Africa-Press – Botswana. Over P59 million has been allocated to Mogoditshane/Thamaga District for the construction of a new administrative centre in Mogoditshane.
The district council chairperson Mr Ofentse Mafoko said when opening the district’s full council session on November 20.
He told councillors that the project had been funded under the current financial year while
submissions for allocation of the plot had been made with Mogoditshane Sub-land board, and council was awaiting plot allocation before the project could start.
He further explained that the RAC project together with the Mogoditshane internal roads project (25Km) as well as the Thamaga village drainage masterplan project would be implemented under the
Development Manager (DM) model spearheaded by the ministry of Transport and Public Works.
He said all these projects had been assigned a South African based company called DEVMCO.
Giving an update of other projects in the district, Mr Mafoko said that two new primary schools in the district were still under construction and were anticipated to be complete around June next year. He further told councillors that the two schools had been named following consultative kgotla meetings.
Regarding the school in Mogoditshane, he said the community proposed to name it Diagane Airlink primary school, while in Kumakwane they proposed the name Sebone primary school, adding that the process of registering the two names had started.
He said leaners profiling for both schools as well as recruitment of staff had started.
Concerning the new council logo, Mr Mafoko told councillors that the logo submissions were completed and the submission would pass through the full council before registration at Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) for Copyrights compliance and hopefully in the next financial year the council would officially have its own logo.
On other issues, he said plans were underway to engage waste collection companies for a period of five months following complaints by residents about non collection of waste in the district. He said the tender would be awarded before the end of November.
Cllr Mafoko said the district was experiencing an increase of children in need of protection and the need for emergency and immediate placement into alternative care.
He said the district was implementing statutory foster care as per the Children’s Act of 2009 to find alternative to kin-based care and institutionalisation for orphans and vulnerable children neglected by relatives or living in unstable family environments.
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