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MEDIA RELEASE
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 12 OCTOBER 2000

ROADS AND PUBLIC WORKS MEC LAUNCHES A R40 MILLION   "OPERATION VULINDLELA"

EASTERN Cape Roads and Public Works MEC, Mr Pumulo Masualle, launched a R40 million emergency road reconstruction programme code named 
Operation Vulindlela at Ngcobo today, October 12, 2000. Operation Vulindlela  is aimed at rebuilding the provinces road network that 
was devastated by floods.

The R40 million comes from the National Disaster Management Funds and has been converted by the department into a sizeable number of 
projects throughout the province. The launch took place at Coghlan on site of the rebuilding of the T28 reconstruction includes building of 
two bridges.>

Mr Masualle said the ravaging storms that hit the province last summer further compounded the uneven development of the roads 
infrastructure in the eastern and western parts of the province. By policy and practice, past apartheid and homeland regimes deliberately 
neglected rural areas. In some areas the administrations had roads surfaced on paper when in actual fact that never was, he said.

This set of circumstances, he reiterated, put a mammoth task on the department to address the infrastructue backlogs that rendered the 
province so unbearable.

According to Mr Masualle all the Kei region projects have been approved and approximately 99 percent were at a stage where tenders had been 
awarded to contractors. Most of the reconstruction work will be completed before the end of this financial yar sometime in 
January/February, he said.

Referring to the campaign benefits to communities, Mr Masualle said the reconstruction of the t28 would create at least 30 jobs for local 
communities, empower them with road construction and maintenance skills and improve linkages that would stimulate economic development of 
the area. The department emphasises labour intensive methods of road construction&#133; to give effect to the notion of wealth 
redistribution and accumulation, he said.

Almost 50 percent of the R40 million allocated for Operation Vulindlela, R19 412 360, will go to the Kei  Wild Coas regions that were 
worst hit by the disasters. The appropriation for other regions is: Western R2 870 000; Drakensburg  R4 620 000; Stormberg  7540 000 and 
Amatola  R5 765 000.

Attached please find a detailed copy of the projects to be funded from the R40 million allocation. Note also that actuality feed is 
available on request.

Statement issued:Communications Division  Office of the Premier

Inquiries:Manelisi Wolela  082 413 7768

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