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30 August 2013
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March and burn the march. “No case has been opened as yet regarding the looting. However, police have arrested two suspects for being in posession of items suspected to have been looted. But we cannot link this case to the march since they were arrested after the march had ended,” he said. One of the demands raised in the memorandum that the secretary of the Malamulele Task Team on Boundaries, Dr Jan Nkuna, read out, was that “Malamulele should be given
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the status of being a municipality by 2014,” and that, this should be finalised this year. “We want this issue to be finalised before the end of September this year,” he said, adding that it has been a long time that they have been waiting for the matter to be resolved and that they were now tired and demanded action. Poor service delivery in their area is a major problem. The residents allege that Thulamela municipality was too big, and does not cater for their needs. “Our roads are very poor, and
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Malamulele residents (Giyani area) have given the Thulamela municipality a taste of what to expect if their demand of having their own municipality was not met. In a mass march on Monday to their local police station to hand over a memorandum of their thirteen year-old grievance to be given their own municipality, the residents stoned cars and looted shops along the way, despite the presence of the police. Thousands of people around Malamulele came out in numbers to attend the march, resulting in it reaching an uncontrollable stage where protesters smashed and looted anything along their way. A truck that happened to be on the scene had all its windows smashed as its driver pulled out of the vehicle by an emotional crowd. The spokesperson for the Malamulele police said no arrests have been made in connection with the looting or damage to property during
the light masts in our streets are not serviced. Malamulele is said to have 107 villages with an estimated population of above half a million, which is said to be more than enough to justify an independent municipality. In the mean time, Michael Sakuneka reports that about six hundred disgruntled residents of Ward 2 in the Greater Tzaneen Municipality’s jurisdiction have left the ANC and joined Cope. They say that the GTM has failed to provide basic services such as water, electricity en better roads. They claim that they have been asking for better services since 1994. According to Cope’s Mopani regional secretary, Mr Aubrey Sekhula, “residents in various villages in the ward, like Mawa Block 8, 9 & 12 approached us to join our party”. — Orlando Chauke
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