Text of letter from Truman Prince, Mayor of Beaufort West Municipality to Raymond Cele, CETA Board Chairperson, 3 December 2015
MUNISIPALITEIT - MUNICIPALITY - UMASIPALA-WASE BEAUFORT-WES/BEAUFORT WEST/BHOBHOFOLO
Board Chairperson
Mr. Raymond Cele
563 Old Pretoria Main Road, Unit 5 Midrand Business Park, MIDRAND
1685
Dear Sir
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR YOU TO MEET WITH MR MAWONGA FURMEN ON ISSUES OF CONCERN REGARDING THE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE TEST CENTRE
We are mandating Mr. Mawonga Furmen to highlight the following issues that are of concern to us as a municipality:
The fact that the CETA and SSETA have resorted to use their procurement processes in the sourcing of service providers for the construction of the Skills Development and Trade Test Centre.
The decision is subjecting us to believing that we are not capable and competent enough to manage the procurement processes of this magnitude, where as we have had to manage even much bigger processes as this one.
We are also sceptical that our construction companies will not be in a position to benefit from this project, as the sourcing of service providers from your end will attract more tenderers from the Gauteng Province and thus disadvantage our people.
We would want to see our subcontractors also benefit from this project.
The municipality also want to manage this process, so as for us to be able to include clauses in our bids for companies to have a CSI commitment that will benefit a few households that have dilapidated toilets.
We are an ANG led municipality, we are therefore in need of financial injection for our 2016 Local Government Election .campaign and therefore will also want to see construction companies sympathetic and having a relationship with the ANC to benefit, in order for these companies to inject funds in our election campaign process.
We are seeing this project as a mechanism that will help us regain lost ground to the opposition towards our campaigns, we therefore would want to see our own construction companies constructing this centre, construction companies who would create local jobs and have the money revolve around our people.
We do believe that as cadres and activists yourselves, you would understand why we would want to manage the procurement processes ourselves, obviously with your people also being involved in bid adjudication processes, to safeguard the both Seta's interests.
We are as a municipality pleading for your understanding in this regard and see the importance of allowing us to manage the procurement processes, using our supply chain processes.
As cadres of the movement and wanting to see the ANC govern this municipality once more, we wish to request that you grant us the opportunity to also use this project as a campaign tool,as it is important to us.
The project, is as important to us, both in terms of having to revolution arise the skills development and empowerment of our people and as an entity that will secure us another resounding victory, during the 2016 Local Government Elections.
In advance for your cooperation and understanding
Thanking you in advance for your cc
Mayor: Truman Prince
BEAUFORT WEST MUNICIPALITY
