I wish to take this opportunity to welcome you all to this first Provincial Government Lekgotla of 2023 starting today, the 16th of February 2023. We are approaching 30 years of democracy which will be celebrated in the year of 2024. The purpose of the Provincial Lekgotla as we are gathered here, is to plan forward to the coming financial year, but also to look back at the road travelled. The year 2023 presents itself as one of the most historic in our province, because it is effectively the last year before we hold the country’s seventh democratic elections as the Sixth Administration c...