Mhlanga Empowerment Initiative

This cannot continue.

Sizakuhlala sikhalela ukungahoywa kodwa sithule xa kufuneka sithethe. The municipal budget process begins here—these IDP engagements are not ceremonial; they exist to identify the real needs of communities so that public funds are allocated where they are actually required. The people who live the daily realities are supposed to shape those priorities.

Xa iWard 6 ingafakwanga kwezi engagements, it is not a small oversight—it is a direct exclusion. It means as the new financial year begins, our ward is effectively written out of development plans. Resources will be directed to areas that were consulted, while we are expected to accept neglect as if it were normal.

This is not incompetence. It is disregard. It is a pattern that undermines us and assumes we will remain passive.

That assumption is wrong.

We need to make it clear—firmly and unapologetically—that Ward 6 will not be sidelined. We have the voice, the numbers, and the resolve to challenge this. What they continue to treat as impossible can, and will, be changed.

Alfred Nzo District Municipality Business Forum (ANDMBF)
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local Municipality
Public Protector
Auditor General


Department of COGTA