Inside RAL
Roads Agency Limpopo Chief Executive Gabriel Maluleke addressing his team at the Agency’s recent Strategic Planning Session assured them that he has confidence in their ability to turnaround RAL into a highly successful and reputable organisation.
STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION
AIMS TO ENHANCE THE REPUTATION OF RAL
n its continued effort to improve road infrastructure in Limpopo Province, Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL) held a two-day Strategic Planning Session recently to engage its stakeholders and employees, on dissecting the five-year strategic strategy, which expired in 2019, and to further project the new five-year plan (2019-2024) for relevance, taking into account the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Addressing the Strategic Planning Session, RAL Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gabriel Maluleke said he has confidence in his team’s ability, in collaboration with other stakeholders, to turnaround RAL into a highly successful and reputable organisation. In unpacking what RAL entails to the delegates, Mr Maluleke provided context of where RAL comes from, where RAL is now and where he would like to see RAL in the near future by providing strategic inputs to mining, tourism, agriculture, and related socio-economic development initiatives. The preview was given to allow delegates to review and validate the
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five-year strategy as well as its potential underpinning problems and solutions. Mr Maluleke noted that RAL was not working in silos, as such the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism (LEDET), together with its agency the Limpopo Tourism Agency (LTA), was among the institutions invited in 2019 to give an overview on the strategic plan. “The purpose of the collaboration was for them to understand the environment within which RAL operates as a service provider in delivering infrastructure within the province,” said Mr Maluleke. Mr Maluleke further said the RAL strategy needed to consider the requirements of tourism within the province and understand the impact of road infrastructure on tourism in the province. “With regards to the mining industry areas where
