Masuku (MPL)
7 June 2007
Madam Speaker of the Mpumalanga Legislature, Honourable Mrs Yvonne
Phosa
The Premier of Mpumalanga, the Honourable Mr Thabang Makwetla
The Deputy Speaker of the Mpumalanga Legislature, the Honourable Mr BJ
Nobunga
Members of the Executive Council
Honourable Members of the Mpumalanga Legislature
Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works, Roads and
Transport
Members of Parliament and the National Council of Provinces
The Chairperson of the House of Traditional Leaders in Mpumalanga, Inkosi
Mthethwa
Your Excellencies, the royalty of our province, Amakhosi, le Magosi
Honourable Mayors,
Speakers and Councillors
Heads of departments and parastatals
Distinguished guests, friends and citizens of this province
We are halfway through the third term of a democratic government that has
committed to work together with the people in a contract to make their lives
better; a term at the three-quarter mark of our journey towards 2014, where we
are all expected, that through our sweat, the millennium goals to halve poverty
and unemployment, are expected to be a reality. When we began the journey in
2004, we made a commitment to enter into a contract to create jobs and fight
poverty. As we walk this journey, we are always guided by these objectives.
We will walk the last mile of the road together with our people to ensure
that, when we glance back in 2009, we will do so with a great sense of pride
and say loudly that indeed the road that we have travelled, has been
challenging but successful. We shall take our further steps cautiously,
conscious that we are moving a nation that was in darkness into light, from
shame to pride, from hate to love and most importantly, from hunger to
abundance and from despair to hope.
Our democracy can only be enjoyed by people who have homes, who have water
and electricity, who have jobs and the skills that enhances their performance
to compete in the harsh global labour market. The objective of our budget is
therefore about building a sense of pride, hope, and a sense of belonging
derived from right and ability to exercise freedom of movement and of choice,
of which knowledge, skills, and clean bill of health and wellness is a
complement.
Through this journey we have learned and experienced, grown and matured in
the midst of various serious social challenges facing our communities. In this
journey, indeed, not of the faint-hearted; we are often saved and at times
assisted by our inspiration towards achieving our strategic goal of creating a
democratic and prosperous nation. President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the
Nation Address said, and I quote: "None of the great social problems we have to
solve is capable of resolution outside the context of the creation of jobs and
the alleviation and eradication of poverty." Our budget therefore, Madam
Speaker, is about growth, social development and transformation of our society.
It is a budget for job creation, poverty eradication, capacity building and
infrastructural development and sustenance; a commitment we made in our
manifesto that we shall roll out a massive infrastructure programme as part of
the means to "stimulate economic growth, social development and transformation"
as Thoko Didiza, the national Minister of Public Works reconfirmed in her
budget and policy speech of 28 March 2007.
Earlier this year, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel also reminded us of this
commitment when he emphasised that the Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)
must rise from 16% in 2004 to 25% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) if this
country intends to achieve economic growth of six percent by 2014. For us, this
means that construction investment countrywide must rise to about eight percent
of GDP. We are all working hard to make this a reality, while recognising the
many challenges that we need to tackle in the province in order to unlock
infrastructure bottlenecks that hinders creation of jobs, development of
skills, promotion and development of the small, medium and micro enterprise
(SMME) business sector facilitation of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
(BBBEE) and broadening participation of youth, women and people with
disabilities in all provincial programmes and in the infrastructure delivery
and management of the province. It is during this last mile that we must and
will continue to intensify our efforts aimed at honouring our contractual
obligations with the people.
Madam Speaker, we shall all recall that the Premier in his budget speech
pronounced our commitment to stimulate growth, social development and
prosperity through the "Big 5." In this "Big 5," he demonstrated how we seek to
stimulate economic growth and development to create jobs and eradicate poverty
through corridor development and enhancing of tourism, how we are going to
restore human dignity through ensuring access to clean water, as well as
promotion and acknowledgement of our proud human and ecological heritage as
part of the growing of our tourism.
All said and done, within the "Big 5" is the acknowledgement of capacity
challenges and the need for programmes to respond to them. Madam Speaker and
the house, our understanding is that for this to happen, we will need an
educated, skilled and healthy citizen. We will need technicians, health
practitioners, managers and innovative and dynamic leaders in our society and
these do not grow on trees, but are produced in a classroom. It is Public
Works' responsibility to ensure that quality classrooms are produced that will
enable the Department of Education to ensure quality learning. A healthy nation
can only be possible if there are health, laboratory and research facilities in
place.
