Highway Africa Closing Function Speech by the Executive Mayor Of Makana Municipality - Councilor PM Kate

Greetings:

Tonight’s event brings to the end one of the largest gatherings of media practitioners in our continent,  and as the municipality we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the organizers of Highway Africa for inviting the us to be partners of this prestigious conference. Indeed the municipality needs to be involved in all the activities that take place in our municipality. This partnership between Rhodes University School of Journalism and the Makana Municipality is in line with government’s policy on forming Public-Private Partnerships for the development of our economy.

Mayor's speech for the media breakfast - 4 October 2007

Today our country is a totally different place than it was before the dawn of democracy in 1994. During the dark years of apartheid, our country was characterized by violence, unrest, uprisings, boycotts, etc – which were the main focus of the South African community and indeed the media. The media mainly focused on the political scenario and not as much attention was given to socio-economic issues. 

Makana Transport Forum - Media Release 16 August 2007 

Good day ladies and gentlemen and the members of the media.

The purpose of today’s media conference is to inform the media and the community of Makana that the stand-off between Grahamstown taxi operators and the service provider (Double Portion) that won the contract to transport school children in and around Grahamstown, has come to an end.