31 May 2022

Moshupa Sub-council employees  have been implored to incorporate the President’s Reset Agenda priorities, particularly  mindset change and digitalisation, into their daily work routine.

Officially opening a seven-day, sub-council session on Monday, chairperson, Mr Peter Sethibe pleaded with staff to change their approach and thinking in order to realise the organisation’s vision.

It was crucial to emphasise value chain development as it had the potential to create employment, he told his audience.

He said the sub district continued to face many challenges that impeded the realisation of its vision of providing quality social services and infrastructure.

“Lack of resources has led to the district being unable to attend to bad roads,” Mr Sethibe stated.

He however said challenges such as bad condition of roads and limited resources, both financially and human, were not peculiar to the area but a country-wide phenomenon.

Mr Sethibe called for more support from the parent ministry to address the challenges, and also urged officers to do their utmost with the little resources at their disposal.

He disclosed that the first batch of Road Levy Funds, amounting to P4 million, which was budgetted  for the procurement of a grader and five-cubic tipper truck, had been successfully utilised as both had been delivered.

“The contract for the second grader, through the second batch of P4.5 million, has been signed and the grader ordered with the 10-cubic tipper procurement currently at an early stage of tendering,” he said.

Mr Sethibe said  plans were also underway for rectification of defects at Moshupa Bridge adding that it was an emergency project.
 

The damages occurred during the January-March heavy rains.

With respect to project implementation, he decried poor workmanship and slow progress which he said resulted in most projects not being completed on time leading to cost overruns.

The chairperson also lamented lack of commitment by beneficiaries of programmes such as Poverty Eradication, Youth Development Funds (YDF) and Women Economic Empowerment.

He said failure by some beneficiaries to pay loans defeated YDF’s intention of extending the service to other aspiring youth entrepreneurs.

Mr Sethibe commended the ministry responsible for putting in place strategies for collecting outstanding loans.

Urging councillors to encourage the youth to service loans, he said to-date, only about seven had paid back their loans.

Mr Sethibe also praised the government for striving to provide funding for development and recurrent projects despite challenges of insufficient budgets and  disease  outbreaks.

“Most of the projects implemented during the 2021/22 financial year are at completion stage, “ he stated.

 The sub-council chairman said Moshupa primary hospital was at 70 percent,  staff  houses 97 percent, sanitation project 43 percent and laying of artificial turf at the stadium 70 percent.

Upgrading of  Moshupa and Manyana clinics were at 100 per cent while Pitseng and Sesung clinics were at 97 per cent and 90 per cent  respectively, he revealed.

On implementation of maintenance and primary school backlog eradication programme, he said it  was going well, with projects status up to 55 per cent.

“It is however unfortunate that three projects for Mogonye, Ranoi and Bakoko primary schools  still remain at re-tender stage,” he said.

Turning to the  new Tribal Land Act, he said it ‘gives hope that  delays in land delivery will be a thing of the past as now major changes, including digitization and title issuance of land will be also be effected’.

The new legislation was also aimed at strict regulation of ttribal land acquisition. ends