The Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu will address the 20th Anniversary celebrations of the Soul City Institute. The MEC’s address will focus on the impact of health communication in health outcomes.
The media is invited to the event which will be held as follows:
Date: Thursday, 4 December 2014
Time: 09h00 (MEC scheduled to speak at 09h30)
Venue: Eastbank Community Centre, 776 impala and Springbok street, Eastbank (Next to Eastbank clinic).
This trailblazing edutainment series, Soul City, celebrates 20 years of positively impacting social and behavioural change. It has revolutionised television – proving you can change attitudes about HIV, unprotected sex and alcohol abuse while keeping your audience glued to the box.
This multi-award winning series, which debuted on SABC1 in 1994, the longest running prime time drama series in the country, and the flagship television programme for the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (Soul City Institute).
Over the years, the Soul City Institute has succeeded in reaching over 79% of the South African population through a variety of pioneering media and campaign interventions on a wide range of health and development topics.
For more information:
Prince Hamnca, Head of Communications
Cell: 076 744 8126
