eThekwini Municipality introduces new “bike park” in KwaMashu amid celebration of Youth Month
By Mcebo Makhaye
The eThekwini Municipality has introduced a new bike park in KwaMashu, north of Durban, as the young generation commemorate the Youth Day.
In celebration of Youth Month, the eThekwini Municipality launched the bike park in hope of keeping the youth active and to keep them out of the wrongdoings such as drugs.
This comes days after South Africans commemorated 45th anniversary of June 16, a popular “Soweto Uprising” students protest that occurred in 1976.
In a Facebook post, the eThekwini Municipality said the new bike park have many activities that any person could ever wished for.
“The bike park provides free cycling training, academic support, and life skills opportunities,” the eThekwini Municipality wrote.
The eThekwini Municipality added: “The bike park is designated to township children between the ages of six and 18 years.”
In responding to this new bike park implementation, Nkululeko Boy Boy* (Facebook account) accused the municipality of often giving special treatment and community development only to Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu (INK) while his community left unattended.
“The problem with this metro always put INK areas in the front when it comes to development. Here at Tshelimnyama, we have only one dusty grassless football fields,” Nkululeko stressed.
However, Tanah Zondi said she was happy about the municipality for the new community development and wished for more implementations.
“All thanks goes (sic) to you as you have done an excellence job, just to keep our children busy. Keep on doing great things to our community, you are recognised,” said Zondi.
Compiled by Mcebo Makhaye.