The Departments of Health and Social Services again deal with the content,
while the delivery of quality facilities is the function of Public Works.
Innovative and dynamic managers and leaders are produced through education and
are recruited through the administrative processes of government. However, as
for the provision of appropriate buildings, accommodation and offices, such is
the function of Public Works. If there are any weaknesses in this regard, we
are saying, as such we are guilty as charged.
The Mpumalanga Department of Public Works this year celebrates its third
year as the new stand alone, dedicated public building infrastructure delivery
arm in the province. Members shall recall that this department was also given
the task of ensuring that government institutions plan and implement programmes
in a labour intensive manner that provide for cushioning job opportunities for
the ones living in abject poverty, while allowing for training to take place in
the process and promoting the participation of women, youth and people with
physical disabilities through expanded public works.
It has been three years of achievement for this department, but also three
years of challenges to transform the face of this province's infrastructure and
property sectors. We are proud that through our development efforts within the
public sector we have not only laid the basis for shared growth but have
created assets that will contribute towards improving the physical environment
for our clients. It is in this context that we commit once again to our
standing motto: "Help Mpumalanga Work" because we would have created an
enabling environment for all those who utilise our assets.
On providing educational infrastructure
The policy and budget speech for Education has been presented and we all
have been made alive to the direction that the department wants to take, the
programmes put in place and the challenges it faces. Amongst them is the issue
of the way in which infrastructure delivery is planned for, the speed at which
it is delivered, its quality and the capacity to monitor and ensure
quality.
Indeed issues of planning have been a challenge. However, we need to
acknowledge the progress that has been made in this regard that has resulted in
an increase in the spending on educational infrastructure.
There has been an increase from 30% in 2004/05, to 67% in 2006/07, (which in
itself showed a drastic increase of 44% from the slump figure of 23% in
2005/06). We are hard at work to put in place a system that will bring us to a
satisfactory performance of 100% expenditure on educational infrastructure. It
is for this reason that for this financial year, we are targeting a 100%
expenditure record in the budgeted 188 projects, worth R400 million. However, a
few steps into the year, reality is dawning. Lack of capacity and skills remain
one of the most serious challenges this department has to deal with. We will
exert ourselves in a manner that will see us, under a worse scenario, to at
least maintain our growth in the expenditure to be a minimum of 80%, given that
we are at 67% in this financial year. We are aiming also to clear all
uncompleted and unclosed projects by the end of the year.
We must thank the intervention of the Premier in establishing a special
Executive Committee to look at what can be done to improve our infrastructure
delivery. Our gratitude goes also to Treasury, who initiated the
Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme (IDIP) that is improving our
planning capacity tremendously. MEC Masango, in his policy and budget speech
last Friday, 1 June 2007, hinted at his concern over the nature of design that
continues to perpetuate apartheid school infrastructure delivery. To this we
would like to say to the MEC, members and the community at large, that the
appeal did not fall on deaf ears. This year we will also embark on changing the
appearance of schools with a new architectural concept for all the new schools
that we think there is room to still pilot from this financial year onwards. We
will be consulting with Education on this important matter.
On health infrastructure
With regard to health infrastructure, the trend has been different in that
spending has ranged from overspending of 127% in 2004/5, to 100% in 2006/07 on
the infrastructure grant, while equitable share spending was down at 38% in
2004/05 and up again to 100% in 2006/07. It is for this reason that for this
year we are targeting a 100% expenditure record on the budgeted 32 projects
worth R155 million for this year. These projects will include forensic
mortuaries for Ermelo and Evander Hospitals and offices for Social Services,
which were identified as new projects by the Department of Health and Social
Services. Public Works will manage the planning and implementation of these
projects.
On other infrastructure projects
The department continued to facilitate and supervise the delivery of
infrastructure by other departments, excluding Local Government and Housing and
Roads and Transport. In the year 2006/07 we facilitated the design and land
identification for the Provincial Archive building and the Disaster Management
Centre on behalf of the Department of Culture, Sports and Recreation and
Department of Local Government and Housing respectively.
