The state of Mahikeng: Once the capital of opportunity, now in ruin
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2021
- The capital city of Mahikeng in the North West province has been a place of contention, from prior to democracy in 1994 through to the present. It was once a booming town with so much potential. Yet now, an Auditor-General report has stated it’s dealing with ‘financial and operational collapse’. Eyewitness News visited the historical town to discover what happened to this city once brimming with opportunity and to unpack the extent of the disintegration.
#LGE2021 #Mahikeng
Lucas Mangope warned the people of North West about what ANC will do to them but nobody cared to listen. Now they are paying the biggest price. Indeed 1994 euphoria has evaporated!!
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Euphoria, euphoria has evaporated!!!Mafega a fela ......mafoko a gagwe ga wela fatshe
It has not evaporated, the anc did their job just like the republicans under Abraham Lincoln did their job. You are coming from a pint that black people can’t rule themselves, which is a fallacy. Half of Europe lives in poverty and they govern themselves with no intervention from outsiders like we face in africa. Fastest growing economies are in Africa, have you heard about Rwanda, Angola, Ethiopia.
By the way Detroit is a capital city, what has happened to it?
@@watulukamedia6724 lol actually what he saying is that voting for a party that freed the country is a not reason to continue voting for them....
Also every country has corruption, the difference is that when a billion dollar contract is given- the person will spend R1 million on the project and will keep the R999 million for themselves
With the law failing its people by not holding these people accountable
Instead of focusing on the poorer areas and helping them, the anc gives them free shirts 😂
While in the richer areas, the level of service delivery is falling
Ps ANC is made up on africans, Indians, whites but they all spit on us equally regardless of our race or level of income
They don't care what race we are
Mangope told them and they never listen. Vote ANC out or ask to be pulled out of south africa
The ANC has had three chances and they have gotten worse beyond ridiculous. How stupid do we have to be to give them another chance while they lie in our faces. Wake up south africa🤦🏿🙆🏿♀️
Wait for the result of the election and you will see how stupid the majority of voters are. A Tshirt and a piece of chicken licken buys a hungry man's vote. Always has always will.
As a young female in Mafikeng, I'm crying for recreational facilities for the youth. Our young people are forced to leave to other towns/cities cause there's nothing left for us here. No jobs , no opportunities to better ourselves creatively
Vote ANC out and pull out of South Africa
I actually shed tears watching this..😭😭😭
Gloria please don't Vote ANC
Gloria mafikeng e tlhomola pelo ka mo e tlhaka tlhakane ka gone ijoo mathata fela ke modudi wa mafikeng they said they take us from Egypt to Canaan they take us to comora
@@tokosekgothudi9988
I have to be mad or utterly stupid to vote for these thugs.
Vote ANC out and demand to pull out of South Africa
Last time I voted for ANC was 1994
This is heartbreaking to watch, I lived in Mahikeng for 8 years during the early 1990's when it was a wonderful multiracial, multicultural town where everything worked and incredible development was taking place among the Motswana people with excellent schools & a university and a life of ever growing pride and dignity. It was a rapidly developing rainbow nation before the term "Rainbow Nation" was coined by Bishop Tutu. To see the poverty, degradation & filth it has descended to under the ANC is indescribable.
Come on guys, have you seen the north of England.
Have you seen Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston etc
How many more new suburbs have been created in South Africa in the last 25 yrs?
@@watulukamedia6724 those without valid arguments resort to whataboutisms
@@TheMagnificentGman
Everything is related to something, we say China is developed today because we are comparing it to what it was 30 yrs ago, and development means it’s looking more like the western world.
I don’t fully understand your comment, but I can argue to say, South Africa’s has almost quadrupled in the last 25 yrs, argue that!. And whatever is happening in South Africa has to happen, it’s part of the process, every developed country has gone through this, you keep pushing forward.
@@watulukamedia6724 gross corruption, incompetence and nepotism are not things that need to happen. Every country has to be looked at individually because of the uniqueness of the people, culture, geography etc.
