Tshino - Communications Minister Faith Muthambi is set to meet with residents of Tshino Ha-Nesengani and the surrounding villages later this afternoon, at a local sports ground.
The information session is aimed at encouraging residents to adopt a spirit of unity in diversity, non-racialism and anti-tribalism.
Communications Minister Faith Muthambi, who is a member of the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) set up to oversee the return to normality in Vuwani and surrounding areas, will lead the information session.
“We want to use this session to remind residents to love and respect one another as South Africans and as Africans, regardless of race, colour, creed or [language],” said the Minister.
The area and other villages around Vuwani experienced violent protests after a court ruling paved the way for villages such as Mashau, Tshimbupfe Central, Davhana, Masia, Vyeboom, Mashau, Masakona and Tshikonelo to form part of the new proposed municipality.
Following the intervention of the IMC, learners in all the villages of Tshino are back in their respective schools, while transport services are now operating.
However, it is still unclear why learners are not back in school in villages such as Tshimbupfe, Mashau, Vyeboom and Masia after an agreement was reached last week between the IMC and various stakeholders that pupils must go back to school.
The main road to Tshimbupfe Thondoni is once again blockaded with rocks and shops are closed at Vuwani shopping complex.
At Ha-Mashau, learners who went to school this morning, had to go back home because their teachers were not present.
Minister Muthambi said the Freedom Charter states that the doors of learning and culture shall be opened.
“Education continues to receive the biggest chunk of the national budget as our weapon for socio-economic development. We want communities to refrain from disrupting academic activities whenever they are unhappy.
“As government, we’ve built modern new schools to replace mud schools and other inappropriate structures since 1994. We want residents to stop burning and damaging schools,” she said.
Minister Muthambi said through their engagements with various stakeholders to get learners back to school, the majority are responding positively to the IMC promotion of education.
“With this information session, we want to inform our people that they have a patriotic duty to protect and respect public property, symbols, signs and institutions in the country.
“In this information session, the community will be afforded an opportunity to engage directly with leaders, including our Moral Regeneration Movement and religious leaders, as well as other stakeholders. This session will afford the community to ask questions and share ideas,” she said. - SAnews.gov.za