In 2007/2008, the department will continue with the implementation of the
Provincial Archive building and the Provincial Disaster Management Centre. One
of the fascinating projects we completed in the financial year, was the
upgrading of the Samora Machel Memorial site, in the Mbuzini area. The
department was the implementing agent for the construction of the new
amphitheatre, museum building, ablution facilities, physical security and the
supply of electricity and water that is also supplied to the nearby community.
What makes this fascinating is that beyond the fact that the entire project was
completed in record time, it was the innovation that was involved in trying to
achieve the almost impossibly tight deadline that was there.
Members would recall that it had to be done before the day planned for the
commemoration of the Samora Machel disaster, which was to be attended by both
the Presidents of South Africa and Mozambique. The weather did not help the
situation.
Towards improving infrastructure delivery mechanisms
The role of Public Works is critical to overcome a range of potential
capacity constraints including the planning, procuring and maintaining of
infrastructure. In this context, I am pleased to report that significant
results have been achieved. Notably, provincial public infrastructure spending
has improved last year as a result of multi-faceted interventions and
partnerships. Over the past two years we have directed a great deal of effort
towards the critical goal of developing and transforming the construction
industry. One of these interventions has been the implementation of the
Construction Industry Development Board's (CIDB's) Register of Contractors
among all government departments and entities in all three spheres of
government in this province.
The introduction of the CIDB Register of Contractors has not been a smooth
and easy process, but we have remained firm in our resolve to regulate the
sector for improved equity and quality, and to create a firm foundation for
development and transformation of the industry in the province. It is worth
noting that there has definitely been a deepening of capacity in the Mpumalanga
construction industry over the past year with many of our contractors improving
their grading status and of these a high percentage are black-owned small and
medium sized enterprises.
The quality of contractor's work has also improved as the number of
contractors registered on higher levels increased. For example, in December
2005 there were only 36 contractors registered above level three. By the end of
May 2007, that figure already stood at 392. The implementation of the CIDB
register has therefore also seen the department slowly weeding out "fly by
night" players, whose failure rate has undermined delivery.
Our experience with the register has shown that many emerging contractors
still do not have access to the mainstream of the construction industry. For
this reason, the department will develop a framework through which the grading
of contractors will be improved from the middle to higher levels. An ideal
vehicle for the implementation of this framework is the departmental emerging
contractor development programme, the Sakh'abakhi Programme, which was formally
launched in March 2007. Fifty-two contractors who were appointed under the
Sakh'abakhi programme last year will be further developed and capacitated to
complete their two-year contract, while an additional thirty contractors will
join the programme, bringing the total contractors on the Sakh'abakhi programme
to 82.
The first intake on the project had already completed four school projects,
while new infrastructure projects have been identified on which they will
receive on-the-job training in this financial year. Two of the challenges which
we experienced in the previous financial year, the lack of bridging finance for
the contractors to start their projects and credit for acquiring material were
addressed during this financial year. One supplier of material Build It and a
financing company, Nurcha Financing Company have agreed to assist our
contractors in this regard, thereby setting an example that we hope other
private sector companies will follow. The Sakh'abakhi programme had already
created work for 535 workers from local communities just in this past financial
year alone.
We believe that the training and capacity building provided by the
Sakh'abakhi programme will add to the growth of sustainable enterprises in this
province enterprise that will become the employers and infrastructure
developers of the future.
On property and facility management
The young people in the provincial Vukuphile Learnership Programme under the
EPWP have given us confidence that it is possible to build a contractor and a
contractor supervisor programme in a period of two years. I wish to commend the
Municipalities who have used their Municipal Infrastructure Grant as part of
the Vukuphile Learnership Programme. In particular, I would like to commend the
Nkangala District Municipality for its pioneering efforts in this regard.
The provincial Vukuphile Learnership Programme has now produced its first 34
qualified contractors at NQF level two as well as 64 qualified contracting
supervisors at NQF Level four, who will graduate soon.
Additional service improvement initiatives
We have met and interacted with contractors and consultants through our
Departmental Outreach Programme. We have offered them a platform and an
opportunity to express their views, frustrations and appreciation and
furthermore, to influence our policies and programmes. We intend to continue
with these interactions during 2007/08 to unblock issues that are hampering
progress in the implementation of our BBBEE policies as well as empowerment of
targeted groups, namely youth, women, and people with disabilities. In
particular, the department will host a number of construction summits where we
will come to an agreement with stakeholders as to how to address such problems.
