Members of the Executive Council Honourable Members of the Legislature
Executive Mayors, Mayors, Honourable Speakers, Chief Whips and Councillors Chairperson of SALGA and the Executive Committee
Director General of the Province Heads of Department
Marena le Dikgosi
Veterans and Stalwarts of our Liberation Struggle Comrades and Friends
Ladies and gentlemen
Madame Speaker, I stand here in the context of the human rights month. Human rights, ditokelo tsa botho, this is the meaning upon which I anchor this budget vote commitment.
Our work is about rights; the right to a home, the right to services and good governance. Our work is about ensuring that all Free State citizens live in decent conditions in suitable human settlements as per national priorities.
Motsamaisi wa dipuisano, selemong sena re keteka le ho hlompha bophelo ba mohale wa rona ya ileng a lwanela tokoloho, Monghadi OR Tambo. This is our struggle stalwart whose commitment to the course of liberation, of human rights and social integration still lives to date.
His message remains our source of strength and his legacy and vision, our guide to action towards achieving the goal of freedom and unity. In the context of human settlements, this means to achieve socially integrated human settlements that enhance the spirit of freedom and unity to a better South Africa.
Speaking at Georgetown University on January 27, 1987, Oliver Tambo summed up his vision on racial integration, harmony and unity. "We seek to create a united democratic and non-racial society.
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. It is our responsibility to break down barriers of division and create a country where there will be neither Whites nor Blacks, just South Africans, free and united in diversity.”
This message is equally reiterated by Steve Biko’s lessons of Black Consciousness which we also commemorate in this Human Rights Month.
On these footsteps we walk; and do so certain of attaining our goal of a united South Africa that lives together in spatially integrated settlements devoid of class or racial segregation. We run the race of equality and social integration started by
OR Tambo and his fellow Freedom Fighters, to achieve settlements that no longer have racially motivated buffer zones, which relegate our people to places far from cities and employment opportunities, with little or no services.
We have, to this effect, plans for a racially integrated approach in all our human settlements developments which are closer to cities, have amenities and infrastructure for services.
As an example, our current programme targets Ventersburg where township establishment for a mixed-race development has been completed and plans to install internal infrastructure services during the 2017- 2018 financial year are in progress.
Our Hillside view integrated development in Bloemfontein addresses integration need and so does our Nic Ferreira homes in Sasolburg which have clearly achieved development within the Central Business District.
Madame Speaker, baahi ba Free State ka ho otloloha, mona re bua ka bodulo. Ke mang a kileng a dula mokhukhung kapa ntlong ya 2-room kapa mokgorong wa kamore e le nngwe le le 6 kapa ho feta? I am sure too that some of us experienced using the faint light of a candle or paraffin, an earth fire or coal stove or mbaula…. The list is endless.
I am certain too, that most of us come from a background where we experienced a flooding roof or house in rainy seasons, limited space in our house or a biting cold winter air as it seeped through corrugated iron roof or makeshift windows.
I am certain too that we must have experienced rental accommodation in a backyard or other, and had to bear with rental challenges. Kajeko Mastene o tjena, hosane o tje! No one wants to be home without being home.
Through this Madame Speaker, I am painting a picture of human settlements related challenges that our people face. These are but the tip of an iceberg within human settlements.
Our work addresses these challenges in a variety of programmes. The challenge however is that not all of our people can be reached at once and adequately to ensure that they all have homes.
You just need to see the shacks built alongside our beautiful houses or the backyard dwellers... The waiting lists are growing and we are doing the best that we can to address this need. Our challenges are diverse and complex as illustrated recently in Welkom.
Heeeeee itse ha ntse ke dutse ke lokisetsa tsatsi le latelang, ka fumana mohala o tswang Lefapheng la Sepolesa, Ditsela le Dipalangwang hore kwana Welkom maponesa a fumane hore ho na le matlo ao ho dulang matswantle ho ona. Jwang jwale? Ke moo ke kopang hore Security Management and Anti Corruption (SMAC) ya lefapha e phenyekolle monyenyetsi oo hore e fumane ha e hlile e le nnete.
Security Management and Anti-corruption, ke batho ba thibelang manyofonyofo le bokunyata. Ba ile ba nyolohela Thandanani, Welkom, ka ho potlaka. Ba kgutla ka taba tse sa thabiseng hobane ba ne ba bone hore bothata bo teng, hape bo boholo.
Re ile ra dula fatshe ra nahana leano la hore re ka etsa jwang hore re lwantshane le manyofonyofo a moo. Re ne re hloka bopaki bo felletseng mme ra tla ka leano le latelang:
Re ile ra bitsa kopano hore re dule re rarolle bothata bona hobane batho ba rona ba hloka matlo empa batho ba tswang ka ntle ba dula hamonate matlong ao e tlamehileng e be e le a batho ba rona.
Re ile ra bitsa Home Affairs, Social Development, Police, Roads and Transport mme ra dumellana ka hore re a ya Thandanani 2010 mme re ilo lwantsha manyofonyofo ana. Ka 13 Hlakubele 2017 hofihlela 17 Hlakubele 2017 ra qala Operation Hlasela moo Thandanani.
Re ile ra fihla ra hlasela matlo ao Lefapha la Sepolesa, Ditsela le Dipalangwang le re romelletseng ona; e hlile re fumane mathata a le teng. Hodimo ho moo re ile ra phenyekolla matlo a mang a neng a se teng palong ya matlo ao re neng re na le ona.
Maponesa a ne a phenyekolla a batla dintho tse seng molaong, ha Immigration Unit e ne e sheba dipasa le dipasspport. Ba Sephethephethe bane ba hlahloba mangolo a ho kganna le dikoloi. Lefapa la matlo le ne le hlahloba hore na motho a fumanwang ka tlung ke mong’a ntlo na. Social Development e ne e shebana le mahlatsipa a teng Thandanani ao a neng a ka thuswa ke mosebetsi wa Social Development.
Re fumane tse latelang:
- Matlo kaofela a hlahlobilweng a 350
- Matlo a hantle ke a 250
- Matlo a manyofonyofo a 40
- Matlo a o re sa tholang batho ho ona a 60
- Matswantle a seng molaong a dulang matlong arona a 30
- Sephethephethe se tshwere 1 ya lastbrief
- Maponesa a tshwere motho a le mong oo ntho tse phehang gauta difumanweng moo a dulang. Le tsona ba di hapile.
Full speech [PDF]
