SDM and its local municipalities adopt district developmental model
The District Wide IDP Lekgotla was graced by the National and Provincial DDM Champions, Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education and Faith Mazibuko, MEC for Community Safety.
SEDIBENG.- Lerato Maloka, the Sedibeng District Municipality Executive Mayor, coordinated and hosted a District Wide IDP Lekgotla which was attended by Emfuleni Local Municipality, Midvaal Local Municipality and Lesedi Local Municipality’s Executive Mayors, Members of the Mayoral Committees, Speakers, Chief Whip of Councils and Chairpersons of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee recently.
This was jointly with national and provincial spheres of government to top-down integrate and align government plans to provide basic services, promote investment and create jobs.
“It is also my assertion that the results of November 2021 Local Government Elections changed our regional political landscape; however, it has given us an opportunity to make honest efforts for Sedibeng District Municipality to succeed in everything we dare execute. And these efforts are through multiparty coalition in Emfuleni, Lesedi, and in the district” said SDM Mayor, Lerato Maloka during her opening of Sedibeng District-Wide IDP Lekgotla at Riverside Sun Hotel, Vanderbijlpark. The District Wide IDP Lekgotla was graced by the National and Provincial DDM Champions, Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education and Faith Mazibuko, MEC for Community Safety respectively.
Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga in her message on the District Developmental Model (DDM) said that, “We have to find ways ourselves to work together to make sure that the single community that we are serving; we organise ourselves, we integrate our work so that we (government) can also serve as similar community”.
