Mpumalanga Executive Council visits Pixley Ka Seme Municipality

1 June 2010

The Executive Council will be visiting Pixley ka Seme Local Municipality from 2 to 3 June 2010 as part of its Cabinet Outreach Programme.

The municipality was one of the hardest hit by service delivery protests but the good news is that it is out of danger because section 139 has been lifted. Since then, Premier David Mabuza together with MEC for Co-opertaive Governance and Traditional Affairs, Mr Norman Mokoena visited the area on several occasions to assure the people that government cares and does listen to their concerns with a view to address them. However, they individually and collectively condemned violent protests as they called for calm and restraint.

Recently, the Executive Council took a decision to visit all municipalities that were affected by service delivery protests. After communicating with all the structures in the municipalities and an advanced team was then tasked to identify the destroyed property in those areas. Members of the Executive council are expected to visit some of those affected areas.

Key issues that will be addressed during these visits include, social grants, progress on projects of government and information on new projects. Members of the Executive Council will be deployed to community meetings throughout the wards in the municipality to provide feedback and interact with the communities on any service delivery issue.

The media is invited to all community meetings starting at 15h00. 

Enquiries:

Mokope Taiwe
Tel: 013 766 2288

Issued by: Mpumalanga Office of the Premier