It was the pan-African leader have played and continue to play in enterprise programme; 55% of Thomas Sankara who in his the evolution of a democratic and the bursary programme; 60% memorable speech of March 8, non-sexist South African society. of Tshepo 1 Million and 65% of 1987, when addressing a rally housing delivered. commemorating International This is the time to refocus the Women’s Day who posed that attention of the nation on the rights • Over the past two years, “… women’s emancipation is of women and to assess how far more than 100 000 women at the heart of the question we have come on the journey have benefitted from public of humanity itself, here and towards women empowerment employment opportunities – everywhere.” Sankara further and gender equality. Proceeding the Expanded Public Works reasoned that there is no true from the premise that the struggle and Community Works social revolution without the for liberation was the struggle Programmes. liberation of women. for the emancipation of all our people, including women, the ANC • The Welfare-to-Work pilot Thirty-two-years after Sankara believes that the 1994 democratic programme has far exceeded gave his address and 63 breakthrough has registered expectations. Close to 36 000 years after the historic mass significant progress in restoring young mothers who used to demonstrations at the Union the dignity of women. depend on child support grants Buildings in Pretoria, which saw have now been assisted to more than 20 000 women from Here in , although more obtain proper jobs and self- all walks take part, the struggle still needs to be done, several employment through training continues for many women who milestones have been reached and skills development. Thus still bear a disproportionate burden in an effort to bring women into exceeding the target of 11 of the triple challenges of poverty, the mainstream economy of our 000 by the end the 2018/2019 inequality and unemployment province. financial year. These young including human rights abuses and women now earn decent increased gender-based violence. • Currently, the ANC-led income and can take care of Provincial Government themselves and their children. During this month of August, as spends 23% procuring goods we pay tribute to millions of South and services from businesses African women for their selfless owned by women. More contribution in the liberation than 7 000 women-owned • R500 million worth of counterfeit struggle and for their continued cooperatives have received goods disposed efforts in rebuilding our nation financial and non-financial • By-Elections results let use this opportunity to take support from government. • Growing Gauteng Together stock of the progress we have vision made since 1994 to build a non- • Women constitute the majority • Ntirhisano, connecting with sexist society. This is also an of the beneficiaries of most of communities opportunity to celebrate women’s the programmes of this ANC- • Municipal update achievements and the important led administration – 60% role that all women of of the beneficiaries of agri-

Lentswe la Gauteng / 1 @gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng The support of the ANC in The ANC is confident that both In the last six months Gauteng is on the rise after the Comrade Imtiaz Loonat of Ward party wrestled yet another Ward 29 in Ekurhuleni and Comrade we have witnessed how from the DA in a period of three Abram Tholani Mazula of Ward 21 Operation O Kae Molao in Rand West will serve the people weeks. The ANC successfully has rattled the hornet’s reclaimed Ward 29 in Ekurhuleni of their respective wards diligently from the DA while also retaining as they assume office in their nest as counterfeit goods Ward 21 in Rand West. municipal councils. worth millions have been recovered, and most This comes after the ANC The ANC Gauteng Province once contested four By-Elections in again expresses its gratitude to wanted criminals, including Ekurhuleni’s Wards 15 & 29 and the people of Ekurhuleni and Rand those wanted for cash- Rand West’s Wards 08 & 21 on West in the West Rand in all the in-transit heists, drugs, August 7, 2019. Three of the wards four wards that were contested for murder, gangsterism and were in the hands of opposition voting ANC. We are pleased at the prior to the By-Elections. growing support even in the wards gender-based violence are we did not win. We also thank all made to face the might of The positive outcome of these the volunteers in the two regions the law. By-Elections can be attributed who worked day and night to to a number of factors. We secure this positive outcome. have a strong and united ANC in the regions and the ANC-led government’s programme of delivering basic services to the poorest of the poor is being well received.

This victory clearly demonstrates that the ANC continues to enjoy majority support amongst our citizens. The renewed confidence in the ANC was again evident last month when the ANC reclaimed Ward 109 from the DA in Joburg.