The first Youth in Construction Summit will be held later this month, while we
are planning Women in Construction Summit for August and will end the year with
a final Construction Summit.
Many of those employed, will need to be skilled. The department will
continue to work with all stakeholders such as the Department of Labour, the
Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA), the province's learning
institutions such as the Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges, the
Mpumalanga Regional Training Trust (MRTT) and Construction Industry Development
Board (CIDB) to ensure that we overcome bottlenecks in the development of
critical skills.
The Public Sector property portfolio in our province remains one of the
largest in the form of land and buildings. Some of these are and will continue
to be used for the accommodation needs of government departments and public
entities. The property portfolio therefore requires that we do not only pride
ourselves as being a dominant player but rather we should also concern
ourselves about the return on the investment for the provincial government as
it relates to these assets. We also want to begin to look at our properties and
see if we cannot use our procurement procedures to accelerate the
transformation of that sector.
On the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)
Another critical component of our service delivery mandate is the Expanded
Public Works Programme that establishes a bridge between the first and second
economies, enabling job and skills opportunities, an essential foothold for
those historically marginalised from economic participation. Our department's
function has been the co-ordination of the creation of job opportunities within
the province through the EPWP across four sectors, namely Infrastructure,
Social, Economic, Environment and Cultural. I am happy to announce that in
2005/ 06, a target of 20 000 job opportunities was set. This target was
increased to the creation of 25 000 job opportunities in 2006/07.
I am proud to report that through the Expanded Public Works Programme, we
have succeeded in alleviating poverty among our people while simultaneously
providing them with work experience and skills. This has added impetus to our
journey of success, thus creating hope as part of our people's contract. A
total of 19 150 job opportunities were created for the 2005/06 financial year
against the target of 20 000 (by 31 March 2006 as per the National Department
of Public Works report) and 9 892 job opportunities were created by the end of
September 2006 against the target of 25 000 for the 2006/07 financial year.
The 43 206 job opportunities created against a target of 42 500 over two and
a half years, shows that the province is exceeding its targets and is therefore
well on the way to reaching the 100 000 job opportunities that must be created
in this province over a period of five years. In 2007/08 the EPWP areas
identified for the massification of the programme are access roads and the
social sector's Home Community Based Care and Early Childhood Development
projects. Currently identified and verified projects targeted for the creation
of 25 000 job opportunities for this year stand at 323 with a total value of R
433,7 million. The projects are spread over the four sectors as follows: 115
projects in the infrastructure sector to the value of R355,6 million; 42
projects in the economic sector to the value of R41,1million; and 161 social
sector projects to the value of R33,9 million.
There are also five projects in the environmental sector to the value of R3
million. We would like to thank all client departments and municipalities that
have contributed these projects. May I also take this opportunity to remind
members of this house and the community out there that these projects are
located and funded within different departments with monitoring and
co-ordination of the implementation by Public Works. Additional to this, the
department of Public Works itself is clearing the six projects funded through
the previous extended Public Works to a tune of R8 million, in which basic
community infrastructure such as pension pay points are built.
We want to indicate that this will be the last time that we will be
budgeting for the building of such infrastructure as a department. Either the
Department of Health and Social Services or municipalities will have to take
care of it, as we will be returning to our core business as defined earlier on.
We are also of the view that there are still more untapped areas that can be
activated and be made compliant with the required framework of the EPWP. We
have just recently had our quarterly MEC and municipalities (MUNMEC), where
this was confirmed. In order to improve skills development, the National Skills
Fund (NSF) has allocated funding to the province for EPWP training.
The number of learnership programmes will also increase in this financial
year. We would like to thank Nkangala District Municipality for leading the
pack in the implementation of the EPWP amongst the municipalities and for
initiating their own new learnership programme. Thembisile Municipality has
also joined, while other municipalities are joining the race to increase the
roll-out of the EPWP. We hope that through these efforts we can add to the
eight EPWP learnership programmes already in place in the province.
On 15 February 2007 the national Department of Public Works held the maiden
EPWP Recognition Awards as an annual event in recognition of the men, women,
and youth who give the Expanded Public Works Programme their best. We would
like to take this moment and congratulate the Home Based Care Givers of Nkomazi
at Tonga, community access road builders of Embalenhle near Secunda, to the
first Sakh'abakhi contractors at Malekutu. To the rest who participated in
other projects we also want to say: You are winners in the business of busting
poverty.
