The Director General of the Department of Military Veterans, Mr Tsepe Motumi accompanied by Kebby Maphatsoe, the President of the new Military Veterans Umbrella Association will on Sunday, 13 October 2013 brief members of the media on the Military Veterans Health and Wellness Initiative. The programme will run from 15 October until 5 December 2013 in all nine provinces.
The department is tasked with ensuring that military veterans have access to healthcare services, which must be accessed with proper authorisation. Currently more than 4000 military veterans have access to free medical care provided by the South African Military Health Services’ facilities.
The new umbrella association represents military veterans nationally; it comprises of Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans association (MKMVA), Azanian Peoples Military Veterans (APLAMVA), the Azanian People’s National Liberation Army Military Veterans Association, (AZANLAMVA), former TBVC states MVA’s, the Council for military Veterans Organisation, (CMVO) and the South African Cape Corps,( SACC).
Representatives of the veterans are working closely with the department to ensure that they strengthen partnerships with business labour, civil society, and three spheres of government and global military veterans associations in ensuring that the aspiration of military veterans are attained including health and wellness.
The details of the briefing are as follows:
Date: Sunday, 13 October 2013
Time: 11h00
Venue: GCIS media briefing room, Tshedimosetso House, 1035 Francis Baard Street, Corner Festival Street, Hatfield, Pretoria.
NB: There will be a video link to Imbizo Media Centre in Parliament, Cape Town
RSVPs: Lebogang Mothapa 073 882 4522 / mediadmv@gmail.com
Enquiries:
Mbulelo Musi
Cell: 071 481 0400 / 082 338 3890
E-mail: mbulelo.musi@dmv.gov.za
Lebogang Mothapa
Cell: 073 882 4522
E-mail: mediadmv@gmail.com
