From: Polokwane Observer
Life in the border town of Musina is seemingly not for the faint-hearted. In a place where widespread corruption and crime are the apparent order of the day, residents are reportedly being terrorised by gangs of foreigners while bribery, human trafficking, cigarette and drug smuggling as well as relaxed border control measures are allegedly rife.
Having lived there for six years until February this year when she relocated to Thohoyandou to take up a position with the University of Venda as lecturer in law, Cynthia Mkhabele tells it like it is. While still in the employ of the Department of Home Affairs and stationed at its asylum office in Musina, Mkhabele conducted research for purposes of a thesis on the legal analysis of the application of corporate governance in Musina Local Municipality. The findings for her LLM degree studies through the University of Limpopo were finalised in 2014. Based on her research and the period residing there, she described the situation in Musina as disheartening. Since she had left things haven’t changed, she stressed in an interview with Polokwane Observer. To her it remained the most dangerous place to live in the entire South Africa. “It is the most evil place,” she emphatically stated. “What is going on there has made the institution of government to collapse. There are no morals there. It is so dangerous. And nobody talks about it.”
