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FRIDAY 27 MAY 2016

INSIDE:SERVICE DELIVERY PLANS FOR THE YEAR 2015/16DROUGHT RELIEF INTERVENTIONS AND FUTURE PLANS

State of the District Address 2016 Councillor Nomasikizi Konza

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State of the District Address by the Her Worship Executive Mayor of theAmathole District Municipality Councillor Nomasikizi Konza on 27 May 2016

Honourable Speaker of Council Cllr Samkelo JandaThe Honourable MEC for Health Dr Pumza Dyantyi Honourable members of the Provincial LegislatureExecutive Mayor and Mayors of our local MunicipalitiesThe Chief Whip of Council Cllr Sandla MtintsilanaThe Chairperson of MPAC Cllr Zolani KabaneThe Chairperson of Women’s Caucus Cllr Nomonde DyaniMy Esteemed Members of the Mayoral CommitteeCouncillors of Amathole District Municipal CouncilCouncillors of Districts and Municipalities in the Eastern CapeTraditional leaders within and outside the Council IiNkosi zethu nooNdlunkulu bethuThe leadership of SALGA as led by the PEO Mr Gcinikhaya Mpumza The Chairperson of the Audit Committee nesigqeba sakheUmama uNoyilane together with members of the Aspire Board of Directors and its ExecutiveHeads of State Owned EnterprisesVice Chancellors and academics of our tertiary institutionsThe ADM Municipal Manager Mr Chris Magwangqana and Directors

Leadership of the ANC in Amathole represented by Comrade Secretary Thembalethu NtutuAlliance partners; the SACP and COSATU Leaders of all political partiesMilitary veterans, symbolically led by the spear of the nationReligious, business, labour and civil society leadersOur foot soldiers, Community Development Workers; Ward CommitteesOur legends and ambassadors in sports developmentMembers of the Media

Fellow citizens of our beloved District.Molweni nonke egameni lalowo wasifelayo uYesu Krestu Inkosi yethu.


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Mandithabathe eli thuba ndibulele ngokuthi ndifumane le nhyweba yokuba ndothule intetho yobume bengingqi yase-Amathole.Xa ndisothula intetho yobume balengingqi intle kangakanana, mandithathe elithuba, ndamnkele abantu bakuthi nabaphula-phule bebeke ithemba kumaziko osasazo akweli leMpuma Koloni ngo-kubanzi ingakumbi abo bamamele kwisikhululo sosasazo i-Fort Hare FM eDikeni neziphaluka. Siyababulela oonondaba boluntu ngenxaso nangomsebenzi abawenzayo.

The posture of community media has put us on the map on so many occasions and despite the mainstream media being unjust at times, we have enjoyed the support of community radio stations like Khanya FM and Fort Hare FM and newspapers like EC Today, Isolezwe, Lets Praise and Rainbow News have always supported us.

I am particularly pleased by the amazing support that we continue to be enjoying from Jabu Mazibuko for his many ventures the last two years. Let me also extend a warm welcome to all those who are following us live via our twitter handle @Amathole_DM, our facebook pages The Amathole District Executive Mayor and the page Amathole District Municipality; our whatsapp groups and interacting with us on their personal platforms.

Ngale ntsasa sizokuwisa intetho malunga noqingqo-mali, kunye nezona njongo zenguqulelo esinazo singu-Rhulumente wesi-Thili sase Amathole.Le ntetho ndiyenzayo apha namhlanje egameni le-Bhunga, isisiphumo solwabelwano ngezimvo nabo bonke abemi esibambisene nabo kwinkalo ngeenkalo, ukuqala kumasebe kaRhulumente esibotshwe kunye nawo, ooMasipala basekuhlaleni, osomashishini, amaqumrhu abucala kunye nabo bamele uluntu lwasekuhlaleni.

Xa sasingena ezintanjeni kunyaka ka-2011 samisa isibhozo safunga sathi owethu umbono ngowokuzinikela kwinkonzo yokuzijul’ijacu, ebalaseleyo nengahexiyo nejoliswe kuluntu lonke esilukhonzayo. As per our vision we are commitment towards selfless, excellent and sustainable service to all our communities.

Sijongene noxanduva lokusa inkonzo ezisemthethweni zokwakha izindlu zangasese ezisemganga-thweni kunye nokusa amanzi acocekileyo kuluntu jikelele. Ingeniso siyenza ngokwezibonelelo zerhafu kunye nentengiso yamanzi. Kodwa ke, njengezithunywa zombutho wabantu, umbutho wabantu abasuka kwingcinezelo, abantu abangathathi ntweni nabangazenzanga, sikwanazo iinkonzo zesibone-lelo ezifana nobhaliso lwabahlelelekileyo.

We are guided by the National Development Plan (NDP) which is an overarching plan and a vision to realise the ideals of the Freedom Charter to putting in place a South Africa that belongsto all who live in it.

The NDP sets out Vision 2030 for South Africa where key targets have been identified and specific steps are set out for implementation towards making SA a better place.


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The NDP sets out Vision 2030 for South Africa where key targets have been identified and specific

steps are set out for implementation towards making SA a better place.

During the State of the Nation Address three months ago, His Excellency President Jacob Zuma

announced a Nine-Point Plan to respond to sluggish growth of our economy and included in that plan

was the issue of water and sanitation.

This was echoed by the Honourable Premier Phumulo Masualle during the State of the Province

Address in February when he pointed out that “the current economic conditions require us to do

things differently and strive to achieve more with less to meet the needs of our people”.

Both these two leaders highlighted on these points which resonate from the resolutions of the 53rd

National Conference of the ANC where it is emphasised that in order to deepen the national demo-

cratic revolution and accelerate service delivery, we need a stronger developmental state and a

more integrated cooperate governance system.

We are here today to submit our tenure report, knowing that despite our term being a five year

period, it is judged as 22 years since we attained the hard fought freedom and democracy.

This is why as a District, we created a roadmap to 2016 mindful that at this time of the year, we will

be faced with a year like no other, a year of the local government elections hence we have observed

an unprecedented amount of service delivery protests around the country, with a huge concentration

in urban and semi-urban areas.

The interesting trend is how these protests have spread to rural areas as well which Amathole has

not been immune to.

One of the key pillars of the back to basic approach is the enriching of democracy through public

participation which is why we have always been the first on the ground during these times, as we

must lead the fight to unite behind a country’s programme to tackle unemployment, poverty, in-

equality andother challenges facing our country.

As one of our values as Amathole which is responsiveness, we have adopted the back to basics

approach through which public participation is key. We note the issues raised by our people through

petitions in Mbhashe, Mnquma and Amahlathi and pledge to find solutions in the challenges that

they have raised.

We also welcome the decisive interventions of the MEC for COGTA, the Honourable Fikile Xasa and

political deployees in assisting us during these times.

Umqulu womgaqo siseko weli lizwe unika umkhomba ndlela ocace gca xa kubhekiswa kum-ba wokhu-

seleko namalungelo abemi belizwe.

Kodwa ke sithi xa sibheka-bheka, sijonga imeko abantu bakuthi abaphila phantsi kwazo, sifumanise

ukuba nangona kusenzima kwezinye iinkalo, kuninzi esikwenzileyo.

Amanani engcaciso ophengululo nendizakuwadandalazisa kwalapha kule ntetho asizobela umfanekiso

wemeko nendlela abantu bakuthi abaphila phantsi kwazo.


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From the March 2016 results of our independent customer satisfaction survey report, the results

are telling us that in terms of service, our people are extremely satisfied at the quality of service we

offer but they also point out that there is room for improvement especially in our complaints turn-

around time and in communicating the interruption of services in advance.

We have participated in the amalgamation of Nxuba and Nkonkobe Municipalities to form the

Raymond Mhlaba Municipality. This has been a process which seeks to ensure that Government

delivers quality, efficient and sustainable services to Communities. When merging the two munic-

ipalities, resources will be shared, which can only improve services rendered.

Ubutyebi baloMasipala bugqithisile njengokuba echumile kakhulu ngencubeko nembali yemveli engu-

mmangaliso. Siyazingca kakhulu ngoku. We, as this District are part of the bigger picture, we are

piece of a puzzle and without us it is not complete.

Xa uthetha nge-Amathole, ndiqinisekile, ungangena kuzo zonke izithili, sisesinye sezithili ezihamba

phambili ekunakekeleni amaqhawe namagorha ethu omzabalazo nawalwela inkululeko yeliliziwe, ambi

encama ubomi nobutsha bawo. Siyaziqhenya kuba sizeka mzekweni kweliPhulo lePhondo lase Mpuka

Kapa elithi thina silikhaya lama-Qhawe – we are the Home of legends.

The year 2016 marks many important anniversaries in our liberation struggle. The month of May

marks the 26th anniversary of the release of President Nelson Mandela from prison and 60 years

since the women’s march to the Union Buildings to demand an end to pass laws; This year also

marks 40 years since the landmark 16 June student uprising in Soweto.

However more closer to home for us, the month of May is symbolic with Africa Day. Sibe nenyhweba

engummangaliso apha e-Amathole kuba lemibhiyozo yezwekazi lethu i-Afrika ibihambiselana nemibhi-

yozo ebivuyisisana neminyaka elikhulu kwasekwa iziko lemfundo eliphakamileyo u-Nokholeji.

Yiyo lento ngolwesihlanu kuleveki iphelileyo besamkele indwalutho phaya eDikeni eFort Hare University

ebezisuka kumazwe ngamazwe.

Zonke ezizinto zenzeka ngexesha apho sililizwe siziphengulula sikwahlalutya indima esiyidlalileyo kwi-

nkululeko yeli lizwe. Senza njalo sibe sikwashiyeke nenyanga ezimbini kuphela phambi kokuba siye

ku-Voto loRhulumente wamakhaya. Lixesha ke eli lokuba khe sizipeculule, sizi goca-goce sizifune.

Sizibuze ukuba ingaba izithembiso nezibhambathiso esazenzayo ngokuya sasifunga sisazibambile

kusini na?

