• Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Parliament
• My Colleagues in Cabinet
• Honourable Leader of the Opposition
• Honourable Leaders of political parties
• Honourable Members
• Director-General and Heads of Departments
• Distinguished guests, leaders of faith, community leaders
• Comrades and Friends
• People of the Western Cape

I stand before you today as the first Western Cape Premier from the African National Congress. I do so with a deep sense of history, responsibility and humility. I do so with the steady determination of my party to build a better life for all, standing on our principles of non-racism, non-sexism, unity and democracy. I stand here conscious of the mandate to honour the People's Contract to create work and fight poverty.

As this Province's first ANC Premier, there are things that must be said in this House today about who we are as a Province and where we are going to, ideas, which have not been aired from this office before.

We have gathered today in this new Parliament. Our people spoke on the 14th April and have called on us to serve them here. In speaking they have instructed us in the outcome of the election to work together despite our political differences. The democratic will and our political agreement have ensured that we pool our efforts as the ANC and the New National Party, and that all of us not take the electorate for granted.

This electorate has spoken decisively all over the country, and it is instructive that it did so in the year in which all of us are not only celebrating Ten Years of Freedom and Democracy, but we are also evaluating the success of the last ten years. I believe the overwhelming majority of our citizens want a future that is different, that is new, that is more united, that is less polarized, that is less conflictual and more consensual. They want South Africa to succeed. We are, like them, tired of fruitless battles and debates, less tolerant of the 'die hards' who think they can return to the past, who oppose change, and want to stop us from reaching our destiny.

Mr Speaker, I am reminded of the words in the Afrikaans poem, Bevrore Transkripsie, by Heilna du Plooy when she speaks about how the land should now be allowed to be what it is destined to be despite all our contestations.

She says:

Die land wou anders word as wat ons wou
en oorloe het alles net vir ons vererger.
Die land wil nou sy eie stories he,
hom met sy eie kuns verryk.
Die land wil word wat hy graag wil word -
en dis gewis wat hy sal word.

Die land wil word wat hy graag wil word -
en dis gewis wat hy sal word.

This is not dissimilar to the conviction of President Thabo Mbeki in his famous "I am an African" speech at the adoption of our Constitution:

"But it seems to have happened that we looked at ourselves and said the time had come that we make a super-human effort to be other than human, to respond to the call to create for ourselves a glorious future, to remind ourselves of the Latin saying: Gloria est consequenda - Glory must be sought after!"

The President ends with the grand affirmation:

"Today it feels good to be an African."

Meneer die Speaker: Vandag voel dit goed om 'n Wes Kapenaar en 'n Kapenaar te wees.

Today we can say that the suffering and sacrifice of the great majority that overcame the fear and the prejudice, the oppression and the repression in the dark days of apartheid, and the continued marginalisation and deprivation over the last decade, is to some extent mitigated by this act of ownership over the Province.

THE WESTERN CAPE - A HOME FOR ALL

Mr Speaker -

I believe that the single vision that we pursue in the next five years must be to make the Western Cape a Home for All. This is in line with the President's call for social cohesion. This will transcend our Provincial fault lines of racism, sexism, classism and urban bias.

A Home for All implies many things. Shelter, security, safety, comfort, warmth, welcome, justice, belonging, community and peace. To work for a Home for All implies that currently we do not provide these qualities to every member of our Provincial family.

The consequences of apartheid, the failed crime against humanity could never disappear overnight after centuries of deliberate execution. Our historical task is to undo this legacy in our society and economy while developing a new future that can accommodate all of us without sacrificing either principle or existing good achievements.

We must acknowledge and confess today that the diversity of the people in our Province has resulted in them suffering peculiar crises of identity and belonging during this time of necessary change and growth. As we have built our South African home with a steady eye on the light of tomorrow, too many in our Province have observed these birth pangs from a comfortable distance with fear and mistrust while others yearned for recognition and opportunity from the outskirts.

The exploitation of the real or perceived concerns of these ordinary people by the unscrupulous and the untransformed has robbed us of many opportunities for progress and healing. Instead of providing the courage, unity, leadership and encouragement that were needed, this Province was failed by its successive Governments since 1994.

