Ramaphosa assures Mpumalanga residents that government will address their challenges, including lack of jobs, land ownership and basic services

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has assured the communities of the Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga that all three spheres of government are hard at work to resolve their challenges and issues.

He was speaking during the Presidential Imbizo held in the town on Friday which was preceded by an engagement with business people.

The imbizo is a platform for community members to raise all of their challenges to government officials including ministers, deputy ministers, provincial leaders and local government leaders led by the president.

Major challenges raised by community members at the Presidential Imbizo include the delivery of basic services, challenges in farming, bad road maintenance, land ownership issues, gender based violence and femicide and youth unemployment.

“The issue of job opportunities is one that we are working on day and night and we are doing so at a heightened level as we seek to implement our economic recovery and