The angry residents of Soweto expressed their anger and displeasure over the lack of service delivery irrespective of the elections going on as president Cyril Ramaphosa made his way to the voting center.
The residents complained of the lack of water and electricity in their area as President Ramaphosa and his wife, Dr. Tshepo Motsepe made their way to cast his vote in Chiawelo.
The residents blocked some of the routes leading to the voting station with rocks and rubbles.
“It has been three years that we have had electricity problems, they take electricity without notice, and there are days where we don’t have water. We also want trains to operate so that we can use them to go to work. We earn too little money having to use taxis. Ramaphosa has made empty promises to develop parks and libraries. Drugs are a huge problem here,” Shirley Khambane.
After the President has voted, he addressed the media indicating the provision of services in the district will have to change
“They expressed themselves in the form of protest for what they believed might not have been done. We have been saying we know what the problems are, and we have said this time around we want to correct what has not been going well,” Ramaphosa said.
Mboma Mboma