THE GOVERNMENT THAT SHOWS UP: MEC Tonny Rachoene Leads 7th Administration Drive to Put Mines to Work for Limpopo’s Roads
- Mpho Dube
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By Mpho Dube, Editor-in-Chief
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The Limpopo MEC for Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure Tonny Rachoene in a meet and greet session with the Management of Naboon Bauba Mine in Polokwane today, Friday.
The meeting was also graced with the presence of Kgoshi Malekutu Phatudi Mphahlele. This is part of continued engagements with the mining sector for partnering with the Department’s entity RAL in servicing communities where they operate from.
#StakeholdersTuesdays.This is what government looks like when it shows up.
In a province where a road is the distance between a job and a clinic, between a school and a storm, MEC Tonny Rachoene convened power that matters. On one side of the table: Ba ka Moshate Kgoshi Malekutu Phatudi Mphahlele, the voice of the land and its people.
On the other: the management of Naboon Bauba Mine, with the machines and the means. In the middle: Roads Agency Limpopo, RAL, the Department’s entity with the mandate to build.
This is the seventh administration of the Limpopo Provincial Government — ANC-led, unapologetic about delivery, and refusing to govern from a distance.
Tonny Rachoene is not a man of one job. He is MEC for Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure. He is ANC Limpopo Provincial Spokesperson. He is the newly elected Limpopo Head of Communications.
Most leaders choose a lane. Rachoene chose a destination. On Friday he used all three roles for one purpose: make sure that when a mine pulls wealth from Limpopo soil, it leaves behind roads that carry the community forward. That is not a slogan. That was the agenda.
There were no long speeches in Polokwane. There was work. Kgoshi Mphahlele did not come to be seen. He came to ensure his people are seen — in the budgets, in the plans, in the timelines.
Naboon Bauba Mine did not come to defend. They came to partner, because when the MEC brings the throne and the technical team to one table, the message is clear: this is how we build Limpopo. RAL is ready. The mine is willing. The Kgoshi is watching. And Rachoene is driving.
Under President Cyril Ramaphosa and Premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba, the instruction to the provincial executive is blunt: work must be visible.
Rachoene’s #StakeholdersTuesdays is that visibility. It is government that convenes instead of complains. It is the ANC’s commitment to a social compact, made real with memorandums, meetings, and machinery.
While national debates rage, Limpopo delivers. While others explain delays, Rachoene schedules graders. This is why they call him a go-getter. Not because he talks fast, but because the ground moves when he walks into a room.
If you live near a mine, this is your road. If you sell tomatoes at the taxi rank, this is your route to market. If your child walks to school in the rain, this is your dry path.
The seventh administration understands that dignity is not a policy document. It is a maintained road. It is a bridge that doesn’t wash away. It is a mine that builds what it uses.
On Friday, MEC Tonny Rachoene made sure Limpopo remembered that.
The Azanian will not look away — especially when government shows up and the people win.
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