As a result, too many of our people from all backgrounds either withheld their goodwill, resources, time and skills or were denied their rightful place, their rights and their invaluable contributions. Our fear or our alienation meant that we were unable to commit to the land and its people. This has cost us all more than we can ever measure.

As the American poet Robert Frost puts it in his 1942 poem "The Gift Outright":

The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people.
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.

In this Province it has taken a further ten years of this struggle of the residual past against the emergent reality for us - at last - to have this opportunity to honestly say to each other in this Provincial Parliament, and as the people of the Western Cape that:

• The tactics to delay and diminish true democracy in this Province have failed;
• Every single person in the Western Cape has a home here and a role to play;
• The Western Cape is one of nine Provinces in our home, the Republic of South Africa;
• The Western Cape dare not be too proud to learn from, and contribute to, our Home Continent of Africa;
• Poverty, unemployment, crime and disease are our greatest challenges today;and
• Regardless of race, class, gender, age, religion, culture, language, ethnicity, geography, or sexual orientation - the Western Cape will be a Home for All!

Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding

Yes, this is an ANC- led Government. Things will be different, as they must be. For some this is a feared and vilified eventuality. To those who feel this, let me call to mind Chief Albert Luthuli who first coined the phrase " a Home for All". In a letter to white voters before the watershed elections of 16 April 1958, 46 years ago Chief Luthuli, President of the ANC said:

"You may have been led to believe that our Congress is anti-white, that it is a reckless organization out to stir up racialism. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are a serious and responsible minded body of men and women, and our aim, as we have stated many times, is neither White supremacy nor Black supremacy, but a common South African multi-racial society, based upon friendship, equality of rights and mutual respect."

Over the past two and a half years we have prepared the Western Cape for a better future. Today with humility and thankfulness I believe we can say that that future has arrived, even if only as a glimmer of dusk. But the Home for All must be built in our minds, in our relationships, and in the physical spaces so that while we eliminate from our psyche the apartheid mindset, we also remove it from our spatial planning.

We are excited by the recent announcement of the Cape Town Unicity that they have prioritized mixed-income, medium density housing developments in the city core, which will allow all our people to gain access to urban resources. Furthermore, one of our private sector firms won an international award yesterday for an innovative initiative whereby the previously derelict area of Westlake was radically transformed to now contain affordable housing, business and industrial premises as well as housing for the affluent. This is indeed a sign that we can work together to make our vision - a home for all - a lived reality for all our people.

FIVE-YEAR VISION - THE BUILDING BLOCKS:

What do we want the Western Cape to look like after 5 years? What kind of Province will welcome and host the FIFA World Cup events and guests in 2010? What do we need to do so that we can become the people of this land? the people of this Province?

• The Western Cape is no longer an island. We will work as full participants in all national processes with due consideration of the unique-nesses of our Province, but always learning from, and contributing to, the national agenda.

• We need confident and proud citizens. These qualities emerge from a people skilled to take up their place in the economy of the country, and this is what we must strengthen, for the President warned us in in Limpopo last week: "Our economy no longer needs cheap and unskilled workers. What our society and economy now need are educated and skilled workers."

• The strong first economy in our Province must be expanded and equipped to become more inclusive to the benefit a broader spectrum. Investment in this sector must be facilitated and encouraged so that we realize our goals of growth, empowerment and employment.

• The second economy of our poor and rural communities must receive increasing attention, especially at the level of access to capital, support, training, and management so that it can become the vehicle out of deprivation that so many need it to be.

• We must further consolidate the Social Security safety net to ensure that all those citizens facing vulnerability by virtue of age, disability, disease or other factors can have recourse to Government benefits.

• The creation of work opportunities and skills development is paramount and must become the hallmarks of all programmes linked to the Extended Public Works Programme.

• Community mobilization is the key to successful crime prevention. This was proved last year with the involvement of 3 500 unemployed volunteers which led to the Safest Festive Season ever when crime dropped by 18% overall, and murder was down by 34%.