Xa sikwelityeli, ibalulekile into yokuba khe sime kancinci, siphose amehlo ngemva sijonge umgama esi-

wuhambileyo ukususela ngo-1994 apho waqalwa khona ukusekwa uRhulumente wentando yesininzi.

Igazi elaphalalayo ngexesha lomzabalazo linkcenceshela umthi wenkululeko yeli lizwe.

Njengokuba watsho uSolomon Mahlangu when he raised his salute when facing the gallows in 1979

saying, and I quote: “Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight. My blood will nourish

the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom.”

Nangona nje iminyaka engamashumi amabini imincinci xa uyithelekisa neminyaka yengcinezelo,

sitsho ngazwinye sithi unamhlanje akafani no-izolo

Ibali lona likroliwe labhalwa kumatywina angasoze acinywe, ukuze lifundwe lingqinwe, zizizukulwana.

We have a good story.

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Council Speaker,It has been a long walk to freedom. Collectively as a nation, we have moved South Africa forward.We have good stories to tell and we are still in line with the commitments that we made in 1994 that we want to create a better life for all.

In Ngqushwa, the recorded figure of households without access to water in 2011 was 21 363; currently the backlog is 3.023 households (reduced by 85.85%)

In Nxuba, of the total of 6 705 households without access to water in 2011, the ADM has reduced the backlog by 98.51%.In Great Kei the recorded households without water in 2011 was 10 272, to date the current back-log is 120 households, which translate to a 98.83% reduction.

In 2011 Mbhashe, from a recorded 60 021 households to be without water, the ADM has reduced the backlogs by 90.50% leaving a current backlog of 5 703 households. Here, in Amahlathi, we had 34 086 households without water in 2011, the current backlog is 624 households, meaning a 98.17% reduction

Working together since the dawn of democracy, we have made South Africa a better place. We havebuilt millions of homes, millions more people have access to services like electricity, quality education and better health care. uRhulumente wamakhaya usezandleni zethu. Sisonke masakhe uRhulumente.

We have created jobs, provided social grants to the poor and created new opportunities aimed at restoring the dignity of our people especially in rural areas and prolonging their lives. In Amathole District in particular, we have built thousands of toilets and have enabled hundreds of thousands more people to have access to clean quality water.

As a country, we have created jobs, provided free basic water to the poor and created new opportu-nities for even emerging and small enterprises. Since 1994, five million more people are in work withtotal employment at 14 million. In 1994, when we first voted, only 62 percent of households had access to clean drinking water. In 2011, this improved to 93 percent. Only 50 percent of householdshad access to decent sani-tation as compared to 77 percent in 2011. Today about 84 percent of the population had access to electricity as compared to only 36 percent in 1994.Today, millions of our people in South Africa are receiving social grants, mostly orphans, vulnerable children, older persons, veterans and people with disabilities. Millions of our children at primary and secondary schools benefit from school feeding schemes. The reduction of backlogs and access to services has been felt in our District as well, kuba kaloku khangela, the figures from Statistics South Africa reveal that: In Nkonkobe we had 35 271 households without access to water in 2011, to date the ADM has reduced backlogs with 98.66%, leaving 471 households without water.

In Mnquma we had 69 588 households without water in 2011, we have managed to reduce this by 86.81 percent to 9 177 householdsOverall in the district, we have 18 998 backlogs from a total of 237 306 initially recorded in 2011. Essentially, the ADM has supplied a total of 93.91% households with access to clean drinkable water.This is our story. A very good story. A story that says a lot has been done. Yes, a lot more still needs to be done and working together, in advancing people’s power in every community, we can do more..


A story that paints a picture of a District with an access water supply of 219 111 households, about 91. 3 % of households that have water services equal to and above minimum service level standards.A story that says only 20 889 households which is 8.7% have water services that are below mini-mum service level. Given our key commitments that were made during the ruling party’s manifesto launch in Nelson Mandela Bay for the next five years, we call on all South Africans and Amatholeans in particular, to renew the mandate of those who have started this commendable work to govern municipalities for a better life for all. Local government is in your hands.

Bazali nani bahlali;

It has been this vision, mission and core values that have enabled us to go beyond our mandate and call of duty and touch the lives of our people in a manner that only Africans do in the form of ubuntu.These values of selflessness, pro-poor, responsiveness are embedded with core values of serving our people with dignity and respect using the Batho Pele principles.Inkqubo esiyilandeleyo yeyokuba abantu bakuthi abasesichengeni nasekuhlelelekeni ukuquka kubo omama, abantwana, abakhubazekileyo, abantu abatsha, abantu abadala kunye nabantu abalwa noga-wulayo mababe yinxalenye yazo zonke izinto ezenziwa ngamasebe ethu angaphakathi.Saqala ngokuthabatha iinkokheli zomthonyana kunye nabefundisi belizwi kulommandla walapha e-Amathole; sabadibanisa phantsi kwephiko leMoral Regeneration Movement (MRM) sabanika uxa-nduva olukhulu lokuzama ukubuyisa isidima nembeko soluntu ngokwengcinga kunye nencubeko.

Asiphelelanga nje apho, kuba siye sayinabisa sayiseka i-MRM yakhona kubo bosixhenxe oMasipala bethu. Ukuvala isikhewu phakathi koRhulumente nabantu, siye saphehlelela inkqubo ye-Civic Education nalapho bekufundiswa kuqeqeshwa uluntu ngoRhulumento. 1800 citizens including traditional leaders,ward committees, councillors, NGOs were given training on how government works and how to channel service delivery issues.Ukongeza koku, iBhunga liye lahamba lijikeleza lichopha koMasipala bethu bonke libamba iintlanganisozalo. Le ndlela yokusebenza siyincanca siyifunda kwizinyanya zethu zamandulo kuba khangela, yathi xa ibhala inzalelwane yalapha e-Amathole uSamuel Edward Krune Mqhayi yathi: “Sibona kamhlophe sithi bekumele. Sitheth’engqondweni sithi bekufanele. Xa bekungenjalo bekungayi kulunga”

Sithe xa sijonga indlela isizwe sethu esifa ngayo ngenxa yobundlobongela, sangenelela sinamasebe ka-Rhulumente kwilali yase-Tholeni nalapho safakela izikhanyiso ezide. Sikwaphinde sazibandakanya nezi--gqeba zabantu abangotata kwiinzame zokuzama ukolula abafana namadoda ekubeni babe zinkokheli zamakhaya abo. Inxalenye yalemigudo ibikwajongene nomcimbi wokuphelisa ukusweleka kwabafana abangena esuthwini. Siye saphinda sangena kwezemfundo kuba kaloku imfundo sisiseko sesizwe kwayexa ubagobe besebatsha unethemba le kamva eliqaqambileyo. The freedom charter is very clear about “opening the doors of learning and culture” and as caring institution, it was only natural that we go be-yond our scope when it comes to education. We have been very fortunate in Amathole in that we have

Kwinyanga ka-Canzibe (May) ngonyaka ka-2012, iBhunga laqulunqa laphumeza umbono ka-Masipala kunye nezicwangciso. Injongo zoku yayikukuhlaziya ikwakhuthaza iinzame neminqweno yendlela esifuna ukuba uRhulumente wethu asebenze ngayo.

able to establish a private public partnership program called ADOPT-A-SCHOOL. Ndifuna ukwenza eli-ngazenzisiyo ilizwi lombulelo kwabakwa Standard Bank ngokusixhasa kwabo kwiphulo lethu lokwenza umahluko kwintsana zethu. We started the program through a Standard Bank donation of R200 000 for desks, chairs and learning support material to the Mayoral Adopted school of Gwebityala Senior Secondary School in Mbhashe. We also renovated a dilapidated classroom into a kitchen in Elethu Primary School in Nkonkobe Municipality. Since then we have never looked back, asimanga.


Other similar Adopt-A-School and Back to School campaigns that we implemented were in Nxuba at the Nonyameko Primary where we donated two prefab classrooms shoes and windbreakers to all 423 learners and Kobonqaba Higher Primary where we gave 90 pupils school shoes, school bags and learner support material.

Following our adoption of Ngunikazi Primary School in Mnquma Local Municipality, we refurbished a two roomed structure meant for office and used it as an additional Classrooms for Grade R & 1. We further supplied school uniforms for destitute learners. In Kei-lands Primary School in Amahlathi Local Municipality, together with Standard Bank, we provided a two roomed structure for an office and school uniforms for learners.

Siye sanelinye ithamsanqa ngokuthi sizibandakanye nenkampani yakwa Vodacom who together with Standard Bank purchased learner support material in the form of tablets and data connections for Fundani High School in Amahlathi.

Over and above the adopted schools, through the Mandela Day concept, we renovated a classroom, built a kitchen, provided school uniforms for 24 orphans and provided backpacks for all learners at Upper Mtwaku Junior Secondary School in Mnquma. We also donated second hand furniture at St Charles Sojola in Ngqushwa Municipality.

Kodwa ke kuye kwakho into eyenzekayo ngalamini isigqeba sam sasikwisikolo saseNonyameko eNxuba.Kwathi xa kwakunikezelwa ngezilamba nezihlangu zesikolo kubantwana, kwafunyaniswa ukuba kukho umntwana othile ongafumananga. Xa ilandelwa imbangi, kwafumaniseka ukuba akanamileze yoku-hamba. Baqala apho ke ubudlelwane bethu nalekwekwana nalapho siye samfunela imilenze yokuhamba neyokudlala. Ibali lika Ayolise aliphelelanga nje apho.

In 2014 through the intervention of Human Settlements MEC Helen Sauls-August we built and furni-shed a house for this young miracle boy. Siphinde sangenelela nakumba ka Simamkele Ngxoni, a young boy of 12 years doing Grade 4 at Nothonto Public School in Fort Beaufort.