@@TheMagnificentGman
The current South Africa is only 25 yrs old, a country that came out of apartheid, a country were majority of the wealthy is in the hands of 8% of the population. Tell me if South Africa has not almost quadrupled it’s economy in 25 yrs? Tell me if South Africa is not doing better than all the major emerging economies this year economically, That is including, China, Brazil and Russia.
Even though China has done well, there has been gross corruption, right now a building company worth $300b is about to collapse in China. What happened in 2008, gross corruption in America caused the Great Recession, and no one went to jail. Dude, yes corruption is bad, mismanaged is bad but black South Africans just need to keep fighting, at-least Zuma went to prison, Nixon in America never went to prison.
Here is another thing you can look, during the World Cup 2010, most companies that build those stadiums were white owned, they ripped people off big time, no one talks about that. Africans we have a problem, we look down on ourselves, this is why we see nothing good in africa or anything that’s black governed.
We will get better all across Africa, we just need to keep fighting, and instead of complaining let us find solutions. Remember half of Europe lives in poverty.
EVERY TOWN,FROM JHB TO LIMPOPO FILTHY, FROM JHB TO KURUMAN FILTHY, FROM JHB TO DURBAN FILTHY,..UNDER ANC.....
The time for federalism is now,there is no way people from outside the NW can be interested in solving the problem of the NW
THIS MUST APPLY IN EVERY PROVINCE . BECAUSE SAME STORY IN MY HOMELAND
Thank you EWN for such excellent reporting. Watching this really pains my heart. Thee Capital city is going down the drain all in the name of one striking similarity and that is go ja madi and fail to bring the change we need....
A good piece of journalism 🔥🔥🙌
At last a educational expose! This is the case in every corner of South Africa where the ANC shows up. Teach your children or face ruin, it may be too late.
This is what eventually happens with socialism, BEE and affirmative action, Let's not forget government handouts. Let's govern our societies with merit, not by social justice. Let's have firm borders and kick China out of our country. Let's go back to made in South Africa and Let's bring back jobs and manufacturing back in SA. Blacks in SA, and blacks in Africa have to realize, we are on our own...nobody is coming to help...when they do, only the rich get the richer(politicians and the connected)of all races. It's time we cleaned up our streets, we fixed our dilapidated infrastructure and we feed our neighbors and take care of the orphaned. No government system is going to help, instead they serve to divide, and control us by throwing a penny or two at our young girls, so they get pregnant out of wedlock, to get government money. The education system needs a serous upgrade, much like the education systems in private and rich schools otherwise abolish government schools. Invest more in skills bases initiatives, we already have too many college educated unemployed people.
@@hleedina5567 First we will have to fix the people ,Strict disciplining and parenting classes for adults
Vote ANC out and pull out of South Africa
The story of South Africa. The more ANC cadres are deployed, the faster the neglect. Just imagine if they got the monopoly they wanted....
ANC Cadres are a job role to ensure they can access public coffers. Best recruiting ground with zero education required.
We need a referendum. Let's do what the Cape townians are doing.
N.B this is just my opinion as a 2000 who grew up in Mmabatho.
i support you , if we really need our town we must do what the Western Cape are doing or ells will end up with no town and people will spread to other towns.
Join up with Botswana one and for all. Our ancestors wanted that.
Vote ANc out or do referendum to pull out of south africa
"When the ANC took over they already had everything. They only had to maintain..." Sums it up, doesn't it.
Vote put anc out and pull out of South Africa
This is very heart breaking I grew up in Mafikeng and seeing it like this breaks my heart deeply, I know 80% of our people are loyal to the ANC and it's struggle to freedom but it's time to move on we can't keep going back to an abusive Ex, Batswana emang ka maoto before it's too late.
Tlhalefang o bolela nnete if rona baagi ba mafikeng re sa eme ka maoto no one will ntho engwe le engwe e ile le mong wa tsona so people of north west stand up for your provence don't allow anyone outside to come take your property
Oh is Mahikeng another name for Mafikeng?
