Mayor's Acceptance Speech at the Council Inauguration Meeting

Madame Speaker and fellow councillors of Polokwane Municipality.  I feel really humbled by the confidence that you have shown in us.

As you are the representatives of the people of Polokwane, in their diversity, we take this as an expression of trust and confidence by the people of Polokwane.  We take this as an expression of the confidence that the collective communities of Polokwane have in the future of this Municipality.

Over the last five years we have invested a lot, not only in building infrastructure and providing services in the historically neglected rural areas but also in the establishment of a stable institution that will inspire business confidence and create a stable and predictable business environment to attract investment, to create jobs and other economic opportunities for our people.

The achievements that we have scored in these five years are not the results of one man’s efforts – they are the cumulative results of the work not only of a dedicated and hard-working Mayoral Committee – but of your collective work as councillors, of the work of administrators and of the community which participated in the planning and decision-making processes that have guided our work.

I wish to thank you and these hard working men and women whose work has brought us where we are today. I can only express our heartfelt hope and belief that today we are in an even better position to look forward to an even brighter future – A future of service to our communities, the next five years of pushing back the frontiers of unemployment and poverty – together. 

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