Simamkele was born with a condition that resulted in him being operated five times up to when his mother died. His feet are not growing; he cannot wear school shoes as they are hard for his feet. Asiphelelanga nje apho kuba inimba ayinasiphelo. We intervened in the case of 14-year-old Banele Mabaso from Nkonkobe who is in need of a chronic medical attention, as he was born with inconti-nence condition. Kulonyaka uphelileyo sahlaba ikhwelo kubo bonke osomashishini besithili sisithi sifuna ukuququzelela sikhawulelane nemeko yenkedama yase-Mnquma uLamla Matiso.Through the Mayors Golf Challenge which took place in Ngqushwa, we managed to raise a sum of two hundred and thirty five thousand rands (R235 000.00. Having been left to fend for himself when his mother passed away when he was only 11 years old, this young man lived alone in a worn out rondavel house and walked 8, 5 kilometers to school every day.

Njengabantu abafundayo kwizinto esizenzayo, siye safunda nto ethile kulemingenelelo kubantu abahlele-lekileyo kuba siye saqaphela ukuba lento yokumana siphuhlisa nje kuphela sibaqeqesha nabo banama-shishini akhasayo ayinaziphumo ezinde.As a result in 2013 we took a decision to extend the scope of Special Programs from capacity buildingprograms to sustainable and economically viable projects. Since then, 8 projects owned in the form of co-operatives by vulnerable groups were supported in Agriculture, waste management; child care; poultry with amounts well over R2 million.

Kuluvuyo kum ukunazisa ukuba siyakhile indlu ka-Lamla kwaye asiyishiyanga iligogogo, kuba ngenxaso yosomashishini kwakhona safumana impahla zangaphakathi.


All these projects were provided with material including office structures to operate from, support material, furniture, signage and fencing. Kwinzame zethu zokukhuthaza abantu basethyini nabangaba-dlezane kwidabi abakulo lokulwa nesifo sikagawulayo sizakubanika amabhayi kwaye sibaqeqeshe.Namhlanje ndizakunikezela amabhayi kubadlezane abamele abase-Kati-Kati, nabakhokelwe ngumama wesebe lezeMpilo uMzikazi Nteyi. Abanye abazakufumana basuke kwilali ngelali endingabala kuzo i-St Matthew's, Stutterheim, Tamara, Twecu, Peddie, Pikholi, Punzana, Qeto, Gxulu, Hamburg, Horton, Jaji, Jama, Amabele, Frankfort, Bhele, Ntaba ka Ndoda, Ntsitho, Wesley, Zalara kunye nezinye. Ewonke lamabhayi angamakhulu amabini.

Amanani obalo luntu asibonisa okokuba isininzi sabemi balapha eMzantsi Afrika lulutsha. The youth constitutes the largest segment of South Africa’s population. Therefore, the youth is South Africa’s foremost social capital that requires priority in social and economic investment.

Indlela yethu kwinzame yophuhlisa abantu abatsha iye yasidibanisa nomfana omhle wasemaMpondweni, uFaku umntwan’egazi uSonwabile Ndamase.As top designer and inventor of the famous Madiba shirt, he has been instrumental in getting many young people in our District exposed in the world of creative arts.

This culminated in Simo Matomela from Mnquma winning the best young designer award through at the SAFDA (South African Fashion Design Agency) Vukani fashion awards in Johannesburg last November. It is through this very same program that we will be marking the youth month commemorations by giving qualifying certificates to 30 designers that were trained in garment making during the youth month of June in Butterworth. It is also my pleasure to announce during this SODA 2016 that in the next 12 months we will have 95 young people enrolled under the fashion design and garment making skills program.

This partnership between us and SAFDA will see these young people getting a stipend of R1 500 per month and will lead to an occupational or professional NQF qualification, with strong emphasis on work-place learning and experience. Though we had an overwhelming number of 324 applicants, we could only take 25 from Stutterheim, 30 from Butterworth, 25 from Dutywa and 15 from Willowvale. This program will also form part of our youth month commemorations.One of our adopted values states that the poorest of the poor will be the main focal point for ADM’s business and service delivery.

It is this value and the Freedom Charter which says all shall share the economy’s wealth that has ins-pired us to get involved with Hawkers. In the last few weeks we have handed over 50 tables, 50 chairs, 50 cooler boxes and 60 umbrellas to hawkers in five Municipalities in Nkonkobe, Mbhashe, Amahlathi, Nxuba and Mnquma. Ukuba ngaba uya eKei Mouth uzafika kukho abamama basebenza ngaselwandle badla ngothunga bathengisele abakhenkethi iibhaskithi. Wofika besindwa bethwele imithwalo xa begoduka emva kwemini. Siye sangenelela and gave them storage containers along with two groups in Great Kei and Nkonkobe to store their craft works. Another sector that is considered as one of the biggest informal entrepreneurial endeavors so much that the sector contributes to the GDPis that of hair salons.


Hair salons are a vital source of jobs for women, who make up a large percentage of the informal eco-nomy on the poorest continent, the black hair industry continues to grow.Our links with Lwandi Gebe of Buffalo Toyota has seen us assisting hair salons and resuscitating them to practice high professionalism within the industry. This includes programs towards having qualified hair stylists, business skilling through mentoring owners with the ultimate goal aiming to refurbishing especially in Mnquma.We are hoping to equip and empower those in this industry and we have identified industry role players who will be part of our Youth Stylist Empowerment Seminar and Exhibition in June.One of our adopted values states that the poorest of the poor will be the main focal point for ADM’s business and service delivery.

The one thing about utata uRafu is that he is so stubborn. Kuthiwa bamcenga bamncama abahlali be-zama ukumkhupha kulandlu kodwa akafuni nokuva. Into ame ngayo yeyokuba unethemba lokuba uRhulu-mente ophetheyo uyakumakhela indlu, in his life time.

Kuluvuyo kum ukubhengeza kulenginginya ukuba ithe yokuvakala imeko katata uRafu, saxhabasha sayo-kucela kuStandard Bank, kwavakala. Utata uRafu sizakumakhela indlu. Imeko yakhe iyafana nqwa neka-mama uNontsizi wakwilali iBumbane village, eQoboqobo. Mama Nontsizi is the one on our website who is photographed with me, the State President, the Premier and our Municipal Manager when we officially handed her a toilet as part of the EPWP project launch.

Through the intervention of Standard bank, who has donated R275 000.00 we will intervene in both these cases. Xa sisonke sibambisene singenza lukhulu kuba amandla akwintando yesinizi, loRhulumente usezandleni zakhe wonkubani. Kwaye asimanga. Siyaqhuba. Sishota nje ngawe kuphela.

Honourable Speaker; The population estimates for 2013 indicate the district has 898 000 people, which is a 0.9% increase from 2011, a 0.6% decrease from 2007 and a 4.4% decrease from 2000. Uninzi lwabantu balengi-ngqi luhlala kufutshane noohola abakhulu beendlela ukuquka i-N2 equka iGcuwa neDutywa, kunye ne R72 equka iNgqushwa (Peddie), ukuyokutsho kwi R63 equka eDikeni ugqibele nge N6 equka icumakala.Adult literacy rate is on upward trend from 50% to now 60% whilst Poverty levels are much higher thanthe rest of SA at 37.7%.Enye yezinto ezisikhathazayo linani labantu abangenamisebenzi as our unemployment rate is much higher than EC & National at 40.3 percent. We have electrified households in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. The percentage of households that are connected to electricity supply increased from 69.7% in 2001 to 86% in 2014.

This amounted to over 5,8 million households in 2014 and figures show that 2,048,052 households benefited from indigent support systems for electricity in 2014.Millions of people no longer rely on candles for lighting their residential dwellings.

We learnt of a story of a pensioner from kwa-Nofotyo village in Ngqamakhwe area Ward 16, Mnquma Local Municipality, utata uNkosinkulu Rafu.This old asthmatic man stays alone in an old mud rondavel which has an iron roof that is patched with sinking grass.


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As stated by the Honourable Premier, we are reaching a pinnacle of our response to the HIV/Aids

epidemic. This country boasts the largest treatment programmes in the world. We have also conducted

the largest HIV testing campaign in the world. The country has just announced the provision of free pre-

exposures of prophylaxes to key population such as sex-workers and Mother-to-Child transmission is

below two percent.

The Eastern Cape Strategic Plan 2012 – 2016 mid-term reviews shows that we have been able to

reduce new infections by at least 30 percent in the past few years from 2012. All these are indicative

that the worst is behind us.

As a District, we adopted a strategy against HIV/AIDS which included STI, TB and Cancer strategy with

a strong emphasis on TB and Cancer. As part of our interventions we have been working together with

the Eastern Cape Aids Council, the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) and the Department

of Health in the quest to set up structures in all our local Municipalities and mainstream roll out

programs like awareness campaigns and food security.

Through VCT awareness campaigns utilising our established special programs foras we have adopted

government’s 90-90-90 targets for 2020 and we note that the number of HIV deaths in 2003 in ADM

was 1789 and in 2013 was 1044.

As a water service authority, we are facing a serious challenge of a growing demand, an aging infra-

structure especially in the older parts of our small town, illegal connections and high water losses. It is

inevitable that water and sanitation provisioning is the key focus of the 2016/17 budget allocations.

With the increased proportion of ADM households with access to piped water and flushing toilets and a

decrease in households with no access to proper toilet facilities, as a water service authority our key

focus of providing excellent and sustainable service to all our communities forms the key focus of the

2016/17 budget allocations.

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Compatriots;

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Allow me in a few minutes to indulge you as to what kind of a legacy are we leaving behind as this Council.

The ADM is ranked 6th best run in terms of Water Service Provision in the country and the 3rd best

run rural municipality.

As the revolutionary poet Amilcar Cabral says and I quote: “Hide nothing from the masses of our people.

Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy

victories”


We are here today to proudly proclaim and rightfully that we have maintained for the past 5 years Unqualified Audit Opinion.This means that we will be handing over clean books to the new Council.

The Auditor General found that there were no material findings on Performance Management, thus unqualified and clean audit on this component.We are proud of this entire Audit achievement – more so in the challenging year that we have faced inthe 2015/ 2016 financial year.We are even buoyed by the fact that whilst the Audit Report contains a paragraph on Emphasis ofMatter however it must be noted that all these matters were fully disclosed by ADM before the Audited Financial Statements were submitted to the AG for audit.Our Development Agency, ASPIRE received a qualified audit opinion for the 2014/15 financial year aftermany years of unqualified audit opinions.