• We need to continue the Healthcare 2010 programme for the transformation and appropriateness of our health service and to make sure that we serve our people's health needs efficiently, effectively and with caring.

• HIV AIDS requires comprehensive, integrated and holistic responses, including the provision of Ante-retrovirals and programmes to prevent its transmission.

• Government must both represent and serve all of us, especially in terms of gender, race and disability, so that we conform to the new regulations and time frames passed by National Cabinet. The transformation of this Administration is a Constitutional requirement and a moral necessity.

• The principles of Batho Pele or 'people first' will be implemented by every single civil servant and the monitoring and evaluation of this must be integrated into our reporting processes.

• The Civil Service must focus on becoming increasingly efficient and effective so that the services we provide are professional, modernized and respected. I invite and request our civil service to be a full partner on this journey to a Home for All. We need each other to achieve this. I call on any civil servants who for whatever reason feel that they cannot contribute to this Government's objectives to speak to their Departments about ways to leave the Administration. People with commitment and a shared vision must fill their places.

• The three official languages of our Province must each receive their rightful place in Government, civil society, business and our communities.

• It is clear to us that we cannot achieve these dramatic shifts in the nature, quality and effectiveness of Government without effective and purposeful partnerships with stakeholders in civil society, business and labour, for which the Growth and Development Summit of last year provides an excellent platform.

• The dramatic influx of foreign, continental and South African tourists into our beautiful Province reminds us that we live in a highly interconnected and increasingly globalising world. International relations are determined by our National government but within those parameters we as a Provincial Government must attend to the necessary linkages that the Province needs to achieve its growth and development objectives.

In light of this we envisage strategic investments in building bridges with emerging trading partners in the South, especially Brazil, India and of course emerging Asian economies. This will be in addition to the well established trade links we already have. In keeping with building the African Renaissance and NEPAD, we will explore unique economic and cultural links into the African continent that makes sense in growing our economic sectors, such as oils and gas.

As a Province we stand united to welcome and celebrate our host nation status for the 2010 World Cup. This immense international event has been entrusted to us as an African country and as a young, strong democracy. Now the hard work for 2010 starts as part of iKapa elihlumayo, ' growing and sharing the Cape'.

The 2010 World Cup dovetails in many creative and important ways with our commitment to make the next five years our Province's best five years to date. This great occasion will also help unite and build our Province into the Home for All and have important economic spin offs. Cabinet has committed itself to full and immediate support to the 2010 World Cup. A Cabinet Committee will submit a plan for the integration and co-ordination of World Cup planning into iKapa elihlumayo by mid June.

A united, diverse and growing Cape would be an ideal location for the opening ceremony of Africa's first soccer World Cup. We will lobby for the honour to do this as a gift to our nation, continent and world. We will also seek to host the big name teams and major matches up to semi-final level.

If we use this opportunity wisely, we may be able to complete the Athlone Stadium, as an important component of the Klipfontein Corridor, taking an important resource into that community. Other projects already committed, such as the road to Agulhas and upgrading the N7, gain an even greater importance in the context of maximizing the tourist benefit to the hinterland as well.

Mr Speaker -

These are some of the tasks and opportunities we need to grapple with as we fulfil the governance responsibilities placed on us and as we seek to make the Cape "A Home for All". We must, however, turn our attention to a detailed and somewhat statistical description of the state of the province and to the mix of strategic and policy options necessary for the development path for the best medium and long term outcomes. If we are to reach our destination we need to be sober about our current realities irrespective how difficult they are. The truth of the matter is that we are a long way off from what President Mbeki refers to as social cohesion.

Sadly, our society remains characterized by unacceptably high levels of unemployment and growing inequality, which unsurprisingly translates into ongoing impoverishment of too many of our people. Disturbingly, we further note that it is our youth who are hardest hit by unemployment. Those without matric stand very little chance of finding a job. If we then consider that only 52% of of our youth who start Grade 1, finish Grade 12, we get a sense of how deep our challenges are. Part of the reason why so few finish high school is of course the miserable living environments of our youth and communities that characterise isolated townships and settlements along with unequal distribution of educational resources, which makes teaching and learning very difficult for the majority of our children and youth.

