{"id":1742,"date":"2019-02-13T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.website.ecdhs.gov.za\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:07:21","slug":"govan-mbeki-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/2019\/02\/13\/govan-mbeki-awards-2018\/15\/23\/","title":{"rendered":"Govan Mbeki Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.15&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.15&#8243;][et_pb_gallery posts_number=&#8221;6&#8243; show_title_and_caption=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.15&#8243; gallery_ids=&#8221;2029,2030,2031,2032,2033,2034&#8243;][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.15&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.15&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.15&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>EC HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROJECTS RECEIVE ACCOLADES AT TOP NATIONAL AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>East London \u2013 EC Human Settlements projects scooped top awards at last night\u2019s National Govan Mbeki Awards held for the first time in the province at the East London ICC on Friday 30 November 2018.<br \/>The prestigious awards ceremony awarded the Province with the Best Enhanced People\u2019s Housing Project for Lubisi 1000 in Chris Hani District Municipality and the Best Student in a Scholarship Programme Category to Eastern Cape\u2019s Pontsho Pitsi.<br \/>Speaking at the awards ceremony, Minister of Human Settlements, Nomaindiya Mfeketo, said: \u201cThese award ceremonies, convey our acknowledgement and gratitude to everyone in this sector for their hard and good work. It is the recognition of emerging best practices that motivates fellow colleagues and organisations to strive for excellence, ultimately for the benefit of society as a whole and social progress.\u201d<br \/>The Eastern Cape\u2019s Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality also took top spot for Best Metropolitan Award which recognizes those metros that have excelled in their delivery of human settlements.<br \/>The Eastern Cape also received the 1st runner up position in the Best Rural Project Category for Langeni 800 in OR Tambo District Municipality and also Best Non- Subsidy Contractor which went to Wezy Construction. The province was also awarded 2nd runner up positions for the following categories:<br \/>Best Performing Province and Best Integrated Residential Development Project for Molteno Airstrip (Phase2) in Chris Hani.<br \/>The purpose of the Govan Mbeki awards is to promote and inculcate a culture of excellence within the Human Settlement sector in the delivery of quality human Settlements and restore dignity to South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by Ministry of Human Settlements (Eastern Cape)<br \/>Enquiries:<br \/>Phiwokuhle Soga<br \/>076 804 4292<br \/>Facebook: Eastern Cape Human Settlements News Channel<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EC Human Settlements projects receive accolades at top national awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>[gallery link=\"file\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"2029,2030,2031,2032,2033,2034\"]<\/p><p><strong>EC HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROJECTS RECEIVE ACCOLADES AT TOP NATIONAL AWARDS<\/strong><\/p><p>East London - EC Human Settlements projects scooped top awards at last night's National Govan Mbeki Awards held for the first time in the province at the East London ICC on Friday 30 November 2018.<br \/>The prestigious awards ceremony awarded the Province with the Best Enhanced People\u2019s Housing Project for Lubisi 1000 in Chris Hani District Municipality and the Best Student in a Scholarship Programme Category to Eastern Cape's Pontsho Pitsi.<br \/>Speaking at the awards ceremony, Minister of Human Settlements, Nomaindiya Mfeketo, said: \u201cThese award ceremonies, convey our acknowledgement and gratitude to everyone in this sector for their hard and good work. It is the recognition of emerging best practices that motivates fellow colleagues and organisations to strive for excellence, ultimately for the benefit of society as a whole and social progress.\u201d<br \/>The Eastern Cape\u2019s Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality also took top spot for Best Metropolitan Award which recognizes those metros that have excelled in their delivery of human settlements.<br \/>The Eastern Cape also received the 1st runner up position in the Best Rural Project Category for Langeni 800 in OR Tambo District Municipality and also Best Non- Subsidy Contractor which went to Wezy Construction. The province was also awarded 2nd runner up positions for the following categories:<br \/>Best Performing Province and Best Integrated Residential Development Project for Molteno Airstrip (Phase2) in Chris Hani.<br \/>The purpose of the Govan Mbeki awards is to promote and inculcate a culture of excellence within the Human Settlement sector in the delivery of quality human Settlements and restore dignity to South Africans.<\/p><p>Issued by Ministry of Human Settlements (Eastern Cape)<br \/>Enquiries:<br \/>Phiwokuhle Soga<br \/>076 804 4292<br \/>Facebook: Eastern Cape Human Settlements News Channel<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}