Since the 2016 local government elections and the 2019 general elections the ANC has embarked on an ambitious programme to win the full confidence of the people of Gauteng through our actions and an activist approach to governance.

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng Lentswe la Gauteng / 2 CBD prevented law enforcement determined; agencies from carrying out crime prevention operations targeting • Intelligence further led police counterfeit goods in the Joburg to Lister Building where 46 CBD. vehicles including panel vans were found on different levels The brazen attack on the officers of the basement parking. of the law was an act of extreme The vehicles were loaded to provocation and posed a serious capacity with more counterfeit threat to the safety and security goods which were confiscated of South Africans and other by the police. nationalities who are in the country legally. This was an unsuccessful • Seven police officers were attempt to undermine the ability of arrested by their own Since its launch in August 2018 the state to maintain law and order. colleagues, for corruption and the operation has seen the defeating the ends of justice. South African Police Service on Following the Thursday operation embarking on joint operations the police once again visited the with law enforcement agencies Joburg CBD on Wednesday, 07 in Gauteng which comprised of August where: the Provincial Traffic Police and Saturation Unit, the Immigration • over 560 undocumented Officers (Home Affairs), SARS foreign nationals were taken in Customs, metro police and clothing for processing. Their status in brand owners. the country will be determined by the Department of Home Since April this year over R500 Affairs while the Local Criminal million worth of counterfeit goods Record Centre from the SAPS have been disposed publicly as will determine criminal records; part of Operation O Kae Molao. • Unlicenced firearms - 6 rifles, During the 2019 general elections, 6 pistols, 4 shotguns and the ANC in Gauteng committed hundreds of ammunition of to work together with the people varying calibres were found of this province to not only build in one room on the 12th floor Gauteng’s economy to work of Medical One Shopping for all but to also ensure safer Centre in Rahima Moosa communities by tackling acts of Street. A suspect was arrested criminality wherever they may be for possession of unlicenced committed. firearms and ammunition. The firearms will be subjected to Acts of anarchy condemned ballistic testing to determine possible usage in the This is why the ANC Gauteng commission of crime. Province condemned in the strongest possible terms, acts • Large consignments of of anarchy and lawlessness that counterfeit goods including played themselves out in the clothing and sneakers were Joburg city centre on Thursday, 01 found in different buildings. August when illegal traders in the The monetary value is yet to be

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng Lentswe la Gauteng / 3 A vision of Growing Gauteng Together

A summary of the first State and economic development. In order to drive our economic transformation agenda, Gauteng of the Province Address in the The ANC-led sixth provincial will focus on the following 6th Administration delivered administration will focus on the industries and sectors with huge by Gauteng Comrade following five priorities: employment potential: on 01 July 2019 • Economy, Jobs and • Automotive, capital equipment The people have indeed spoken Infrastructure and rolling stock manufacturing; without equivocation. The ANC • Education, Skills Revolution • Agro-processing, Food and has a democratic mandate to lead and Health the process of “Growing Gauteng Beverages; • Integrated Human Settlements Together”. The full plan - “Growing • BPO/BPS and ICT; and Land Release Gauteng Together: Our Roadmap • Finance and Retail; to 2030” – will be finalised the first • Safety, Social Cohesion and 100 Days (end of August), after Food Security • Tourism and Hospitality; consultation with various sectors • Building a Capable, Ethical • Creative and Cultural Industries; and stake holders. and Developmental State • Logistics and Warehousing; and Gauteng is South Africa’s largest Over the next five years, the ANC- • Green Economy economy; Africa’s 7th largest led Gauteng government will economy and the 26th largest introduce special economic zones In six months Premier Makhura City Region in the world. Gauteng where feasible and necessary, to will announce the total number occupies a pride of place in add momentum towards turning of jobs each sector and company the global economy where, Gauteng City Region into a single, will contribute towards our five- increasingly, cities and city regions multi-tier and integrated Special year job creation target, including are becoming engines for growth Economic Zone. the contribution of the township economy, cooperatives and

