PREMIER THABANG MAKWETLA’S WEEKLY ITENERARY

There's no Premier's Itinerary this week .

Executive Council Resolutions at Pixley Ka Seme Municipality

The Executive Council was updated about the secondment of the chief financial officer in the Department of Agriculture and Land Administration, Mr. V. Makhubedu, as the acting chief executive officer of Mpumalanga Parks Board. The post of CEO became vacant from July 2005. This follows the resignation of Dr. DS Tiba.

A presentation was made to Cabinet on Project Khaedu (Venda for “challenge”) which is looking at public service institutional capacity and Batho-Pele service delivery by senior management in the public service. The presentation provided challenges of service delivery they encountered, for example at KaNyamazane Police Station where there is a lack of active senior management monitoring regarding progress about dockets because they spend a significant amount of time in meetings. The report recommends among others to extend the police station's working hours to provide better services to citizens and resource allocation should be aligned with crime patterns and need.

In relation to health, the report identifies overworked chief executive officers and a critical shortage of management skills. A recommendation is being made to reduce the volume of patients by diverting them to primary healthcare clinics and to resolve the role of the province, district and hospital by delegating more authority to the local level.

Members of the Executive Council accepted the report and recommended that the results of the recent skills audit conducted on senior and middle managers should be used to address the challenges identified by the Khaedu Project within the public service.

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Office of the Premier

Contact Lebona Mosia at 082 5616465/013 7662244 lmosia@nel . Mpu.gov.za

MAKWETLA CONGRATULATES COMRADES WINNER

The office of Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla would like to extend its gratitude and congratulate Mr. Sipho Ngomane, the 2005 winner of South Africa's annual premier athletic event, the comrades marathon.

Mr Ngomane (23 ) has made the province of Mpumalanga proud and has emerged as another shining symbol of determination,discipline and hard work.

His achievement will also inspire other aspirant peers to emulate his enthusiasm and unrelenting will to make a mark in the sporting arena,more so because he hails from an area in (Msogwaba)Mpumalanga that is considered to be disadvantaged and less developed.

On behalf of the people and provincial government of Mpumalanga, we reiterate our support and excitement by joining all the people of South African in celebrating his victory and outstanding achievement.

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MPUMALANGA PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

MEEC/ MII MERGER ON TRACK

Today's visit takes place against the background of our policy pronouncement during the State of the Province Address earlier this year, wherein we announced plans to merge two of Mpumalanga ‘s premier development institutions, the Mpumalanga Economic Empowerment Corporation (MEEC) and the Mpumalanga Investment Initiative (MII).
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MPUMALANGA LAUNCHES PROVINCIAL PROJECT CONSOLIDATE

The Mpumalanga Provincial Government will join the Dipaliseng Local Municipality in launching the Provincial Project Consolidate programme.

Since the unveiling of Project Consolidate provincially, early this year, the Department of Local Government and Housing and 11 municipalities, out of the many identified in the province have completed early deliverables.

These municipalities are Albert Luthuli, Dipaliseng, Dr JS Moroka, Emalahleni, Govan Mbeki, Greater Tubatse, Lekwa, Mkhondo, Msukaligwa, Nkomazi and Thembisile.

The early deliverables achieved include amongst others providing refuse removal equipment in 5 municipalities, emergency water provision in rural communities in the form of water tanks and boreholes, launching a project on Anti-Corruption Strategy of Municipalities and training three pilot municipalities on the strategy and the eradication of 1146 bucket toilets in Siyathemba in the Dipaliseng Municipality.

Premier Thabang Makwetla and MEC Jabu Mahlangu will visit Dipaliseng Municipality as part of the celebrations, where they will visit the bucket eradication programme to inspect the 1027-bucket toilets that have been eradicated in Siyathemba in the Dipaliseng Municipality, and they will also unveil the new provincial disaster mobile center, which will enable the province to be able to respond and deal timously with any disasters.

The Mayor of Dipaliseng, Cllr Busi Monini and the Executive Mayor of Gert Sibande Cllr Linda Tshabalala will join in the celebrations.

You are invited to join Premier Makwetla and MEC Mahlangu in the celebrations scheduled as follows:

VENUE : Siyathemba Stadium: Dipaliseng Municipality (Barlfour)

DATE :12 August 2005

TIME :09h00

Issued by the Department of Local Government and Housing

Contact Person: Simphiwe Kunene 082 413 3931

George Mohlamonyane 0828028460

Date 10 August 2005.