âââ 10:43 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 PHOTO: Sol Plaatje Municipality
The Northern Cape provincial government allocated R500 million to the Sol Plaatje Municipality in aid of filling the incapacitating service delivery gaps.
According to the Executive Mayor, Patrick Mabilo - also known as the ghost - they are quite relieved that the provincial government has availed resources to them to rebuild the city. He says that they have developed a year-long master plan that entails attending to the damaged roads, faulty sewerage systems, skyrocketing electricity bills, as well as inconsistent water supply. He adds that a highly specialised committee has been tasked to oversee the spending of funds.
âââ 11:34 Mon, 12 Apr 2021
President Cyril Ramaphosa says one of the ways to grow the South African economy is by âharnessing the job-creating potential of the digital economyâ.
The country is still reeling from the effects of Covid-19, where over two million people lost their jobs as a result of the various lockdowns.
âWe have to both recover the ground that we have lost due to the coronavirus pandemic, and to gain new ground by placing our economy on a fundamentally different growth trajectory,â Ramaphosa said in his weekly newsletter on Monday.
âOne of the concrete ways that we can do this is by harnessing the job-creating potential of the digital economy, whose growth has only been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.â