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Potential job creation projects turn into white elephants

Thapelo Motseo

POLOKWANE – The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Limpopo has informed that it will write to the Public Protector to investigate the Motumo Trading Post, Seshego Industrial Park and the Afrika Market, that the party says have not yielded positive results 14 years after their initial construction.

According to the DA, the Motumo Trading Post facility has not seen any economic activity since its handover.

The DA says Capricorn District Municipality (CDM) put aside an additional R2.1 million to build a wall to secure the facility as part of the revitalization plan of the trading post and promised to enter into a public-private partnership to create hundreds of jobs but to date, the trading post remains a white elephant.

The party alluded that the Afrika Market building on Market Street in Polokwane has now become a notorious nyaope drug den.

Tiny Chidi, DA Councillor in Polokwane Local Municipality, lambasted that the municipality spent more than R10 million on the building and injected a further R1.9 million to upgrade it, with the promise to turn the facility into a state of the art for local artists.

Chidi reflected that in 2016, the Department of Trade and Industry and Compensation spent R21 million on the revitalization of Seshego Industrial Park and in 2018 and invested a further R30 million to erect a fence around the park.

“A recent oversight by the DA established that 15 of the 25 factories have broken windows and are not in use. The sewer system in the facility is defective and pipes have been dug open for repairs from work that has been abandoned since January 2024. The projects have all but collapsed and communities who once hoped for opportunities arising from these projects have now lost faith,” explained Chidi.

She worried that government spent more than R500 million of taxpayers’ money on the projects, which were meant to create job opportunities for the people of Capricorn district.

Attempts to get comment from CDM were not successful at the time of going to press.

Thapelo Motseo

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