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Stakeholders to be honoured through the Govan Mbeki Awards
05 April 2013
The Mpumalanga Department of Human Settlements will once again honour all stakeholders who have made significant contribution in the delivery of integrated human settlements. Officials from the department are currently visiting projects to solicit participants and verify quality. The awards are aimed at recognising/honouring key role players who have contributed substantially to government’s endeavours of housing the needy within integrated and sustainable communities. These include amongst others, contractors, developers, media houses, and business partners.
The awards present an opportunity for recognising efforts by showcasing excellent accomplishments and milestones within the human settlements value chain in support of the department’s Outcome 8 approach. This outcome focuses on four key outputs which require the department to increase the number of households with access to quality accommodation, basic services, improved access to social services and economic opportunities, increased access to private finance foe housing development and efficient utilisation of land for human settlements development.
The province will be participating in 10 of the 14 categories, which include amongst others, Best Priority, Rural, Women Contractor, Youth Contractor and Informal Settlements Upgrading Projects in the 2012/13 financial year. All the Provincial winners will face their counterparts from other provinces at the national awards ceremony scheduled for June 2013 in Gauteng. In last year’s campaign, the province triumphed in the Best Informal Settlements Upgrading Category, came second in the Best Peoples Housing Programme (PHP) and Best Priority Projects. The awards were initiated by the forum of Minister and all Provincial MECs (MINMEC) in 2006.
CONTACT PERSON:
Freddy Ngobe
Tel: 013 766 6014
Cell: 082 859 4630
ISSUED BY THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE MPUMALANGA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
