Mayor's Speech
SPEECH BY THE EXECUTIVE MAYOR OF DR KENNNETH KAUNDA DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY CLLR BOITUMELO MOLOI DURING THE OFFICIAL HANDOVER OF HOUSES AT BAITSHOKI FARM ON 14 DECEMBER 2009
Programme Director,
Honourable Councillors,
Council Officials
Baagi ba Baitshoki
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Programme Director, We have come here today, to celebrate a fulfilment of one of the promises we made, of providing houses to our people. The fulfilment of this promise is in line with our constitutional mandate of ensuring that make use of the resources available to provide houses.
We believe freedom is more meaningful when the lives of our people change for the better; hence we consistently embark on programmes geared towards the attaining this objective.
Providing roofs over people's heads, particularly the poor, is a milestone worth celebrating. No other government in this country before 1994 cared about building houses for the poor. It is only the government that you have put in power through the ballot that regards the provision of houses not only as a priority, but also as a right.
When we celebrate our sixteen years of democracy next year, our people in this village will be counted amongst several others who have benefited from more than 3 million houses that we have provided since 1994.
Programme Director, today we hand-over 25 houses to the residents of Baitshoki, 17 of which are newly-constructed units whilst 8 have been renovated. An amount of…........................was spent on this project. In the process of construction, …………………people got short-term employment and skills transferred to them. We would also like to thank the developer for the sterling work done.
Programme Director, we are aware that whilst we have achieved much on the provision of houses both at National and Provincial level, we still have a backlog. We will continue to identify those who are poor and allocate them houses.
Thank You.