I am aware of the criticisms levelled against the short term nature of the
jobs created through EPWP. Nevertheless, as they say in Afrikaans: 'Bietjie,
bietjie maak meer or 'Half a loaf is better than nothing.'
On infrastructure for administrative purposes
In the previous financial year, we set aside some money to establish new
offices, as a means to save costs on rentals. The construction of the new
district offices at Elukwatini in the Gert Sibande Region is nearing
completion. In 2007/08, some of the projects will include the construction of a
community hall at Manzini, the renovation of a women's craft market building at
Malekutu and the installation of lifts at the KwaMhlanga Government Complex.
All these projects will further contribute to the EPWP cause in the province as
they incorporate EPWP principles in all tender documents.
The department is also managing the implementation of various projects for
the Mpumalanga Legislature that includes, amongst others, a video conferencing
room and the refurbishment of the Legislature, projects that will continue in
this financial year. By changing from an analogue to a digital system, the
Legislature will now be able to link directly with other legislatures across
the country and therefore improve access to government.
On property management
One of our main priorities for the 2006/07 financial year was to complete
the asset verification process through which we intended to compile a
comprehensive list of all government immovable properties both land and
buildings. During the process, we also intended to identify all properties that
still needed to be vested in the province. The verification process is complete
and the provincial government immovable asset register now contains 5 553
properties (or land) and 8 000 buildings or structures, to name but a few. The
verification process has also pointed out several aspects that will need more
attention in this financial year. They include improving control over property
leases by updating outdated lease agreements, investigating the alleged illegal
sale of properties, registering an additional 250 properties found during the
process and addressing vandalism at vacant properties. The department will also
continue with the vesting of outstanding properties.
On the national policy front, the national Department of Public Works has
started with the implementation of the Government-wide Immovable Asset
Management Act, better known as Government-wide Immovable Asset Management
(GIAMA). GIAMA provides for improved planning for immovable assets, which in
turn will result in more efficient and effective use of these resources.
In this financial year, once the Act is proclaimed, all provincial
government departments and entities will be required to compile User Immovable
Asset Management Plans (UAMPs) as part of the strategic plans which they will
annually submit to Treasury. These plans should indicate how assets are being
planned and managed in terms of established asset management principles, based
on the fundamental principle that the contribution of immovable assets to
service delivery must be optimized. As a result of this improved planning, the
fiscus will benefit from a reduction in the overall cost of service delivery
coupled with reduced demand for new immovable assets.
Infrastructure maintenance
Honourable Speaker and members, the Regional Services of the department are
responsible for maintenance of the building infrastructure of the Provincial
Government and therefore serves all the other departments of
Mpumalanga. However, the regions receive thousands of emergency day-to-day
maintenance requests. Amongst others, the regions attended to and completed a
total of 19 219 emergency maintenance requests, provided steam at 15 hospitals
and managed preventative maintenance projects on behalf of client departments.
This number is increasing exponentially due to the lack of preventative
maintenance because of inadequate funding. The department also continued the
servicing and maintenance of life support and radio communication network
equipment for client departments.
We must indicate, however, that the Department of Public Works does not
necessarily budget for all maintenance and that it is supposed to be built into
the budget allocated to institutions. Currently, we think that institutions are
not budgeting enough for this function, thus leave government property in a
state of serious disrepair. In order to address the backlog, this department,
in collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Services, launched
Project Facelift in 2006/2007, which targeted clinics per region where
maintenance could be done with the limited staff available in the department.
Project Lungisa is another of such joint initiatives with the Department of
Health that has remarkably changed the outlook of the wards in Themba Hospital
despite its humble beginnings.
In the long term, to avoid weaknesses observed with regard to the
maintenance of government infrastructure, the department will, as guided by the
National Infrastructure Management Strategy, submit to the Executive Council
the maintenance framework for all public building infrastructures before the
end of the financial year. The framework, once approved, will oblige all
departments to budget for the maintenance of these facilities. No longer shall
it be that a government facility can only be distinguished from private sector
properties by its state of dilapidation and poor maintenance. As part of value
adding to our work and ensuring that public officials and servants take
ownership of and pride in their workplace, we shall initiate the process of
renaming our building and we will take into account all the recommendations
that this house has made.