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng Lentswe la Gauteng / 4 SMMEs. • Empower 50 emerging black Within six months there has to be significant improvements in Economic Development firms as contractors and sub- contractors, including women and the conditions and operations of To finalise Gauteng’s economic youth owned businesses. major intermodal public transport initiatives, MEC Dr Kgosientsho nodes such as Mabopane Station, • Revitalise regional economies, Ramokgopa will present to the Marabastad, Park Station, Bree decaying CBDs, old towns and old Executive Council detailed plan Street Taxi Rank, Germiston townships. about all sectors that have greatest Station and Vereeniging Taxi potential for employment, exports • Support the township economy Rank. and empowerment, including jobs and SMMEs in general. Madame Speaker, our province in the township economy. This will • Crowd in private sector refuses to be left out of the fourth be done within the first 100 days. investment. industrial revolution and the He will also table a plan on climate digital age and we are therefore change and sustainability strategy • Bring affordable, reliable investing in wall-to-wall broadband for Gauteng. integrated public transport closer to residential and industrial nodes coverage, with emphasis on Infrastructure Development and improve the provincial road deprived communities. Gauteng will use the R60 billion network. Finance and e-Governance infrastructure budget to drive • Roll out high-speed broadband Within the first 100 Days, MEC an agenda for job creation, access to deprived areas and Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko will economic empowerment and ensure last mile connectivity. present a detailed plan to the spatial transformation. Within the Executive Council on how to first 100 Days, MEC Tasneem deliver 100% of government Motara will present a plan to services on digital platforms over the Premier’s Infrastructure the next five years. Coordinating Committee on how Gauteng government will use Investing in internet connectivity infrastructure to enhance job will increase our GDP by 1.5%, creation and broad-based Black improve service delivery to economic empowerment, working citizens, create new industries and in partnership with construction provide new platforms for small and infrastructure businesses. Transport businesses to integrate with the mainstream economy. In particular, the infrastructure Within the first 100 Days, MEC budget will be used to: will present a In the coming years, the infrastructure and the offerings of • Improve access to water, public transport service delivery the Gauteng Innovation Hub will sanitation, electricity, housing and improvement plan to the Executive be expanded in order to revive roads in deprived areas, including Council, with clear targets and the prospects of growing it into completing the urban renewal budget for the entire term of office. Africa’s Silicon Valley that will drive projects. This plan will be discussed with national and local government the development of our digital as well as public transport economy. • Facilitate the creation of 100 000 stakeholders within 200 Days. jobs in the construction sector.

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@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng the Gauteng government to hire and train young people. The target will be set after engaging with the sector. Education Education makes a big difference in the lives of citizens. Educated and skilled individuals have better jobs and better prospects of escaping the poverty trap. More attention will be directed at strengthening and improving the performance of primary education Our dream is that Gauteng should – including maintenance and in Gauteng. be a hub of fourth industrial repair of public facilities and We are also gearing our education revolution skills and a centre of infrastructure, cleaning and system to meet the demands of the excellence for digital economy greening initiatives, safety and the economy of the future through the breakthroughs such as Artificial care economy. rollout of schools of specialisation Intelligence, crypto currency and • Implement the government working in partnership with the big data. policy abolishing requirement for private sector. The number of Accordingly, the Premier will experience in entry level jobs in Schools of Specialisation will be appoint an advisory panel that will the public service by bringing in increased from 17 to 35. advise the provincial government young people to deal with attrition We will continue to build new on the fourth industrial revolution and growth opportunities in some schools for learners with special in the first 100 Days. areas of the public service. The educational needs at a rate higher actual numbers will be determined Jobs for the Youth than ever before to ensure that no after the first 100 Days. In response to the President’s call learner or child is left behind or left • Expand the welfare-to-work for creating 2 million jobs for the out. programme to reach 100 000 youth, the ANC-led government We will invest in Early Childhood unemployed young women who in Gauteng will over the next five Development, focus on improving are currently dependent on child years: literacy and numeracy in the support grants and empower them foundation phase and further • Place 250,000 young people with skills to become employed empower learners with portable into long term jobs in the various and self-employed. growing sectors of the economy in skills in all high school grades. • Continue with a mass digital partnership with Harambee Youth MEC Panyaza Lesufi will learning and digital skills Employment Accelerator and the implement the national integrated programme to reach over 1 million Youth Employment Service (YES) assessment framework which will young people, especially out of programme. ensure rigorous assessment of school youth. • Place 250,000 young people all primary schools. The results • Make it mandatory for all service In public works employment of this assessment will be publicly providers that do business with programmes that are long term released as we do with Grade 12

