MEC for Local Government and Housing, Ms Ntombi Mekgwe, will be hosting the 2013 Govan Mbeki Awards, to be held on Thursday, 11 April 2013, 17h30, at the Emperors Palace, Kempton Park.
At this event the MEC will celebrate the accomplished successes of the Gauteng Department of Housing in the provision of the housing opportunities in the province, under the categories of Low Cost Housing, Subsidised Housing, the upgrading of Informal settlements, Social Housing, Community Residential Units, and Rural Housing Projects.
The annual Govan Mbeki Awards also show case excellence in partnerships between contractors and the Gauteng Department of Housing, wherein the MEC will also award the best contractor project, the best youth and Women Contractors respectively.
Prior to the ceremony of the Govan Mbeki Awards, there is a preceding quality monitoring process of projects submitted by entrants throughout Gauteng. The awards ceremony, to be held on Thursday, signals the end of the Gauteng Leg of the process.
The awards are named after the liberation stalwart Govan Mbeki whose life work and struggle envisioned landlessness and homelessness as some of the inhumane legacies of the apartheid system. The ceremony will celebrate those contractors in Gauteng whose work and delivery is symbolic of the quality and dignity of human settlements that Govan Mbeki strove for.
For enquiries contact:
Motsamai Motlhaolwa
Cell: 079 897 2240
E-mail: Motsamai.motlhaolwa@gauteng.gov.za