National Youth Service (NYS)
In an ongoing effort to upscale the scope and the impact of the EPWP,
government has announced the launch of the National Youth Service a joint
initiative with the Umsobomvu Youth Fund, Department of Labour and provincial
departments of Public Works. Our department has moved fast to ensure a solid
contribution to the NYS in response to President Thabo Mbeki's call during the
State of the Nation Address in February this year.
As announced by the Premier in his State of the Province Address in February
2007, the department's contribution will include the recruitment and built
environment skills training of no less than 500 unemployed youth and graduates.
So far the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works has identified renovation
projects in each of its three regions to kick-start the NYS in the province.
This includes renovations to the Batho Pele building in Ermelo, landscaping at
the KwaMhlanga Government Complex and maintenance of Pilgrim's Rest, amongst
others.
The youth identified for these projects will be trained as artisans and we
hope to see 20% of them exiting the year-long programme as entrepreneurs - with
funding assistance from the Umsombovu Youth Fund, while some 85% to be
available for employment in the built environment. We also hope to absorb 10%
of the participants in this programme in formal government employment. The
participants have already completed an induction programme and are about to
start on their training programme. As mentioned before, we will hold a Youth in
Construction Summit during Youth Month that will culminate in the official
launch of the Provincial Youth Service Programme. Furthermore, we have
intensified our learnership and internship programmes with a view to provide
them with relevant skills that will enable them to secure gainful employment
and have new hope in life.
Internal capacity building
After thorough analysis of our challenges and after interaction with people
in the industry, it became evident that there is a need to build internal
capacity to ensure qualitative delivery of infrastructure. To this end the
department has just completed some improvements in the organogram to respond to
this. A Workplace Skills Plan was developed and finalised to ensure a more
structured approach to human resource development. Some 870 officials received
skills development training according to this plan. In the past financial year,
the department also appointed 30 interns in scarce skill areas and 48
learnerships were implemented in Information Technology, Public Administration
and Project Management.
Another 342 officials are currently attending Adult Based Education and
Training (ABET) classes as we continue our efforts to empower staff members at
the lower salary levels. We would also like to thank MRTT for preparing many of
our experienced officials to receive their first official qualification as
artisans.
Madam Speaker, honoured guests, it is now my pleasure to present to you the
Strategic Plan, Implementation Plan and the Policy and Budget Speech for Vote 8
Public Works for the 2007/2008 financial year, distributed into three
programmes as follows:
Programme 1: Administration: R54 792 million (fifty four million, seven
hundred and ninety two thousand)
Programme 2: Public Works Building and Property Management: R278 113 million
(two hundred and seventy eight million one hundred and thirteen thousand)
Programme 3: Expanded Public Works Programme: R22 165 million. (twenty two
million, one hundred sixty five thousand).
If you compare this budget with that of the previous financial year, you
will note that the department has once again concentrated its limited funds on
the department's two main functions, Public Works Building and Property
Management and the co-ordination of the Provincial Expanded Public Works
Programme, which will include initiating the National Youth Service.
Conclusion
In conclusion, let me take this opportunity to thank the Office of the
Auditor-General, Provincial Internal Audit, Provincial Treasury, the Standing
Committee on Public Accounts and the Audit Committee for pointing out areas of
weakness that needed improvement. This has aided us in improving service
delivery through improved financial management. I would also like to thank the
Honourable Premier Thabang Makwetla, Members of the Executive Council, Members
of the Legislature and the Portfolio Committee on Public Works, Roads and
Transport for their guidance and the oversight and advisory role they played in
relation to our department.
I wish to thank the Head of Department, Ms Priscilla Nkwinika, all senior
managers as well as staff of the department for their assistance in putting
together such a goal directed budget. I would also like to extend my gratitude
to the members of my office for their unwavering support at all times during a
challenging 2006/07 financial year. My hope is that 2007/08 will be a year of
delivery for this department and for government as a whole as we build on the
foundations of our Age of Hope.
I thank you!
Issued by: Department of Public Works, Mpumalanga Provincial
Government
7 June 2007
Source: Mpumalanga Provincial Government (http://www.mpumalanga.gov.za)
