- To
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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
- From
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Gift Sopeng
- Subject
- Poor leadership and community leaving in abject poverty whilst hosting big mining houses.
- Date
- Aug. 21, 2025, 8:46 a.m.
Dear Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,
I come from Bapong Brits.
We have leadership challenges and north -west gov selecting illegitimate leadership to micromanage.
We have mines(Sibanye, Glencore, and Samancor/Tharisa)
Traditional leadership is less interested in addressing basic services and high unemployment rate. They are conflicted, and are in the pockets of big mining syndicates
We wrote to province and National cogta and we got silent treatment. Kindly assist on the matter of leadership, and sporadic mining activities which don't benefit the community.
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