DA coucillor Dave Dewes’ 27-hours-project received a surprise but welcome jolt.
With the project Dewes is asking each member of the community for 27 hours of their time and expertise to promote the ubuntu principle. The number of hours is derived from one year for every year that Nelson Mandela spent in prison.
The first project will focus on the Roodepoort Rugby Club Informal Settlement and is scheduled to take place on 12 April.
On the day Dewes want to show that the community can, if they work together, get more done than when they rely on government for services.
Two companies who caught wind of the project, Mantle Brothers and Twin M Plant Hire, has donated the use of a grader and TLB (Tractor-Loader-Backhoe) for the whole day on 9 April.
“This completely blew me away and is exactly what I was hoping for,” says Dewes.
“To hire this earth moving equipment would have cost at least R16 000 but these companies are showing the true spirit of Ubuntu by giving what they have to better their fellow countrymen’s lives.
“Looking at this Settlement that we will attempt to turn around on Saturday, it is clear that the ANC does not have ‘a good story to tell’. These people are the poorest of the poor and live in inhumane conditions and in twenty years the ANC could not improve this settlement’s conditions. On Saturday we as a community will attempt to do this in one day,” says Dewes.
Dewes has invited the community to come and help on Saturday at the Informal Settlement in whatever capacity they see fit.
