FOREWORD BY THE EXECUTIVE MAYOR

Alfred Nzo District Municipality, has increased in size as a result of the incorporation of Ntabankulu Municipality and Mbizana Municipality. This change comes with new responsibilities and new objectives, but with a common purpose and mandate of improving the quality of lives of the people we serve. With an increase in population from 400 000 to 900 000, it follows that the needs of our communities have increased compared to those of the previous Council.

In order to be able to speed up the eradication of backlogs, and to provide improved services, it cannot be business as usual and as such we will have to do things differently. Certainly as a new municipality we had to hit the ground running in order to make inroads to the challenges inherited from the previous Municipality. My team of Mayoral Committee members whose responsibility is to assist me in taking executive decisions of this municipality, operates full time in the true sense and account to me on the performance of functions and duties allocated to them.

In the five months we have been in office, remarkable achievements have been made and all targets that we set ourselves have been achieved. Intergovernmental relations have been intensified and as a result, the Premier’s Executive Outreach which was held on – October 2011 was a resounding success as well as the launching of many water and sanitation programs.

As we continue to pursue our mandate we will endeavour to accelerate our service delivery programs whilst ensuring that all our communities fairly benefit from the services that we provide.