The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform invites members of the media to the Buffer zone fence handing over event to be held at Muyexe village in Limpopo on the 15 July 2011.
Muyexe villagers are the beneficiaries of the modern state of the art 17 km Buffer zone fence erected at a cost of R9 million to protect the community and their livestock from the animals coming for the Kruger National Park.
Over the years, the lives of the community members were in constant threat from dangerous wild animals breaking the Kruger Park fence, killing livestock and damaging crops in their fields. The community members were losing cattles every week to the predators escaping from the Kruger National Park. Consequently depriving the poor community’ only source of livelihoods.
Muyexe village, bordering the Kruger Park on the Punda Maria Gate, and now the proposed Shangoni Gate, was selected as the first pilot site for the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) and launched by President Jacob Zuma in 2009. The fence is in direct response to the community’s outcry to save their livestock from wild animals.
During the first consultations to determine the community’ developmental needs after the village was declared CRDP pilot site, a community member asked the department to provide him with a gun in his desperate need to protect the livestock saying that would be the biggest community development in the village.
The event will be held as per the following details:
Date: 15 July 2011
Venue: Muyexe MPCC
Time: 10h00
For further information regarding the event kindly contact the following officials:
Mr Avhashoni Magada
Tel: 015 297 3539
Cell: 082 4657848
Mr Motlatsi Lebea
Tel: 015 284 6300
Cell: 073 32 39 333
Enquiries:
Eddie Mohoebi
Tel: 012 312 9648
Cell: 082 550 1445
Buffer Zone fence to keep Muyexe Villagers safe from Kruger Park wild animals