Mister Speaker, please allow me to illustrate how profound our problems are:

Unemployment: Along with the rest of South Africa, the Western Cape suffers a crisis of unemployment. 23.16% of the Western Cape's economically active population is unemployment. This figure hides dramatic racial differences. For example, 41.52% of economically active Africans are unemployed compared to 6.89% of Whites. 22.37% of Coloureds are also unemployed. These patterns are likely to remain in place since we also know that only 3 out of a 100 Africans who enter the labour force find a job compared to 92 out of a 100 of Whites.

Inequality: The Western Cape Province carries the unenviable mantle of being the most unequal province in South Africa with a gini-coefficient rate of 0.62 compared to the national rate of 0.57. Now, if we further note that South Africa is counted among the top five most unequal societies in the world, we realize just how profound inequality is in our society.

Clearly, our Province today is not a home for all but rather a fractured and divided house that only works for some at the expense of the majority. We are called by the electorate to undo this legacy and lay the foundations that will progressively, through purposeful action, arise as a home for all. Let us now explore what our strategy is to achieve this.

THE STRATEGY TOWARDS THE HOME FOR ALL:

Mister Speaker-

We dare not leave our future to chance. It is something that we must build with perseverance, vision, commitment and insight. The short-term solutions of populism may appeal to many, but they will not unite and feed and heal our people. The ANC in government with our Coalition partner the New National Party have understood that the path to real development is an arduous one of short-term sacrifice, consistency and solid planning.

In the last two and a half years of ANC-NNP coalition government the strategy for our future was put in place. IKapa Elihlumayo, the 'growing and sharing Cape' has laid the foundations for sustainable people - orientated development. IKapa elihlumayo sets the tone and standard of economic mutuality that we need to underpin an inclusive, sustainable and shared future.

For optimal results in the medium to long term it is essential to organise institutional arrangements in a way that makes for a co-ordinated effort between governance and social partners. Missed opportunities abound in the failure of the provincial government to integrate its workings with that of local governments, the national sphere and parastatals and the NGO sector. Insufficient joint planning and prioritisation characterises the efforts of government, business, labour and communities.

The constitution provides a sufficient number of mechanisms for co-operative governance with the national and local spheres of government. In this regard, the full impact of the shared political philosophy, development strategy and shared values; in place for the first time in ten years of democracy cannot be underestimated. This will allow for new synergies, shared expertise and combined delivery strategies between our spheres of government.

In the case of the local sphere of government, it is our intention to create workable arrangements that give practical meaning to joint planning through the IDP processes and streamlining of responsibilities, financing streams and joint priority setting in the important areas of spatial planning, housing, infrastructure development, local economic development, poverty alleviation and service delivery. The relations with the local sphere of government can only succeed if they are characterised by mutual respect and a clarified set of administrative and governance relations. To give effect to this credo and simultaneously to address an immediate need the provincial sphere will join hands with the local sphere in completing all tasks related to the urban renewal strategy and rural development strategy already laid before us by the President.

Our growth and development strategy relies heavily on the notion that these are combined tasks of both government and non-government sectors. The role of social partners, in particular business, labour and civil society is equal to that of government. It is our intention to build on and give practical meaning to combining the strategies and priorities of the main social partners, as contained in the outcomes of the Growth and development Summit.

To give meaning to these relationships and to fulfil our own responsibilities in these partnerships we will set about the preparation of the provincial government with a view to its modernisation and improved productivity.

The challenge that we must set ourselves is to streamline the operations of government, integrate the work of the departments and introduce new technologies in the workings of government departments.

Mr Speaker, allow me to intersperse our approach with some tried and tested ideas, perhaps old fashioned, but indispensable to the effective functioning of government. This requires recruiting young and dynamic managers from all racial groups, engendering a culture of effective and productive work amongst all ranks of the civil service. Needless to say, any hint of corruption will be dealt with both rapidly and decisively.