The qualified audit opinion was as a result of weak governance and financial management and certain instances of non-compliance with legislation as both critical posts of the CEO and the CFO are vacant.

As the District, we have put measures in place to ensure that we improve the situation and turn Aspire around starting with the appointment of the new Board that was done recently.

We have been working closely with the new Board and we will closely monitor developments within the Agency to ensure that it remains the beacon of hope to the regeneration of our small towns and contri-butes to the improvement of the livelihood of our people.We are leaving behind an accountable, effective and reliable organisation with an organizational perfor-mance that has improved year in and year out and as such, ADM is using an electronic system called eperform.

Since the 2012/13 to 2014/15 Annual Performance Report, we have received a clean audit outcome.Once again, ADM has obtained an unqualified audit opinion for 2014/15.

The upcoming government of 2016 – will inherit an institution that has a performance management system that has been cascaded and implemented to all task grades including the General Assistants or General Workers at ADM.This improvement can be validated and reflected in the difference between 2013/ 2014 and2014 / 2015 financial year performance submissions and rewarding.

Xa kubhekiselwe kumcimbi wamanzi, nongundoqo ojongene nathi njengo Rhulumente.Sishiya ngasemva ibhunga elingahexiyo neliqinileyo.

Sishiya ngasemva amakhaya angapha kwamakhulu amabini amawaka (219 111 households (91.3%) now have water services equal to and above minimum Service Level. Up to 20 889 households (8.7%) have water services at below minimum service level

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Kodwa ke sisenayo imiceli mingeni kuba khangela we still have high water losses through leakage on consumer properties and illegal connections are still a challenge.Water loss and water use efficiency remain a critical challenge in ADM. Substantial amounts of water are lost through leaking toilet cisterns, particularly in low income areas, while unauthorised connections in rural areas result in high volumes of non-revenue water.A number of programmes have been initiated to reduce water loss in the district, this included the Butterworth War on Leaks project which was very successful and is estimated to save the ADM up to R12 million per year.Similar water conservation and demand management projects are currently being rolled out in Mlungisi,Bhofolo, Peddie and Dutywa.Also, old rural schemes with limitation to design capacity is an obstacle in the roll-out of yard connections.In terms of access to sanitation, we are leaving a legacy of 153 949 households (64.1%) have sanitationservices equal to and above minimum Service Level. The backlog is at 35.9 percent with 86 051 house-holds that have sanitation at below minimum service level.

Council Speaker;“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the storiesthey share about you.” This is according to philosopher Shannon L. Alder.Ndicimba okokuba asikudanga kulamazwi kuba kaloku khangela; sizakunikezela kuRhulumente ozayo ngasemva iSithili esikwimeko entle kakhulu.

We are the first municipality to conceptualize and implement the armed struggle living museum. We are a leading municipality in the implementation of the repatriation programme. This is a program we started in 2011 when we repatriated and reburied six human remains of ex combatants from Maseru. Together with military veterans, we developed the Armed Struggle Living Museum and we have given support to military veterans business initiatives including the construction of ablution facilities in allthe LM’s. The ADM is unparralled in preserving heritage sites. Ndingabalula the Centane memorial wall; the Chief Maqoma and King Ngqika gravesites.

We have won Vuna awards for our audit outcomes and financial viability and we have won an award national heritage award. During this time, we have had several Municipalities visiting us to learn aboutour IDP and performance system as well as public participation.

In 2013 we established an in-house Travel Desk which was necessitated by the increase in operating costs relating to travel, accommodation and venue hiring. All the booking are now done internally withoutusing the external service providers, which also contributes in the promotion of local SMME’s, by making use of their B/B’s on a rotational basis for accommodation and venue hiring.

This Municipality attained two blue flag statuses for Hamburg (Full status) and Bira (Pilot).During our term as this Council we have built four Fire Stations, seven multi purpose community halls, taxi ranks, chalets and community halls. Eyesihlanu ese Dutywa seyizakugqitywa.More than 9292 job opportunities have been created for unskilled labour force through labour intensive methods in the whole district since 2011.

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The EPWP internship programme was implemented in 2013 where 142 interns were appointed for a2 year contract. In 2015, of these interns, a hundred of them were permanently employed externally and many of them were absorbed by ADM and Local Municipalities.We piloted a sports ambassadors and sports legends program motivated by the fact that legends are looked upon by the youth and are seen as heroes who have walked the walk; and thus their experiences are easily believable.

We not only hoped to inspire through this program but also want to thank our sporting legends for what they have done for us whilst they are still alive. We honoured the likes of Andile Ncobo, Mthetheleli Ngumbela, Mzimasi Mnguni, Vuyani Bungu, Simphiwe Nongqayi, Ayabonga Khaka, Lonwabo Mtimka, Mandisa Williams, Zolisa Noxeke, Zandile Njeza and Thobile Mtya.

Our levels of recognitions also note various other contributions in other facets of life improvement This includes Zolani Mkiva in the fields of arts and culture.

The ADM is one of the Districts actively involved in trying to promote and raise profile of public transport and solid waste services through active participation in intervention of relevant national and provincial departments as well as SALGA.The ADM has a main Disaster Management Centre as well as Satellite centres in each Local Munici-pality.In the last financial year alone, we have provided disaster relief material to improve the living conditions of 320 beneficiaries.Under this government, 67 Junior Traditional Leaders who were capacitated in disaster management, were able to transfer the knowledge to their communities thus the improved working relations between communities and the municipality.The ADM is one of the districts actively involved in trying to promote and raise profile of Public Transportand Solid Waste Services through active participation in intervention of relevant National and Provincial Departments as well as SALGA.

The ADM is the second best performer in the RAMS program implemented by NDoT.The ADM is the leading district in solid waste regionalization initiative (Eastern region is operational and the Western region at planning stages) and the ADM is leading the drive to rollout out solid waste service, inclusive of Recycling initiatives.

We are doing our share in formalization of informal settlements provision of tenure for destitute, farm workers. Bangakungqinela abahlali base Komga Settlement, Wortels Drift Farm and Kei Road.The ADM is one of the leading districts in rollout of Restitution Programs, apho siye senza ungenelelo nale nkqubo in Cata, Keiskammahoek and recently Dwesa Cwebe.Sithetha nje, public transport facilities are being rolled out in Butterworth Interchange, Keiskammahoek, Willowvale, Elliotdale Public Transport Facilities providing not only facilities but also economic develop-ment opportunities.ADM has established satellite offices in all its local municipalities to enhance cooperation with our local municipalities in the spirit of Intergovernmental Relations.

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As a Water Service Authority and Provider ADM also wanted to bring its services closer to the people

without having to rely to head office which is currently based in East London.

We have assisted in building capacity to our local municipalities through our Municipal Support Unit in

the areas of finance, engineering, land and human settlements; information technology and corporate

services.

In this regard we would like to congratulate Mnquma Local Municipality for winning the District’s

greenest municipality competition and will represent us at the Provincial competition. They walk away

with a combination of 68 items including waste pickers, hedge trimmers and lawn blowers.

In terms of our intergovernmental relations (IGR), we have over the years contributed to the establish-

ment of sound intergovernmental relations within the district.

‘Tell no lies, and claim no easy victories’.

Council Speaker;As this current generation, through our acts and daily paths that we choose, future generations will look

back, examine us and pass judgement. They will use our shortfalls to measure our weaknesses and

guage our achievements to pass judgement on our greatness.

We live in a world that is dominated by subjective stereotyping towards government’s agenda which is

obsessed with negative reporting on the image of government and its programs.

It is then very important for government to constantly communicate and provide a balanced outlook that

reflects the bigger picture. A bigger picture that is not apologetic about the ruling party’s declarations

towards skewed distribution of wealth and a pro poor alignment on determinations that seek to address

the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment.

A bigger picture that keeps focus to the fact that we are agents of change that are deployed to achieve

the ideals of the Freedom Charter whilst marching towards the vision of the national democratic

revolution.

This government has never been shy into admitting that a lot still needs to be done to transform the

socio-economic status of the previously oppressed. It is my take that this is a sign of a government that

is honest, accountable, transparent, responsive and selfless as also outlined in our values.

Admission to one’s shortfalls, as propagandist of history have taught us; is a recipe for disaster.

People must be empowered with extensive information in order to make well-versed opinions and expla-

nations about why those shortfalls happened and what has been done to rectify. This is exactly what we

are doing here today.

We are giving an account on the mandate to lead in which was given to us 2011 as this administration.

It is also is far-reaching evidence that seeks to respond to one of the fundamental principles enshrined in

the constitution of our Republic, that of ensuring that people are at the centre of the actions of their

developmental government and are constantly informed of the inroads made.

A victory of this Council is not for us as councillors to celebrate, but it is a gain to be embraced by the

masses who exercised their democratic vote.

It also serves as a beacon of hope to the person next door, the one who is still patiently awaiting their

turn and has yet to receive a significant impact in their life.

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Remember, that the fundamental mandate of politicians is to guide and create policy towards an end product that consists of effective and efficient deliverables.At the 2015 State Of the District Address held in Mbhashe, we made a ground breaking announcement in the aim to improve the living conditions of our citizens, where we sourced R631 million from the Development Bank of Southern Africa in the form of frontloading to erect these 66 700 VIP Sanitation Units which was a pledge against our upcoming MIG funding.We took this conscious decision mindful of the risk it posed but we were also aware of the impact it was going to make into the lives of our people. We divided the fast tracking and eradication of sanitation back-logs into eight sanitation projects in six different local municipalities. The impact on the ground has been massive. As noticed, the cost of this project runs into millions and millions of rands, and as such it as understandable and acceptable as to why there was such a huge interest from all sectors into this project.

