Honourable Speaker and Deputy Speaker
Members of the Legislature and NCOP
Honourable Premier Cassel Mathale
Members of the Executive Council
Executive Mayors and Mayors of the Respective Municipalities
Councillors of Sport, Arts and Culture of the Respective Municipalities
Director-General and Heads of Departments
Leaders of opposition parties
Our esteemed Majesties and Your Royal Highnesses here present
Former MPs and MPLs
Stalwarts and Veterans of our struggle
Representatives of religious formations, business and labour movements
Leaders of chapter nine institutions
Youth, Women and Community leaders
Members of the media
Distinguished guests
Comrades, ladies and gentlemen
All protocol observed.
The announcement by FIFA President Sepp Blatter six years ago, that South Africa was going to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, set the tone for Government’s renewed efforts to join forces and work as a team; as a collective, to make a success of the world’s biggest sporting spectacular. We are proud to announce today, that this dream of working together to achieve more became a reality and a resounding success.
We are proud to have been part of the leading force behind this well-oiled machinery.
Today we can put this challenge to all government departments: “Whenever there are big events that will have a huge impact on the province’s socio- economic welfare, join hands, join forces and see the magnificent results!”
Honourable Speaker,
It was with a sense of happiness mixed with disbelief that we witnessed all our dreams and predictions come true, when the people of South Africa and especially the people of Limpopo joined hands and united behind our National Team. They heeded our call for hospitality towards our foreign visitors, and they grabbed the opportunity to come together and create a platform for social cohesion. Indeed, allow me to thank each and every volunteer, both official and non-official, who made South Africa’s biggest dream come true.
Ndo livhuwa! Ndza khensa! Siya Thokoza! Baie dankie! Re a leboga! Shukran!
In short, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa produced the desired social benefits and economic spin-offs we had envisaged for the province. We brought the World Cup to the people, with Public Viewing Areas in all the Districts, where our people had the opportunity to witness the event and cheer on our National Squad in the same colourful and vuvuzela way as those who were fortunate enough to be seated in our World Cup stadia.
The Fan Park in Polokwane also served to create and maintain the World Cup hype. It was a place where people of all cultures and ages got together to experience and celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime event, with song and dance to keep visitors busy in- between matches.
At the African Cultural Village, the great spirit of nations coming together to understand more about each other’s cultures, came to life. The African Cultural Village also allowed our foreign visitors to get the taste of Africa that they had heard so much
about. That is - a taste in both the literal and figurative senses of the word! Our visitors were treated to a colourful explosion of sights, sounds and smells, as the best of authentic African cuisine, arts, crafts and traditional dances were displayed.
The African Cultural Village was, in fact, a personification of how sport, arts, culture and heritage can be blended together into one harmonious display of a country’s character and its cultural fusion of diverse but united expressions, of one common nationhood.
This was in keeping with the policies and practices of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, which seek both to affirm and promote the rich and diverse expressions of South African Culture and to promote the development of a unifying national culture, representing the aspirations of all South Africans, black and white. The African Cultural Village also served to expose the people of the Province and of South Africa, to the cultures of other peoples of our continent and abroad.
Honourable Speaker,
The question now remains: What do we, as a nation, plan to do with this renewed sense of social cohesion and unity? We have set the wheels of unity in motion again, and we have undertaken to build on this new energy.
We firmly believe that a lot can still be done to ensure that we build on this foundation we have laid – the feeling of togetherness and spirit of ubuntu; the great sense of self-confidence that, yes, we too can be counted amongst the best in the community of nations.
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture is determined to keep this flame burning through all our activities and, indeed, has not wasted any time in doing so, shortly after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Honourable Speaker,
The province, in 2010, was blessed with the hosting of a second prestige international event - the INAS- FID 5th World Football Championships for the Intellectually Impaired.
INAS-FID is the International Sports Federation for People with Intellectual Disability. The Federation recommended the Mopani and Capricorn Districts for the hosting of the event, taking into account the special needs of the athletes, including travel times and distances.
Once again, our people responded to this event by coming out in their thousands to support these teams and especially our National Team, The Swans. Our gratitude goes to the emergency services, SAPS and other role players who gave their utmost, professional support during the tournament. The participating teams showered the province with praise, saying that the event had been one of the best they had ever attended.
