near Rustenburg
9 July 2006
Rustenburg is the fastest growing city in the continent of Africa. It is the
city to watch, particularly as peoples of the world start descending on our
shores in anticipation of the greatest football showpiece of the world, the
2010 Federation International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. This was
said by North West Premier, Edna Molewa during the official opening of the
Kedar Country Hotel and Conference Centre, near Rustenburg. The hotel is
situated at the farm that once belonged to the President of the Transvaal Boer
Republic, Paul Kruger.
The economic region around Rustenburg presents the North West with a
particularly strategic opportunity to build the economy, develop communities
and make reality the better life that all citizens of this province deserve.
The opening of this hotel and conference centre is very significant,
considering that the Royal Bafokeng Stadium has been chosen as one of the
candidates in which the foot-balling nations of the world will compete in 2010.
The hotel offers 63 bedrooms; 12 standards, 33 de luxe, a two-roomed
Presidential Suite and Royal Suite, five curio shops and a health spa will be
added soon.
âWe view this hotel as part of the critical growth path that we have taken
as a province which focuses on such priority programmes as tourism and the
hospitality industry as a basis for sustainable economic growth and employment
creation in the North West Province. We hope this hotel will continue to play
an important role in the unfolding growth and development of the province and
the people of North Westâ, said Molewa.
She said that in supporting initiatives like the Kedar Hotel, Government
makes no secret of its objectives of building a competitive and
labour-absorbing economy, massively increasing public investment and actively
promoting equity and development.
As a matter of fact, she said, the Provincial Growth and Development
Strategy (PGDS) makes it virtually impossible for any business to thrive in the
province if it does not involve key stakeholders such as Government, the
business community in general, organised labour and the general community of
the province.
She added: âIn this era of Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for
South Africa (AsgiSA), it is absolutely critical that economic growth in the
province must be shared. That is the essence of AsgiSA.
It is not some strange sophisticated animal that government has invented. It
is a way of saying whatever we do as government, as business and labour,
whatever programmes we support must accelerate growth and development while at
the same time that growth must be shared among the peopleâ.
She urged people of the province never to overestimate the positive
spin-offs that will accrue to the province and to the welfare and development
of the people of the province in general. Kedar Country Hotel is definitely an
ideal ecotourism destination, offering services and products in the fields of
environmental education, hospitality and recreation.
The Premier commended the owners and management of Kedar Hotel for having
the vision and commitment to harness the economic growth potential of this area
in general and the hospitality industry in particular. She assured them that
there will be many returns on this valuable investment.
Enquiries: Cornelius Tanana Monama
Tel: (018)387 3456
Cell: 082 578 4063
Issued by: Office of the Premier
9 July 2006
