The launch was a culmination of many years of planning, which involved the Department of Public Works, the Department of Public Service and Administration together with the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. The Tshwane Inner City Project is therefore a clear demonstration of the value of working in co-operation between the three spheres of government towards service delivery. This is the background against which we launch this regional office of the Department of Public Works.
Department of Public Works has also been responsible for co-ordinating the infrastructure sector and supporting the provinces and municipalities with the implementation of the EPWP. The role of Department of Public Works has in addition been to generally create an enabling environment for the EPWP.
We are gathered today to celebrate youth day, a day which I must say is in one sense not ours, but at the same time ours. We do this realising that one day is just that, only one day. As we conduct this exercise it is imperative that we seek to understand the historical basis of June 16 1976, the day our children took to the streets in protest against linguistic violence and oppression of the apartheid state.
N Kganyago: Women and Environment Conference in Womens Mont?
Under the EPWP, the Limpopo provincial government had teamed up with the municipalities in the province to expand the Gundo Lashu programme and its lessons to the municipal infrastructure sector. * Establishment of Provincial Steering Committees * Formulation of provincial sector plans feeding into the provincial EPWP Framework Document * Participation in the Learnership Programme by provincial and municipal government and very importantly.