A well-oiled machinery of government is one matter, connectivity with the electorate is another. It is our view that effective government is one that is in touch with the communities and sectors it serves, talks to its constituencies and is continually improving accessibility. This " popular governance" will be elevated to an equal level to the other characteristics of governance described above.

Our overarching objective is to transform government into the primary instrument of development, harnessing social partners with the aim of fulfilling our contract with the electorate.

Mr Speaker -

In turning to the mechanics of our growth and development path and the recreation of the whole creative potential of the peoples of the province I must return to the strategies contained in iKapa elihlumayo.

The core components of the iKapa elihlumayo strategy revolve around economic development focussing on microeconomic development, strategic infrastructure development and the spatial development framework. The details of this have been spelt out in the Budget Speech delivered by the former Minister of Finance earlier this year.

The innovation of ikapa elihlumayo is to be found in the combination of economic strategies with notions of building human and social capital.

The growth of the first economy will lead to our primary goal of creating new wealth and more jobs for the work-starved labour market. Over the past two years we have identified, together with business and labour, the key potential growth points in the regional economy and I will not dwell on this subject here. Our strategies for the growth of the second economy are detailed in the microeconomic development priorities contained in ikapa elihlumayo.

Strategic infrastructure development - the reconstruction of our roads and transport networks and public works programmes - and our spatial development framework are essential ingredients for growing the first and second economies and for easing the linkages between residential and industrial areas.

Building human capital speaks to the importance of a long term investment in education and training. The challenge is to improve the quality of schooling and further education aimed at skills development preparing school leavers and graduates for the potential growth sectors in the economy.

Building social capital is premised on the idea that the eradication of social ills such as poverty, crime, drug abuse and alcoholism and the deterioration of personal health from AIDS and TB and the modern diseases of lifestyle and environmental pollution and the strengthening of family cohesion, community development, moral regeneration and recreation is the foundation of building human capital and for economic prosperity. This we counterpose to the now outdated and somewhat linear view that the road to progress lies only in growing the first economy and relying on a "trickle down" to raise the condition of the whole of society.

The holistic strategy of developing our people and solidifying community resilience (social capital) in combination with a well considered economic development path represents a new an innovative approach to our philosophy of making the Cape "A Home for All".

All of this is a break from our past path in this Province when we did not realize our potential, when we did not recognize our power, and may even have used it against ourselves. Continuing our poetic thread is a poem in isiXhosa, ISIPHO NHENE NHENE, A Real Gift, by Sizwe Satyo:

"Sazivikiva viki ngokuzibandeza
Sade saqonda ngokwethu ukuba sithi abazinbandezayo
Umhlaba olilungelo lethu ncakasana
Salubhaqa ke usindiso sesigxwayibekile
Sigxwabiyeke sinjalo sizinikele qabavu poqo"

[ We destroyed ourselves by undermining ourselves
Until we realized ourselves that we were depriving ourselves
In a world that belonged to us in the first place
We realized this fact already battered
Battered as we were we volunteered proudly.]

DELIVERING IN THE FIRST 100-DAYS:

Mister Speaker -

While we have a clear vision of a Home for All in the Western Cape, all of us know that this is not yet a reality. Non-racialism, non-sexism and equality must be painstakingly built. Dignity, equity and prosperity - the promise of iKapa elihlumayo - is an objective and must still fully become a reality. Everything we've said so far in this speech speaks of our commitment and passion to realize this vision and these objectives. We have the mandate, the strategy and the budget to make this happen.

During the imbizos and the election campaign we walked the streets and visited homes and institutions in every part of this province. We listened to our people where they are, as they praised us for our achievements and cried out for relief from those things which continue to make life difficult.

We listened to farmers and farm workers, labour and business, residents and squatters, poor and rich, women and men, old and young, city and platteland. All of them want the better life; want the contract with the people to create work and fight poverty and want to belong in this Home for All.

This is a responsive and caring government. Over the next 100 days citizens throughout this province will receive a clear signal of the care and commitment of this Government. Action to be taken over these 100 days is only a deposit on the better life, a deposit on the contract with the people to create work and to fight poverty, a deposit on the objectives of iKapa elihlumayo, namely: dignity, equity and prosperity. These hundred days will also serve as a tangible signal of our direction over the next five years.

