{"id":1349,"date":"2013-05-22T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2013\/05\/22\/mec-norman-shushu-to-launch-national-fencing-scheme-in-loopeng-kuruman-to-the-tune-of-six-million-rand\/"},"modified":"2013-05-22T18:57:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:57:53","slug":"mec-norman-shushu-to-launch-national-fencing-scheme-in-loopeng-kuruman-to-the-tune-of-six-million-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2013\/05\/22\/mec-norman-shushu-to-launch-national-fencing-scheme-in-loopeng-kuruman-to-the-tune-of-six-million-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC Norman Shushu to launch National Fencing Scheme in Loopeng (Kuruman) to the tune of six million rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, in the Northern Cape Mr Norman Shushu will be launching the National Fencing Scheme on Wednesday, 20th&nbsp; March 2013 at Loopeng Village in the Joe Morolong Municipality.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Department has invested an amount of six million towards the project.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the launch by the MEC is to assist farming communities with the improvement of fence infrastructure to enable proper utilization of infrastructure.&nbsp;&nbsp; Communal areas in the John Taolo Gaetsewe district are heavily stocked and are characterised by poor infrastructure and deteriorating veld conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The project is funded through the National Fencing Scheme and is being implemented as a labour-intensive project. The project comprises of job creation for local communities, skills development and infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>The total km of fence is about 143km and it seeks to upgrade the border fence and internal fence of three farms&nbsp; (Ashfield, Darnall and Harrow).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Media are invited to the launch and details are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Date:&nbsp; 20 March 2013<br \/>Time: 10H00<br \/>Venue: Loopeng Community Hall<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries: Phemelo Manankong &#8211; External Communications Officer<br \/>Tel:&nbsp; 053 839 7881<br \/>Cell: 071 889 5112<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:pmanankong@ncpg.gov.za\">pmanankong@ncpg.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, in the Northern Cape Mr Norman Shushu will be launching the National Fencing Scheme on Wednesday, 20th&nbsp; March 2013 at Loopeng Village in the Joe Morolong Municipality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}