“We are very sorry” - Indian community

The Thohoyandou Indian community has distanced itself from the statement made by one of their community members during the recent visit to Thohoyandou by the Minister of Communications, Ms Faith Muthambi.

According to the spokesperson for the Indian community in Thohoyandou, Mr Shueb Ahmed, one of the concerned residents of Thohoyandou, who is also a well-known businessman in the area, told the minister that the Thohoyandou Indian community was receiving poor treatment from Thulamela traffic officials.

According to Ahmed, the man who accused the traffic officials had some personal differences with the officials and not the Indian community, as he had said. “Instead of using the word 'I', the man said 'we' as if he were representing the Thohoyandou Indian community,” said Ahmed.

Ahmed also mentioned that from that day their relationship with the Thulamela traffic officials had turned sour.

“On behalf of the Thohoyandou Indian community, I wish to indicate that the man was not representing the Indian community, but himself,” he said. Ahmed further said that the Indian community had nothing to do with the differences between the man and the traffic officials. “I wish to apologise unconditionally for the harm which his utterances might have caused,” he concluded.

Date:15 August 2014

By: Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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