
#DEVELOPMENT…!
Lindiwe Matshiane
On 04 March 2024, which is Human Rights Month. The Mhluzi community went to Steve Tshwete municipality in Nkangala District, to inquire about the building erected next to the wetland.
This construction of the building is happening in Mpumalanga Province, under Steve Tshwete municipality in Mhluzi. This is next to a wetland, of which it was a sports ground before the new dispensation. This is happening under the Integrated Development Plan (IDP). It is not following public participation also environmental laws. The place was a sports ground where the youth could play, in so doing to keep them busy.
This also assisted in searching and developing their talent to avoid the youth being involved in DRUGS. Drugs cause a lot of bad challenges in the communities, which destroys the future. This is UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
The Steve Tshwete municipality closed the sports ground in 2019 and erected two-floor flats trying to address the shortage of houses. No proper channels were followed, and the Steve Tshwete municipality continued to use the SPLUMA of apartheid to divide and rule. UNDER DEVELOPMENT is more worse and building houses in wetlands will lead to those buildings collapsing. On 10 May 2024, which is the day the 1st president was inaugurated in 1994. We went to Steve Tshwete municipality to engage with them, so that they could stop this UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
Action is to involve human settlement, sport, and also the environment to push for real development not this UNDER DEVELOPMENT.
COMMUNITIES POWER…!!