The establishment of the AlexInquiry follows the AlexTotalShutdown protests in April, where residents protested against the poor service delivery in the township and issues surrounding provision of housing.
Over a hundred community members of Alexandra township came out to East Bank Hall, Alexandra, on Monday to share their grievances about service delivery and the mushrooming of illegal structures with the South African Human Rights Commission.
The project was launched by the government in 2001, with the aim of changing infrastructure, the economy and the social environment of the township. The human rights commission and public protector inquiry on Monday started with Sandile Mavundla, the convener of the #AlexTotalShutdown movement, and its spokesperson, Bobby Solomons.
New homes, and who gets them, are also a contentious issue. Solomons said: “When government gives housing, the first people to get these houses are those living in hazardous areas. Bonafide residents who have Form-C’s from the 90’s don’t get houses.”Mavundla spent a great deal of time refuting claims that the #AlexTotalShutdown movement has any political affiliation, and that the protest was being used by parties to wage war against each other ahead of elections.
“The government must consider the people on the ground because they are the ones who know what’s going wrong in the township. The government gives money but it stops at the top with councillors and those others high up, it doesn’t reach the bottom.” Matu said.The terms of reference of the inquiry, according to the commission’s provincial manager Buang Jones, are that:
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