North West Premier Maureen Modiselle today declared the impoverished Piet Plessis community in the Kagisano local municipality near Vryburg as a Special Rural Development Premier's project. She was addressing the hundreds of mainly farm workers community provincial Freedom Day celebrations in the area.
Premier Modiselle also handed out food parcels to needy households earlier today and was accompanied by several MECs and members of the provincial legislature.
She said that the provincial government will be rolling out a rural industry development programme as a means of ensuring that people get employed within their villages.
"I will be outlining at least two of such programmes for the North West in my budget speech," she added.
She further said that the provincial government will be starting a process of integrating into its programmes the scientific prowess of the industrial engineering faculty of the North West University.
"The direct benefits of this will be sustainable and village based job creation," Modiselle said.
She said government will also create an infrastructure to beneficiate beef and stock farming production in the Vryburg area. She said this will be done to ensure that rural and farming areas start to become popular for their agricultural leadership as opposed to right wing related populism.
Premier Modiselle has committed to ensure that government's comprehensive rural development programme is rolled out in its entirety in Piet Plessis.
For more information contact:
Kgotso Khumalo
Cell: 082 7288 400
Tel: 018 387 3456
E-mail: khumalok@nwpg.gov.za