Lentswe la Gauteng / 6 @gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng results. All vacant positions of CEOs of fast-tracked. hospitals will be filled in the first In the first 100 Days, MEC Panyaza Within the first 100 Days, MEC 100 days and all critical posts in Lesufi will present a plan to the Maile will present a plan to the our health facilities will be filled by Executive Council on the status of Executive Council on the upgrading 2020. all primary schools as well as the and renovation of hostels. improvement plans turn around Community health workers will The provincial government will poorly performing primary schools. be the critical backbone of this work with municipalities and system and will be fully absorbed Health the private sector to develop and retrained. innovative partnerships to provide Premier Makhura will lead from the affordable lending for the owners front in rebuilding public confidence Going forward, the internal of properties to upgrade their in our healthcare system. Every performance assessment of all backyard rooms. week, he will accompany Health health facilities will be done by the MEC, Dr to visit department on a quarterly basis Community Safety health facilities in order to ensure and including citizen satisfaction service delivery improvements. In surveys. This will enhance the next six months, all our primary accountability and transparency. healthcare facilities, including Human Settlement district and regional hospitals will Access to decent housing and be visited. land is amongst the most pressing Our target is to ensure that 90% of issues raised by the people across clinics, community health centres, Gauteng. Within the first 100 Days, district and regional hospital MEC will present meet the ideal clinic standards in a plan about Rapid Land Release, There is no doubt that crime has line with the Office of the Health the completion of incomplete been a matter of great concern Standards Compliance within five housing projects, handing over of to many law-abiding residents years. This means that they must the outstanding title deeds, urban of our province. The police are open on time, have adequate renewal projects (Alexandra, everywhere in Gauteng. Every day, medicines, equipment, be clean, Evaton, Kliptown, Bekkersdal and road-blocks and raids are being be patient-friendly and provide Winterveldt) and the prevention of conducted through Operation patient safety. land invasions across Gauteng. Okae Molao. Gauteng government will also In the next two months, Premier Within the first 100 Days, MEC ensure that within five years, all Makhura will visit each of these and Premier 32 community health centres in five townships to give feedback to Mkhura will visit Langlaagte, Gauteng provide 24-hour services. communities on our plans to take Dobsonville, Ivory Park, Akasia Currently only half provide 24-hour forward the renewal projects to and Kempton Park as the worst services. Within the first 100 Days, their logical conclusion. performing police stations and Health MEC, Dr Bandile Masuku, The release unutilised government policing precincts in Gauteng. will present a service delivery buildings, abandoned factories, These police stations will be part improvement plan for the worst municipal shops or land for urban of the Premier’s priorities. performing hospitals - Mamelodi, agriculture to entrepreneurs who Sebokeng, Bheki Mlangeni and In the next five years, crime should want to utilise this to grow the Jubilee. be reduced by 50% in the 40 high economy and create jobs will be priority police stations.