Even though The Swans did not win the tournament, the people of Limpopo continued to cheer on the participating teams, until the team of Saudi Arabia emerged victorious.
It should be noted that, for the above processes of the Public Viewing Areas and INAS-FID 5th World Football Championships, the Department trained three hundred (300) volunteers who received a stipend during both tournaments. The volunteers will once again be called upon in the forthcoming OR Tambo Games and SA Games, creating short-term jobs and giving them invaluable experience in the field.
There was also the promise that the 2010 FIFA World Cup will leave a lasting legacy, and this promise is taking shape in the form of artificial turf legacy projects.
The Vhembe, Mopani and Sekhukhune Districts will soon boast three of South Africa’s 52 new artificial turf pitches. The Department is closely monitoring this construction project, funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, through the SA Football Association. Club houses are also being built next to the artificial turf pitches that will be utilised by the communities for a range of activities and life skills projects. Construction has commenced in Vhembe and Mopani, while the Sekhukhune artificial turf project is nearing completion.
Honourable Speaker,
We firmly believe that sport and culture are two unifying factors.
We are of the opinion that the hosting of these events and the return of the ever-popular Mapungubwe Festival in December, have served as further catalysts for the promotion of social cohesion and nation building. The Mapungubwe Festival is also the perfect stage to showcase and promote our local artists, from District level, up to the SADC region. However, this will need a joint effort by all spheres of government, as I alluded to supra.
Honourable Speaker,
The 2010 Africa Day Celebrations, coupled with the launch of the African Cultural Village, wonderfully created a melting-pot of a myriad of cultures on one stage.
The Africa Day celebrations included a festival of traditional dances from Limpopo, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe as well as storytelling and poetry in all six of the Province’s official languages. Poet Barbara Botha summed it all with her poem “I am African”, and I wish to quote a few lines:
“How do I know that I’m African? Is it the colour of my skin?
Is it the language that I speak?
Or is it the beliefs of my ancestors? I know this…
The first breath I took was of African air
The first word I spoke, Africa heard.
The first step I took was on African soil.
Every time my heart beats, it beats for Africa. I am African.
Honourable Speaker,
In our planning, we continue to take cognisance of the key priority areas identified in 2009 – that of education, health, the fight against crime, creating decent work and agrarian and land reform. However, President Jacob Gedhleyihlekisa Zuma, in his recent State of the Nation Address, declared that 2011 will be the year of “job creation through meaningful economic transformation and inclusive growth”.
Indeed all of our efforts will have been in vain, if we do not first ensure the creation of decent and sustainable jobs to ultimately address the other key priority areas. We are heeding this call as a matter of urgency and where possible, we have aligned our programmes and projects accordingly.
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture also considers it a priority to break the backbone of illiteracy in our communities. We are thus moving speedily to ensure that all our people – even in the most remote rural areas – have access to well- equipped libraries. We have done the spade work in this regard and we plan to persevere in carrying out this national task in the coming financial year, with the completion of four community libraries. These are the Bakgoma Library in Waterberg District, the Shiluvani Community Library in Mopani District Municipality, the Mutale Library in Vhembe and the Rapotokwane Library in Waterberg.
These projects are set to be completed in the second quarter of the coming financial year.
The construction of another five community libraries will also commence in the coming financial year, at the tune of four million eight hundred thousand rand [R4,800 million]. They are the Muyexe Community Library in the Mopani District Municipality, the Molepo Library in Capricorn District, the Vlakfontein Library in the Sekhukune District, the Mulati Library in Mopani and the Musina Nancefield Library in the Vhembe District Municipality.
The Xihlovu Library in Mopani has recently been completed and officially opened.
These construction projects also serve as a short term job creation opportunity. Once completed, they will allow the people of this province to read, study and reflect in a conducive and well-equipped environment. For many of our people, this has only been a dream until now.
After all, under colonialism and apartheid, the majority of our people and communities were denied access to resources and facilities to exercise and develop their need for cultural and artistic expression. We cannot, and we shall not stop to remind ourselves of our colonial and apartheid past, until this has been completely wiped out of our social and psychological landscape, and a new dispensation of a people’s arts and culture is in place. Indeed, as Graeme Bloch rightly observes:
“While we are never victims of the past, we cannot simply shrug off the way the society we inherited, has influenced the institutions and culture of the present. Institutions and attitudes from the past, channel the perceptions and shape the possibilities of today.”
