Herman Mashaba sends #AReSebetseng team to Kigali, Rwanda
JOBURG – Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba bids farewell to the #AReSebetseng team.
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has sent the #AReSebetseng team to Rwanda on 20 February to learn how they keep their city clean.
The #AReSebetseng team will be in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, which is rated one of Africa’s cleanest cities. Mashaba wants the team to participate in Umuganda on Saturday.
Umuganda is a national clean-up day and can be described as community work. People in the country are required to participate in Umuganda which happens on the last Saturday of each month.
The mayor wants the #AReSebetseng team to apply what they will learn in Kigali to the city in the #AReSebetseng, which is similar to Umudanda.
#AReSebetseng I took time this afternoon to get to the airport for the send off of the @CityofJoburgZA Regional Directors to Kigali, Rwanda, to participate in Umuganda on Saturday pic.twitter.com/RpsF12S3Ex
— Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) February 20, 2019
#AReSebetseng Umuganda is a monthly cleaning campaign adopted by the Rwandan government immediately after the genocide experienced in 1994. We are learning from our Continent @CityofJoburgZA pic.twitter.com/H4CwDLiHZb
— Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) February 20, 2019
#AreSebetseng With a team from Environment & Infrastructure Services Department about to depart for Rwanda today @CityofJoburgZA pic.twitter.com/ZTqptmBiB7
— Herman Mashaba (@HermanMashaba) February 20, 2019
The #AReSebetseng team is joined by JMDP Chief David Tembe and Superintendent Dan Machete, responsible for inner-city policing.
“I believe there a lot of things we are going to learn. Mr Mayor, we promise when we come back, we will have a certain operation on behalf of the city that will say this is what we are implementing what we have learnt,” Tembe said.
The mayor bid his team farewell and shared few words with them.
#AReSebetseng @HermanMashaba @CityofJoburgZA Mayor giving advice to the team leaving for KIGALI in RWANDA pic.twitter.com/RxU5oWYQJA
— Vicky (@MrsShuping) February 20, 2019
Mashaba launched the A Re Sebetseng clean-up campaign to encourage residents to keep their environment clean. His plan is to encourage all Johannesburg residents to continue taking ownership of their environment by helping to create cleaner communities.
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