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Dr Crispian (Chippy) Garth Olver is Director-General of
the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. He has previously
worked as Deputy Director-General: Local Government in the Department
of Provincial and Local Government. He was responsible, among others,
for the White Paper, legislative framework and implementation of
the new local government system, as well as for coordinating the
provision of municipal infrastructure, maintaining and regulating
municipal finances at a national level.
He worked in the national Reconstruction and Development Programme
Office from July 1994 until June 1996, where he was in charge of
development planning and local economic development. Previously
he worked for INLOGOV (University of Western Cape) as programme
manager and for CORPLAN (a development NGO based in East London)
as overall director. He has background training as a medical practitioner,
and worked at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital at Mdantsane in the Eastern
Cape. |