Vote ANC out and pull out of South Africa
Batswana ba robetse
@ aarongunnz9513 I know but religion and loss of their culture caused them all of their demised. If they know who are they then they will fear themselves and nations will hate them to love them. Ask Ntate Credo about who are the Batswana. It’s amazing a nation of warriors can disappear in one go. They are weak because they have done few mistake . The mistakes done by Kgosi Sechele , Sebele, Tebele and many others who came after them
The price of corruption... sad!
Very sad state indeed. Jo'burgers like myself used to enjoy our visits to Mafikeng so much and admiring everything about the place. Then came ANC... the devil incarnation ! All they are good at is changing names of streets,cities,hospitals , varsities , airports, stealing and destroying every good thing they come across. Mafikeng was our pride now is our shame
This ANC guy wa pota. They made sure that they destroy everything that Mangope accomplished. The ANC's democracy has failed dismally.
Amen
But the Batswana must vote anc out and ask to to be removed from South Africa
when i was a kid in Limpopo, we use to envy the Batswana people, now the tables have dramatically turned. My backward town has developed more than anyone could have imagined. It's a shame what happened to Mahikeng
Kingdom rise and fall if we are not going to observe history. The Batswana can still revive their greatness if the so few thing. You must listen to Ubaba Credo and other African Historians talking about this warriors that many can’t even see them as warriors.
My heart is broken into a million pieces...cadre deployment has poisoned ability to serve all people, regardless.
Until Batswana find their own determination and pull out of South Africa they will never be strong and prosperous nation like the Zulu nation
You all know who is responsible why do you keep putting them in power???????????????.
We do man😪
They will continue voting for them forever
Foreigners with South African I.D.s..bo "My Friend "
@@grahamt5924 They is the assumption that people do not have identity nor agency. Clearly people can see that its time for change. It was made much clearer by epidemic.
@@mrsoshadabaadman I will beleive it when I see it.
The should just bring back mafikeng to its original owners Botswana 🇧🇼 we love love our brothers and it pains me as motswana go bona sese diragalang Ko mafikeng pelo yame e botlhoko fela that. Us batswana re batla lefatshe la rona without compensation
But Botswana was up to Gauteng and most parts of Free State and Limpopo. Read about bechuanaland. I am asking Batswana to vote anc out and pull out of South Africa and raise bophutatswana flag
Thank you EWN excellent work
Kgosi Lucas Mangope was afraid of this (state of the province). ANC has killed Bophuthatswana.
Batswana have caused themselves all this demised and the kingdom can be revived but they will need wise men and women. At some point the Zulu kingdom was declining and intelligent men raised the Zulu kingdom to what we see today. Listen to what Credo Mutwa has to say about Batswana. Now you can only see the misrable nation nothing heroic on their look.
Vote ANC out of not then Batswana must draw a referendum and pull out of south africa
Excellent reporting from EWN. so many painful stories showcased.
Funny how the golf course is helping youths with work. Business as usual picking up the slack from failed government.
It’s funny how you’ll never say it’s the failed government when you see north of England, or when you walk around Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston etc.
In 25 years the economy of South Africa has more than quadrupled. Don’t believe the hype
the question is, what are we the people who grew up there and managed to leave Mafikeng for greener pastures doing about this situation. We still have families there. Something needs to be done. This is heart breaking HONESTLY
💔Thank you EWN, Good job
Botho bo felletse kae BAKAU LENGWE???
Youth, what are we intending to do with our place? This place is our Legacy, our roots are here.... Now is the time stand up and work
Start by voting another party then proceed to activism
Don't worry, it will get worse and your children will be born somewhere else and you can forget this place.
The will power is lacking. We need a committed and action-oriented civil organisation that will improvement and maintain this town.
@@thatotlhagale1662 that is so true... the question is, where do we start?
@@boitumelomashabathakga1966 How about get someone to pick up all the rubish and process it. If you can't do something as easy as that, then you can forget anything more complex from happening.