Ngeliyinene ayothusi kwaye yinto elindilekileyo lento yokuba kubekho umdla ongaka kweli-phulo kuye wonke ubani kuba kaloku ngumsebenzi omkhulu notsala ingqwalaselo. From the front loading loan of R631 million from DBSA which we applied for and got approval, only R286 million was transferred by DBSA. A total of thirty thousand – four hundred and ninety one (30491) structures have been completed as of end June 2015. Out of these, a total of (4186) four thousand and eighty six were in MBHASHE; (12266) Twelve thousand two hundred and sixty six in MNQUMA; (1584) One thousand five hundred and eighty four in NKONKOBE; (3925) three thousand nine hundred and twenty five in NGQUSHWA; (4181) four thousand eight hundred and one in GREAT KEI. Since December until June 2015, a total of 3 463 people employed within the communities of which 1331 were youth and 438 were female.

Sub-contractors appointed increased from 45 to 80 for the implementation in various sites, of which 19of the subcontractors are owned by women.

HENCE IN ROUGHLY FOUR MONTHS THAT THE PROJECT WAS UP AND RUNNING ALMOST HALF THEPROJECT OF 66 000 TOILETS, HAD ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED.

Following the termination of the main contract, the project on stand still with payments that are due to service providers for the work done. We are currently busy exploring other funding initiatives to complete the project. We have been in constant engagement with various stakeholders seeking a viable funding arrangementthat would not only get the project going again, but would also address sub-contractors not paid by the main contractor as well as suppliers left out of pocket. We are committed to finding a solution that will both see the project completed, and its partners compensated for their efforts in getting the project as far got in only four months.We have spent the better part of the last few months engaging with our people in Mayoral Imbizos, ser-vice delivery meetings and stakeholder forums briefing them about this project. I am pleased to say that contrary to what has been a negative and bias media, there has not been any single meeting where we have been not well received by our communities. Abantu bakuthi bayakwazi ukuhluza. Abantu bakuthi banomonde, banembeko kwaye bayamamela. Yenye yezinto esingasokuze siyilibale.

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Honourable Speaker;Drought has dire effects on the general health of the public, but more especially on our rural commu-nities who have to rely on marginal untreated water supply sources at times.South Africa has an uneven and variable rainfall which is compounded by climate change effects and our average annual rainfall is less than 500mm, while that of the world is about 850mm. However, accor-ding to the 2013 Water Research Council Report on Non-Revenue Water, 36, 8% potable water brings no revenue to municipalities.Amathole District Municipality is among the five affected regions of the Eastern Cape Province.The severity of the drought has not only been felt by our people but the current situation is worsening and has killed herds of livestock and has left many livestock and crops vulnerable in the province.Over the past two years there has been limited rainfall in the Eastern Region (Mnquma, Mbashe and Northern parts of Amahlathi). The three small water supply dams in Dutywa dried up earlier this year, but with the little rain which fell in March, they did recover somewhat.

Unfortunately, because they are so small, they once again run the risk of drying up if no additional rainfall is received during the next month. Of bigger concern is that from May 2014, there has been a continuo-us decline in the Xilinxa storage of the dam, which supplies the town of Butterworth and surrounding areas. Dam levels in the Eastern Region reflect the Xilinxa Dam now at 24% and the Toleni dam at 45%.

These two dams are responsible for the supply of water to over 100 000 people, so if they dry up, the ADM will be faced with a major catastrophe as there are no alternative sources in these areas that could provide sufficient water to meet the demand from so many people. We are now at the end of the “rainy season” and predictions are that it is going to be a dry winter and so it would appear that the situation is not going to improve in for some time. The frequency with which ADM has been hit by drought has been relatively frequent. In 2011 alone, the district was declared a disaster area due to the impact caused by drought.

Since the beginning of our situation, we have taken strides in ensuring that as the District we mitigate as an obligation of a responsive and caring government.In November, last year, the Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Honourable Pam Tshwete directed a campaign in our District to raise awareness and declare war on water leakages. In our Council meeting on the 11 of December 2015, the ADM declared Mbashe, Mnquma and Amahlathi a drought disaster areas. In December 2015, the Honorable Minister of Water and Sanitation (DWS), Ms Nomvula Mokonyana, visited Dutywa and handed over 10 Water Tankers to drought affected municipalities. Two tankers werehanded over to the ADM.

The Minister also supported initiatives to re-allocate funding from conditional grants towards drought mitigation measures and in this regard, the Department of Water and Sanitation has approved ADM’s revised MWIG business plan, which now includes the construction of a pipeline from the Dutywa EastWater Supply scheme to Dutywa. This project is well underway and it is expected that the first phase of the project will be completed by the end of June 2016.

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It should be noted however that this pipeline will only augment the supply to Dutywa and will not be able to deliver the full supply requirements. So even with the pipeline in place, water supply to Dutywa will still be limited. Together with the 4 “emergency” boreholes that were drilled in Dutywa, however, and with careful management, complete water outages should be reduced.The province, including Amathole District Municipality was finally declared a drought disaster area by the Premier of the Eastern Cape on the 22nd of April 2016. In addition to the challenges being faced on the Eastern side of the ADM, the small supply dams in Nxubaare also running low and water usage needs to be restricted in Bedford and Adelaide in order to ensurethat water supply remains available throughout the winter months.We call upon our people to use water sparingly and be always be mindful of the rapidly increasing levels of water shortages and drought in the country.

Communities must directly report all emergencies including service delivery disruptions, using ADM's 24/7 CALL CENTRE NUMBER 0800 236 236.

Council Speaker;

As it has always been our tradition, a SODA will never be a SODA in Amathole unless we have major announcements. Over the years we have continued to honour our icon utata wethu uDr Nelson Rholihlahla Mandela. A man who taught us how to advance people’s power through his actions. It has been two years since thepassing on of Father of the Nation and the architect of our young democracy, umaDiba omde. Over the years we have consistently pledged to honour utata on his birthday where we had all ADM employees and councillors being part of service delivery initiatives all over the District building toilets.

In just one day we assembled nearly 600 toilets in the villages of Nkanga and Mente in Mbhashe and Goshen in Amahlathi in 2013. In 2014, we left a mark in Mnquma building 77 toilets at ward 15 in Hebe –Hebe Village in Ngqamakhwe. And then last year, we were in Ngqushwa at Qamnyana Village building 101 Toilets and Nkonkobe at Njwaxa Village building 118 Toilets.

Siye saphinda kwakhona sasiva isikhalo samafama akhasayo kwezemfuyo nalapho besinikezela ngeenkabi kunye namacingo okubiya ukuzama ukukhawulelana nabo.

As this Council, we have carried our promise, in the honour of tata Madiba, that in all formal areas we will strive to eradicate the bucket system.

The remaining areas are the informal settlements, due to zoning challenges at Local Municipalities. We are now in the process of developing a policy on the temporary/alternative service provision to in-formal settlements and farms. The Council has recently resolved to investigate towards the introduction of an improved pit latrine system in our communities.

Ndinochulumanco ukubhengeza ukuba inkqubo yamaBhakethi, kwindawo ezinabantu ngokusemthethweni, iye yapheliswa. Iindawo ezisashiyekileyo zezo zasematyotyombeni ngenxa yeengxaki zokwahlulwa kom-hlaba koomasipala bengingqi.

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IsiThili sase-Amathole sikwiphulo lokwenza umgaqo-nkqubo wesibonelelo ngenkonzo yexeshana ukuhla-ngabezana nale meko yamatyotyombe neyasezifama. Silibhunga sathabatha isigqibo sokuba masiwuthi chatha umyinge weenkonzo zesibonelelo ezibhekisele kubantu abahlelelekileyo. Our position to increase the free water kilolitres for the indigent subsidy was a revolutionary stance biased towards the pro poor.

In terms of ADM’s approved policy, an indigent is defined as any household which is responsible for the payment of municipal services, earning a combined gross income equivalent to or less than two times the old age Government social grant excluding Child Support grant.

Indigents are receiving 10kl free water a month, 6 kl towards drinking water and 4 kl towards sanitation. If the level of consumption of the indigent household exceeds the consumption level approved by the Municipality, the household will be obliged to pay for the excess consumption on a monthly basis.

Okunye endinochulumanco kukunazisa ukuba sikwiphulo lokugxotha ikati eziko kumakhaya ngamakhaya ngokuthi sininike amathuba emisebenzi.Phantsi kwenkqubo ye-EPWP, we currently have 758 beneficiaries as at March 2016. The projects are in 35 wards in Ngqushwa, Nkonkobe, Mnquma, Amahlathi and Great Kei. On the 03rd of May, we employed 408 people as part of this program and on the 30th of June, we will be employing another 408 people mostly the youth and women.

We are paying those employed a daily rate of R90 per day to work for 20 daysIn a duration of two months at a total cost of R1, 468 million. Work to be undertaken are in the cleaning of the dams, bush clearing, coastal line cleaning, soil rehabilitation, road rehabilitation, river cleaning, pot-holes and tree felling.We have also procured heavy duty vehicles for Engineering Department to speed up service deliverywhich are two Sewer Tankers, two Water Tankers, one TLB and a Roll back. Esokugqibela isibhengezo phofu ingekuba asibalulekanga kuba sisekugqibeleni. We have taken huge strides in our budget when it comes to our Municipal Infrastructure Grant projects for water and sanitation related projects which are spread out in 7 local municipalities. Our breakdown are as follows:

In NKONKOBE Municipality

Our seriousness in showing the fact we are advancing the people’s power, for the 2016 / 2017 fiscal, we have quadrupled our MIG budget for Nkonkobe from R12, 1 million last year to over R 48 million.

We have budgeted R27, 5 million for Fort Beaufort Bulk Water Service Upgrading to alleviate some of the problems encountered by Bhofolo of inconsistent water supply. Areas to be served are Bhofolo, Newtown, Hillside and Fort Beaufort town. We have allocated R11 million to the Hogsback Water Treat-ment Works and New Reservoir to serve Hogsback and surrounding settlements. For the Nkonkobe Area Wide Sanitation Region, we have allocated R10 million. This will serve 2991 households in 10 wards. Villages include Notenga, Reyini, Gilton, Cartcathvale, Blackhood, Phillipton, Jurrieshoek, Marias, Kuphumleni, Balfour, Mardorp, Nkobonkobo, Mgquba, Ngobe, Ngwabeni, Memela, Sikolweni, Emachibini, Esiphingweni, Mqhayisa and Majwarheni.