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng Lentswe la Gauteng / 7 School safety will be elevated to insecure people, while the school of Africa’s Creative and Cultural a Premier’s Priority. We want to uniform programme will be industries. Gauteng is already an ensure that our children are safe expanded to 1 million learners undisputed cultural melting pot in all schools. We will focus on from poor households, together and the home of competitive sport. the worst schools on gangsterism, with the distribution of 7 million In the next 100 Days, MEC Mbali violence and drugs and regular dignity packs to girl learners. Hlope will present a plan raids and searches will be conducted by the SAPS. In the first twelve months, we will deploy 10 patrollers per ward in all 508 wards in Gauteng and revive and professionalise Community Policing Forums in all police precincts. To support victims of gender- The welfare-to-work programme to the Executive Council on how based violence, during this term, will be upscaled from 30 000 to to implement the resolutions of we will ensure that no less than 100 000 young women who will the Creative Industry Indaba 50 000 victims of gender-based be empowered with skills that so that Gauteng plays its violence access psycho-social will enable them to graduate rightful role as the leader of the support. from social grants to work for transformation, modernisation and themselves. re-industrialisation of this sector. Social Development The EPWP and other public In the next six months, MEC Social Development Department employment programmes will Mabli and Premier Makhura will is being strengthened to help also be directed to support poorer convene a Gauteng Sport Indaba drive the agenda to end urban households, with emphasis to develop a blueprint for the next poverty and hunger. This includes on equipping people in poor decade, as it was done with the a clean-up of the Department households with skills that will Creative Industries. Sports is big to bring to book corrupt officials assist them to transition to better business and it has a huge impact who have hijacked programmes jobs and other income-generating on many sectors of our economy, which are meant to empower poor activities. including tourism and hospitality, households. manufacturing and the digital Financial support will be provided In the first 100 Days, MEC Thuli economy. to 1700 ECD centres in order to Nkabinde Khawe will present a reach 200 000 more children over Over the next five years, we plan to the Executive Council the next five years, in addition will increase our support for on how to reduce poverty and to the 480 000 that are currently community games and school eliminate hunger in Gauteng having access to early learning sport as part of nation-building and over the next decade. The full opportunities. social cohesion. potential of urban agriculture will be unlocked to feed the poor and Sports, Recreation, Arts and ensure that no one goes hungry. Culture Over the next five years, our The sixth administration is going food security programme will to pay particular attention to be expanded to 2 million food positioning Gauteng as the Hub

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng Lentswe la Gauteng / 8 Ntirhisano outreach programme connects government with communities

As part of the Ntirhisano can resolve and attend to their meeting took place at Tshepiso Community Outreach issues in the comfort of their own Sports Centre in Tshepiso. space,” said MEC Dr Kgosientso Programme, Members of the Ramokgopa. MECs Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko Executive Council (MECs) visited and Bandile Masuku went to West the five regions of Gauteng in the MECs Lebogang Maile and Faith Rand to engage with Khutsong Mazibuko were in Joburg Region community members at Khutsong first week of July. This was in line at Dlamini Multi-Purpose Hall in Community Hall. Both MECs with Premier David Makhura’s . “We have noted all your engaged residents on the recently commitment at the State of the concerns including the Chaiwelo delivered State of the Province Province Address to spend more Clinic and will pass the message to Address and laid out the programme MEC for Health, who will ensure that of action and key priorities of the time on the ground; resolving the matter is attended to,” stated sixth administration. service delivery challenges MEC Lebogang Maile. in hospitals, schools, police MEC Panyaza Lesufi went to stations and communities around Ekurhuleni Region with MEC Gauteng. . They met with Reiger Park Community members This was the first Ntirhisano at Reiger Park Community Centre. programme in the 6th Administration. MEC Tasneem Motara told the The MECs used the meetings to community that, government will engage with communities on the continue to invest in infrastructure contents of the State of the Province that supports clusters of township Address and outlined key priorities businesses to expand, access in this term of office. markets and prosper.

MECs Dr Kgosientso Ramokgopa MECs Jacob Mamabolo and Thuli and were in Greater Nkabinde-Khawe were in Sedibeng Tshwane Region at Atteridgeville assessing service delivery and Community Centre engaging with engaging with residents to help people of Atteridgeville. “We will them resolve their challenges. The come to our communities, so we

