Financial sustainability and infrastructure-led economic growth are among the priorities for the Western Cape over the next five years. This is according to Premier Alan Winde addressing the first sitting of the seventh provincial Parliament in Cape Town.
Ensuring a job in every home, Winde say the province has the highest number of households which derive their income from a salary earner. But that his administration is committed to doing more. He says attracting investment and enabling the private sector to create jobs is key. Ensuring financial sustainability for a province which experiences population growth of 150 000 a year, he says is critical for quality service delivery. And that his administration will fight for a more equitable share of the budget in order to improve the lives of citizens.
“We welcome some of the commitments that have been made and the tone and the nature of politics of consensus and co-operation, that we welcome and we want to build on that. We want that spirit to be built on a local level to focus on the issues in mainly hung municipalities in the Western Cape, however, we need to still see during this term is the premier going to be serious about crime for example for involving communities in tackling crime. That was absent.
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