Medupi delays: ‘It’s the bones underneath’
A traditional rights body claims that ancestors are delaying the construction of the Medupi power plant.
LIMPOPO – A traditional rights body claims that ancestors are delaying the construction of the Medupi power plant.
“How come this Medupi never comes together?” Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Commission chairman Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva said at the release of a report on the re-use of graves by local governments.
“It’s the bones underneath and in the vicinity. Some of the graves there were destroyed,” News24 quoted her as saying. “The belief systems of some people will tell you this Medupi dream of yours will never happen.”
“For this to happen 21 years into democracy, for the ANC not to value the dead people, it tells you we are in a crisis. It tells us our values are not respected by those in power,” she reportedly said.
Construction began on the Limpopo power plant in 2007, and has suffered from repeated delays and strikes by contractors ever since. It has been claimed the R145-billion plant has been built on the graves of at least 14 families in Limpopo.
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via Citizen
