Makgaba endures 44 years of misery
Monday, September 27, 2010
Makgaba settlement is situated about 20 kilometres from Mokubilo Village. Residents say that they have to go to Mokubilo for services. Makgaba residents say they have been staying in that settlement for as long as they can remember. Some of them are pensioners who say that they were born there but to their astonishment, their settlement has not been gazetted as a village.
The residents complain that though they are more than 500 in population, they are not eligible for government services.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...