President Cyril Ramaphosa shifts to provinces to grow local economy

Dennis TAugust 21, 2019

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President Cyril Ramaphosa says economic growth must be driven by the country’s local economy. The Presidential Coordinating Council has agreed to focus on 44 District Municipalities and eight metros. Ramaphosa also says the service delivery model also needs to be completely overhauled. He says provinces have to provide plans to roll out District Based Service Delivery.

“The plans each district will develop should focus on the following areas, managing urbanisation, growth and development, supporting local economic drivers, accelerating land release and land development, investing in infrastructure for integrated human settlements, economic activity and the provision of basic services, addressing service delivery problems in municipalities,” said Ramaphosa.

The president said government needed to address with speed on addressing service delivery. There has been extensive diagnosis of why we still have not managed to make a significant dent in poverty, inequality and underdevelopment. Monitoring and evaluation has been inconsistent and at times vague, resulting in us having no clear line of sight of what is needed, where it is needed, how it will be done and how much it is costing,” he said. Ramaphosa also pleaded with ministers, premiers and mayors to get the ball rolling on the new District Coordination Model.

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