Shocking and sad.....my heart goes out to these people.....😢
They have caused their own demise. Kingdom rise and fall. No one can build a nation with internal squabble and politicians . The collapse of Batswana nation was to trust the political parties
What more does one need to see the rot this government has caused of a once prospering town.
It's appalling how can you possibly defend this Mr President.
Yes EWN! This is an amazing format!! Please keep this up, I can see that you've hired young innovative journalists.
A vote for the DA is a vote for an honest and capable municipality that will get things done!
I am a Civil engineer and graduated in Mahikeng, i had to leave Mahikeng to come to Pretoria because there is not jobs at all i Mahikeng. No civil engineering internships or jobs at all.
We all ran to Gauteng 😢
Great minds of civil Engineers. The Batswana were great warriors before and their kingdom has collapsed . Until Batswana understand who they are they will never be great ever. Unity of the Batswana is important but the problem is many miss the point on how this world works. The world we see today me and you was build by great men and women and we see in their own lense not what the world is . I wish your nation all the great. Without unity that is true and honest among the Batswana they will never build the kingdom ever
1st November... they still going to vote for ANC... why bother with black people.
Help is on the way! In the next 15 years Mahikeng will be the best place ever!
how?
Mahikeng people deserves this mess cos they vote the same ANC for donkey yrs. Let them enjoy
Most people in Mafikeng are uneducated my brother ANC is doing this on purpose to destroy Mafikeng, and they deployed so many ANC cadres and others lap dogs are fed with tenders and good salaries in the government to be silenced , THIS people are jealous that we had Bophuthatswana as our own country before.
even when you can go to North West University to day and check , the varsity is in the heart of Tswana speaking people but there is only 20% of them. The varsity is not accepting our kids to study and is too expensive for them NSFS not helping, our kids end up smoking drugs on the streets because there are no jobs still.
Those Kids' will VOTE for EFF thinking is a choice , because that's how EFF corrupt young kids who are desperate and defenseless and old people will continue and remain with their ANC because they where told that Nelson Mandela freed them. Even if they don't know how did he free them or free them from what because they where in Bop and Bop was not part of Apartheid SA but they will still Vote for ANC because they were misinformed and misled by the corrupt ANC.
THIS is because DA not really active in the province they are pulling their legs so i believe DA go only where they believe they will gain votes so it means they also don't care because Mafikeng has nothing fruitful for them.
Mafikeng is totally doomed and this will spread to the Whole Province, Rustenburg is not thriving but it has Platinum i don't know where all money is going.
what's going to happen when Platinum finishes , because some of us can see that this hyenas brought by ANC to dig up our land want to make sure that by the time we realize that nothing has been done to build Rustenburg and town is still empty that's when they will be finishing up the last platinum and gone.
@@lemorenk5006 I think the solution is to generate a DA structure in the town and than take that to the national DA party. It is true that they seem to ignore these kinds of places. It is also true that they have a better track record in management of cities and towns across SA so you'll would benefit from them and they would also benefit from you. So I say meet them half way.
@@lemorenk5006I believe that they will wake if the economy dips like that of Zimbabwe
@@lemorenk5006they will wake up when the economy dips to the level of Zimbabwe
Young people need to start voting. You guys can't allow abo Gogo to keep deciding your future.
So true
President Mangope said it: “Mmuso wa ANC ke mapantiti banna ba ka, ba tlo Le sotla…”
A re ke mmuso wa magodu and look at what is happening...
The world was build by brave men. We see the world in their own lens . Ask Credo Mutwa how did the warriors of Batswana do in life and why they were respected among many nations . It’s like a joinery down memory lane but you have nothing to guide you
Vote ANc out if you fail then referendum for your independence
Mmabatho moshate wa rona😭😭😭😭😭
Sadly the ANC of Oliver Tambo is gone, now it has become a "Den of Thieves"
It was a den of thieves all along. It just took you time to see it.
The Zulus wanted this, its more important your own tribe is in power even if they are incompetent so you get what you vote for
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ?
It has nothing to with Zulu`s
That is why, the name change was crucial, because the old town would have been very ashamed.
