The community needs the mining company to create job opportunities

Happiness Koma

Magobading village is located in the middle of Gadi, Twickenham Mine, Chromex, and Magakala village, The community has been complaining about the deterioration of the roads. It is a village where people do not care about their environment because they cannot see what they are doing as wrong. After a meeting with the representatives of the Royal Twickenham Mine, we found out that people were living in the Mine houses. The people in the houses are
always lucky.

We are citizens of the same country but the mine does not treat us the same, locating houses only to themselves. When the Mine representatives came to the village we chased them away. We are sick and tired of their lies, we are not children, or someone they will ask you about, we are chief custodians of the soil or land. Some of us are unable to find jobs because of the injuries we have suffered from passing in the unattended trenches by the mine. This creates sleepless nights because the mine divides the village of Magobading.

We want to be a unit and unite. Last month there was an internship at the hospital in Moroke and they said to the community that they were learning how to make tea, some of them were at Ultimate at Ga Phasha they were also learning how to clean and cook. In cleaning the roads of Magobading village, the mine is not assisting within the community. Our streets are dirty; they don’t collect waste or do anything in the community. What makes us happy is that the roads are sometimes clean because some community members work for a week to clean the main road. They volunteer to clean the road, you can also find them in the houses helping families who need help, and they create jobs on their own. Dongas are full of disposable nappies and boxes and you will find three or two men on the road guarding for polluters in the area.