 
MEDIA ALERT
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport Mr. S'bu Ndebele will perform the sod turning for the Access Road to Kandaspunt and Twijfelhoek Mine at Mondlo Road near Vryheid on Monday, 15 March 2004 at 10h00. Since 1994 the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport has been gradually unlocking economic shackles by means of innovative programmes that sought to address rural poverty. Mondlo was established in 1956 in the so-called Kwazulu homeland (an area reserved for the Zulus), about thirty kilometres south-east of Vryheid. The idea behind it was to remove black people from white farms or towns and to move them to their respective homelands, i.e. areas set aside by the government exclusively for Blacks. Mondlo had a population of about five thousand in 1965. The number of people who settled in Mondlo grew rapidly in the next twenty years. The infrastructure originally provided for the town was not at all adequate to cope with the influx of people. As a result, a large section of Mondlo consists of informal, squatter type housing without water, electricity and proper roads. The total population of Mondlo was estimated at about fifty to sixty thousand in 1990 yet the previous government never constructed a proper road infrastructure for the people. All this is now set to change with the provision of much needed road infrastructure in the area. All media invited to attend. Please note picture opportunities. Transport will be provided and all media are please requested to confirm attendance by no later than 16h00 on Sunday, 14 March 2004. Confirmation may be forwarded to Mdu Msawuli as per the following contact details: Cell: 083 646 9726
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