My home town. Eish it is crumbling. ANC IS USELESS.
I'm willing to bet my left arm that come next week they will still give the ANC a majority
The thing is they gave foreigners South African I.D.s those people definitely vote for the ANC
@@gloriatshabangu1921 why do you speak lies? South African ID is never given or bought. Stop spreading lies. Foreigners are not allowed to vote in SA. Stop spreading lies
I was in Mahikeng February I was shocked and ashamed to see my home town in a bad state like that...MAHIKENG IS REALLY CRUMBLING 😕 😢 😞 IT IS A SAD SIGHT...!
Well done to the people fixing and maintaing the buildings as best as they can. You are the people that will make South Africa prevail.
I am staying in Mahikeng and thus place is as depressing as it comes... I wish to get a job that would bring my dignity back
The sad part about North West and Free State is that the people know they have not been receiving services for years but they continue voting 🗳 for the ANC. They fear change which in turn keeps them in poor living conditions.
Just like my Eastern Cape people.
@@mkapakapaful it’s just so sad buddy… so sad.
This is the story of every small town! Everywhere you look there is a Green Jojo Tank for those who can afford it, otherwise all the others have to wait for the guavament to supply!
Why is there rubish scattered everywhere?? People do not do what they can do to work together. They just through the rubish every where. After using a plastic bag they just through it down. Why are there dustbins??
Strange thing is, majority of them will still vote anc
We pray for the veil blinding the masses to be removed.😭😭😭😭 I am heart broken.I could not sleep after watching this
Otsetswe's story hit hard, you can tell he is a good gent he just needs a opportunity
ANC is not the problem, but rather the masses that keep voting for them and all those that don't bother to vote at all
There is something beyond physical that is happening right now and it doesn't include any government or a system that have a packing order were others rule over others. That thing is the evolution of consciousness (4th density consciousness) and it started in 2012.
Don't say that people must vote. If you vote you are giving away your power. This system is nothing without us, so we hold the power.
There are people behind doors controlling governments to put us in a state of unconsciousness by manipulate us. If you put them in fear, you can control them easily. That is the one of the negative entities strategy.
So sad, I grew up in Mafikeng under Bophuthatswana and to see it like this is gut-wrenching. The ANC only know destruction.
I this not the province where platinum is being mined?
You said it all antie "all my life I was ANC" making you part of the problem!
What the ANC has done is truly sad.
Accountability need to be applied! Humbleness before God that we as people can not do it alone!🌻
I can attest to that. I was shocked in 2017 when I visited there.
Your vote your choice...it was always in your hands ✋
Kenny Morolong's argument is not sound. The amalgamation of other areas from what used to be Bop into the North West did not place any extra burden into the ANC. Those areas had their own budgets from the apartheid regime so the amalgamation was accompanied by extra resources. All those areas including Mahikeng have collapsed.
My sentiments exactly, he's grasping at straws. They think we are stupid.
My counter argument would be that there had to be planning with the foresight of a growing population with increasing demands. His argument doesn't hold. He just doesn't want to admit the obvious.
From Hamanskraal all the way to Kuruman, it's all potholes, dirty water, etc, etc. This people cannot govern. There are no mistakes or errors. Whatever that they are doing in South Africa is deliberate.
More content like this please.
Sad story indeed and ANC keeps promising..'This time we have assembled a team of distinguished men and women...blah blah blay!' When will these guys admit they can't do anything right. Whatever they touch decays! No wonder Cape Town wants to break away before the gangrene spreads to the beautiful mother city!
Sad to see this as a young person. 😢
Actually i was there the past weekend ,oh my the city is dilapidated, its scarry now
Nice video! You should post more videos like these.
Really good journalism. Racism and Apartheid not mentioned - one rarely encounters this anymore.
Why do you want Racism and Apartheid not to be mentioned, when these are defining aspects of recent South African history? You want the crimes of your group to go unnoticed?
@@dissdad8744 Context and relevance?
