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MUSINA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
Date : 29 December 2011
Enquiries : Wilson Dzebu
PRESS STATEMENT
MAYORAL BURSARY FOR NEEDY STUDENTS
The Mayor of Musina Municipality, Carol Phiri is inviting students from needy families to apply for municipal bursaries to help them realize their educational dreams. The municipality and its partners have put aside more than R200 000.00 to assist tertiary students in the 2012 academic year.
Municipal spokesperson, Wilson Dzebu says the municipality has established a bursary fund to assist learners with good performance who cannot access tertiary education due to poverty. He says the municipality acknowledges the fact that there are numerous needy children, however, the bursaries could only be awarded to few learners due to limited funding.
He added that that the bursary will fund tuition, books and accommodation for the successful applicants.
He outlines the critea to qualify for application: “Learners must be residents of Musina Municipality who show consistent good performance and have passed their Grade 12 impressively. Their parents must be unemployed or classified as indigents or earning less than R3 500.00 per month. Preference, but not limited to, will be given to learners doing or who have passed maths, science, commerce and technology as key subjects. Children of councillors and municipal officials are not eligible to apply.”
Dzebu says the Mayor may treat special cases aimed at assisting learners with potential from mainly disadvantaged families who are not able to access tertiary education.
*Application forms are available from all municipal offices until 18 January 2012 at 16H00.
Issued by : Wilson Dzebu – Head of Communications
Tel : 015 534 6132
Cell : 083 457 2187
Email : msnacoms@limpopo.co.za
Fax : 086 600 4091
Note; The Application Form is available on request. Use the Comment tab at the bottom of this page.
When De Beers had a meeting with our Mayor a few months ago about additional erven to be set out for houses to be built for Venetia, our Mayor asked them to build or give her a house! This is no thumbsuck but the truth told to me by a person who was in the meeting. Neither did she actively participate in the meeting but left all to the male councillors. It reflects poorly on her. Citizen X.
Comment received 13.10.2011; The Premier says he has an open line to send service delivery complaints to………What a joke, 3 mails sent over the last few months and not even a reply………He can come here to lay a wreath for a football star but not to sort out poor service delivery……..Usual story for our Government
Comment received 12.10.2011; It’s actually way past time! It’s a good thing we are not holding our collective breath!
Comment received 11.10.2011; PEOPLE OF MUSINA LETS GIVE OUR MAYOR A CHANCE SHE BEING ELECTED TO DELIVER ,SO COOL DOW AND
EVERYTHING WILL B OK,YOU CANT JUST DISH OUT SOME SERVICE WITHOUT A PROPER PLAN,SO PLEASEEEEE,VIVA CAROL PHIRI VIVA ….
This comment received in response to Cllr. Kaunda’s comment on the front page;
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Submitted on 2011/09/23 at 10:53
I’ve just quickly read through the last few recent comments including Councillor Kaunda’s response and just want to say that, I too was a very frustrated, angry new resident until recently, when God requested my assistance with the town’s filthy state and aked me to STOP GRUMBLING and DO something about the situation. Stop listening to gossip (which is always NEGATIVE) and as Coucillor Kaunda says, LET’S WORK TOGETHER ! There was a Rainbow Community Clean Up held last Saturday, 17.9.11 and many requests were made to the WHOLE COMMUNITY – Black and White to assist where ever possible. Everyone was invited to attend the meetings before the event and again only a few “heros” came. How sad it was on the actual day to see exactly 4 White people there to assist. HOW can one be part of change if one never moves out of one’s comfort zone or should I say “Glass box”. Let’s change our attitudes for the better, then our town will change too…. How many times (me included) have we “mouthed off” about something, like the bad roads and the mayor’s spending, when in fact we don’t know the WHOLE TRUTH / STORY. We keep hearing (negative gossip AGAIN !) that there is no money for the roads – granted there isn’t, but I heard recently (since my involvement with the municipality and the Councillor), that money has been granted for the roads, it should be here soon. Now if I didn’t get INVOLVED, I would still be ranting and raving about the situation. It’s under control ! but like all companies and things in life it takes time. The money has to filter down from the top and unfortunately with every government there’s a lot of red tape. Bear in mind that this is a new “office”, let’s give the mayor and her council our support. Get involved, try and help – forget colour – see the person ! Assist with understanding and encouragement. Where you know something worked well before, suggest it ! Give constructive ideas and workable solutions. Just to mention on project – The clean up campaign wasn’t just for the day, it’s going to be a sustainable community project with an open forum, so come and join us and let’s ALL work toward a cleaner, healthier and safer town. Don’t moan, if you AREN’T prepared to do something about the situation. Thanks, Bronwyn, let’s hope your initiative snowballs. B. |