GATVOL VILLAGERS SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS! By Oris Mnisi Gatvol residents.
GATVOL residents of Mathibela in Alexandria and Oakley, near Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga, have shut down six schools for two weeks, demanding better service delivery.
They carried placards demanding running water, high mast lights, a police station, a bridge, a clinic, for the road connecting Marite and Tekamahala villages to be tarred off, and the upgrading of the donga access streets into the village.
Protest leader Solomon Maile told the SunTeam the Bushbuckridge Municipality had been sending them from pillar to post over water, a bridge and the tarring of the road.