The executive mayor of the City of Tshwane, Solly Msimanga, cordially invites you to the post Budget Speech media breakfast session at the Banquet Hall, Centurion Municipal Offices, Lyttleton, on Friday, May 19 2017, at 9am.
Msimanga, who will be joined by his executive, will unpack the speech he would have delivered the previous day on Thursday March 18, 2017, and give specific details on how his administration will turn around the finances of the City and highlight plans that are afoot aimed at creating jobs, reinvigorating and stimulating the economy based on Tshwane’s 2017/21 Integrated Development Plan (IDP).
Msimanga is looking forward to an information sharing and robust engagement with finance and business editors and senior journalists to give an overview of the IDP, which is anchored on the theme: Stabilisation, Revitalisation and Delivery. Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs) will give specific details on planned activities to achieve the goals set out, hereunder:
Stabilisation:
- Stabilising the administration/organisation/governance
- Stabilising the City’s finances
- Stabilising the City’s infrastructure services
- Social security stabilisation
Revitalisation:
- Revitalising the city’s economic nodes (Centurion Lake, Silverton, city centre redevelopment)
- Revitalising the City’s industrial nodes (Rosslyn, Ekangala and Watloo)
- Revitalisating old township infrastructure and creating vibrant economic activities
- Accelerating urban growth and dismantling poverty and inequality
Delivery
- Delivering reliable services and building investor confidence
- Delivering sustainable services in the city’s informal settlements
- Delivering integrated social packages and safety nets to vulnerable groups/residents
- Cleaning the city and improving customer relations
- Delivering sustainable and integrated human settlements and delivering title deeds
- Targeting of services spatially, focusing on Hammanskraal, Temba, Winterveld, Zithobeni
The IDP has been formulated to meet the strategic objectives and outcomes of the City of Tshwane’s Vision 2030.
It is on view of this that we endeavour to create a Tshwane of opportunity by growing the city economy and creating jobs that will be the driver that will ensure an inclusive society where as many people in the City can share in its prosperity.