Fix our gravel roads or we won't vote, community tells mayor
26 March 2019
Fix our gravel roads or we won't vote, a resident of Magwala Village told Mayor Jongumzi Cengani of the Intsika Yethu Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape at a public meeting last week.
Magwala villagers say their roads have not been fixed for 19 years. To add to their frustration, the stones and gravel used to fix the roads of the surrounding villages are excavated from their village, GroundUp reported.
Magwala is near Cofimvaba and it has three main gravel roads.
"We are just three kilometres away [from town]… Driving to town from home should be less than 10 minutes, but we take 30 minutes because the road is very bad," Lonwabo Gagela said at the meeting.