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@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng More than 12 tonnes of illegal electrical cables were recently disconnected and confiscated during Operation O kae Molao at Vusumuzi in Tembisa to root out illegal electricity connections. Illegal electricity connections and tampering have caused many power supply interruptions across the City due to the overloaded grid at affected areas. The ANC Gauteng Province recently reiterated its position on the e-Toll system - that it has no future in Working with fellow law this province. The province has full enforcement agencies, confidence in the process that has Emfuleni Local Municipality’s been put in place by the National investigating team in the Office Bearers of the ANC, working Public Safety Department has together with the Office Bearers of uncovered alleged corruption in This results in damage to the Province to bring the matter to electricity supply infrastructure, the Revenue Department of the finality. such as transformers, and leads municipality. Investigators in the to frustrations from citizens who ongoing probe had been looking President Cyril Ramaphosa has have to go for lengthy periods into allegations of municipal mandated Minister of Transport without power supply. Replacing staffers demanding money from Comrade Fikile Mbalula working a damaged transformer or power unsuspecting residents who distribution lines is a costly and with Finance Minister Comrade Tito were in the process of receiving lengthy process. Mboweni and Gauteng Premier refunds on their accounts. The Comrade David Makhura to submit The City of Ekurhuleni loses officials would call residents to to Cabinet a solution to the impasse in the region of R800 million come collect their refunds and around electronic tolling on Gauteng per year in electricity theft, in illegally demand kick-backs. freeways. addition to losses related to damage to critical electricity In one incident, municipal While the user-pay principle remains distribution infrastructure. The investigators working with City has intensified the electricity a policy of government, the electronic intelligence officers carried out a disconnection operations in recent tolling system as part of the Gauteng successful sting operation, which months. Members of the public Freeway Improvement Plan (GFIP) area urged to report suspicions led to internal charges being laid presents challenges in its current form. incidents to law enforcement against a municipal official and a officials so that perpetrators can be brought to book. Lentswe la Gauteng / 10

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng security guard. This is after the investigators intercepted handover of R10 000 from a pensioner to municipal officials allegedly involved in the kick- backs syndicate.

The pensioner had received a refund on her account of over The ANC Caucus in Joburg recently that those who pay for services R48 000 and municipal officials handed over a memorandum of and those who cannot afford to pay reportedly demanded a R20 demands to Eskom as part of the (indigents) are unfairly punished”, 000 bribe/fee for helping her. relentless fight to ensure that the says ANC Caucus in Joburg. power utility fulfils its mandate of This ongoing investigation providing the City’s residents with ANC Caucus Joburg believes there falls in line with a commitment electricity. are a number of methods Eskom can use that would lead to a lasting by the ANC-led government Residents in areas such as Ivory solution to the electricity challenges when Executive Mayor, Park, Soweto, Orange Farm and in communities. These include Councillor Gift Moerane during Diepsloot are constantly plunged into allowing communities to enter into his inauguration speech darkness for an unjustifiable period payment arrangements with the earlier this year, promised with no explanation or assistance utility as well as the implementation to deal with corruption and from Eskom. of credit control measures once maladministration. this existing problem of outages is The ANC Caucus has tried to engage resolved. The Mayor has given the with the power utility for well over five investigating team his full years in an attempt to find a practical Not only is this electricity crisis an support. “We will continue and lasting solution to this power irritant to residents it also places our working hard to fight corruption supply challenge. Ward Councillors and their families wherever and whenever it rears in harm’s way. In their frustration, its ugly head, we owe it to our “We support wholly the call for which is understandable albeit often people to do so,” said the Mayor. residents to pay for services, but misdirected, residents expect and He is pleading with residents we implore Eskom to not resort to demand their Ward Councillors to who may have fallen victims to collective punishment in their pursuit provide answers – which they cannot this syndicate to come forward to get residents to honour their civic do, as they are also residents who duty. This blanket approach means are reliant on Eskom’s intervention. to help with investigations.

@gautengANC @GautengANC @ANCGauteng Lentswe la Gauteng / 11 ANC Gauteng Province remembering the Spirit of Madiba on Nelson Mandela Day On the 18th of July 2019, African Mandela Day. In the spirit of an effort to emulate principles that National Congress Gauteng Thuma Mina, ANC structures in the guided the life of the founding father Province joined South Africans province embarked on community of our democracy, President Nelson across all walks of life and service and voluntary work such Mandela, who dedicated most of his the global community as they as renovating homes, planting and life to the service of humanity and celebrated the Annual gardening, cleaning and painting, called on others to do the same. amongst others. This was part of

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