President Cyril Ramaphosa is on Friday expected to lead a meeting with the Limpopo Provincial Executive.
President Ramaphosa will meet with the Premier, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, and the Provincial Government Executive at the Council Chamber in Polokwane.
The President who is set to deliver an opening address at the meeting, will be accompanied by Ministers and Deputy Ministers.
“The meeting with the Limpopo Provincial Government’s Executive is a start of a series of engagements between the President and provinces aimed at enhancing intergovernmental coordination and improve service delivery in line with the priorities of the 7th Administration,” The Presidency said in a statement on Thursday.
President Ramaphosa will also meet with the Provincial Executive of the KwaZulu-Natal province ahead of the Presidential District Development Model (DDM) Imbizo next week.
The Provincial Executive will present to the President its five-year program in alignment with the priorities of the seventh Administration.
The meeting will also discuss various approaches to service delivery issues including interventions to improve service delivery at local government level.
President Ramaphosa and Premier Ramathuba will address the open session before the start of the meeting.
The President is expected to lead the second DDM Presidential Imbizo under the Government of National Unity (GNU), in Umgababa, in KwaZulu-Natal.
The imbizo that is scheduled for Friday, 8 November.
Cabinet adopted the DDM in August 2019.
The DDM is an integrated planning model for cooperative governance which seeks to be a new integrated, district-based, service delivery approach aimed at fast-tracking service delivery. It also seeks to ensure that municipalities are adequately supported and resourced to carry out their mandate. - SAnews.gov.za