In line with the clear leadership and direction of President Mbeki, we commit to the people twenty measurable actions within a clear time frame of the next one hundred days.

The following are our deposits, in no particular order of priority:

1. We heard the cry of parents struggling to care for their children. In De Doorns farm dwellers and workers told us how they, just like the rest of the rural and urban poor, are struggling to care for their children on low, unreliable and irregular wages -

Our hundred day deposit towards more adequate child care is to go from door to door in the poorest and most remote communities of our Province to start registering the yet unregistered 93 929 children that qualify for the Child Support Grant.

2. Educators, learners and parents expressed their anguish about the overcrowded and under serviced conditions in some of our schools -

Our second hundred day deposit will:

• Electrify six of the remaining twelve schools without power
• Move the Usasazo School from Maitland to Khayelitsha making it unnecessary for 1200 learners to leave home at 05h00 and travel far distances to attend school

3. Crime affects the poorest of the poor more than any other group of citizens, and it was workers, especially in the clothing industry that complained about safety on trains -

Over the next one hundred days we will increase the safety and security of all our people by:

• training 515 new railway police at the Phillipi College
• deploy these police to stations from Khayelitsha to Mitchell Plain and Mutual to Nyanga
• Bambanani volunteers will assist the railway police on a paid basis
• Twelve police stations in gang areas will be upgraded and resourced
• Ten Family and Child Sexual Abuse units will be established at police stations

4. When we went from door to door, people complained about the quality of health care, speaking about long waiting times, often from early morning till closing time. -

• As deposit on a better health system we will improve the supply of medicines, including generics, especially to the problem health centres of Delft, Guguletu, Hanover Park, Khayelitsha, Kraaifontein, Mitchell's Plain, Retreat and Vanguard
• We will also appoint Facility Managers at these centres
• And ensure that waiting times are reduced to more acceptable levels

5. The single greatest call from our people is for work.

Our fifth deposit will address the urgent need for work through our expanded public works program Saamstaan, which will be launched by President Mbeki in August.

• Through Saamstaan 3500 Bambanani volunteers will be employed full time and no longer only over the festive season to keep our communities safe
• Road building projects will use labour intensive methods
• Emerging business will be supported and skills developed

6. The President has set us the clear challenge to grow the second economy in which the majority of our people function.

In this hundred-day deposit we will stimulate and e quip new commercial enterprises through the RED Door [Real Enterprise Development] by:

• Raising an additional R10 million to capitalise the RED Finance Fund
• Selecting and announcing the first 100 beneficiaries of the enterprise incubator project
• Selecting and announcing the first beneficiaries of the Agri-business Fund and integrated Tourism Entrepreneurship Programme

7. In Paarl and in Macassar, as in many areas, the need for housing was raised as a critical concern for family and community life and security

Over the next hundred days we will build homes and communities by:

• Developing a base project map and management strategy, and
• Unblocking four important housing projects including Nomzamo and Imizamo Yethu

8. Communities, sport enthusiasts and young people in places like Saldanah Bay and Langa told of their dreams to overcome poverty and the lack of resources to develop their sporting talents

We will encourage and develop sport over the next hundred days by:

• restructuring and building capacity in the Sports Councils
• New mass-based sport recreation programmes in 4 nodal areas
• Establishing cluster sport leagues in Nyanga / Guguletu, Bonteheuwel and Hanover Park
• Sports facilities will be developed at ten schools in Manenburg; Khayelitsha; Bonteheuwel; Hanover Park and Mitchell's Plain
• Twenty-eight facilities will be built or upgraded in areas such as Gouritzmond, Leeugamka, Koekenaap and George

9. The need for agricultural development and land reform repeatedly came to the fore.

In our ninth deposit we will:

• support the new agreement to export Karoo lamb
• open the Clanwilliam Agricultural School for historically disadvantaged and emerging farmers

10. During our visits around the Province, we found that many, especially poor areas were dirty and unhealthy despite the natural beauty of their setting

In this tenth one-hundred day deposit we will create jobs as we clean our environment in five municipal areas through the Western Cape Clean-up Operation projects, namely Breede Valley, Overstrand, Mossel Bay, Saldanha Bay and Witzenberg.

