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Western Cape Premier Helen Zille delivers the State of the Province Address to the Western Cape Provincial Legislature
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- ... We'll carry on delivering basic services & housing opportunities to communities - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- The ANC’s thumb-suck figure includes programmes that had nothing to do with building and delivering housing units. - @helenzille #StateOfWC
- Annual report claims that ANC completed 15717 houses during '08/'09 but the FIU discovered that this claim cannot be verified. - @helenzille
- ...119674 housing opportunities over 16 programs creating 37,130 jobs & using the services of 147 broad-based BEE contractors. #StateOfWC
- 93% of human settlements budget is spent on housing programmes aimed at people earning less than R3500 per month. - @helenzille #StateOfWC
- There were 1739 road deaths in the year before we came into office. 1216 during 2013. An overall decrease of 30.1%. - @helenzille #StateOfWC
- We have also repeatedly lobbied National Minister & President Jacob Zuma to reinstate specialised gang units in WC. - @helenzille #StateOfWC
- We warmly congratulated the SAPS for their recent success in securing convictions against high profile gangsters - @helenzille #StateOfWC
- ... aim to establish a WC Police Ombudsman who will be empowered to investigate reports of police corruption. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- (Khayelitsha) Commission begun public hearings... I look forward to receiving its recommendations. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- We have introduced a number of interventions to improve policing in the province over the last five years. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- Ons beplan ook om nog jeugkafees in Nyanga Junction, Atlantis, Vredendal, Bredasdorp & Oudtshoorn oop te maak - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- I am also excited to announce that, together with the City, we opened the country's first youth café in Rocklands in January. - @helenzille
- Our MOD centre programme provides learners a safe, fun place to play sport & participate in cultural activities - @helenzille #StateOfWC
- As soon as we assumed office 5 years ago we embarked on a major substance abuse programme. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- Substance abuse robs people of opportunity. It also threatens social cohesion. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- The Western Cape also has the lowest mother-to-child HIV transmission rate - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 7 clinics, 12 ambulance stations or disaster management centres, 8 district hospitals... @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- We have spent R2.7 billion on health infrastructure over the last four years - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 80% of patients at WC hospitals receive free treatment or pay a nominal fee. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- The WC is committed to providing opportunity to every learner that arrives in this province. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- We will not rest until every child has internationally bench marked quality education - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- We are the only province that conducts rigorous competency testing for matric markers. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- The number of learners achieving passes has more than doubled in poor communities since 2009. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- When we took over the WC the drop out rate was over 60%. We have now upped the Retention rate to 52%. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- We exceeded out target for NSC passes. - @helenzille #SOPA #StateOfWC
- The WC government pays the highest amount of money to schools who qualify for no fee status. R90 million. @helenzille #WCSOPA #StateOfWC
- We spent 80% of our education budget on the poorest 60% of learners - @helenzille #WCSOPA #StateOfWC
- Creating opportunities in the rural economy is critical if we are to break the cycle of poverty & develop social cohesion. @helenzille #SOPA
- A 5% increase in agriculture trade could create 23 000 jobs. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- New: In order to maximise trade ans tourism we have developed a new international relations strategy - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- New: Our government is committed to developing the skills of young people in this province - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- New: Over 4000 Young South Africans have benefited from the WC Work & Skills programme. @helenzille #SOPA #StateOfWC
- New: I'm delighted a few of the young people who've benefitted from our skills programme are here today - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- New: This is not the first time that major projects have been blocked by the national government. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 1 minute ago: You wouldn't know a good story if you fell over one! - @helenzille to ANC MPP #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 1 minute ago: Our government is committed to connecting the Western Cape to high speed broadband (Internet). - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 2minutes ago: We commit ourselves to cooperative government at all times. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 3minutes ago: The Saldanha IDZ is expected to create 2600 direct jobs by the end of its first year. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 2minutes ago: All of these investments have created thousands of jobs... - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 3minutes ago: A new wind tower manufacturing factory will be opened in Atlantis. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 4minutes ago: Atlantis has traditionally been neglected... New investors are now moving into the area - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 6minutes ago: Our commitment to developing a corruption free, efficient government has resulted in R200 billion in FDI - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 7minutes ago: Corruption makes poor people poorer. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 8minutes ago: We established our red tape reduction unit to assist SMME's... The first of any government in the country. - @helenzille #SOPA #StateOfWC
- 9minutes ago: Enterprise development fund has committed to just under R20 million to small, black owned businesses. 52% are female owned. #SOPA #StateOfWC
- 11minutes ago: Are we translating Madiba's vision of opportunity into action for all? - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 11minutes ago: We have prioritised providing support to SMME's. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 12minutes ago: Our government had resolved to align everything with our objective of combating poverty - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 13minutes ago: Premier @helenzille thanks special guests, disaster Management officials. #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 14minutes ago: This is an important meeting to tell the voters what they voted for in 2009. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 16minutes ago: We have shifted resources into create opportunity and growth. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 16minutes ago: Progress is the product of partnerships. That it why we say: Better Together. - @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA
- 18minutes ago: 20 years ago... Nelson Mandela stood on the grand parade... undertook to create a better life... For All. @helenzille #StateOfWC #SOPA