Newsletter| Financial scandals at the now-defunct VBS Mutual Bank, long-standing tribal issues, and unrest in Vuwani and Modimolle-Mookgophong local municipality are matters confronting potential voters in Limpopo
Until now Limpopo has been regarded as the home of the ANC.
Vuwani has remained volatile since residents first went on the rampage in 2016, demanding the demarcation board reverse its decision to incorporate the area into the nearby Collins Chabane municipality in Malamulele. There is no visible excitement about next month’s polls. Party election posters have been torn down, allegedly by the pro-Makhado group.
In Vyeboom village, next to the town of Vuwani, we meet *Sam Mukondeli , who said the pro-Makhado group had not given the community any proper explanation about why they should not vote. “I want to vote for the president so that the issue of demarcation can be resolved. We are not voting for the local municipality,” he said.
As a result, in some areas they registered only 40 voters. The IEC said there were three areas where not a single person registered to vote.Voting stations in Vuwani featured high on the list of 650 hot spots countrywide during the municipal elections in 2016.“They would always say please go and talk to the task team. Schools can’t be controlled by some task team.
“The community felt that since we are not participating in this election we will just have to keep our churches and schools closed.”“They are not welcome. Our wish is that they don’t even have to pitch here during election day.” Communities there were enraged because they said the government had failed to fulfil promises made last time around.
Thirty-four political parties are contesting in the Limpopo province compared with 20 parties which contested in the last election.About 40km from Vuwani lies Thohoyandou in the Thulamela municipality where VBS had most clients. One of the clients, who referred to herself only as Mummy, said she invested R500 000 with the bank but got out only R100 000.“The ANC is our organisation. It is the organisation of Nelson Mandela. What if we vote for other sharks and they come and steal our money?”“We feel let down by the ANC. Up until today those who have stolen our money have not been arrested,” the client said.
“The curator with the Reserve Bank wanted to appoint the same curator who was doing curatorship in the bank. We disagreed with them. He can’t be a referee and a player. We say he can’t be a curator and a liquidator,” Mulaudzi said.The Prudential Regulation Authority was said to favour Anoosh Rooplal, who led the VBS curatorship to be appointed as a liquidator.
The youth league in the province was the first to call for action against ANC leaders implicated in the VBS scandal.y cast their votes.Tribalism fear It had been governed by coalition governments since the ANC failed to get 50% in the municipal elections in 2016.The municipality’s financial woes were compounded by the fact that when Modimolle and Mookgophong municipalities were amalgamated after municipal elections, some positions were duplicated.
“The two former municipalities each had a full staff complement and they were just amalgamated to one municipality. We are not allowed to retrench anybody. No salaries were decreased. We were double parked in nearly all our positions,” she said.
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