Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has conducted a total of 15 Siyahlola Presidential Monitoring Programme visits to various communities since 2011.
In the 2011/12 financial year, President Zuma visited the communities of Vhembe, Lebowakgomo, Mthatha and Maluti-A-Phofung.
In the 2012/13 financial year, he visited the Ngobi village in the North West as well as Soweto, uMzimkhulu, Sweetwater in Gauteng, Nelspruit in Mpumalanga and Khayelitsha in the Western Cape.
In the 2013/14 financial year, the President visited the community of Eldorado Park in Gauteng, Muyexe village in Limpopo and Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.
In the 2014/15 financial year, he visited Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape and Giyani in Limpopo as part of the Siyahlola Presidential Monitoring Programme.
The President has also visited many more other communities to launch various infrastructure projects to provide essential services to citizens.
Siyahlola provides an opportunity for the President to assess progress in governance and service delivery around the country.
After each visit to a community, the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency -- working together with relevant departments at national, provincial and local level -- meets on a quarterly basis to monitor the implementation of commitments made during visits and also ensure that matters raised by communities are attended to. – SAnews.gov.za
