Twala calls for divine intervention in Alexandra
ALEXANDRA – Maybe we should just call for a community prayer gathering to exorcise this horrible ghost, Twala suggested.
Alex’s foremost philanthropist and community leader, Linda Twala is pinning his hopes on prayers to resolve the problems bedevilling the community.
He believes the township is seriously cursed and in need of some divine intervention for its healing.
Twala (77) believes there is nothing worthwhile to build in the township without it being razed or vandalised, or even being stopped in its tracks by those opposed to the transformation of the squalid life that people live under in today’s Alexandra.
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“I want to believe there are people in this township whose sole business is to watch and wreck whatever development projects are being done, planned and implemented to improve the life of the ordinary people of this iconic township.
“There is nothing that you can touch with the aim of giving it a midas touch and it succeeds. I have done numerous projects in this township and just when we’re on the verge of planting the seeds of success, some spooks just throw a spanner in the works to wreck the whole project,” Twala said.
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The philanthropist is the grandson of the first man to buy a plot and settle in the township. His grandfather, John Hey KaNxele Mbanjwa used to work for farm owner Herbert Papenfuss, the man who sold plots on his farm to blacks and named the township after his wife. Twala said he would not rest until people of this township overcame their ‘pull them down’ syndrome.
“It’s this syndrome that takes us back all the time you create something beautiful for Alexandra and the next day it’s vandalised. I was building crèches’ in Alex for our children soon after apartheid-era minister Piet G J Koornhof announced that Alexandra was not moving anymore. I would build today and tomorrow that work has been reduced to nought.
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“Lately, I embarked on building houses for people with Habitat for Humanity and that project too was destroyed. If that hadn’t been destroyed, there would be no person in Alexandra living in a shack. I tried to rebuild the Entokozweni centre and some people threw a spanner in the works and it never took off.
“What is it that you can do for Alexandra unless the community prays for this demon afflicting them to be exorcised? Nowadays, I am providing food relief and some people that own ‘wards’ want to stop me.
“If I can start telling you about the projects I have done in this township, you have to be with me for days. Maybe we should just call for a community prayer gathering to exorcise this horrible ghost.”
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Twala said he was now involved with NPO South Africa Day to beautify Alex under the We Love Alex Makeover Project but there were already some ‘hyenas waiting in the wings to pounce on the carcass’.
