Sanral stayed outside when Mbizana Mayor was questioned over N2 Toll Road in Sigidi village.
At a meeting in Sigidi village today 4 March, the Mbizana Mayor Ms Daniswa Mafumbatha agreed to a resolution that Sanral’s CEO Mr Skhumbuzo Macozoma must come to our Komkhulu in Xolobeni to discuss the N2 Wild Coast Toll Road.
The Mdatya village was first called to a ‘Mayor’s imbizo’ at 8.00AM in the morning, without any notice of Sanral attending. People decided that work in the gardens was more important. Nobody came. The Mayor and her seven Sanral guests left for Sigidi village.
The meeting in Sigidi started at 10.00AM in a packed school house. The meeting rejected attendance register and official filming of meeting, as this is always used against the community in the courts.
After prayer and presentation of Sanral’s delegation, the community told them to wait outside. They left. We did not vote for Sanral. People wanted to talk to their Mayor about N2.
We asked if the Mayor is aware that Mdatya and Sigidi villages have a court case against Sanral, if she knows where the N2 through our villages is planned and that CEO Macozoma was at Komkhulu in April 2017 and know that we demand the N2 to be moved from the coast. {Watch ‘Ihlazo’ on YouTube].
Mr Macozoma promised to report back from the government to us. We are still waiting. What are then now the consultants doing here with the Mayor?
We asked her if she knows how many homesteads that are affected and would be relocated. We asked how she can sit at Wild Coast Sun with Sanral and approve of all this without talking to the affected community and without knowing all this.
She asked us not to go to court. We told her that this already is in court. This is the only way to make the ruling party listen.
We asked how she can expect us to vote for the governing party, which decides everything without asking and don’t know what participatory democracy means.
Sanral’s staff and consultant were invited back in from their cars after two hours. The resolution was explained to them. They were asked to leave. They left without opening their mouths.
Mdatya and Sigidi villages demand that the N2 Wild Coast Toll Road is moved from the coast to the inland. A judgment is still pending about review of the whole Environmental Authorisation of the N2 Toll Road.