@@driesvanwyk8038 In the context: back when it was the capital of the artificial Bop "homeland" it was more affluent because it attracted a lot of seedy international businessmen. It was basically a tax haven and a low cost - high profits investment opportunity due to the Apartheid system in place and the possibility to exploit workers with no labour unions guarding the workers interests. Once Apartheid has been abolished and these businesses had to operate according to international labour standards, they closed shop and went elsewhere where they could continue to exploit disenfranchised people.
@@dissdad8744 You can have the last word, but you know .... And I never said I "want Racism and Apartheid not to be mentioned" - nowhere at all. It is all in writing.
@@driesvanwyk8038 Okay fine, but are you aware of that history of BOP?
Well done mme all the residents needs to clean and look after all buildings
Congratulations to the anc and the voters
Actions speak louder than words.
It hurts so bad ...
Looks like the community has decided they prefer to fade into the dark ages. People of Mahikeng/Mafikeng, it's no longer ANC's fault, it's the local peoples' problem. sad but cant see it another way people?
Your Creator is on His way and believe me He has had enough and will deal with those responsible... Every evil person evil going ons is going to be exposed.
😂
It's a pity our people adores ANC. This are the rewards
Vote independents in. If u vote for the ANC u deserve it. U can't vote for incompetence and complain
Well people will still vote for the ANC 🤡🤦♂️
Mahikeng e tshwanetse go boela mo diatleng tsa Batswana. Tota Bokone Bophirima ka bophara e tshwanetse ya tswa mo diatleng tsa Ma-ANC.
I'm crying for our province, MAHIKENG is dead, that is really hurting a lot! I always remember our late President DR L.M. MANGOPE, we are just in darkness, everything has been destroyed, Huu GOD forgive us and have mercy upon us.
The same thing happened to Mthatha. The former Capital of Transkei.
Thanks.ANC
BEE and ANC ,well run give yourselves a hand 👏👏
I see other things like water supply and electricity supply,but who are they waiting for to pick up rubbish for them?Does it also need millions of money to do that?Yes ANC is bad but are theu playing their role as residents of that area to make their city to be in good condition?I doupt so.
Unless the ANC relinquishes its grip on the North West Province both Mahikeng and Rustenburg will soon become a cesspool of neglect.
Sad
My hometown of Pietermaritzburg is going through this.
Let's respect the wishes of the majority please! What you are seeing is not solely the ANC it is their voters. Take responsibility for once in your life.
This is so sad😥
Finally!
The day the ANC became the ruling was the beginning of the end for South Africa.
This is heartbreaking, these people deserve so much better. The ANC has no shame or integrity, and such should never be trusted in position of leadership. I hope the community of Mahikeng come together to save their city despite the government. To pluck the fruits of our harvest, we must first remove all the weeds from our garden, prepare the foundation of our soil and then plant the seeds. Then we must water and nurture our gardens so that in the future we will have those wonderful fruits of our labour and efforts. ANC is not for the people, that is clear.
Saddening :(
ANC can be blamed for this mess, residents must be blamed and also the system running this country...
Very sad 😢
The issue here is the electorate... They see the filth and still vote the same... and goes to burn the same infrastructure built by the previous administrators... perplexed indeed.
I ran from mafikeng to jhb....from jhb to USA.....BUT I really eish I could do something for my town
You residents voted for the ANC. Why you complain ? Its going to get worse!! Keep voting ANC. Viva
ANC They hardly maintain the existing infrastructure, Johannesburg has been illegally owned by foreigners and politicians benefits from that confusion
Mangope warned us!
Shame a shadow of Bophuthatswana
Buphutatswana was for all the people from all walks of life. Revive the Bophutatswana and pull out of South Africa
Sadly this is the story of "small town" South Africa.
All towns big and small
@@gbone7581 by now Mafikeng should have been a Metro if your really know how Mafikeng used to look, since is a Province Cap city.
The presenter really has to make a better effort to pronounce people’s and place names properly.
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I'm really feeling sorry to see how the ANC has run this country down, I hope and pray that our parents see what they have been voting for all this year's