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eNGQUSHWA Municipality, The subtotal of our Municipal Infrastructure Grant allocated for Ngqushwa has increased from R20, 7 million allocated last year.

This is because R22 million has been allocated for Ngqushwa Water reticulation Scheme, this project will try and address the remaining water backlog within the Ngqushwa Municipal Area together with anyextensions required to meet RDP standards. Villages to be served are Dam-Dam, Ncala, Cisira Ext, Mgwangqa, Bhulukazi, Mpande, Nomoti, Nqwenerana, Forosi, Kwa Tho, Mrathaza and Mxaxa Extension.Other villages in this plan are Mahlubini, Wooldridge, Crossroads, Tyityaba Ext, Hoyi, Lovers Twist exten-sion, Bodium, Ntilini, Daninge B extension, Wesley – Mbekweni Section, Tuku B, Mgwalana ext, Celetyu-ma, Gwalana ( Upper and Lower), Javu, Lower Qeto, Ntloko, Machibi ext, Lujiko 1 and 2 ext, Mtati, Qau-keni, Nonibe ext, Zalara/Tamara A ext, Tamara ext B and C, Tyeni ext, Qaga ext, Nxopo ext, Ngobozana ext, Ngwele ext, Mtobe ext and New loots.We have allocated R28 million for the Ngqushwa Region 2c Sanitation Project and we will be doing bulk water at the Prudhoe Housing project. Peddie Waste water comprises the construction of a Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) for Peddie town and has been allocated R 2 million. The new WWTW will serve Peddie town and the surrounding areas including the hospital and the old age home. The project will benefit 12105 people from 2017 households in the Peddie town and surrounding areas.The sub total of our Municipal Infrastructure Grant allocated for Ngqushwa is R25,1 million.

In Great Kei Municipality

The sub total of our Municipal Infrastructure Grant has been upped from R6, 5 million in the last year to R10 million for the 2017/ 2018 financial year. We have a budget of R10 million for the Komga commo-nage settlement services. Wards to be covered are in 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. Villages include KwaTuba, Jongi-langa, Nokhala, luphindweni, eluxolweni, Mandela Park, Lusizini, Makhazi, Ngxingxolo, Bhola, Lusasa, Bele-kumntwana, Ziphunzana, kwaMahomba and Mthombeni.Some of our allocations for the next financial years include the Morgan's Bay Water Treatment Works Upgrade, the Kei Mouth Reticulation, Upgrades at the Kei Mouth Pipe Replacement, the Chintsa East Bulk Services Upgrade, the Kei Bridge and the Haga Haga treatment works.

In AMAHLATHI Municipality,

We have set aside R15 million for the Zingcuka water supply project. R9, 2 million has been set aside for the Amahlathi Area Wide Sanitation project and under the Tsomo Water Supply, an allocation of R2, 5 million has been made to cover villages. We will also be looking into the issue of the Kei Road Settlement.

The sub total of our Municipal Infrastructure Grant in Amahlathi is R 17, 6 million. It is important to note that moving forward, in the 2017/ 2018 financial year we have plans budgeting R65, 7 million for areas which include Stutterheim Water Treatment Works, Kei Road Water Treatment Works, Keis-kammahoek Waste Water Treatment Works and Rabula Phase 2 Water Supply.

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In MNQUMA Municipality The sub total of our Municipal Infrastructure Grant in Mnquma LM has increased from R36.9 million to R87, 6 million in the upcoming financial year.

We will be implementing the Gcuwa West Water Supply in areas around N2 to Idutywa to the East, the Tar Road to Ngqamakhwe (from Ndabakazi) to the West and the Northern Boundary of Wards 7 and 8.This scheme will be covering about 25 villages with an allocated budget of R5million.

When we were in Ngqamakhwe, we had the please and our response is in the form an allocation of R30million for the Ngqamakhwe Regional Water Supply.We will be continuing with the Ibika-centane Water Supply Scheme stretching from N2 route in the north, Xholani on the west and Gosaxi in the east down to the coastal area of Mazepa. The area is home to a total of now more than 32,574 people dwelling in 6,515 households made of mainly low income earners. The project also extends to Centane Town which has both urban and rural dwellers. An allocation of R20, 8 million has also been made for the implementation of Nxaxo and Cebe Water Supply.Ward 17 and ward 18 will be taken care under the Mnquma Area wide sanitation projects.

In MBHASHE Municipality, About R17, 1 million from MIG will be used to implement Sundwane Water Supply Scheme. The Scheme that will be supplying potable water directly to 26 villages in the Sundwane area, with a total population of 6 467 (1 332 households).

Mncwasa Water Supply Project, has been allocated R12 million while the Mgwali North and Mgwali South Water Supply projects have been allocated R3 million and R14, 1 million respectively.

Xhora Water Supply Scheme has a budget of R15, 6 million and will be supplying 133 rural villages witha population of about 66,900 in 8,082 households. The project area covers Ward 15, 16, 20,21and 26 of the Mbhashe Local Municipality.

We have also set aside R1, 5 million for the Dutywa Public Transport. The overall total is R72, 9 million.

In NXUBA Municipality,

R3 million has been allocated for the Bedford & Adelaide Bucket Eradication Programme - Phase 6. The project will address the entire remaining backlog which is all informal households in terms of the bucket eradication program in Nxuba.

The figure is R9 million in 2017/ 2018 and R10 million is 2018/ 2019 financial yearWe will continue with the work on the Wortel Drift Housing Development allocating half a million to thiscause.

The sub total of our Municipal Infrastructure Grant in Nxuba is R3, 5 million.

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Compatriots,

Drawing further inspiration from the Manifesto of the African National Congress, during this current financial year, our Project Management Unit is implementing water and sanitation related projects which are spread out in 7 local municipalities respectively as part of ADM’s powers and functions of being the Water Services Authority. All these projects are funded by Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) and Department of Water Affairs through Regional Bulk Funding. The main target of the MIG funds is to provide at least a basic service to all South Africans with the aim of reaching the National Targets as set by the Minister. The MIG funding is aligned to powers and functions of ADM. Following are the completed MIG Funded for the last 5 years:In the 2011/12 financial year, we spent over R115 million in five municipalities, the bulk being water projects, sanitation and upgrading.

Our main projects were in Mbhashe where we spent over R50 Million with the biggest project being the reticulation of six villages in Mbhashe north.

In Mnquma we spent over R53 million on water projects with our biggest project being the Crouch's Bush Scheme D at R10 million. This was the same year where we also spent R2, 2 m on the Butter-worth Skills Development Centre. Other projects were in Amahlathi (R 12, 2 m); Nxuba (R5, 4 million) and Ngqushwa. During the 2012/13 Financial year, we spent R 61, 4 m benefitting 7994 house-holds in Nkonkobe, Mbhashe, Mnquma and Nxuba. Of major significance in tha financial year was the R4, 1 m Adelaide and Bedford Bucket eradication: Phase 4a, which benefitted 801 ERF’s and the R6, 7 m Bhofolo and Newtowt Bucket Eradication Project: Phase 5 which benefitted 444 households.

The 2013/ 2014 financial year saw us spending R144 m. People living in 10 240 households can attest to this as they benefitted during the rollout of our projects. Our biggest slice went to the Mncwasascheme which benefitted 1170 households and Ibika-centane scheme which benefitted 5 654 house-holds.Completed projects during the 14/15 financial year benefitted 30 311 households at a spending of R286 million. This was when our area wide sanitation program was on the rollout with impressive numbers of 12 226 households benefitting in Mnquma, 4 186 benefiting households in Mbhashe, 4 169 households benefitting in Amahlathi and 3 925 households benefitting in Ngqushwa.Our MIG Projects also cut across three municipalities namely Mnquma, Mbhashe and Ngqushwa bene-fitting 12 591 households at an expenditure amount of R124 million. During this financial year, if we had enough room, we could bring people in 4113 households to show their happy letters as we have supplied water in Mbhashe, Amahlathi, Mnquma and Ngqushwa at an expenditure of R124 million.The water quality monitoring program test water monthly from 160 sampling points covering both urban and rural areas within the ADM District. We are proud to say the water supplied to our commu-nities is of good standard. The compliance rate for 2014 was 92.4%.

In terms of municipal public transport, we have a shared function with local municipalities in terms of services and infrastructure provision. In addition, ADM is responsible for regulation of the passenger transport services in all areas within the district. ADM has in the past completed the Keiskamahoek Public Transport Facility as well the Butterworth’s Interchange.

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Another transfer station is currently under construction in Mbhashe, with the one Mnquma and two in Mbashe currently delayed due to land non availability. We will continues to engage local municipalities on provision of alternative land for the transfer stations. Operationalization of a recycling project is on-going in the Eastern Regional Solid Waste Site. ADM has identified plans of maximising the potential of the Eastern Regional Solid Waste site.

The recycling centre has been upgraded with the provision of an office. A protective shelter for the GlassCrusher is currently being designed. ADM has given financial support to the recycler so as to alleviate pressure while collecting enough solid waste tonnage. Interventions talking to Alternative Energy, Composting and Recycling Market will be further investigated by the district. ADM was one of the munici-palities that submitted Business Plans to the National Department of Environmental Affairs for funding on behalf of the local municipalities. These business plans have since been approved and funding to a total amount of R56, 5m availed to the local municipalities for implementation in 2014.

We are responsible for two Local Municipalities since 2004/2005 which are Mbhashe and Nkonkobe. ADM continues to give support to other Local Municipalities as pronounced by Section 83. (3) of the Municipal Structures Act 117 of 1998. The major challenge faced by ADM in addressing this backlog is the need to align the needs with the delegated Powers and Functions of the district. This challenge is manifested in the fact that the Land Use function continues to be a local municipality function whereas the district is a Water Authority and also continues to administer the Building Function in the two local municipalities as already alluded to above.

