23 Aug 2017

The Palapye Sub-council has called on the business community to remove any illegal advertisement they had erected.

Briefing the council, the chairperson, Mr Lesedi Phuthego said illegal advertising deprived the sub-council the revenue it could be generating.

He pleaded with the business community to follow the stipulated laws and remove any illegal advertisements erected.

Mr Phuthego attributed this to the fact that Palapye was growing into a town, and that it was pressure from existing and emerging businesses which would like to be well noticed by customers.

On other issues, he said a global memorandum for community projects had been approved by the Ministry of Finance, and that districts had been instructed to commence with project implementation.

He said a technical task team had been formed to fast-track project implementation. He added that the team was currently holding stakeholder meetings to mobilise communities to commence approved projects.

He said the preparation of tender documents was ongoing as well as registration of skilled and semi-skilled manpower which was done through village extension teams and village development committees.

Mr Phuthego said the approved community constituency projects for Palapye were the paving of internal roads as earlier proposed.

Regarding poverty eradication, Mr Phuthego said mass assessment to review previously assessed poverty eradication beneficiaries in PAA was conducted in June.

He said 432 people were assessed and that 15 were recommended to continue with the destitution programme while 22 were deferred for further assessment and 11 declined in the assessment.

He said 327 people were not assessed due to relocation, death and that some were nowhere to be found.

For people living with disability (PLWD) projects, he said P200 000 was reserved for such projects.

He said 39 PLWDs were to be assisted with the funds, and that currently 10 beneficiaries had been packaged.

Over P410 000, he said, was allocated for the poverty eradication backlog.

He said the funds would cater for 45 partially packaged beneficiaries, 76 beneficiaries awaiting packaging and 36 awaiting training. ENDS