AS Sowetan correctly points out in "Zuma lied to us" on November 27, upliftment of Muyexe village near Giyani in Limpopo is a priority rural development project.
It falls under the umbrella of 23 distressed districts earmarked for special attention, as does Nkandla. It is in these districts that we find the poorest of the poor.
But did your reporters actually visit Muyexe, and if so, how did they miss so much of the positive developments that are taking place there?
How could they fail to notice the new community hall and the computer laboratory? How could they fail to mention the upgraded school buildings, the new houses and the early childhood development centre?
How did they overlook the renovations to the Manganyi water reservoir, now providing water suitable for human consumption? Did they see the drinking troughs built for the livestock, the two new community boreholes, and the purification plant built to cleanse the borehole water?
Did they see the new fences surrounding the arable and grazing land, and the 300 household gardens nurtured with the help of the Department of Agriculture?
Did they perhaps notice the construction work on a full scale clinic, a sports stadium and the paving of 8km of road? It doesn't seem so.
Perhaps they were even too busy to notice the satellite police station and the new post office building; too busy to tell you that the Department of Water Affairs is busy building a water pipe from the Nandoni Dam to the Nsami Dam, from where water is to be piped to Muyexe.
Maybe they were too busy to ask about the 17km buffer zone fencing which protects villagers and their livestock from attacks by wild animals from the nearby Kruger National Park.
You refer to a report highlighting fraudulent activity by an individual "consultant" relating to Old Mutual and a loan to the Macena Women's Garden Project, omitting to mention that in testimony before Parliament's Select Committee, it was clearly stated that the resultant losses were for their (Old Mutual) account alone, and would have no impact on either the women or their garden project.
It's true that in Muyexe, as in the other 23 'distressed' districts there's still a lot of work to be done to reverse the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Act. But to suggest, as your article does, that nothing is being done there, is dishonest, disingenuous, and an insult to the people involved.
Mtobeli Mxotwa
Spokesman of the minister, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
This letter was first published in the printed newspaper on 28/11/2012
'Muyexe is being developed'
AS Sowetan correctly points out in "Zuma lied to us" on November 27, upliftment of Muyexe village near Giyani in Limpopo is a priority rural development project.
It falls under the umbrella of 23 distressed districts earmarked for special attention, as does Nkandla. It is in these districts that we find the poorest of the poor.
But did your reporters actually visit Muyexe, and if so, how did they miss so much of the positive developments that are taking place there?
How could they fail to notice the new community hall and the computer laboratory? How could they fail to mention the upgraded school buildings, the new houses and the early childhood development centre?
How did they overlook the renovations to the Manganyi water reservoir, now providing water suitable for human consumption? Did they see the drinking troughs built for the livestock, the two new community boreholes, and the purification plant built to cleanse the borehole water?
Did they see the new fences surrounding the arable and grazing land, and the 300 household gardens nurtured with the help of the Department of Agriculture?
Did they perhaps notice the construction work on a full scale clinic, a sports stadium and the paving of 8km of road? It doesn't seem so.
Perhaps they were even too busy to notice the satellite police station and the new post office building; too busy to tell you that the Department of Water Affairs is busy building a water pipe from the Nandoni Dam to the Nsami Dam, from where water is to be piped to Muyexe.
Maybe they were too busy to ask about the 17km buffer zone fencing which protects villagers and their livestock from attacks by wild animals from the nearby Kruger National Park.
You refer to a report highlighting fraudulent activity by an individual "consultant" relating to Old Mutual and a loan to the Macena Women's Garden Project, omitting to mention that in testimony before Parliament's Select Committee, it was clearly stated that the resultant losses were for their (Old Mutual) account alone, and would have no impact on either the women or their garden project.
It's true that in Muyexe, as in the other 23 'distressed' districts there's still a lot of work to be done to reverse the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Act. But to suggest, as your article does, that nothing is being done there, is dishonest, disingenuous, and an insult to the people involved.
Mtobeli Mxotwa
Spokesman of the minister, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
This letter was first published in the printed newspaper on 28/11/2012
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