ActionSA has officially announced a further group of mayoral candidates for key municipalities across Limpopo, each ready to take up the fight to fix broken municipalities and restore accountable, effective governance across the province’s municipalities.
Today, ActionSA is proud to introduce the following candidates to lead our fight to fix Limpopo:
- Dr. Mike Ramothwala for Greater Tzaneen Municipality
- Ponani Makhubele for Greater Giyani Municipality
- Maripe “Mmirwaa” Mangena for Mopani District Municipality
- Reuben Mosila for Greater Letaba Municipality
- Erick Mafanedza for Makhado Local Municipality
From Tzaneen to Makhado, ActionSA’s growth across these communities is a testament to the appeal of the capable, ethical and merit-based leadership we are committed to bringing to local government throughout Limpopo.
We are proud of the candidates selected to lead this fight, each committed to restoring effective governance through infrastructure investment, sound financial management, economic growth and a relentless fight against the corruption and lawlessness that have destroyed local government.
Following a competitive selection process, ActionSA is unveiling this further group of highly respected mayoral candidates who bring the expertise, integrity and deep connection to the communities they will serve. Our deliberate effort to usher in a new brand of patriotic leadership in Limpopo is a response to the reality that the province now, more than ever, needs leaders who understand local challenges and are prepared to act decisively to address them.
ActionSA is grateful to these leaders for stepping forward to serve. They are ready to work, ready to lead and ready to deliver for their communities.
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Count Eagle
The Man who could only Drink Milk
I know an old man who had lived a life full of adventure, but his health started to catch up with him. He\’d run the Boston Marathon, was an avid surfer, and climbed Everest, but he\’d started to have abdominal pains around his 85th birthday and went to see a doctor. Sadly, he ultimately was diagnosed with a rare degenerative liver disease that slowly made him allergic to everything he ate.
He kept copious notes, and as an avid gastronomist slowly grew to despair as everything he\’d spent his life enjoying became something he could no longer eat. Alcohol went first, then mushrooms, then bread, then root vegetables, then coffee, one at a time he had to remove them from his diet. The doctor was clear: if he kept eating something his liver rejected the autoimmune response would be quick and severe, and would lead to a painful death. Little by little, everything was taken away as an option, until the only thing that remained was milk.
In some ways, this actually made life easier, because the mental strain of remembering what he could and couldn\’t eat was gone, but then so was the joy in variety. But he took it in stride, and got his own cow and took classes from a farmer to learn everything he could about the only thing that could give him sustenance. And even within milk, he could still have yogurt, butter, cream, some cheeses, and other milk-derived products he hadn\’t fully rejected yet, so it wasn\’t all bad. But then one day a few months later he felt the pain again, and he knew cow\’s milk was no longer an option.
Lacking other options, he tried goat\’s milk, and he was delighted that it worked! The protein structure is just different enough that his body still tolerated it. That bought him another month. And that\’s when we came up with a wonderful plan to go on one last grand adventure around the world. If he could get one month of life out of the milk of every mammal, he\’d actually have a few more years to enjoy life to the fullest and see the world in all its beauty. Each month, we\’d pick a place with a new mammal, and he would immerse himself fully with the locals, learn all the ways to prepare the milk, and just enjoy the hand he had been dealt as much as he could.
We milked sheep in New Zealand. Camels in Egypt. Zebras in South Africa. Giant bats in Indonesia. Do you know how many Peruvian cuy you need to milk to get a single glass? I do. Even as his health slowly faded, he stayed cheerful, and I felt lucky to join him on the adventure of a lifetime. That brings us to today when he got to the very end of his spreadsheet, and declared that he was now allergic to every mammal. He\’d enjoyed his journey, but his time had come to an end, for there was nothing left to milk.
To which I said nonsense, I bet we can milk a few thousand karma out of this post.
Sandbox
Thanks for this article – it has opened my eyes to the possibilities in my life.