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Modukanele concerned about council's service delivery

Setlhabelo Modukanele
Setlhabelo Modukanele

The Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Setlhabelo Modukanele has requested councils' technical teams to identify and solve problems that might hinder them from achieving their service delivery to the public.

Addressing the councils' technical teams at their retreat that was attended by different heads of departments at Selebi-Phikwe recently that ended on Friday, Modukanele stressed: “You need to identify and address existing and emerging challenges that hinder decision-making processes as the first step towards progress and equally embrace and adopt new priorities.

"Let me remind you that time is not an ally and our people are losing patience with why we cannot successfully implement critical projects from time to time, despite a considerable amount of investment into such projects,” he said.

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