COPE Vice President teamed up Mpumalanga leadership to campaign

COPE Vice President teamed up Mpumalanga leadership to campaign

By BRIAN KAJENGO

COPE’s deputy president, Comrade Willy Madisha and the party’s Mpumalanga Treasurer, Comrade Mathews Masilela, are expected to meet with chiefs in the Nkangala District of Mpumalanga on Thursday 17April 2014.

This is a follow-up meeting to one that the province’s COPE Premier candidate, Comrade Sizile Ndlovu, had with the chiefs last week.

Ndlovu promised the chiefs that he would bring the national leadership to them so that they would again divulge their challenges that they had explained to him.

The challenges include that their area was seriously being neglected by the provincial government.

“It is as if the province of Mpumalanga is only in the Lowveld and ends at Waterval Boven as the provincial government seems to have forgotten us in the Highveld,” one of the chiefs told Ndlovu in the previous meeting.

Meanwhile Comrade Ndlovu will take the elections campaign to Witbank on Thursday 17 April 2014.

The two visits come shortly after Comrade Madisha and COPE’s head of elections Comrade Dennis Bloem visited a few areas in Bushbuckridge on Tuesday.

COPE took the two national leaders to Goromani, Madras. Marongwana before Madisha had a one on one radio interview with Promise Moripe of Bushbuckridge community radio station about the visit.

“COPE discovered a number of poverty stricken members of the community an example of which was a family of nine which survives on an old lady’s pension grant,” said Hlatshwayo.

Madisha ordered the provincial leaders of COPE to make sure that social worker were sent to the family for an urgent assessment that would have to result into assistance for the family.