4th Kwanda Imbizo to be held in Pefferville, East London - 24 April 2014

The five communities are Lephepane in Limpopo, Tjakastad in Mpumalanga, Kwakwatsi in the Free State, Pefferville in the Eastern Cape and uMthwalume in KwaZulu Natal. So far successful well attended event have been held in Lephapane, Kwakwatsi and Umthwalume, showcasing economic development strides made by the Kwanda communities.

Launched in an innovative community makeover television show as a 13 part series on SABC in 2009, the Kwanda programme has expanded to find ways to intensify social, human, economic and environmental capital development locally. The programme works towards enabling communities to address their own socio-economic challenges through engaging and enlisting various structures more effectively, including government and business.

The key outcome as articulated in the re-invigoration workshops is to ensure that the Kwanda programme is embedded in Developmental Priorities of Government (nationally and provincially), within the National Development Plan (NDP) and Integrated Development Plan’s (IDP’s). To this end  the five Kwanda communities have initiated the “Kwanda Communities Imbizo” to be hosted by the Kwanda Teams at their local communities between March and April 2014. Through these Imbizo’s the communities seek to attract partnerships from various public and private bodies towards their developmental goals.

The objectives of the Imbizo’s are as follows:

• To raise awareness and educate communities on the programmes available from the Departments of Social Development, Health, Education, Trade and Industry and to hear from the community how these programmes can be improved to make them more responsive to community needs
• To interact with the community on the delivery of social services, convey various health and economic development services aimed at achieving sustainable livelihoods to the communities in partnership with public and private stakeholders
• To engage further on how communities can – work better, look better and feel better
• To create a platform for networking, development and support opportunities

The Imbizo’s will take place as follows:

If you are a resident, social  or commercial partner of Pefferville be at the Pefferville Primary School Sports Grounds, Peffervile, Buffalo City Municipality from 9:00am on Thursday 24 April. Kwanda  is delivered in a partnership between the Department of Social Development, Soul City Institute and Seriti Institute.