Magagamatala Village still has no clinic or school

MAGAGAMATALA – The Bolsheviks Party of South Africa (BPSA) has expressed shock over the conditions that the people of Magagamatala Village outside Groblersdal are still subjected to 30 years into democracy.

The BPSA informed the just over 500 households’ settlement has no clinic and is only dependent on a mobile one which shows up once a month, leaving patients with having to travel a trip that cost about R80 to Groblersdal to access healthcare.

Seun Mogotji, BPSA leader, called on the Limpopo Department of Health to address the issue of lack of health facilities in the area. “This community needs a clinic and if the department can’t afford one, then the mobile clinic must go to Magagamatala every day, not once a month as is the case now. R80 may not seem much but for a community that relies on farm work, it is a lot. Farmers are paying them meager salaries, so that R80 can mean life or death for this community,” stressed Mogotji.

He indicated that the other problem in the area is that there are no schools. “Children are being ferried by three buses to a makeshift structure every school day. The school is an old shabby building which was provided by a farmer. The Limpopo Department of Education is aware of the bad state of the school but it is not providing mobile classes as they wait for budget to build a proper school. This cannot be right. The community of Magagamatala needs a school and government has to provide them with one, no excuses,” lambasted Mogotji.

He said walking on the streets during BPSA’s door-to-door campaign in the area on Saturday, 4 May, he could clearly see on the residents’ faces that all is not well in village that a government led by black people has forsaken.