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Tata, your star still shines bright and we take comfort in the knowledge that you are watching over us in your own special, fatherly way. Madiba will live forever in our hearts and we collectively have the responsibility of advancing his proud legacy. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Northern Cape is a better place to live in.
Premier Sylvia Lucas: Northern Cape State of the Province Address
Under the leadership of the African National Congress, we have certainly laid a solid foundation. Our Province has rapidly changed for the better over the last 20 years. We have experienced higher income levels with more people being formally employed, with an improved roll-out of basic services and amenities, and increased levels of education. As we celebrate 20 years of democracy and being confident of what we need to do in the next 20 years, everything we do will be anchored by the National Development Plan as a vision for all South Africans.
We have an inclusive vision and plan for the future. Just as the Freedom Charter was a roadmap to our liberation and the blueprint for our much acclaimed constitution, the National Development Plan is our roadmap for the years ahead. In essence, the Plan outlines the type of society we are striving for in — where no one goes hungry, where everyone is able to go to school and further their studies, where work is available and opportunities abound, where everyone will be able to make a contribution because each person has been provided with what they need to reach their full potential.
Since , the ANC- led government has been leading a vast process of change. We faced the challenges of building a new administration in the province; we have brought water, electricity, sanitation, housing and telephone services to thousands of people in the outlying areas of the province - in Mier, Spoegrivier, Lekkersing, Windsorton, Ritchie and Witbank. The building of houses has continued unabated. Health and education have become accessible to all. The Northern Cape Provincial government and municipalities have done remarkably well in providing basic service delivery to our communities and the statistics, as reported by the provincial government, are as follows:.
When we started building our democracy, we proclaimed to continue and accelerate the fight for change so as to ensure a better life for all. We acknowledge that notwithstanding these efforts, there are still challenges of inequality, unemployment and poverty, which still confront our society. Ladies and Gentlemen, I reiterate, this African National Congress led Government has laid a solid foundation and the building process has begun.
All our efforts to bring about a better life for all have targeted mainly the poor and most vulnerable: those who suffered the most from the ravages of apartheid inequality. It is only by overcoming the huge inequalities in our society that we shall be able to build a truly non-racial, non-sexist and a prosperous society wherein there would be no oppression by one person on another. In this regard we are obliged to do the following:. Indeed the Northern Cape is a better place to live in.
We have certainly laid a solid foundation. In the past five years we have been able to stabilise the finances of government under difficult conditions without compromising service delivery. All these efforts are in line with our Clean Audit Strategy which is fundamentally aimed at ensuring that improvement on audit outcomes is attained without fail. I am, Honourable Members, heartened and humbled by the achievements during the period under review. The province has for the first time in many years, no disclaimer of opinion for provincial departments. This is indeed an indication that the province is moving in the right direction in terms of good governance and accountability.
As part of our cooperative governance responsibility, the Province will continue to strengthen intergovernmental relations through the Operation Clean Audit campaign by supporting those municipalities that have received disclaimers of opinion for the past five years. Mr Speaker, since , Government has consistently worked on improving the lives of all South Africans and advancing their socio- economic situation.
Economic programmes such as the New Growth Path and the massive Infrastructure Development Programme are creating an enabling environment for socio- economic development to flourish. In concert with the task of growing the economy and creating new jobs, we have been hard at work to eradicate poverty, recognising that no person can be truly free until they have cast aside the shackles of poverty and under-development.
To create the required jobs for our people, we must continue to build an extensive support network for small businesses and co-operatives, promote broad-based black economic empowerment and invest in science and technology. Mining and quarrying remains the biggest economic sector contributing It is followed by general government services at With the enormous mining expansions in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District, it is expected that mining will continue to be the biggest economic sector in the province.
The last five years have seen unprecedented growth and development in the manganese and iron ore belt of our province with multi - billion rand investments being made, yet, inequality, poverty, unemployment and disease in the surrounding communities persist. It has become our Government's priority to hold all the mining companies conducting Business in our Province to demonstrate a greater commitment towards contributing to skilling and employing a greater number of people from the communities in which they conduct business.
The Social Labour Plans should be complemented by direct investment aimed at growing the economies of the areas in which all the mines operate. The Northern Cape is endowed with abundant mineral resources and as such must benefit the entire population of the province. It is envisaged that the procurement charter will radically alter the manner in which mining houses procure goods and services in the province.
By and large, the main focus in terms of procurement by mining houses in the Northern Cape will be to procure goods and services from within the province, thereby lending positive impetus to the provincial economy as a whole. Moreover, it will promote local procurement to increase domestic production and the creation of decent jobs by ensuring that the mining industry buys its goods and services from local suppliers and support small enterprises and co-operatives within the parameters of broad-based black economic empowerment principles. The province offers profitable investment opportunities in mineral and metal processing, agro- processing, fishing, mariculture, energy, tourism and the knowledge economy.