We, therefore, reiterate our plea to parents to encourage their children to read as much as possible.
With today’s modern electronic technology, reading books may well be something that is far from the minds of our youth. However, we need to teach them the value of reading and the power of knowledge. To deepen and advance our democracy, to eradicate national chauvinism and racial bigotry, to erase male chauvinism and sexism, to put an end to the scourge of poverty, we need a literate and empowered citizenry. To that end, the youth is also our target in our drive to promote multilingualism.
We have recently introduced a Provincial Language Policy, which lays down the ground rules for us as a Province to truly function as a multilingual community.
It is a basic human right and not a privilege, for our people to be served in the language of their choice.
We therefore hereby appeal to all government and private institutions to familiarise themselves with our Language Policy and to implement it as a matter of urgency in their dealings with the people of our province. Only in this way, can we can truly adhere to the principles of Batho Pele and ultimately achieve our vision of a free, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa.
Honourable Speaker,
Our people are consistently demonstrating the appreciation of our heritage, by participating in the annual Ku luma Vukanyi festivities, including the performance of rituals associated with it.
The resuscitation of this practice has changed the heritage landscape, in that a number of communities have begun to observe the practise without government’s intervention. Traditional leadership are taking their central stage in informing the content of this practice.
We have further decided to rotate this activity to all our districts, in order to ensure that all the people of our Province, in their diversity, begin to appreciate this activity and its significance, and also to preserve it for posterity. The 2011/12 financial year will see the event taking place in the Waterberg District.
This forerunner to the Annual Marula Festival and the Festival itself once again provide opportunities for job creation among the many SMME’s and cooperatives that are involved in the brewing of morula.
Indeed, in years to come, it will be necessary to broaden the scope of the appreciation and celebration of our heritage, the heritage of a South African people of different social and historical origins; a South African people of African origins, Indian or Asian origins and European origins, en route to a South Africa of a common cultural identity, with varied cultural expressions of national unity, democracy, non-racialism, non-sexism and prosperity. Honourable Speaker It is with immense pride that the Department officially informs this House and the people of our province that we are participating with great patriotic fervour, in the establishment of the Limpopo chapter of the National Liberation Route and we are taking forward the giant project of the Garden of Remembrance.
These projects demand careful planning, reflection and intensified research and will therefore not be something that can be concluded within this financial year.
However, projects such as the National Liberation Route will serve to remind us and teach our children about the deep footprints that the heroes and heroines of our struggle made in the soil of South Africa and Limpopo; about the hardships faced in the reshaping of the social, economic, political and cultural landscape of our country to ultimately create a free and democratic society. To this end, we call upon all comrades who will be requested to contribute to this project at future forums, to cooperate with the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture in this historic endeavour.
We implore them to do so wholeheartedly and objectively so that this national project to record the heroic history of our people’s struggle, does not get distorted.
Honourable Speaker,
The Minister for Sport and Recreation, Cde. Fikile Mbalula, during the Departmental Strategic Planning earlier this year, announced the Department’s intention to collaborate with the Department of Basic Education, to immediately revive school sport in rural areas and townships. The Minister is quoted as saying:
“Our road map and roll out plan to bring back the culture of sport into the school environment will be marked by both focus on training and campaigns aimed at generating and encouraging popular participation. We are in the process of finalising the frame-work for collaboration that will be presented for consideration to the Department of Basic Education.”
We welcome the forward thinking of the Minister to expose the future South African talent to the international sports field. We believe that keeping children active and on the playing fields will keep them off the streets and out of harm’s way as far as drug and alcohol abuse, crime and teenage pregnancy are concerned. A child in sport is a child out of court; a child out of prison.
Honourable Speaker,
The School Sport Mass Participation programme currently provides learners and educators the opportunity to participate in codes that were not accessible to previously disadvantaged schools in the past. Equipment and playing attire have been provided to schools and educators are provided with coaching and technical skills.
Each of the participating schools is provided with a school sport assistant who is trained to provide administrative expertise to the programme. School Sport Cluster festivals and Inter-School games provide schools the opportunity to play together, thus promoting social cohesion and healthy lifestyles.
