DESTEA beefs up its communications machinery as it gears towards sustainable economic development
The Free State Department of Economic, Small Business Development, Tourism & Environmental Affairs (DESTEA) wishes to inform members of the Fourth Estate that, including all internal and external stakeholders that as of June 10, 2022, approval has been granted for Mr. Mojalefa Mphapang to be transferred from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD). Mr Mphapang joins the team of hardworking communicators as of June 01, 2022. He will serve the Department as Deputy Director: Strategic Communication.
As the Free State Provincial Government intensifies its efforts to communicate the good work delivered daily through various efforts, the Department of Economic, Small Business, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (DESTEA) also has a mandate to upscale Communications on key priorities and programmes to accelerate the pedal of service delivery. It is for this reason that Communications is an important tool of service delivery as it forges partnerships in highlights of the 2019—2024 electoral mandate.
Mr. Mphapang has extensive experience as a communicator in the Public Service. He served as a Communications Officer in the Free State Department of Health from 2004 until 2008. He was then appointed as an Assistant Director for Communications Services at the Free State Provincial Treasury, and worked in that position from 2008 until 2013. He later moved to the Northern Cape Provincial Treasury where he served as the Head of Communications for the period of three years, 2013 until 2015. In 2015, he made his return to the Free State as Communications Manager in the Department Agriculture and Rural Development and Rural Development.
Through its Communications unit, the DESTEA can reinforce the concept of a caring Government that listens to the people by addressing what needs to be communicated to whom, when, how and for what reasons.
MEC Makalo Mohale indicated said: “I wish to welcome Mr. Mphapang to this Department. His qualifications, experience, insight and capabilities in driving the Communications functions within different compartments of Government Communications and how the system operates will bring a vibe to enhance communication activities in the Department.
We expect him together with Communication team to effectively continue communicating the work of the Department as we undertake the journey of economic reconstruction, recovery as well as rebuilding the Free State we want.”
Issued by the Communications Unit. Free State Department of Economic, Small Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs.
Source: Government of South Africa