As that may be, the district continues to implement local amenities through other relevant programs of council. These programs include the Restitution Programs whose projects range from engineering infra-structure as well as various amenities. One program, the Keiskamahoek Restitution program has resulted in the construction of nine (R17,6m) Multi-Purpose Centres in the nine affected villages (Gwili-Gwili, Lower and Upper Mnyameni, Ngobozana, Ndlovini, Lower and Upper Gxulu, Lower Ngqumeya, Mthwaku). The project other project is the provision of Bus Shelters which is currently at planning stage.

Somlomo obekekileyo; Kukhe kwafika ixesha apho siye sazibona sisengxakini ekhula rhoqo. Sazibona sijamelene needolophu ezininzi ezincinci nezetshabalalayo kulommandla wase Amathole ngenxa yokungaphuhliseki. Ewe uphu-hliso loqoqosho, intlalo nenkangeleko yeedolophu ayonto sasiyithunyiwe kuba ke owethu umsebenzi ngo-wamanzi nelindle hayi ukuphucula uqoqosho nemigangatho yeedolophu. Kulapho kwathatyathwa isigqibo sokuseka bucala ihlumelo elizakujongana nezoqoqosho kunye nemeko yedolophana zale ngingqi.

With so little resources at its disposal, and so much development demands, the birth of our economic developmental agency, called Aspire in 2005 was a game changer. It led to a spirited program of the renewal of 12 towns in our district, including Alice, Butterworth, Dutywa, Hamburg, Stutterheim, Cathcart, Peddie, Keiskammahoek and Fort Beaufort, will go a long way towards enabling our people to have decent livelihoods. In some of these towns, the residents are the driving force behind the economic rehabilitation and sustainability of the areas.

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The struggle to generate funding and fight the disturbing and concerning trend of small, rural, decaying and neglected small towns who are not contributing to their own economies and that of the Amathole Region, nor are they not improving the quality of life of its residents for the better is still real.Aspire cannot regenerating small town economies alone as it needs funding and partners from all levels. To date, a number of interventions and successes that have been pioneered by this agency. One of them is the building that we are all conducting this State of the District Address in.

Ngemvume yenu bahlali, ndizakucaphula nje izinto ezimbalwa ezenziwe lelihlumelo lethu i-Aspire kwakunye nesisajonge ukuzenza kuleminyaka izayo.Using the national road corridor model, as part of the N2 corridor, we have managed to lift the face of Butterworth with the upgrading of the CBD which included the installation of streetlights, the closing-off of the portion of Blythe Street and transforming it into an informal trading area; the paving and curbing right throughout the main road and the construction of the ablution facilities for the members of the public.

The handover agreements of all these projects were signed over to local municipalities including the maintenance plan and commitments to take full responsibility for the newly created assets. In as far as the Dutywa regeneration is concerned two different forms of Aspire led interventions were been priori-tised: namely the assessment and improvement of the Mbhashe municipal systems towards the improvement of an increased revenue collection; and secondly; the development of business plans to motivate for funding for an upgrade of the Dutywa CBD and the development of a commercial and community orientated precinct in Dutywa town.

On the Friendly N6 Corridor; our plans for the Stutterheim Regeneration were the construction of the Cumakala Bridge and access road including uniquely designed street lighting and a foot path to Mlungisi Township which were completed and handed over to Amahlathi Local Municipality in 2012.As I have alluded to the construction of the Mlungisi Community Commercial Park; the building of this project created more than 100 temporary jobs during construction. After we finalised the construction of the Stutterheim Central Business District the town’s appearance and functionality started to change with the newly expanded taxi rank, brick pavements, new street lights, the introduction of a public square and general improvements.

In consultation with informal traders, 60 design stalls were designed and installed creating 70 tempo-rary jobs during construction. In Keiskamahoek we pioneered the The Abenzi Woodhouse project , The Amabele / Ndakana Village Development for agro-ecological projects and the blueberries have been planted at Upper Gxulu in Keiskamahoek.

Through the Mandela Intervention project, seven months ago we renovated the KEISKAMAHOEK SHEDto the value of five hundred thousand. Renovations included NAME RENNOVATIONSOn the R63 Corridor; we expanded the productions of the essential oils plantation in Hogsback providing 23 jobs.In Alice, the CBD Upgrade and the Alice Bridge Project have now been successfully completed. The only project under the National Treasury funding that still remains is the Alice Taxi Rank, which is currently at the tendering stage.

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We have also completed a business plan for the upgrade and management of sports facilities in Alice.Having identified citrus processing as the main corridor intervention along the R63 corridor, a citrus sub-sector study was completed with the focus being the establishment of an agro-hub.

On the R72 Corridor; as part of the Hamburg Regeneration project, we constructed the Hamburg Artists Retreat where on average 50 people were temporarily employed during construction phase.

The upgrading and renewal of the other towns in our district is also underway. At the end of March 2016 were initiated discussions with the National Treasury and the Department of Rural Development for funding to implement improvement projects of the remaining towns within Amathole.

To date, Aspire is awaiting an official response from the national Department of Rural Development on the R67 million for Idutywa and R47million for Peddie. These are projects planned by Aspire to upgrade the current state of the two towns.

In addition to that, Aspire has also requested R7 million from the national Department of Rural Develop-ment for development of business plans for upgrade projects in the following towns: Kei Mouth, Willow-vale, Elliotdale, Qumra, Carthcart, Keiskamahoek, Fort Beaufort, Adelaide, Bedford and Middledrift. These small town upgrades will go a long way towards enabling our people to have decent livelihoods and ensure that the residents of these towns are the driving force behind the economic rehabilitation and sustainability of the areas.

In as far as the Natural Resources Management (NRM) is concerned, a Memorandum of Agreement exists between ASPIRE and the Department of Environmental Affairs with a current budget of R5.3 m to implement a project of Natural Resource Management. The implementation of this project started in February 2015 and its purpose is to remove Alien Invasive Plants in the Amathole villages of Ngqamakhwe, Diya, Shixini and Willowvale. To date, the project has re-corded the following successes:��616#.�1(�GJJ�24'8+175.;�70'/2.1;'&�$'0'(+%+#4+'5�4'5+&+0)�+0�6*'�#$18'�8+..#)'5�*#8'�$''0�'/2.1;'&� in this project to date;��#%*�#0&�'8'4;�10'�1(�6*'5'�$'0'(+%+#4+'5�%744'06.;�4'%'+8'�#0�+0%1/'�4#0)+0)�(41/��E�INN�61� R1 900 per month, depending on the hectares covered;��(�6*'�GJJ�$'0'(+%+#4+'5X�#�616#.�1(�FMM�$'0'(+%+#4+'5�9'4'�6#-'0�6*417)*�#0��%%72#6+10#.��'&+%#.� Assessment process in March 2016 to ascertain their fitness to perform the tasks assigned to them in the project;��616#.�1(�E�LNN�*'%6#4'5�1(�+08#5+8'�52'%+'5�*#5�$''0�%.'#4'&�$;�6*'5'�$'0'(+%+#4+'5�+0�6*'5'� villages to date;��G��4#+0+0)�914-5*125�4'.#6'&�61�50#-'�#9#4'0'55X�2.#06�+&'06+(+%#6+10�#0&�2''4�'&7%#6+10�*#8'�$''0� conducted.This project is extremely useful in these rural communities, not only in terms of creating jobs and assi-sting in relieving poverty, but also in terms of water preservation. The alien plant species being removed consume a lot of water and that impact on the availability of water for irrigation purposes. This project therefore encourages local communities to plant crops and use the available water reserves for irrigation.

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Manene nani manenekazi; At the height of recession and stringent economic times worldwide, we took a bold decision to declare Agriculture and Tourism as priority areas.Since then we have assisted in the production fertilizers, seeds and seedlings to six municipalities cover-ing 1080 beneficiaries from 29 wards.

In terms of Livestock Improvement our programs touched 283 beneficiaries from 10 wards throught the district. This included the provision of 30 goats to Dawuwa Cooperative in Nxuba and Ngqushwa at Dube, the provision of material of dipping tank at Great Kei and supported the Tyefu Irrigation Scheme in Ngqushwa and the Kat River Valley Citrus Production in Nkonkobe.We have also done fencing material has been delivered for Ngqushwa Feedlot. Our Food Security pro-gramme and inputs supply programme has seen us assisting communities with ploughing, from 1 -300 hectors in all our local municipalities.

Our plans are intact towards an agri park with the business plan developed and a site approved.In terms of the local economic development, the institution formed strategic partnership with institutions of Higher Learning which are NMMU, Fort Hare and Fort Cox. In terms of enterprise development; two incubator programmes implemented; namely the ECITI which benefited 8 people and the Masakhe sonke which benefited 34 contractor.We formed a partnership has been formed with the East London IDZ and trained 50 cooperatives inbusiness management.We have developed Chatha Chalets that can accommodate up to 16 people.We have made renovations at the Bawa Falls and constructed of additional chalets that can accommo-date up-to 3 people. Add to this the development and promotion of Community Initiatives Gxingxolo Cultural Villages. Ndithetha nje nawe siyakha eMthontsi Lodge in a construction that will accommodate 32 people. During our term in power we have spearheaded the formalisation of informal settlements with 15 villages in different municipalities have been formalised. 10 settlements were identified for the provision of tenure security in terms of tenure reform projects.We have issued 300 individual title deeds. Furthermore, two township registers have been opened in preparation for transfer of title deeds and the process for the remaining villages still in the process.

We have implemented climate change mitigation programs, like rain water harvesting, greening and food security in Mbhashe, Nxuba, Amahlathi and Mnquma.

We are implementing the Biogas project which is implemented at Great Kei municipality.In Hamburg, the ablution facility were renovated and upgraded, 8 life guards were trained and other coastal amenities developed through working for the coast project.Ewe siyavuma ukuba iseyingxaki into yokuba sibe neendawo apho abantu bakuthi abangakwazi ukufikelela kumalwandle kuba ebiyiwe ngabantu abambalwa. The lack of access and infrastructure to coastal public properties (beaches) remains a challenge and we need to intensify efforts to resolve the conflict between private property rights and coastal public rights..

