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Mmusi Moaisi. (Luke Daniel/News24)
Some 57km from the platinum mining city Rustenburg, more than 10 700 villagers in Mogwase go for weeks without water and are wallowing in abject poverty and unemployment, and their most pressing issue is being landless.
About 2 000 members of the Landless People of Mogwase movement were so frustrated by being "squashed like sardines" at the height of Covid-19 they grabbed land and settled there.
However, an activist in the area, Mmusi Moaisi, 40, who leads the movement, told News24 the issues plaguing the community could not only be attributed to an uncaring government, but villagers were also to blame for not voting in the 2021 local government elections.
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