The budget of the people goes to the people KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Finance, Ms Ina Cronjé will on Friday, 6 May 2011, visit uMkhanyakude District Municipality in Northern KwaZulu-Natal to unpack in detail the provincial budget which she tabled recently and was passed by the provincial legislature.
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.
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, 6 May 2011
Time: 07h00
Venue: St Lucia, Sports and Conference Hall
Community event
Date: Friday, 6 May 2011
Time: 11h00
Venue: Hlabisa, eMakhosini Community Hall
Kindly RSVP before 15h00 on Thurday, 5 May 2011 to Ntokozo Maphisa on 082 7730 937. E-mail: ntokozo.maphisa@gmail.com / ntokozo.maphisa@yahoo.com
For more information please contact:
Musa Cebisa
Cell: 071 687 8777
Ntokozo Maphisa
Cell: 082 773 0937
Tel: 033 846 6986
E-mails: ntokozo.maphisa@kzntreasury.gov.za / ntokozo.maphisa@yahoo.com / ntokozo.maphisa@gmail.com or KwaZulu-Natal Treasury
