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The Eastern Cape municipality where projects quietly die

Two promised projects in Middledrift have come to nothing

The Middledrift blockyard could once produce about 8,000 blocks a day, according to former supervisor Monwabisi Nzuzo. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

A once-thriving blockyard run by the Raymond Mhlaba municipality in the Eastern Cape has slowly been abandoned.
A chicken abattoir promised a decade ago and described by the municipality as a “catalytic intervention” has never been completed.
The municipality has not responded to GroundUp’s attempts to find out why.

The Middledrift blockyard, run by the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape, used to produce building blocks. Today, machinery stands unused in a vandalised building. A few kilometres from the blockyard is another failed municipal project – a chicken abattoir.
The blockyard was established by the former Nkonkobe Local…

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