11. Access to and the safe use of public transport as well as utilization of the business opportunities presented by the taxi industry surfaced strongly during the election campaign

In the next hundred days we will open the Athlone Taxi Office on the Klipfontein Corridor to form an administrative hub, training centre, offices and space for engagement in the increasingly important taxi industry.

12. Our twelfth deposit will target the most vulnerable parts of our society to receive at least basic levels of infrastructure services and to develop affirmative business enterprises by opening and handing over five Consolidated Municipal Infrastructure Programmes or [CMIPs]

13. Our thirteenth deposit is to be fully accessible to all our citizens in the spirit of batho pele and seamless government. Citizens can either walk in, log in or call in:

• We have a walk-in centre at 142 Long St, Cape Town
• I hope that by now we have all logged in to the Cape Gateway website at www.capegateway.gov.za
• And, call in to the help line on 0860 142 142

14. We have held discussions with youth representatives including the South African Youth Commission on the inclusion and representation of our youth. In this hundred day deposit we will accelerate the legislative process to establish the long overdue Western Cape Youth Commission [WCYC].

15. In a meeting with about 1000 SACTU shop stewards earlier this year, a strong call was made on this Government to intervene in the clothing and textile industry to save jobs.

Towards this hundred day deposit we have intervened in the closure of the Novell Factory in Atlantis. This factory will soon reopen under the new ownership of a prominent empowerment company, saving 300 jobs in that industry and that community.

16. Our 16th deposit is to mitigate the effects of this winter's expected flooding disasters, especially in the communities of Brown's Farm, Guguletu, Crossroads, Kosovo, Wallacedene and Doringwacht. Teams will be employed and equipped for first aid, disaster education and to respond and assist as necessary.

17. Our 17th deposit is a response to the escalating crime and drug problem amongst our youth and in poor communities. The impact of drugs such as tuk tuk on communities and families cannot be underestimated. We are pleased to announce that dockets are being prepared and that three drug lords will be arrested within the next one hundred days.

18. As a deposit on our commitment to the outcomes of the Growth and Development Summit we will within the next hundred days submit the necessary legislation to Parliament which will transform the Provincial Development Council into a platform for social dialogue between Government, business, labour and civil society.

19. As our nineteenth deposit we will meet with the Mayors of all the Province's Local Authorities to establish a forum towards improving and developing co-operative government

20. Our twentieth deposit is to increase the number of patients on anti-retroviral treatment to at least 3 000 HIV + people at twenty sites over the next hundred days.

CONCLUSION

Mr Speaker, this speech has sought to hold out to the Province a vision of A Home for All. We do not believe that it exists yet, or that it will be easy to achieve. All we demonstrate is our commitment towards its realization.

What we also table today is the existence of a strategy to achieve our vision. That strategy has currency within this House. It is iKapa elihlumayo - the strategy to grow and share the Cape. Over the medium term it is underpinned by a budget which this House has passed, and which each of my colleagues in Cabinet will speak to in the next few weeks. Our vision is supported by the populace, and our strategy for Growth and Development is a matter of consensus with our Social Partners.

We have sought to emulate the President by speaking in an unequivocally responsive way to the people who mandated us through the last election. Our message to them is: We have heard you. We cannot deliver everything you want immediately, but accept our deposit on the better life, on the contract, and on the goals of IKapa elihlumayo. We will roll out the installments in partnership and co-operation with other spheres of Government and our Social Partners.

We will also gather the greatest wisdom over the next few months from leaders of our society in a series of encounters on how to develop Social Cohesion, how to create Social Solidarity, and how to build the Home for All.

This is an exciting place to be at an exciting time, and I invite all to join hands across our divisions, across our fears, and across our group areas in a massive act of Social Solidarity, so that we can build this Western Cape into the best home for all our people.