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Miss Pro Tour 2006 - Auto Supreme Auto Supreme, TATA and Daihatsu in conjunction with SA Classic Pageants are bringing you Miss Pro Tour 2006. The pageant will take place on 9 and 10 December at the Vaal River Boating Club. The preliminary round will take place on 15 November at Auto Supreme Klerksdorp where 15 finalists out of each category will be chosen The categories are 13 -15 years and 16 years and up. Each finalist will receive a sportbag, cap, t-shirt and swimsuits. Scouts of national modeling agencies will also be present on the day of the crowning. The winners will walk away with cash prizes as well as portfolios, cosmetics, jewelry, hair products to name but a few. Entry fee for the preliminary round is R100.00 and the entry form can be found on page 7 in this edition of the Yourcity. Completed entry forms can be dropped off at Yourcity, corner of Smit and Platan or Auto Supreme, across Mc Donald's. All contestants must be at Auto Supreme on 15 November at 10h00. Dress code is mini shirt with casual top and no interviews only self introductions. With so much at stake what are you waiting for? Enter today. The SA Wakeboard Pro Tour is also taking place during the weekend and some of the highlights include a vintage motor bike show, boat show, live music and entertainment as well as fun activities to keep the kids busy. Entrance to the event is only R40.00 per adult and R20.00 per child. With so much fun and activities can you really afford to miss this great weekend? Chaos in 2010 transport fund disbursement Several major municipalities that will be important centres during the 2010 Soccer World Cup have not signed agreements so far with the transport department to spend the money available to them for developing a public transport system to accommodate the tournament fans. Mps recently heard that Ekurhuleni metro should have been allocated R27.7 million, but no money had been transferred because a memorandum of understanding had still not been completed, 18 months after the public transport and systems fund was created. Nothing has been transferred to the Sol Plaatje local authority for the same reason and nothing has gone to Potchefstroom or the city of Matlosana (Klerksdorp). Cities that have received money from the fund include Nelson Mandela Bay, Mangaung, Johannesburg, Tshwane, West Rand, eThekwini, Polokwane, Mbombela, Stellenbosch and Cape Town. Skhumbuzo Macozoma, the chief director in the transport department, told the select committee on finance that a monitoring and evaluation team had found serious capacity challenges at a local level and a general lack of understanding of the fund's spending and reporting requirements, "even with the initial process that we ran". Other challenges holding up the development of public transport infrastructure included a cumbersome procurement process and increasing demand in the civil and construction industries. "They are likely to increase costs and choke up these industries as all cities earnestly start with implementation programmes," Macozoma said. The department was responding to these challenges by trying to get memorandums of understanding signed. "We need to ensure that there is compliance and that people are held responsible for the money allocated to them," MPs were told. They also heard the department was about to appoint a team of project and programme managers to give technical support to the municipalities. "This is increasingly necessary in the face of the capacity challenges we have identified," said Macozoma. The department was also hoping to expand the role of provinces in supporting municipalities. The department emphasises that the fund, which totals R3.74 billion spread over four years, must be spent on public transport, not on normal road maintenance or infrastructure. It must satisfy long-term requirements after the World Cup is over. It must be practical and implemented ahead of 2010. |
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