In this way, Honourable Speaker, we are confident that the legacy of distortion of sport and recreation; the legacy of gross neglect in providing facilities for the majority of our people, will sooner than later, be overcome. What is required is the mobilisation of resources in both the public and private sectors, to redress inequalities and enhance this vital aspect of our social life.
Further, Honourable Speaker, the Department’s School Sport and Recreation Programme has been able to take sport to fifty seven (57) rural communities; to create job opportunities for 179 unemployed youths; to train 210 coordinators in officiating and coaching different sporting codes; to mobilise senior citizens to participate in sport and recreation activities for better health as well as the vulnerable children at the Polokwane Place of Safety in sport and recreational activities.
Other projects include “My 2010 School Adventure” in cooperation with the Department of Education, which was part of advocacy for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
We are immensely proud of Team Limpopo’s bronze medal obtained at the 2010 National Indigenous Games held in Gauteng. It is our great pleasure also, that we were able to send a team of elderly citizens, for the first time, to the National Golden Games in Richards Bay. Our learners also did us proud at the World Cross Country event held in Hungary, where the Male 3km and 6km teams and Female 2km and 4km teams all brought home silver medals.
At the 1st World Downs Syndrome Athletics Championships in Mexico, team SA brought home the bronze medal. Limpopo’s Alex Taylor also obtained a bronze medal in javelin.
Limpopo learners were also included in the victorious SA Team to the World Half Marathon Championships in Brazil and 2nd World Indoor Rowing Championships held in Portugal. Both of these teams brought home gold medals.
The Vakhegula Vakhegula senior citizens football team, continue to be a shining example of what can be achieved, even at a very advanced age. Their skill on the football field has attracted international attention and they have even had the privilege of displaying their talent abroad, in the United States of America. As we encourage more and more senior
citizens to become active in this way for the benefit of their health and wellbeing, we notice that the grandfathers of the communities are also joining in. These energetic senior citizens have praise for the astounding results that come with active participation in sport, at their advanced age.
Apart from health benefits, their participation in sport also allows them to interact with people of all ages. Hence, they become living examples of what can be achieved, which serves as deep motivation for the youth in their respective communities.
Honourable Speaker,
We humbly wish to report to this Honourable House, that Limpopo and the Host City of Polokwane will be the home to the SA National Summer Games in October 2011. Once again, Limpopo will be home to more than 4 000 athletes, coaches, team managers and supporters who will be flocking here to compete in this spectacular national event. We hereby, once again, call on all of you to support the children of South Africa during these games.
We also trust that we will have the necessary support from each and every one of our sister departments in this regard – after all, the Limpopo Provincial Government has time and again demonstrated how “Together, we can do more!” It is important to point out here, that the OR Tambo Games will serve as a forerunner to this prestigious event and will give us the opportunity to select the best talent in Limpopo that will compete against the best of the other Provinces of South Africa.
Honourable Speaker,
This brings us, without further ado, to the presentation of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture’s Budget for the 2011/12 year. The department has received an allocation of two hundred and seventy nine million, seven hundred and sixty seven thousand rand [R279,767 million].
That is a 13.9% increase from last year’s allocation of two hundred and forty five million, six hundred and seventy two thousand rand [R245,672].
This total allocation is made up of one hundred and twenty million, six hundred and sixty nine thousand rand [R120,669 million] or 43.1% of the total budget for Conditional Grants and an equitable share of one hundred and fifty nine million, and ninety eight thousand rand [R159,098 million], or 56.9% of the total allocation.
Conditional Grants vs. Equitable Share
Honourable Speaker,
The allocation for the Library Conditional Grant has increased by 6.00% from sixty two million, seven hundred and thirty three thousand rand [R62,733 million], to sixty six million, four hundred and ninety seven thousand rand [R66,497 million], for the current financial year. This grant is utilised for the building, servicing and stocking of libraries in Limpopo.
The Mass Sport and Recreation Conditional Grant has increased by 23.00% from last year’s allocation of forty three million six hundred and four thousand rand [R43,604 million] to this year’s allocation of fifty three million, six hundred and thirty six thousand rand [R53,636 million].
The Mass Sport and Recreation Conditional Grant aims to keep the nation actively participating in sport.
