“I have voted all my life, but not now. I am tired of all the stealing of public money while we suffer.” LGE2021
This was the view of 85-year-old Granny Selebano from Bochabela township outside Bloemfontein, Free State, where many were going about their personal business on Monday morning and were not interested in the local government elections. One common feature during apartheid and the democratic dispensation is the street has been a dirt road for 50 years.“What you see is nothing. Come here when it is raining and you cannot move at all,” she said.
“Until this day the struggle is the same. Those with cars have to park them elsewhere when it has rained. Ours is a lifetime cry for a tarred road.” Community disgruntlement has nothing to do with the political and legal woes of suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, the former provincial strongman who controlled the affairs of the province for more than two decades.
At the centre of community grievances was poor service delivery, which saw people stay away from voting stations.
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