Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will, on 16 and 17 April 2010, visit Lubala village in the Eastern Cape Province to conduct service delivery verification.
The Deputy President indicated a desire to visit all launch sites of the war on poverty campaign to conduct service delivery verification.
Government launched the war on poverty campaign in Lubala village in September of 2008 and commitments on service delivery were made at this launch.
The service delivery verification visits aim to ascertain progress made in meeting commitments made to communities, households and individuals during the campaign launches; to re-energise and re-focus the anti-poverty initiatives of government and to provide political leadership and mobilise all stakeholders.
The war on poverty campaign is an instrument of coordination, alignment, support and supervision of anti-poverty initiatives to impact greatly on households and communities living in poverty in the short-term, to halve poverty by 2014 and eventually eradicating it in the long term.
Cabinet ushered the war on poverty campaign in 2008 as a short-term intervention of the anti-poverty strategy to address immediate and pressing issues of poverty as a matter of urgency.
Media are invited to cover the event and are requested to RSVP with: Terrence Manase
Cell: 082 338 6707
E-mail: terrence@po.gov.za
Tshegofatso Modubu
Cell: 083 276 0786
E-mail: tshegofatso@gcis.gov.za
Shadi Baloyi
Cell: 076 946 7136
E-mail: shadib@gcis.gov.za
For more information please contact:
Zingaphi Jakuja
Cell: 082 766 3940
Issued by: The Presidency
12 April 2010
