Dr Lawrence has commenced with his work in a Department that carries the onus of our struggle to protect the vulnerable and to respond decisively to the scourge of drugs, crime and gangsterism in the Western Cape. Dr Lawrence, together with Community Safety Minister Leonard Ramatlakane will also ensure a turnaround strategy within the Department to solidify its administrative and financial management. Dr Lawrence has done the re-engineering of the Department of the Premier successfully and there is no doubt that he will be as successful in the Department of Community Safety.
As a consequence of this deployment of Dr Lawrence, I am appointing Ms Virginia Petersen as Acting Director General of the Western Cape. She is a women has shown a great appetite for dirtying her hands in implementing and delivering. She has done so before in transforming the delivery of social security efficiently and honestly, and she will now continue this delivery role for the Province as a whole. She will act until a Director General is appointed, which we anticipate to be before the end of 2007. Her first task is to accompany me to the National Cabinet Lekgotla from 24 to 26 July 2007 in Pretoria.
EBRAHIM RASOOL
PREMIER OF THE WESTERN CAPE
Enquiries:
Shado Twala, Premier's Spokesperson
Tel: 083 640 6771
