Muyexe

Muyexe
Muyexe

 Muyexe shown within South Africa

Coordinates: 23°11′42″S 30°54′57″E / 23.195110°S 30.915969°ECoordinates: 23°11′42″S 30°54′57″E / 23.195110°S 30.915969°E
Country South Africa
Province Limpopo
District Mopani
Municipality Greater Giyani
Area[1]
 • Total 3.42 km2 (1.32 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 3,228
 • Density 940/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
 • Black African 99.9%
 • White 0.1%
First languages (2011)[1]
 • Tsonga 97.1%
 • English 1.8%
 • Other 1.1%

Muyexe is a village and rural township in the Giyani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

In 2009 the national Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) identified Muyexe as one of the poorest villages in South Africa, noting that it lacked basic services such as water, electricity, proper roads, or adequate housing. The CRDP promised to help the local farmers farm more productively by providing tractors and other agricultural equipment. The Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, his Deputy, Dr Joe Phaahla, and the Limpopo Premier, Cassel Mathale, promised to visit the village from time to time to supervise the work and make sure that community members were getting better services.[2]

In 2011, the CRDP declared the project at Muyexe to be a success, with the majority of the needs of the 900 households in the village having been met.[3] However, as of 2011 adequate water remained a serious problem as there was no permanent water supply, no tractor yet had been supplied, and jobs remained scarce.[4] By 2013, despite equipping boreholes with pumps and installing a water purification plant,[5][6] residents still did not have access to piped water, and poverty and unemployment remained major problems.[7] In 2013, President Jacob Zuma promised that a pipeline from the Nsami dam on the Groot Letaba River would bring water to the village.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Main Place Muyexe". Census 2011.
  2. ↑ "Muyexe declared the poorest village in South Africa". Zoutnet. 5 June 2009. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Muyexe: poverty-stricken village transformed". Limpopo News (Limpopo Provincial Government): 4. 18 February 2011. Archived from the original on 22 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "Muyexe develops, but Canaan is still miles away". Zoutnet. 12 August 2011. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Zuma pays a visit to Muyexe village". South Africa Info. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.
  6. ↑ The water from the boreholes was high in nitrates, way in excessive of drinking water standards, and the levels of fluoride, magnesium and chloride also exceeded those standards. "Muyexe village water purification". Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Zuma’s Muyexe project a failure: DA". The Independent Online (IOL) (South Africa). 25 June 2013. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.
  8. ↑ "President visits Muyexe". Bulletin (Tzaneen. South Africa). 29 June 2013. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.