The remaining five hundred and thirty six thousand rand [R536,000] is from the EPWP Incentive grant. This will see one hundred thousand rand [R100,000] going towards Libraries and four hundred and thirty six thousand rand [R436,000] going towards Sport and Recreation special projects, that will create an additional 30 temporary jobs in the coming financial year.
The equitable share has increased by 14.2% from the previous year’s one hundred and thirty nine million, three hundred and thirty five thousand rand [R139,335 million], to the new financial year’s one hundred and fifty nine million, and ninety eight thousand rand [R159,098 million].
Compensation of Employees
Compensation of employees amounts to one hundred and fifteen million, four hundred and thirty seven thousand rand [R115,437 million] or 41.3% of the total budget. This item is sub-divided into compensation of employees under the Conditional Grants, amounting to twenty two million rand [R22,000 million] or 7.9% of the total allocation, and compensation for employees under the equitable share, of ninety three million, four hundred and thirty seven thousand rand [R93,437 million] or 33.4% of the total allocation.
Goods & Services
A total of one hundred and twenty one million, two hundred and eighty thousand rand [R121,280 million] is budgeted for goods and services. This amounts to 43.4% of the total budget. Once again, this is divided into the equitable share’s allocation of sixty one million seven hundred and seventy four thousand rand [R61,774 million] or 22.14% of the total budget.
The conditional grant’s allocation of goods and services amounts to sixty seven million six hundred and fifty three thousand rand [R59,506 million] or 21.34% of the total budget.
Transfers and Subsidies
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has a legislative mandate to establish statutory bodies and transfers and subsidies to these statutory bodies of the Department are made accordingly. The fact that we do not have adequate resources to support and make these bodies fully functional, remains a serious challenge.
The transfers we make allow most of these bodies to perform only administrative duties and minimal programmes can be implemented. These Statutory bodies are the Limpopo Arts and Culture Council (LACC), Limpopo Heritage Resources Authority (LIHRA), Provincial Language Committee (PLC), the Provincial Moral Regeneration Movement and the Geographical Place Names Committee (GPNC).
The total of transfers amounts to two million, five hundred and thirty three thousand rand [R2,533 million]. That is 1% of the total budget.
Capital Assets
The department will, in the 2010/11 financial year, be spending forty million, five hundred and seventeen thousand rand [R40,517 million] on payments for capital assets. That is 14.5% of the total budget. The Library Conditional Grant receives thirty seven million rand [R37,000 million], translating to 13.2% of the total allocation.
Programmes
Honourable Speaker,
In terms of budgeting, the Programmes of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture are divided into four, namely Administration, Cultural Affairs, Library and Information Services and Sport and Recreation.
1. Administration
The Administration of the department will receive ninety seven million nine hundred and eleven thousand rand [R97,911] or 35.0% of the total allocation, towards the efficient, effective and sustainable running of the department’s daily activities focused on customer service to both internal and external clients.
Forty six million, seven hundred and sixty three thousand rand [R46,763 million] or 16.7% of the total allocation will be spent on goods and services and fifty million, six hundred and eighty three thousand rand [R50,683 million] or 18.1% on compensation of employees. Four hundred and sixty five thousand rand [R465,000] is budgeted towards the payment for capital assets.
2. Cultural Affairs
The Programme of Cultural Affairs is responsible for the promotion of social cohesion and nation building as well as for those activities that promote reconciliation, positive values and a national identity, to address the social ills of crime, domestic violence, moral decay and xenophobia, among others.
Under Cultural Affairs there are the sub- programmes of Arts and Culture, Museum and Heritage Resource Services and Language Services. Significant days of celebration under Cultural Affairs include Freedom Day, Africa Day and Heritage Day Celebrations, Ku luma vukanyi, International Mother Tongue Day Celebrations and International Translation Day.
The sub-programme of Arts and Culture is also aided by the National Department of Arts and Culture’s Investing in Culture Programme, which has in mind to develop artistic disciplines into creative industries. The department has also completed research on the matter of Film and Video and is on the verge of rolling out a programme of action in
this regard.
Cultural Affairs will be allocated thirty one million three hundred and forty four thousand rand [R31,344 million] or 11.2% of the total budget.
Honourable Speaker,
3. Library and Archives Services
The Library and Archives Programme will receive seventy nine million, seven hundred and forty four thousand rand [R79,744 million] or 28.5% of the total allocation.
