Chiawelo residents: ‘We will give Ramaphosa a chance to keep his promises’

Jobe Sithole

It’s after 11am on a sunny Saturday morning in Johannesburg. Mhlaba Drive in Chiawelo, Soweto is a hive of activity. The street is home to two well-known properties which are about four hundred metres apart.

One is a modest orange family home belonging to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s family and the other is Hitekani Primary School. Deeply connected to the area, President Ramaphosa cast his vote on the May 8 general election at the school.

The 25th of May 2019 will forever be etched in the minds and hearts of this community. On this day one of their own was inaugurated as president of South Africa. I was in the area to get a sense of what this occasion means for the people of this township, which was now going to be on the world stage.

People were going on about their business.
Trevor Mtileni, a resident of Extension