Message from the Executive Mayor - Foreword to the 2007 Annual Report

The financial year 2006/2007 is the year in which we experienced a lot of institutional changes.
This is the year in which the term of previous council ended and the present council was put in place.
This has led to the incoming council not getting enough time to deal with both the IDP and the budget
With all the challenges the council has managed to broaden and deepen democracy by allowing more accessibility to the institution by the local residents.
This has been made possible by programmatic Mayoral outreach meetings, council outreach meetings, IDP consultative meeting/indaba, launching of ward committees, transport forum, LED forum, AIDS council, sport council and a Thembisile branch of the South African Youth council.
This has also proven to be a successful year in terms of service delivery and efficiency of the Municipality. We managed to remove refuse to all the Kwaggafontein areas, did a number of electrical and water connections to households.
Sanitation was also improved by a number of VIP toilets erected.
The start in the tarring of bus routes shows commitment.
This is the year in which we saw the 37 of 50 goat learners graduating.
The initiation of the brickyard and the budget of R5,2m for VIP's at Tweefontein J has seen the municipality enrolling 10 contractors and 20 supervisors for a learner ship.
The social and political stability shows the commitment to the better life for all we promised our residents.
A sound management has led to an unqualified audit assessment report.
We therefore like to congratulate all colleagues, staff members and community members for the role that they played.