They are working at Prestige office and housing accommodation, including the Parliamentary Precinct, VIP houses and Parliamentary Villages. This contract includes a Performance Monitoring System, Building Maintenance Plans, a Prioritised Preventative Maintenance & Life-Cycle Replacement Control Plan, an Emergency Repair Plan and a Planned Maintenance Programme.
With an allocation of R900 million in 2003/2004, the Department of Correctional Services is the largest investor with the Department of Public Works for the improvement of its physical accommodation. Others are Justice (R229 million), SAPS (R208 million) and Arts and Culture (R145 million), among the top four.
Acting Transport Minister, Jeff Radebe, briefs the media on the Department's key programme before the Transport budget vote speech on 9 June 2003 The Acting Transport Minister, Mr Jeff Radebe, will brief and take questions from the media on key projects of the Department of Transport before the Departmental Budget Vote speech in the National Assembly at 16:00 on 9 June 2003.
The wine industry currently contributes R163 billion a year to the South Africa's Gross Domestic Product and employs 257 000 people either directly and indirectly while an additional R4.2 billion is generated annually through wine tourism. The competitiveness of the wine industry in South Africa, however, will only increase and can only be sustained when the business environment for participants in the industry is dynamic, innovative, stimulating and intensely competitive.