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Our Incubation Programme together with East London IDZ on training 34 emerging contractors which are based in our local municipalities to enable them to compete for contracts Water and Sanitation areas. Up to 20 Vukuphile contractors were upgraded in CIDB grading.As the District we provide Fire Services in Ngqushwa, Great-Kei, Mbhashe and Mnquma Local Munici-pality (5 Fire Stations and 5 Satellite Station)

We also supports Amahlathi, Nxuba and Nkonkobe Local Municipalities on request and provide standard-ization of Fire Services in the District. Six water hydrants were installed in the following areas: (Elliotdale, Centane, Thafalofefe, Nqadu) and firefighting has improved due to the proximity of hydrants.

Eighty nine (89) fire safety compliance inspections were in just the 2014/15 financial year and a total number of 1135 calls were attended during the same period. Most incidents happened in Mnquma LM (252) followed by Amahlathi at (223). Mbhashe (194) with Great Kei being the third at (188) and Nxuba (4) being the last with least incidents.In terms of community safety, 17 Crime prevention initiatives supported which resulted in the reduction of crime across various Local Municipalities.

Moving forward, we would like to see more of our local Municipalities getting on board as community safety does not form part of LM IDPs with the exception of Mbhashe, Great Kei and Nkonkobe. In our quest to attain economic freedom in our lifetime, Our Supply Chain Management (SCM) policies seek to encourage socio-economic transformation within its region and during the 2014/2015 financial year, projects to a total value of R734 million were awarded to various companies according to their B-BBEE status level of contribution.

The National Treasury has established a Central Supplier Database (CSD) that will result in one single database to serve as the source of all supplier information for all spheres of government. This will come into effect on 1 July 2016 by all Municipalities.

Tariff increases for both 2014/15 and 2015/16 financial years are capped at 6% which was in line with average CPI and maximum growth prescribed by National Treasury. Domestic consumers were receiving the first 6kl of water free. In the 2016/17 financial year, tariffs have remained unchanged with a reduction in free kilolitres to 6kl for indigents and nothing for other domestic consumers, to bring ADM in line with National Norms.

The fire levy where fire services are readily available is R18.91 for domestic consumers and R25.23 for non-domestic consumers, remaining unchanged from the 2015/16 financial year. The Fire availability fee - where reaction time is greater than 30 minutes – is at a cost of R12,61 for domestics and R18.91 for non-domestics, remaining unchanged from the 2015/16 financial year.A Fire Levy charge is raised to all domestic and non-domestic consumers where fire services are immediately available within their towns, remaining unchanged from the 2015/16 financial year.


Honourable Speaker;

During this term, ADM has adopted a Transformation Agenda to create a conducive working environ-ment that will result to effective and efficient service delivery. Council has supported program and a lot has been achieved during implementation of this agenda. We hope that the incoming Council will inherit this program and continue to support it. Today we can say without fear of contradiction that it has transformed the institution and made ADM to be caring employer.The staff complement as at 31 March 2016 is 1771 excluding the interns and ex-periential trainees. In terms of the Employment Equity the ratio is 40.20% (712) females to 59.79% (1059) males as at 31 March 2016. Staff appointments executed for the past four years including this year is 1308 amongst which are 708 females making up a percentage of 54 as against 46% male appointments.

The rate of Staff turnover in the previous years was alarming and that was a point of concern to us. This led to an urgent intervention in as far as adopting a Talent Retention Strategy. This gave birth to various Retention Programmes that were rolled out in the previous financial years including Training of Managers, Inter – Departmental Team Building Programmes; an employee benefit/ incentive booklets; staff awards. In terms of the Employment Equity the ratio is 41% (762) females to 59% (1105) males inclusive of interns and experiential trainees as at 30th June 2015. Female representation was 34% on 30th June 2012. In comparison, this indicates a remarkable progress of 7% increase in female representation in the Institution. Our studies to further findings with this policy imperative show that female employees are not appearing in the higher hierarchical levels of the Organisation as they should, and a Women Empowerment Programme aimed at the Resuscitation of appetite to female to apply for senior positions was adopted and also rolled out in 2013/2014 financial year.

Furthermore, in the last three years we have commemorated WOMENS DAY where all female emplo-yees are motivated and empowered. There is room for improvement in increasing the number of people with disabilities especially from 30 June 2012 to 30th June 2015 has changed from 3 to 6, rendering an increase of 3 appointed individuals. This makes up a total of 0.3% of people who have declared their disabilities within the Institution. To optimise productivity, as of the 01st June 2016, a Biometrics Time and Attendance module is now in its pilot stage and is due to go live on 1 June 2016 at our head office. This reduces misuse of leave, ensures productivity whilst of ensuring that the attendance and absence of employees are controlled

In addition, the employee self-service module was implemented in August 2015 for all staff. This module allows both the employee and manager easy electronic access to relevant employee details from his/her own desk. The Council meeting of 30 June 2014 approved the final report of the Business Process Re-engineering study thus creating a new organogram to be implemented. In July 2014 ADM implemen-ted the 6.79% increase for their employees in terms of the SALGA and trade unions (IMATU and SAMWU) multi-year Salary and Wage Collective Agreement, dated 27 July 2012. Since the past two years, ADM has embarked on a journey of Standardising positions across all levels to ensure uniformity and consistency across the institution. This exercise is also influenced and informed by the Transfor-mation agenda which was approved by Council in 2012.The Council meeting of 30 June 2014 approved the final report of the Business Process Re – engineering study thus creating a new organogram to be implemented.


Xa ndisonga Somlomo,

Ndifuna ukucaphula kwincwadi kaTimoti (Timothy 4:7-8) isahluko sesine ukuqala phaya kwivesi yesixhenxe ukuya kweyesibhozo. Umpostile uPawulosi ekuqukumbeleni indima ayidlalileyo uthi ngesingesi: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”. The bible says even though Paul was in chains and knew that death was near, he had no regrets as Jesus had taken control of his life and he had lived it to the fullest with great commitment and achievements.

Ndimi phambi kwenu namhlanje ngalenjikalanga njengesithunywa nesicaka senu. Ndibuya nengxelo yo-bume besithili senu. Xa ndibuyisela iintambo kuni, kuba kaloku amandla asemasebeni ndifuna ukuqala ndibulele inyhweba enindinike yona yokuba ndibhexeshe imikhala kule minyaka mihlanu idlulileyo. Akukho nelinye ityeli apho ndakhe ndeva imigushuzo ethi nanele yindlela endilibhexesha ngalo eliziko.

I would also like to thank the ruling party, the African National Congress, uKhongolose, for affording me this opportunity to serve my people. Ngenene sithi sisesisigqeba sizingoma imihlani. Siqukumbela ngelithi ugqatso silufezile, senze kangangoko esinako nangawo onke amandla ethu, sisakholelwa. Ngokwenene sizamile ukulukonza uluntu.

We have always had history is on our side because we are finishing off the work that was started by our giants. We are servants from the ANC of John Langalibalele Dube, Sefako Makgatho, Zac Mahabane, Josiah Gumede, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, AB Xuma, JS Moroka, Nkosi Albert Luthuli, OR Tambo, Nelson Mandela, AB Xuma, Govan Mbeki, Billy Nair and Albertina Sisulu.

Uthi umongameli OR Tambo ngo-1969 kwinkongolo yombutho wesizwe eMorogoro: “Hambani niye emfa-zweni niyokukhusela umbutho“. “Wage a relentless war against disrupters and defend the ANC against provocateurs and enemy agents.”"Defend the revolution against enemy propaganda, whatever form it takes. Be vigilant comrades. The enemy is vigilant.”

Ndisonga le ngxelo nam ndicaphula kulamazwi ndisithi phumani ngobuninzi niyokubacacisela abantu ukuba alikho elinye i-khaya ngaphande kwe-African National Congress. Let me also take this opportunity to thank the Troika of Amathole, my leadership, my brothers in purpose and in intent and the entire Council as led by the Honourable Speaker Samkelo Janda. You have shown and portrayed your wisdom throughout the Council, more especially your willingness to learn. You led the Council from the front, whilst you were prepared to sometimes take the backseat and learn.This also applies to the Honourable Chief Whip, Councillor Sandla Mtintsilana. You were committed to giving the Council political direction and cohesion. You were my true mentors.

My belief is that nobody is perfect but we should at all times have been a leadership that complements each another. I would like to thank our administration – under the leadership of Mister Chris Magwangqana - for being able to cushion and carry through our political will and mandates. He has assisted us as the political leadership in bringing stability in the institution.


Our traditional leaders have added value in our Councils and the councillors as well, despite the different political parties and different mandates that we had to carry. We also appreciate the work of all our local Municipalities as our partners in service delivery, local Municipal councillors, our ever reliable Community Development Workers and Ward Committees.

Our intergovernmental relations have been solid and I would like to thank the support that we have received from the national government, the provincial government, SALGA, ECSEC, NHRC, National Lottery, Standard Bank, Vodacom and others. The Mayors of our local Municipalities have never let me down.The leadership of Aspire, especially the current leadership and interim board for keeping the fire burning.I would like to once again thank the ruling part for being a guide providing us support and playing its role.

My heartfelt and emotional gratitude goes to my children Siyabulela and Asemahle who are present here today, my family for giving me motivation and everyone who has supported me.

My staff in the office and the entire Department led by Ms Linda Simanga. We started there and now we are here. You have been my A-team.

The Mayoral Committee members who were not only my thinking tank but also my hands and feet that could reach where I could not and absorb pressures. The ANC gave me the best.As I usually say, there are two things that are important in life, it is how you start and how you finish.The start must make an impact so that there is confidence and acceleration. But in between the start and the finish, there is an important factor of keeping the momentum. This is to propel towards a good finish.

Looking at the mandate that given to us by the ruling party, I can safely say we have carried out that mandate with pride.

Come the third of August, I have no doubt that our people will renew our mandate. Go out there and tell the world that the ANC in Amathole is ready to govern again, we have told you our good story and we will never retreat nor surrender in our fight of ensuring that every household in Amathole has running clean water and a decent toilet.Go out there and advance your power.Local government is in your hands.May God protect our people. Siyaku khonza

Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika.

I thank you!

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