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2009/04/20
M Sogoni opens Thusong Service Centre
The launch of Nophoyi Thusong Service Centre in deep rural Mount Frere, is set to bring closer government services and information to more than 3 000 people who have been travelling about 80 kilometres to access government services in the town of Mount Frere. The Thusong Service Centres programme was initiated by government in 1999 to provide government information and services in an integrated manner, closer to where communities live. The focus of these One-Stop Government Services and ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09042111051001.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2009/04/20
M Sogoni: Business Women Empowerment Expo
Our province's DEDEA works very closely with the Department of Trade and Industry (dti), and through the organs such as the Apex Fund, Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), and we provide expert services and resources for business development through Eastern Cape Development Corporate (ECDC), we are at your service, particularly in promoting self employment and entrepreneurship development, especially Small, Medium, Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and Co-operatives, targeting the ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09042013251002.htm Size: 18KB Source: Eastern Cape provincial Government Speaker: M Sogoni Collection: gov
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2009/03/25
M Sogoni on housing rectification programme
Eastern Cape Premier Mbulelo Sogoni says he is satisfied with the work that has been done to rectify 1 000 houses in Burgersdorp. We have corrected the mistakes and we will move with speed to ensure you occupy your houses,' said Premier Sogoni. After visiting two houses in the township, Sogoni discovered that owners of the Reconstruction Development Programme (RDP) houses were renting their houses out. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09032512151001.htm Size: 7KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2009/03/24
M Sogoni on integrated services and information
On 20 March 2009, Burgersdorp Thusong Service Centre was officially opened by the Premier of the Eastern Cape Mr Mbulelo Sogoni in Gariep Municipality in Burgersdorp. The aim of this One-Stop Government Service and Information Centre is to bring government information and services closer to communities where these services are needed most. Premier Sogoni pleaded with the youth of Burgersdorp to utilise the Tele-Centre, a computer lab within the Thusong Centre sponsored with 15 computers by ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09032509451004.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2009/03/24
M Sogoni on Thusong Service Centre
Premier Sogoni announced that there will be departments like Office of The Premier, Social Development, Home Affairs, Health, South African Police Service (SAPS) and Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) to provide services and information about bursaries and entrepreneurship opportunities to at the centre. The Thusong Service Centres formerly known as (Multi Purpose Community Centres) programme of government was initiated in 1999 to extend services of government, in an ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09032509151002.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2009/03/20
M Sogoni hands over agricultural tools
He said the tractors given to the communities will mean that the province produces enough food and that subsistence farmers become commercial farmers. Sogoni sang praises of Agriculture MEC Gugile Nkwinti who has introduced the six pegs policy that is aimed at providing tractors and implements, fencing, revival of irrigation schemes as well as capacitation of farmers. MEC Nkwinti vowed that the department will continue to support communal and emerging farmers to develop to become commercial ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09032310451001.htm Size: 9KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2009/02/13
M Sogoni: State of the Province Address
Madam Speaker, it is my honour, as Premier of the Eastern Cape, to present to you and the people of our province this State of the province Address, the last in this third term of government. Madam Speaker, government has succeeded in massively widening access to social grants in the province. Madam Speaker, in the quest to achieve service delivery excellence, the Eastern Cape Government has initiated various interventions to improve the effectiveness of the public service. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09021316451009.htm Size: 60KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Speaker: M Sogoni Collection: gov
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2008/12/30
Eastern Cape Premier Mbulelo Sogoni has expressed dissatisfaction with the 50.6 percent pass rate that the province attained in the 2008 matric examinations. Premier Sogoni was speaking during the matric examination announcement ceremony held in East London today. Premier Sogoni urged all education stakeholders in the province to put their efforts together to ensure that the class of 2009 does better than the 50 percent pass rate. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/09010509451002.htm Size: 9KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/12/15
M Sogoni passes message of goodwill to Eastern Cape citizens
Eastern Cape Premier Honourable Mbulelo Sogoni has today wished all the citizens of the Eastern Cape a happy festive season. Premier Sogoni was speaking in his office in Bhisho. This message from Premier Sogoni comes as people in the province prepare to go on holiday with their families. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08121710151003.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/12/15
M Sogoni on abuse of women and children
Eastern Cape Premier Honourable Mbulelo Sogoni has warned those who abuse women and children not to think that the closing of the 16 days campaign means they must start abusing women and children. To us the issue of abuse is not about 16 days, 16 days is used to highlight the issues around abuse and the campaign itself but in terms of our law enforcement work as well as us following very close on their heels, we will continue to do so every day of the year," said Premier Sogoni. The 16 Days ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08121710151002.htm Size: 7KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/11/17
M Sogoni: Professional Hunters' Association of South Africa convention
