Date: 13/08/2003
Source: North West Provincial Government
Title: Molefe: Launch of community-based waste removal service in Mogwase
SPEECH BY THE NORTH WEST PREMIER, DR POPO SIMON MOLEFE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCH OF SIX NEW ENTREPRENEURS FOR THE COMMUNITY BASED WASTE REFUSE REMOVAL SERVICE, Mogwase, 13 August 2003
Director of Ceremonies,
His Excellency Mr. Michael Lake, the Ambassador for the European Union delegation in South Africa,
His Excellency the representative of the Finnish Embassy,
MECs
Members of the Provincial Legislature,
Executive Mayors, Mayors and Councillors,
Our beloved traditional leaders,
Honoured Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is now almost a year since world leaders converged in Johannesburg for the historic World Summit on Sustainable Development. This watershed Summit gave hope to millions of marginalised people across the globe.
This Summit also reaffirmed the link between sustainable development and environmental conservation. It made a clarion call for the creation and strengthening of partnerships between people and the planet in order to ensure prosperity.
We count among the many successes of this Summit the fact that it was able to build consensus and secure commitment from all stakeholders to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
This Plan commits the world community of nations to specific goals covering important areas such as poverty eradication, access to basic services and the protection of natural resources. It sets realistic and measurable targets that we must all work towards.
Indeed, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation has gone a long way in ensuring that the WSSD assists the world community of nations to find appropriate, practical and comprehensive responses to the challenges of the developing world.
It is because of this Plan that we can boldly say that the WSSD has lived up to its sacred mission of providing a ray of hope to the many marginalised communities of the world. The WSSD contributed massively towards laying a firm basis upon which we can continue to build for ourselves a better world, a world free of poverty and underdevelopment.
Since the adoption of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, our government has taken part in major international initiatives aimed at facilitating and monitoring progress on the Plan.
In May this year the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Valli Moosa, successfully chaired the 11th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. This Session was an important step in consolidating and advancing the gains made at the WSSD.
As province we have, both in word and deed, embraced the ideals of the WSSD. We continue to be guided by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation as we engage in the ongoing effort to build a better province.
More specifically, we identify ourselves with the objectives of the Plan which include, in the short-term, the radical reduction of poverty and underdevelopment, and in the long-term, the eradication of these social ills.
We have placed sustainable development at the centre of our broad thrust to build a better life for all. We have set for ourselves the strategic objective of ensuring that we bring sustainable development to every village, city and town in our province.
As we do this, we continue to emphasise the building and strengthening of partnerships for sustainable development. We are firm in our belief that it is only through united action, by all of us, that we can bring, to our people, development on a sustainable basis.
Our partnership, as the Provincial Government, with the government of Finland is but one example of the kind of partnerships for sustainable development we seek to build.
Among others, our partnership with the government of Finland has assisted us to develop an Integrated Environmental Management System and a Provincial Spatial Development Framework. These have contributed towards putting our province firmly on an irreversible path to sustainable development, poverty eradication and environmental conservation.
Our partnership with the government of Finland fostered the creation of a partnership between people and the planet for prosperity in our province.
Programme Director, the achievements by the entrepreneurs who are the reason for our gathering here today, are a result of united action by the local community, the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, the European Union and the private sector.
In many ways, today's gathering is to celebrate the success of a true partnership for sustainable development. We are here today to bear witness to the sweet fruits of collective action to promote sustainable development.
On behalf of the Provincial Government, I wish to express my profound gratitude to all those who made this project the success that it is. We are particularly humbled by the involvement of MAN Bus and Trucks and other private sector role-players.
The people of Moses Kotane Local Municipality, and indeed the entire North West Province, join me in saying that we shall forever be indebted to all those who contributed to the success of this projects.
This day belongs to our entrepreneurs who will from now on have an opportunity to contribute to the reconstruction and development of their community. The entrepreneurs we are honouring today now have an opportunity to make a decisive and complete break with their disadvantaged past.
That this project involves the transfer of management skills counts as no less a feat. That our entrepreneurs will access to a market comprising 70% of un-serviced households in the Moses Kotane Local Municipality, counts as a major breakthrough.
This project has indeed positioned our entrepreneurs squarely within the local economic mainstream. As from today, these entrepreneurs will become meaningful players in the local economic development of the Moses Kotane Local Municipality.
This project will also assist the Municipality in dealing with backlogs in its waste management system, thus improving service delivery.
I wish to take this opportunity to urge our entrepreneurs to become ambassadors for sustainable development through environmental conservation. I urge them to spread the message that proper waste management and environmental conservation are key to sustainable development.
To us as government, waste management and recycling are matters close to our hearts. Following the successful implementation of the new regulations on plastic bags, we have begun a process of coordinating efforts to deal with other waste streams.
It is encouraging therefore that in this area there is a waste recycling programme currently going on. I am told that this programme has led to the establishment of three businesses employing 15 people. This is an important development in our ongoing endeavour to conserve the environment and create jobs through proper waste management and recycling.
On behalf of the Provincial Government, I wish to congratulate our entrepreneurs on this, their important achievement. I wish them success for the future.
I am encouraged by the fact among these entrepreneurs is a woman. This is fitting as this is Women's Month, a month in which we celebrate women's successes in all sectors of life. I am hopeful that in future we will see more women becoming entrepreneurs in the field of waste management and recycling.
I thank you!!
