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By motsamai maphutse
ESD (Economic Transformation and Local Content)
The recent - way overdue - Feb 2025 receipt of the signed and Letter headed Municipal communications through the memorandum committee in addressing the plight in Mooi Draai occupancy and the implied uncertainty has informed a rendering of a report for the period since 2019 to Feb 2025.
- Lest it be misconstrued for intentional strategy takeover and being coerced in anyway to a particular posture - One may find that the opposite is the case if one has been closely monitoring Mooi-Draai as a Special child-type and development phenomenon.
A justification for our business case and new positioning came about as a consequence of; firstly the negatives which prevailed among a block of roughly (at the time) - 5 to 8 stands which the early rains of 2021/2022 subjected the occupants thereof - including were MooiSights Gardens is situated but with reasonable success story of its own through time of analysis.
The business Case herein under discussion was initialized and made public, first, to the immediate occupants (for transparent actions) and subsequently through the Municipal IDP Processes Participation because then the tides were changing against a sustainable residential case which saw relocations and some stands left desolate or vacant for prolonged periods - hence it became apparent the agricultural storm water channel meant to minimize Potential crisis zone was and still remains a financially unwinnable long process( for the high technical risk nature of the problem. So, it follows that the situational circumstances; at the beginning; far outweighed the positives to contemplate residential case: almost feeling like being dealt a losing hand.
NB: The Value trapped elsewhere in Public Private dealings of the past need to be unleashed and redirected effectively to address growth deficiencies around such important Road-line and the Styn-pan landmark; of-course not overlooking or undermining the concerns for residential case if practical.
One must also admit that there were some positives which were and still remain noblest initiatives that sort of eased and gave sense of hope and continuity i.e; the nearby Tuck shop which is by far the most important of why life was made easier to date in our block of 16 supposed ERF stands.