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KZN Premier Ntuli delivers state of province address in Pietermaritzburg today

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Key Strategic Points

  1. 1 Premier Ntuli is expected to detail government measures to reduce crime and improve safety across KwaZulu-Natal province.
  2. 2 The KZN government created 54,000 new job opportunities in the second quarter and the premier is expected to outline further job creation measures.
  3. 3 Foot-and-mouth disease, which has significantly affected KZN as an epicenter of the outbreak, will be addressed with details on vaccine distribution and public awareness plans.
  4. 4 A new provincial infrastructure council will be established with the Department of Public Works forming the permanent secretariat to oversee and coordinate infrastructure development across local, provincial, and national government levels.
  5. 5 The province has made progress on infrastructure challenges, with construction backlogs significantly reduced from being a major problem to affecting only small pockets of the province.

Notable Quotes

“Safety of the KZN province is definitely one of the priorities throughout this term for the premier, and we expect him to touch or go deeper on the measures that he has taken in ensuring that KZN remains a safe province and crime remains decreased.”

— Bongani Gina, Head of Provincial Communications

“The main focus would be on the infrastructure council that we're forming, which our department will form the permanent secretariat at that will oversee and coordinate all infrastructure in the province going forward working together with local government, provincial government and the national government.”

— Martin Meyiwa, MEC for Public Works and Infrastructure

“As a GPU, we've shown that we want to be a government of action, not a government of talking and that what is said in SOPA, we actually go out and implement.”

— Martin Meyiwa, MEC for Public Works and Infrastructure

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