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Access to raw materials, affordable energy, and upgraded infrastructure are further compelling factors to attract investment to our Province. Most encouraging is the fact that most of the conditions are already in place for competitive value-added processing in the Northern Cape and labour costs are among the most affordable in South Africa. Both traditional and green energy must be expanded to ensure a platform for growth and social inclusion. We anticipate that the province will become the renewable energy hub for South Africa through the construction of large solar and wind power stations.
The fast growing renewable energy and green economy sector in the province concentrated, in the main, on solar energy and is expected to attract massive investments.
This investment must be channelled properly to ensure well-planned execution of the development of the sector consistent with the Provincial Spatial Development Framework and the Provincial Growth and Development Strategy. To this end, Ladies and Gentlemen the Provincial Renewable Energy Strategy has been developed to unlock our existing potential and position the Northern Cape to attract the maximum share of investment, both local and foreign.
In terms of the strategy, we are becoming a net producer of renewable energy to the rest of the country by The Renewable Energy Independent Producers Procurement Programme process directed by the Department of Energy has so far approved 31 projects for the province. The projects will result in the creation of over jobs during the construction phase and a further permanent jobs.
Mr Speaker, the Provincial Government views agricultural development as a key strategic intervention in the growth of our rural economy. The comprehensive Agricultural Support programme and Ilima-Letsema Programmes were amongst the key interventions to provide the requisite support to smallholder and black commercial farmers for the production and marketing of produce, including value chain activities. To this end, R80, million has been allocated in the financial year and will benefit farmers. Support includes infrastructure for primary and secondary production, training and capacity building of farmers, and research and marketing.
Ilima Letsema has been allocated R70 million with a special emphasis on assisting farmers to increase production by providing them with inputs, as well as the revitalisation of the Vaalharts irrigation scheme. Ladies and Gentlemen since government has worked hard to institutionalise and programatise comprehensive rural development.
This entailed the formulation of a provincial rural development strategy and the piloting of comprehensive rural development projects in Riemvasmaak. Comprehensive rural development is about changing the lives of people in rural communities, enabling them to take control of their destiny and enjoy the freedom and dignity promised by our constitution.
To this end, we are pleased to report that following the success of the Riemvasmaak project, CRDP has been rolled out to five more sites across all districts in the province. These areas have benefitted in terms of construction of infrastructure, including roads, clinics, electrification and schools; business enterprise development and general skills transfer. The fight against food insecurity remains one of the core goals of our government. In an endeavor to intensify the fight against food insecurity, the Fetsa Tlala programme was launched with the aim of promoting food security and addressing structural causes of food insecurity.
The coordination and implementation of this initiative has resulted in the establishment of 15 institutional, 8 community, and household gardens.
A positive outcome of the initiative is that the farmers in John Taolo Gaetsewe are selling their produce to Shoprite and Pick n Pay supermarkets. In line with the hectares Maize Project, the Provincial Government identified and supported 17 smallholder farmers to plant approximately hectares of maize. The aim of this project is to support smallholder farmers to produce staple food crops as part of the national food security intervention programme in response to rising food prices.
The Province managed to plant hectares of the envisaged one thousand.
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The produce harvested will contribute towards the national target of reducing food insecurity at household level. Furthermore, this intervention created temporary jobs and will continue in the next financial year. One of the related themes emerging from the MTSF is the need to stimulate agricultural production with a view to contribute to food security.
The targets set by the provincial government was goats seed stock provided to 30 goat cooperatives by March and expansion of the Nguni initiative to 6 projects by December , 12 by March and 40 by In this respect major achievements include:. The flood assistance scheme is continuously implemented to repair the damage to infrastructure such as roads, bridges, protection walls, and soil conservation work, including sub surface drainage systems. An amount of R million has already been spent by contractors and service providers on the repair of damaged infrastructure along the banks of the Orange River with an expected total expenditure of R million by the end of the year.
The works under repair included the upgrading of Blouputs, Southern Farms, Neilersdrift, Louisvale - Kenhardt and Marchand roads; and the repair of flood protection works on farms and the design for water supply infrastructure, upgrading of roads and bridges and drainage systems for the Onseepkans, Eksteenskuil and Blocuso communities. In all, a total of temporary jobs were created. Significant strides have been made in the development and maintenance of the identified key infrastructure, viz. Port Nolloth is being renovated in that the jetty and revetment are being reconstructed.
Other projects taking place outside the Port Nolloth footprint relate to the renovation of the fishing factory and the reconstruction of the fishing jetties. The De Aar Logistics Hub will be developed into a major Materials Supply Depot to serve as a supply and storage facility for Transnet of the rails and sleepers required during the upgrading of the railway line from Kimberley through De Aar to Ngqura.
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Infrastructure will be developed to unlock the manganese and iron ore mining reserves, create jobs in the province and strengthen links with the Western and Eastern Cape through mineral beneficiation. The manufacturing sector has a tremendous potential for growth as there is an abundant supply of primary products from the mining and agriculture sectors. Given the abundance of relatively cheap land and transport infrastructure in the province, the Northern Cape is a haven for manufacturing investment.
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