Pro Makhado Demarcation Team object to municipality

A group of people, calling themselves the Pro Makhado Demarcation Team, representing 87 villages, presented a formal objection to the National Demarcation Board, explaining why they do not want to fall under the jurisdiction of the newly proposed municipality. The proposed new municipality will merge parts of the Vuwani area with the troublesome Malamulele area

The event took place in Pretoria last Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the group, Mr Arnold Mulaudzi, said they were not begging the National Demarcation Board, but it was their mission is to tell the board to stop pushing them to where they did not want to be. “We are in a democratic country and cannot allow anyone to dictate to us. We hired five buses to transport approximately 500 local civic leaders, clerics, committees from different churches and businesspeople to meet the chairperson of the Board, Ms Jane Thupana. We told her that we don't want to be part of the proposed new municipality," he said.

Mulaudzi questioned the economic viability of the new municipality, "so Thupana should leave us alone. We have bundles and bundles of documents to oppose Thupana’s idea." He added that they had also sent a petition to Premier Stan Mathabatha.

Fourteen villages loyal to the Masia Tribal Authority say they could not stand aloof "from our leader and they will fight until the last bullet. When those strangers come back again, they will find us ready for a bloody war,” they said.

The spokesperson for the Masia Tribal Authority, Chief Livhuwani Nkhiphitheni Mastsila, said they would remain in the jurisdiction of Makhado and they could not allow anyone to push them to where they did not like to be. Matsila said they were not against the newly proposed municipality, and the demarcation board might grant it to those who needed it.

Date:13 August 2015

By: Kaizer Nengovhela

Kaizer Nengovhela started writing stories for Limpopo Mirror in 2000. Prior to that he had a five year stint at Phala-Phala FM as sports presenter. In 2005 Kaizer received an award from the province's premier as Best Sports Presenter. The same year he was also nominated as Best Sports Reporter by the Makhado Municipality. Kaizer was awarded the Mathatha Tsedu award in 2014.

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