{"id":226697,"date":"2022-05-21T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mpumalanga-residents-assured-that-government-will-act\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T06:26:14","slug":"mpumalanga-residents-assured-that-government-will-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mpumalanga-residents-assured-that-government-will-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Mpumalanga residents assured that government will act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured the communities of the Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga that all three spheres of government are hard at work to resolve their challenges and issues.<\/p>\n

He was speaking during the Presidential Imbizo held in the town on Friday which was preceded by an engagement with business people.<\/p>\n

The imbizo is a platform for community members to raise all of their challenges to government officials including ministers, deputy ministers, provincial leaders and local government leaders led by the president.<\/p>\n

Major challenges raised by community members at the Presidential Imbizo include the delivery of basic services, challenges in farming, bad road maintenance, land ownership issues, gender based violence and femicide and youth unemployment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue of job opportunities is one that we are working on day and night and we are doing so at a heightened level as we seek to implement our economic recovery and reconstruction plan which we are working through as we continue to promote investment in our economy and as we continue to make our country more investment attractive.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things we should be doing is to give [the youth] skills so that as you said\u2026that when they get skills, different sorts of skills, they should in the end be able to create their own jobs,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

President Ramaphosa highlighted that the Imbizo \u2013 which have also been held in the North West and Free State \u2013 are invaluable for helping government to zero in on the area specific and general problems municipalities are facing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Imbizo programme is\u2026a very meaningful process that allows our people to be able to talk to government and because we are a government that listens, as you talk, as you put your views across, we are able to take those issues that you are raising and address them. And as you have heard, various departments are going to come back and the rest of the province to address the various challenges that our people are facing.<\/p>\n

\u201cImbizo is a very valuable platform\u2026it has a huge impact on enabling us as local, provincial and national government level to focus on the issues that affect the lives of our people. We have taken copious notes. So what you have been saying is not going to go through one ear and [out] the other. We are going to pay attention to the issues that you\u2019ve raised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The President acknowledged that the country has been facing several problems over the past two years which have caused setbacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur challenges are many as a nation and as a country. Just as we thought we would be able to address the many challenges that we face, COVID-19 descended on us. As we tried to see how best we can navigate our way through COVID-19\u2026it had a negative impact and we lost two million jobs in one year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we began to see our economy [begin to re-emerge], and then the unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng and that had a huge impact on our GDP. As we were trying to come to terms with that\u2026then the floods in KZN, Eastern Cape and to a lesser extent North West, also descended,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

President Ramaphosa expressed belief that the country is resilient enough to overcome these challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had many challenges in the past. We have had enormous challenges and we have addressed them. And even this challenge we will address. What I can say is that we will be able to emerge out of all these challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are South Africans we are made of stellar stuff, we will be able to find out feet beyond all these challenges. Our government\u2026is busy on a continuous basis addressing the challenges and difficulties our people are facing,\u201d he said. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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