Of this total, thirteen million, two hundred and seventy four thousand rand [R13,247 million] is from the equitable share and sixty six million four hundred and ninety seven thousand rand [R66,497 million] from the Conditional Grant.
The conditional grant will be utilised for the building and equipping of the five community libraries alluded to earlier.
4. Sport and Recreation
Sport and Recreation is sub-divided into Sport Development and School Sport and Recreation. The Siyadlala and School Sport Mass Participation programmes are funded by the sport and recreation conditional grant and are administered by the School Sport and Recreation sub-programme. This programme will, among others, ensure the roll-out
of Indigenous games, recreational events targeted at all age groups, recruitment and training of coordinators and the support of Team Limpopo going to the International Gymnastrada in Switzerland, in July of this year.
The sub-programme of Sport Development will be utilising its allocation in projects such as the SA Games; the training and development of coaches, technical officials, administrators and volunteers and the support of Sports Federations.
The Programme of Sport and Recreation has been allocated seventy million, seven hundred and sixty eight thousand rand [R70,768 million] or 25.3% of the total budget. Seventeen million, one hundred and thirty two thousand rand [R17,132 million] of this total is from the equitable share and the remaining fifty three million, six hundred and thirty six thousand rand [R53,636 million] from the Mass Sports and Recreation Conditional Grant. That is 19.2% of the total allocation.
Honourable Speaker,
On an infinitely sadder note, allow me to take this opportunity to bid farewell to some of our icons in the sport, arts and culture industries, who passed on in the previous financial year:
Mr Des Wheelwright, a champion of cricket and cricket development; Kholofela Masindi – an athlete from Sekhukhune; and Mr. F.C Raulinga, language expert and author.
The sporting fraternity of South Africa also suffered a major loss with the recent passing on of the Director-General for Sport and Recreation South Africa, Mr Vernie Petersen. May the souls of these stalwarts and legends rest in peace.
Allow me also to congratulate Ms Winnie Mashaba, for being awarded the Top Female Gospel Artist at the Crown Gospel Music Awards and Ms Mary Mabusa, for receiving the acclaimed Nadine Gordimer Literary Award. The talented young Larissa Venter came out tops at the World Championships of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, California, obtaining two gold, three silver and one bronze medal. Ayoba Larissa, Ayoba! Keep up the good work!
Allow me this opportunity to wish our National Rugby and National Netball Teams well in the upcoming Rugby World Cup and Netball World Cup. We know they have the abilities, the talent and the will to bring the cup home!
The Proteas have also done us immensely proud at the ICC Cricket World Cup in India, by qualifying for the quarter finals and ending on top of the log in their group matches. It is unfortunate that they could not make it past the quarter finals, but let us congratulate the Proteas on their valiant effort and thank them for uniting us as a nation once again.
Honourable Speaker,
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, has made magnificent strides against all the odds of insufficient funding in many areas of our operations. However, whatever obstacles were encountered on our road to service delivery, we did our best by displaying team work and professionalism. I hereby also wish to thank the staff and management of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture for their hard work and commitment.
They have truly been champions of service delivery in the past financial year. We will be maintaining this team spirit and professionalism in the 2011/12 financial year, in which we plan to accomplish even more in terms of creating a healthy and unified nation, for the socio-economic growth of the Limpopo province.
However, in conclusion, it is important to point out that, for the future development of sport, arts and culture, the implications of the continuing economic exclusion and cultural suppression of the majority of our people are enormous. People who must work all day to the point of exhaustion in order to earn enough to eat only, have little time and energy to spend on sport, arts and culture. Often, they cannot afford equipment or training, or even time to practice skills.
Think of the amount of time that could be released for creative and recreational activities if all women in rural areas no longer had to carry wood and water for long distances day after day! Think of the scope of literature that would come with a wholly literate people, with extra money to buy books and leisure time to read them, even with electric lights to make reading at night possible.
Think of the talents that could be unearthed if every youth had access to materials needed to create works of art, sports fields to practice on, theatres, libraries etc, etc. It is, indeed, for this reason that the ANC Government’s guiding principle “Together we can do more” should continue to inform and guide all people of goodwill, in both the public and private sectors, in our endeavour to build a better South Africa for all!
I thank you! Ke a leboga! Ndzi khensile! Ndo livhuwa! Ngi ya thokoza! Baie dankie! Shukran!
