The Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Sicelo Shiceka, will send a high level delegation of department officials to Mpumalanga province to investigate community concerns and devise the turn-around strategy in response to recent community protests in the province.
Briefing the media after the meeting with the Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza and the provincial Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Norman Mokoena, Minister Shiceka told journalists that senior officials from the national department will be dispatched to Mpumalanga this week to work together with the province in finding solutions to people’s concerns.
“The team will be responsible for assisting the province to identify the problems, solutions and also to come up with the turn-around strategy as a short term intervention,” said Minister Shiceka.
The meeting was to brief the Minister on the recent spate of protest by the communities in the municipalities in the province, and to hatch a plan to resolve people’s grievances.
Minister Shiceka also emphasised that the intervention would not be limited to Mpumalanga province but there would be a turn-around strategy to assist all municipalities in the country who are falling behind in service delivery.
Issued by: Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs
15 July 2009
Source; Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (http://www.dplg.gov.za/)
