Media invite: The budget of the people goes to the people

The budget of the people goes to the people KwaZulu-Natal for Finance, Ms Ina Cronjé will on Friday, 15 April 2011, visit Ulundi in Northern KwaZulu-Natal to unpack in detail the budget speech which she tabled in the provincial legislature last month.

MEC Cronjé is serious about changing people’s lives through the 2011/12 provincial budget. Her visits are aimed at informing and educating business communities, local leaders and communities on how they can benefit from the provincial purse and to encourage everyone to be part of the budget process.

Chatting to Finance Minister, Mr Pravin Gordhan recently, Cronjé was pleased to hear from Gordhan that the provincial initiatives towards financial literacy, saving and the involvement of the public in the provincial budget are not going un-noticed.

This visit is in two forms:

1. A breakfast session with local business people which normally attracts about 200 invited guests, where the business sector is encouraged to work with the government to create jobs on a bigger scale and to educate them on how to go about doing business with the provincial government. Business fraternity is encouraged to give government the quality work which the government pays for. They are discouraged from seeing government as cash-cow by over-quoting and rendering poor service in a bid to get rich overnight.

2. As well as a community event that attracts between 2 000 to 3 000 community members, local politicians and traditional leaders. People are encouraged to assess if the budget is fulfilling its objectives that include improving health and education, ensuring rural development, fighting crime and corruption, and creating jobs.

All media are invited to attend.

Details are as follows:

Breakfast session

Date: Friday, 15 April 2011
Time: 07h00
Venue: Old Legislature Building (Dining Room) , Administration Building, Ulundi

Community event

Date: Friday, 15 April 2011
Time: 11h00
Venue: Multipurpose Centre (Ulundi)

Kindly RSVP before 10h00 on Thursday, 14 April 2011 to:
Ntokozo Maphisa
Cell: 082 773 0937
E-mail: ntokozo.maphisa@kzntreasury.gov.za

For more information please contact:
Musa Cebisa
Cell: 071 687 8777