Giyani community to benefit from multi-million Rand sports centre
The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Tshitereke Baldwin Matibe, who visited the project recently, asked the Greater Giyani Municipality to ensure that 30% of the total value of the tender goes to locals through subcontracting work.
LIMPPO – Small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMME’s) are set to benefit from jobs through sub-contract work, as the multi-million Rand Mageva Sports Centre in Giyani nears completion.
The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Tshitereke Baldwin Matibe, who visited the project recently, asked the Greater Giyani Municipality to ensure that 30% of the total value of the tender goes to locals through subcontracting work.
The NCOP team, which was accompanied by the members of Legislature and other stakeholders, were in Giyani to inspect the progress of municipal projects, both new and old, some of which were previously stalled and had been resuscitated.
After inspecting the 2000-seater sports centre, which is roughly at 70% complete, Matibe welcomed the progress that has been achieved so far, and advised the municipality to ensure that the local community benefits from the remaining work.
“For government to be able to develop SMME’s, we need to ensure that when this company leaves here we must at least have one or two small businesses that have been upgraded from a certain level to another level,” he said.
Meanwhile, the state-of-the-art sports centre, which is the first of its kind in the whole of Giyani, costing R39,8 million. According to the Municipal Manager of Greater Giyani, Maxwell Chauke who did the presentation to the NCOP team during the oversight visit, the project is scheduled to be completed by 29 March next year.
“We’re left with three main factors – the pitch, the abolishing blocks and the repairing of the borehole that would be supplying water to the 50 000 litre tank which will be servicing the centre.”
He added that the municipality has applied for electric connections so that by the time the remaining work is complete, the application for the electricity would have been approved. “By the look of things, it is possible that the contractor would finish before the set completion date,” he added.
