CONSTITUENCY UPDATE 04/01/2018
By Hon Temba Mliswa | Dear Nortonians,
Today was a great way to both end the past year and start a new one. PICTURES:
Maintaining the same operational tempo shall be my vision, actioning the dreams that I have for the town as we seek to be the Dubai of Zimbabwe.
*CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN*
In line with a Presidential declaration premised on the vision 2030 for a middle income country, we had a clean-up campaign that ended at Katanga Shopping Center.
It was graced by the Minister for Mashonaland West Province Hon Mary Chikoka, various Councilors, security personnel and local council officials.
This apolitical event was commendably attended for something recently introduced and the response from the affected areas was also great. Keeping our communities and markets clean is more than a sanitary issue but also speaks to growing ownership and responsibility of our different national spaces. This will ultimately feed into a nation that is psyched to be responsible for greater issues of national development.
Let’s continue maintaining the same clean standards going forward and transform Norton. The Norton Town Council (NTC) will manage to carry out its task if we also keep up our end of the social responsibility bargain.
*GRADE 7 LUNCHEON*
As a community our 2018 Grade 7 pupils managed to perform very well and Knowe Primary topped the entire country with 34 pupils with 5 units whilst the town had 64 of the 88 pupils with 5 units in the whole Province.
As a way of appreciating this great feat I organised a luncheon for the involved personnel, that is the pupils, their parents, teachers and related officials at Pakare Paye Arts Centre.
During the event I handed over various gifts that testify to the deep respect and love that we have for the commendable efforts and results that they showed in passing their Primary education.
Present were the Minister of State for Mashonaland West Mary Chikoka, Senator Chinake, Norton Town Council Secretary Muhomba, Dispol Chingozha, various Chiefs, political players from different parties, government officials and the business community.
This great result by the pupils sets the bar very high for the succeeding generation but is very much in line with the vision and ambitions that I have for an educationally sound town.
Let’s continue supporting our educational institutions by playing our roles as parents and we will continue achieving the same feats.
*POSTPONEMENT OF CONCERT*
It’s unfortunate that we have had to postpone the year-ending concert that was set for Koshens grounds this Saturday.
This has been necessitated by the forecasted rains which are very welcome in this farming period. We have rescheduled the event to a date to be advised later.
Regards.
*Hon Temba P. Mliswa (MP)*
*PICTURE INDEX*
1) Minister of State for Mashonaland West Mary Mliswa Chikoka racking up dirty during the clean-up campaign behind Katanga Shopping Centre today. This great initiative is symbolic of the need for us to be responsible for our town and attendant spaces up to national level.
2) Behind the Katanga bottle stores. We went around conscientising people about the need to maintain clean working environments as that is also vital health-wise.
3) Closing the campaign at OK. It’s imperative that we embrace these initiatives with open minds as they go beyond the political to the core of our humanity as a society, whether we are reckless and uncaring or responsible.
4) Part of the high table during the Grade 7’s Luncheon at Pakare Paye. Supporting the education sector is one sure way of securing a better future for the town.
5) Senator Chinake and Norton Town Secretary Muhomba were present and both addressed the large gathering.
6) Some of the pupils who received prizes of appreciation enjoying their food.
7) With Mashonaland West Minister Mary Chikoka handing over a prize to Courtney Manzini.