Nombulelo Mabandla

"For I cannot lose sight of the reality that your presence here , represent the aspiration of millions of our people across the length and breadth of our province with their hope and trust on us as elected leaders to champion their cause."

"Therefore our MuniMec as a working session on matters relating to human settlement should engage on finding innovative measures of enhancing service delivery and eradication of poverty amongst our communities."

"For we are gathered within these four wall with the voice of reason, the voice of providing our community with decent settlement devoid of racial and class patterns, in fact the voice of humanity."

"We are to settle our people so that they experience decent housing as against the past human settlements patterns where the question of race, class and gender was the order of the day."

"It provides for mechanisms and procedures to facilitate the settlements of intergovernmental disputes and it also provides for matters connected there with."

"integration relates to a multi-sectoral approach that is coordinated with all different sectors operating in concert so that results in one area are re-enforced by achievements in another"

"It is within our shoulders as leaders gathered here that the goals we have set ourselves as outlined in our manifesto will be apprehended if we could set aside our differences and work in unity as partners within our scope of mandates."

"Pursuant to our desire for functional partnership, it is my humble appeal to our municipalities, who are often the coal face of service delivery, to effect sound management systems over housing subsidies management."