Premier Mabuza, on Friday you have to walk your election promises talk
DA Mpumalanga expects the Premier to fulfil his promises and his
surbonates to be proactive.
DA leader Anthony Bernadie says on Friday Mpumalanga premier David
Mabuza will deliver the first State of the Province Address (SOPA) of his
second term in office, and he will do so knowing that he carries the hopes and
aspirations of millions of people of the province.
It is critical that this SOPA break from the tedious annual recital of
rehashed national ANC policy, and delivers a sustainable plan of action to deal
with the high rates of unemployment, slack economic growth, the scourge of
corruption and the disastrous state of provincial and local government service
delivery.
This is what DA expects while the announcements following the provincial
executive lekgotla this past week may be a harbinger of a dramatic policy shift
in the provincial ANC, the proof of its commitment to delivery will lie by
carrying out the following:
· The new boards of MEGA and MTPA must comprise suitably qualified
individuals to provide knowledgeable leadership, and not well-connected ANC
cadres only interested in lining their pockets;
· The health department curator must take definitive steps to address the
shortcomings as identified in the Human Rights Commission investigation report,
and provide quality health care to the people;
· Take a definitive step in the fight against corruption by removing the head
of the education department and firing the members of the bid adjudication
committee implicated in the fraudulent school nutrition feeding scheme tender
awards; and
· Start proceedings to remove every municipal manager, chief financial
officer and senior financial management staff in municipalities who do not
comply with the National Treasury’s minimum competency regulations, and
replacing them with suitably qualified individuals.
We have to see premier Mabuza take definitive steps to implement the
National Development Plan at a provincial level, laying out clear strategies
for job creation, economic growth, and improving the level of education in our
schools.
Such steps should include an announcement to grow small and medium
enterprises through the implementation of a youth wage subsidy, the
commercialisation of provincial parks to increase tourism to the province, and
the official announcement of the Moloto Rail Corridor and the development of
industrial nodes along its route to stimulate job creation in a deeply
impoverished area.
Mpumalanga is at cross-roads, and decisive action is needed to halt the
steady decline in living standards experienced by the province’s citizens.
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