Issued by North West Provincial Government
13 August 2003
Source: North West Provincial Government
Title: Molefe: Launch of community-based waste removal service in Mogwase
SPEECH BY THE NORTH WEST PREMIER, DR POPO SIMON MOLEFE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCH OF SIX NEW ENTREPRENEURS FOR THE COMMUNITY BASED WASTE REFUSE REMOVAL SERVICE, Mogwase, 13 August 2003
Director of Ceremonies,
His Excellency Mr. Michael Lake, the Ambassador for the European Union delegation in South Africa,
His Excellency the representative of the Finnish Embassy,
MECs
Members of the Provincial Legislature,
Executive Mayors, Mayors and Councillors,
Our beloved traditional leaders,
Honoured Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is now almost a year since world leaders converged in Johannesburg for the historic World Summit on Sustainable Development. This watershed Summit gave hope to millions of marginalised people across the globe.
This Summit also reaffirmed the link between sustainable development and environmental conservation. It made a clarion call for the creation and strengthening of partnerships between people and the planet in order to ensure prosperity.
We count among the many successes of this Summit the fact that it was able to build consensus and secure commitment from all stakeholders to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
This Plan commits the world community of nations to specific goals covering important areas such as poverty eradication, access to basic services and the protection of natural resources. It sets realistic and measurable targets that we must all work towards.
Indeed, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation has gone a long way in ensuring that the WSSD assists the world community of nations to find appropriate, practical and comprehensive responses to the challenges of the developing world.
It is because of this Plan that we can boldly say that the WSSD has lived up to its sacred mission of providing a ray of hope to the many marginalised communities of the world. The WSSD contributed massively towards laying a firm basis upon which we can continue to build for ourselves a better world, a world free of poverty and underdevelopment.
Since the adoption of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, our government has taken part in major international initiatives aimed at facilitating and monitoring progress on the Plan.
In May this year the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Valli Moosa, successfully chaired the 11th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. This Session was an important step in consolidating and advancing the gains made at the WSSD.
As province we have, both in word and deed, embraced the ideals of the WSSD. We continue to be guided by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation as we engage in the ongoing effort to build a better province.
More specifically, we identify ourselves with the objectives of the Plan which include, in the short-term, the radical reduction of poverty and underdevelopment, and in the long-term, the eradication of these social ills.
We have placed sustainable development at the centre of our broad thrust to build a better life for all. We have set for ourselves the strategic objective of ensuring that we bring sustainable development to every village, city and town in our province.
As we do this, we continue to emphasise the building and strengthening of partnerships for sustainable development. We are firm in our belief that it is only through united action, by all of us, that we can bring, to our people, development on a sustainable basis.
Our partnership, as the Provincial Government, with the government of Finland is but one example of the kind of partnerships for sustainable development we seek to build.
Among others, our partnership with the government of Finland has assisted us to develop an Integrated Environmental Management System and a Provincial Spatial Development Framework. These have contributed towards putting our province firmly on an irreversible path to sustainable development, poverty eradication and environmental conservation.
Our partnership with the government of Finland fostered the creation of a partnership between people and the planet for prosperity in our province.
Programme Director, the achievements by the entrepreneurs who are the reason for our gathering here today, are a result of united action by the local community, the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, the European Union and the private sector.
In many ways, today's gathering is to celebrate the success of a true partnership for sustainable development. We are here today to bear witness to the sweet fruits of collective action to promote sustainable development.
On behalf of the Provincial Government, I wish to express my profound gratitude to all those who made this project the success that it is. We are particularly humbled by the involvement of MAN Bus and Trucks and other private sector role-players.
The people of Moses Kotane Local Municipality, and indeed the entire North West Province, join me in saying that we shall forever be indebted to all those who contributed to the success of this projects.
This day belongs to our entrepreneurs who will from now on have an opportunity to contribute to the reconstruction and development of their community. The entrepreneurs we are honouring today now have an opportunity to make a decisive and complete break with their disadvantaged past.
That this project involves the transfer of management skills counts as no less a feat. That our entrepreneurs will access to a market comprising 70% of un-serviced households in the Moses Kotane Local Municipality, counts as a major breakthrough.
This project has indeed positioned our entrepreneurs squarely within the local economic mainstream. As from today, these entrepreneurs will become meaningful players in the local economic development of the Moses Kotane Local Municipality.
This project will also assist the Municipality in dealing with backlogs in its waste management system, thus improving service delivery.
I wish to take this opportunity to urge our entrepreneurs to become ambassadors for sustainable development through environmental conservation. I urge them to spread the message that proper waste management and environmental conservation are key to sustainable development.
To us as government, waste management and recycling are matters close to our hearts. Following the successful implementation of the new regulations on plastic bags, we have begun a process of coordinating efforts to deal with other waste streams.
It is encouraging therefore that in this area there is a waste recycling programme currently going on. I am told that this programme has led to the establishment of three businesses employing 15 people. This is an important development in our ongoing endeavour to conserve the environment and create jobs through proper waste management and recycling.
On behalf of the Provincial Government, I wish to congratulate our entrepreneurs on this, their important achievement. I wish them success for the future.
I am encouraged by the fact among these entrepreneurs is a woman. This is fitting as this is Women's Month, a month in which we celebrate women's successes in all sectors of life. I am hopeful that in future we will see more women becoming entrepreneurs in the field of waste management and recycling.
I thank you!!
Issued by North West Provincial Government
13 August 2003
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