Thank you for the invitation, and indeed it gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, to welcome you to our beautiful province. I am aware that each year, the majority of the active Professional Hunting outfitters in the Eastern Cape attend the SCI conventions to do their marketing. Compared to other provinces, the Eastern Cape handles a substantial number of professional hunting trophy export permits. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08112714451008.htm Size: 13KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Speaker: M Sogoni Collection: gov
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2008/11/10
M Sogoni: Batho Pele learning network opening
A central component to any strategy to improve service delivery is rigorous service standards, encapsulated in our Service Delivery Charters, which relay to citizens the commitment of the public service to deliver quality services against which government can be measured. In order to ensure optimal delivery of services, an effective service delivery programme would need to take into account the gap between expectations that citizens have of government and the planned deliverables of ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08111810151003.htm Size: 14KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Speaker: M Sogoni Collection: gov
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2008/11/17
M Sogoni to pronounce his Cabinet, 17 Nov
Eastern Cape Premier, Honourable Mbulelo Sogoni will today, Monday, 17 November 2008, make a pronouncement about his Cabinet at 12h00. Members of the media are invited to attend the media briefing. Issued by: Office of the Premier, Eastern Cape Provincial Government 17 November 2008 Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government (http://www.ecprov.gov.za) [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08111809451003.htm Size: 7KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/11/14
M Sogoni on Community Policing Forums
Eastern Cape Premier Mbulelo Sogoni has called on all foreign nationals to actively partake in the Community Policing Forums (CPF). The Premier was briefing the media on the plans of the recently established Justice Crime Prevention Security (JCPS) Cluster to combat and uproot crime and xenophobic violence in the province. The participation of foreign nationals in Community Policing Forums is seen as a vital factor for mobilising communities against these barbaric acts. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08111709451004.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/11/05
M Sogoni: Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation Indaba
Way back in the period leading to 2003, stakeholders and social partners in the Eastern Cape worked together to construct a strategic platform of development in which we could all hold a stake; set our 10 year vision of the Eastern Cape we sought to build; and committed our departments and institutions to the letter and spirit of this, the Provincial Growth and Development Plan (PGDP). A few years earlier, the 1998 White Paper on Local Government envisaged the introduction of Integrated ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08110513451001.htm Size: 19KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Speaker: M Sogoni Collection: gov
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2008/11/03
M Sogoni addresses National Council of Provinces seating (NCOP) Taking Parliament to the people
Eastern Cape Premier Mbulelo Sogoni has made a clarion call to the people of the province to go to voter registration stations in numbers to register for 2009 general elections. Premier Sogoni was addressing about 3 000 residents who are attending the National Council of Provinces seating (NCOP) at the Lady Frere Stadium in the Chris Hani District Municipality. The NCOP is in Lady Frere to listen to the people as part of its programme of taking parliamentary sessions to the people. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08110410451002.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/11/03
M Sogoni wishes matric candidates well
Eastern Cape Grade 12 learners will start their final examinations in a positive and spirited mindset with the government behind them. Learners from Hector Peterson, Xolani, and ZK Matthews High Schools assembled at Bhisho High school to listen to the Premier delivering his special message to them. Grade 12 learner from Bhisho High School Azakhiwe Teto said "I feel honoured by the Premier and his cabinet's positive gesture. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08110310451002.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/10/31
M Sogoni to host National Council of Provinces (NCOP) gala dinner, 5 Nov
The Eastern Cape's Honourable Premier Mbulelo Sogoni will host national ministers, members of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), business people and other important stakeholders at a special gala dinner at the Queenstown Casino on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 at 18h00 for 18h30. The Eastern Cape as a venue for the sitting is in line with the government's banner of empowering communities for poverty eradication by visiting areas suffering from abject poverty around Emalahleni Local ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08110310451001.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/10/28
M Sogoni and cabinet to visit grade 12 students, 29 Oct
Eastern Cape Premier, Honourable Mbulelo Sogoni will on 29 October take some time off and lead his entire Cabinet on a snap visit to Bhisho High School where he is expected to deliver a special message to matric examination candidates of 2008. The visit by Premier Sogoni and his cabinet ministers which will start at 09h00 comes six days before the start of the grade 12 examinations of 2008. Members of the media are invited to accompany the Premier and his cabinet during this visit. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08103010151002.htm Size: 7KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2008/10/22
As part of the 2008 October Transport month and imbizo focus week programmes, Eastern Cape Premier Mbulelo Sogoni and MEC for Roads and Transport Ms Gloria Barry will officially hand over the Mthatha Airport site to contractors for a R60 million upgrade on 24 October 2008 at 10h00. During this event, Premier Sogoni and MEC Barry will launch the Africa's Best 350 Ltd bus operations in the King Sabata Dalindyebo, Mhlontlo and Nyandeni municipalities, where 16 brand new 65-seater buses have ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2008/08102212451001.htm Size: 8KB Source: Eastern Cape Provincial Government Collection: gov