Tunatazama - Community Monitors

No more flowing rivers

Community Alerts/ Selowa Moshabi/Limpopo/30 April  2017

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In Limpopo Sekhukhune district Fetakgomo/Tubatse municipality is the place where l live. This river during the 80’s was flowing nicely, and supplying the whole of Monametse village. Mine developed shafts in 2002 and began to operate which resulted in poor water flow. The last picture shows the place called Masenkaneng where Christians help themselves by water together  with the general community members from the mountain to collect wood, drinking the water being nice and its natural source operate regularly.

 

The river now does not flow as we speak. The river start on top the operation also weakened by now, its alleged that the mine has its shaft of middle punt.

This river was flowing powerfully and our livestock drunk and a place where they slept. The place called Motaganeng even the mountain schools boys and girls practice their first stage. Livestock’s grazing land is on top of the mountain behind