Mayor welcomes community-driven initiatives
“It is only through working together that we can achieve our collective goal to create a capital city that we can all be proud to call home,” said Celliers Brink.
Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink has acknowledged and welcomed community-driven initiatives and organisations working with the City.
The mayor released a statement on Wednesday, June 21, saying that the city encouraged public-private partnerships.
“Let us build Tshwane together,” the mayor’s statement read.
Brink specifically thanked Hennops Revival for their Adopt-a-warrior programme that is aimed at cleaning up stormwater drains around Centurion.
“It is only through working together that we can achieve our collective goal to create a capital city that we can all be proud to call home,” said Brink.
The adopt-a-warrior programme deployed its 12-member team to clean kerb-side storm water drains, which significantly add to pollution in water bodies.
The City has a memorandum of understanding with the organisation to protect and restore the Hennops River.
Mayoral spokesperson Sipho Stuurman said the city highlighted this initiative in the hopes that it would inspire others to do the same.
“We cannot do this alone as a city, so we appreciate anybody that wants to work with us to make Tshwane a better city to live in.”
Stuurman said that there are many other organisations the city works with, such as the Soulbent Project in Atteridgeville, AfriForum, especially regarding security and safety, and communities that have organised clean-up initiatives.
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Communities as near as Waterkloof and as far as Cullinan have organised projects to assist the city with its functions.
Stuurman said that they also have the Hatfield project with the Hatfield CID, which saw the deployment of the TMPD bicycle unit.
“We recently launched a similar initiative with Rosslyn Business District where we have also established a public-private partnership to boost security there,” said Stuurman.
He said that the city had agreed to deploy TMPD units to patrol the area in Rosslyn.
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