Gauteng Premier David
Makhura at the Official opening ceremony of The Africa Universities Summit, at
the University of Johannesburg.
JOHANNESBURG
- Gauteng premier David Makhura says the next two and a half
years to 2019 will be focused on ensuring radical economic transformation,
modernisation and reindustrialisation; accelerated social transformation and
social cohesion; transforming and modernising the public service; and
mainstreaming the rights of women, youth, persons with disabilities and
military veterans.
He says the provincial government will work together with
citizens, businesses, civil society stakeholders, municipalities and public
servants to do the following:
- Building an inclusive economy, safe and
cohesive communities and good infrastructure that benefit all the residents of
Gauteng.
- Making politics more constructive,
transformative and impactful on the lives of citizens.
- Ensuring a transformative politics which
utilises public sector budgets to radically transform lives and build
sustainable livelihoods.
- Building a value-based politics which is
about the values of service and loyalty to the citizens.
- Empowering the youth through access to
better educational and entrepreneurship opportunities so that they can live
meaningful lives as productive
citizens.
- Empowering women to break the shackles of
patriarchy by empowering them to play their full role in the economy and
society as equal citizens.
- Building an economy that creates more jobs
and includes Blacks, women, persons with disabilities and the youth.
- Building a compassionate society that
protects the most vulnerable including mental health patients and taking steps
to ensure that never gain should so
many people die out of total neglect, arrogant treatment and lack of care and
compassion by us in government.
- Promoting social cohesion among all people
regardless of their nationality, religion, origin, gender, sexual orientation,
class or race.
- Building an accountable, responsive and
clean government which manages public finances in a transparent and accountable
manner.
Makhura says the priority is to make a difference in the
lives people, to work with citizens to drive radical social and economic
transformation and build a society where all people can live meaningful lives,
in peace and harmony.
