Stakeholder Engagements
The MEC for the Limpopo Department of Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure Honourable Namane Dickson Masemola addressing a community engagement event that took place in November 2020 at Ga-Mashabela Community Hall, in the village of Ga-Mashabela.
MALEKA GA SE MAKGONA GA-MASHABELA AND MADIFAHLANE STALLED PROJECT RESUMES
pon assuming office in March 2020, the MEC for the Limpopo Department of Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure (LDPWRI), Honourable Namane Dickson Masemola emphasised the urgent need to resolve outstanding stalled roads related projects or those contested due to stand-offs and dissatisfactions among stakeholder communities. In November 2020, MEC Masemola paid a courtesy visit to one of those affected communities to announce the resumption of a stalled road project for the upgrading, from gravel to bituminous (tarred) surface, of several roads within the of jurisdiction of the Roka Mashabela Traditional Authority in Ga-Mashabela and Magadimane Ntweng Traditional Authority in Madifahlane. Both Ga-Mashabela and Madifahlane villages are within the Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo Province. According to Gabriel Maluleke, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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Mmileng Issue 4 of 2020
for Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL), project RAL/ T866/2016 (contract number) entails upgrading, from gravel to tarred surface, the 19.7 kilometres stretch of road that connects various villages in Ga-Mashabela and Madifahlane. The project, whose contract was first awarded in September 2016 as a 19.7km upgrade project for portions of roads D4182 (10.2km), D4180 (5.87km), D4220 (0.83km) and D4185 (2.81km), was cut short with 57% physical progress due to local Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises’ (SMMEs) and labourers’ dissatisfaction with the previous contractor regarding constant issues of late payment and at worst nonpayment of wages. “The project started in 2016 and was projected to be completed on a (original) two-year period but it
