President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for municipal officials to take a leaf from his streetwise ministers amid the country's energy transition and deliver top quality services.
Ramaphosa was the keynote speaker at the Municipal Just Energy Transition Conference in Johannesburg on Monday.
He took a hard line against municipalities, warning that mediocrity was no longer an option.
Municipalities will need to adopt best practice when it comes to the design and implementation of programmes and projects. By best practice I mean we must do the best of the best. The days of mediocrity, the days of doing things just because we have to do them and end up with sub-optimum results are over. They must be over for us as a nation.
Our people expect the best we can do for them because they are the best themselves inherently, so therefore it is important as we traverse this path that we must do the best. Relying on best practice is what we should have a clearer focus on. I've appointed streetwise ministers. Their eyes are wide open. Let's take a leaf from their book and do the very best, he said.
