rocks and other materials at hand, blocking access and or use of the road in total.
The Mpumalanga Party has in this instance communicated with the MEC of Transport/Public Works in the Limpopo Province, but needless to say, he failing in his mandate to attend to the anomalies raised which has now as a consequence created another “Malumelela” where access to and from the town has been blocked off for the past 2 weeks.
The question that needs to be asked is whether the MEC has any shame in the way that he handles his portfolio in the province, as it seems that he is only there for the very overly inflated salary package that he receives rather than to attend to problems that arise in the portfolio that he had been mandated to act in with due diligence and devotion.
One also need to wonder why it is that the communities that are experiencing these kind of problems, have to go to the extreme to attract attention in the matter, and all of this not being necessary if only the responsible official in province would act to take the necessary ameliorated remedial action to address the issues raised and instruct that the problem be attended to as a matter of urgency.
The community now demands that unless the MEC addresses their grievances as a matter of urgency, personally to them, that the road would remain closed and inaccessible.
"If that does not happen, we will start again tomorrow about a march and then escalate the protest to ensure nothing goes into or out of Moutse"
The area came to a standstill with public barred visiting Mall businesses closed as residents took to the streets to demand MEC to come down to Moutse.
Protesters forced shops in the local mall to close.
They blamed the Limpopo Administration especially MEC Road and Transport and MEC Public Works.
