{"id":1540,"date":"2020-08-27T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/08\/27\/waste-management-summit-to-be-held-in-kimberley-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:11:07","slug":"waste-management-summit-to-be-held-in-kimberley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/08\/27\/waste-management-summit-to-be-held-in-kimberley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WASTE MANAGEMENT SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN KIMBERLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>MEDIA STATEMENT:\u00a0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>SUBJECT: WASTE MANAGEMENT SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN KIMBERLEY.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform, Rural Development, Environment and Nature Conservation, Ms Nomandla Bloem, invites member of the media to the <strong>Waste Management Summit<\/strong>, to be held as follows:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Date:12-13 March 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Venue: Ausi Meisie\u2019s Lodge, Kimberley<\/div>\n<div>Time:09h00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>The MEC will deliver a keynote address, and together with stakeholders, sign a declaration\u00a0 on Friday, 13 March 2020<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Held under the theme; <strong>\u201cPromoting compliance to waste legislation\u201d<\/strong>, the<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>objectives of the two-day Waste Summit are among others, to bring decision makers under one roof, to discuss the poor state of waste management in the Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The summit will also seek to strengthen the capacity of local government (municipalities) and to address waste management in their respective areas of\u00a0 responsibilities in the Province.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The summit is in response to the call made by the president at the launch of the Khauwuleza District Coordination Model when he said<em> \u201cThe new district coordination model \u2013 with Khawuleza (hurry up) as its call to action- aims to improve coherence and impact of government service delivery in the 44 Districts and eight Metros around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/div>\n<div>The Waste Summit is expected to be attended by Mayors, Municipal Managers, Community Services\/Infrastructure Directors, Portfolio Committee Members, the South African Local Government Associations and Environmental Health Managers.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>For RSVP and further information, please contact: Mr Phemelo Manankong on <strong>053 802 5622\/066 303 8177<\/strong>, email: pmanankong@ncpg.gov.<\/div>\n<div>Media enquiries: The Media Liaison Officer, Mr. Zandisile Luphahla on <strong>083 391 5388;<\/strong> email: zluphahla@ncpg.gov.za<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT:\u00a0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TO: ALL MEDIA HOUSES SUBJECT: WASTE MANAGEMENT SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN KIMBERLEY. \u00a0 The MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform, Rural Development, Environment and Nature Conservation, Ms Nomandla Bloem, invites member of the media to the Waste Management Summit, to be held as follows:<\/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-1540","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\/1540","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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}