THE ANC IN MPUMALANGA IS SO DIVIDED IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY AND IS FAILING INDEED

THE ANC IN MPUMALANGA IS SO DIVIDED IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY AND IS FAILING INDEED

By BRIAN KAJENGO

COPE is like a watch dog on the bond melting down within the Bohlabela region which leads to the unannounced faction.

COPE in Mpumalanga has discovered with shock that the African National Congress (ANC) is so divided in the province so much that this is just not a joke and it is failing indeed.

Leaders of COPE in the province have noticed a huge number of protesters wearing ANC T-shirts blockading the R40 road between Acornhoek and Bushbuckridge today and claiming that they were fighting against the ANC led Bushbuckridge municipality for water as well as electricity.

Motorists suffered big-time as logs, burning tyres and rocks were used by these ANC members who are by now used to fighting against some of their own to block the main road.

The chairman of COPE in Ehlanzeni, Comrade Albert Khoza was one of the leaders who witnessed the scenario and had this to say.

“It was just obvious that these people were members of the ANC because they were wearing the party’s regalia including the red berets with the ANC Logo. They blocked the road and complained that the same ANC has failed to deliver water in a number of villages including Relani.” Albert Khoza said.

“This should be a big embarrassment to the ruling party especially that it is happening at the time when South Africa is about to go to the National Elections, not just elections, but the fifth democratic elections. Oh! What an irony,” added Khoza.

He said another group of people was engaged in a protest to demand the continuity of the mall that was started in Greevalley near Acornhoek a while ago but that which the high court ordered not to be erected further due to some shenanigans related to land issues in the Bushbuckridge municipality.

COPE in Mpumalanga is speaking about a municipality that has always earned itself the tittles of being corrupt and controversial in its own right.

This is the municipality that was supposed to excel in service delivery because it falls within an area that has once been declared a presidential nodal area by then president of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, based on the fact that it controls villages which are considered to be deep rural and therefore needing urgent attention.

COPE says with the current ANC leadership in the province under Premier David Mabuza there will be no solution to the chaos in Bushbuckridge.