The Northern Cape Department of Transport, Safety and Liaison will host various projects in support of Mandela Day and observing the clarion call of our beloved late former President Nelson Mandela by serving its 67minutes.
Taking it further than 67 minutes, one of our Directorates will adopt the kindness of the day and make it a 365 Days Mandela Day and our MEC, honourable Ms Martha Bartlett will spend the day with the elderly in De Aar.
As it has become custom in South Africa and across the world, 18 July is observed as Mandela Day, in honour of our beloved late President Nelson Mandela, where we are requested to spend 67minutes in doing good in our communities and serving others.
This year, President Jacob Zuma, in his State of the Nation Address in June this year, announced that Mandela Day would be celebrated by working to clean up the South Africa. The theme for this year is, “Take action, inspire change and make everyday a Mandela day.”
MEC Bartlett will be in De Aar handing out blankets, tea and soup to the frail and elderly and help brighten up the town while the rest of the officials in the Department across the Province will be unfolding their various programmes across the Northern Cape, reaching even the small towns in the Province.
Some of our officials in the Department will form part of the stakeholders that will be hosting the Senior Citizens of Ritchie at the Maranatha Pentecostal Church serving them with a warm meal, blankets and clothing amongst other items.
Our Transport Operations Programme will start a 365 Days Mandela Day programme, where they will adopt the Phutanang Old Age Activity Centre in Mataleng, Barkly West. Tomorrow, officials will visit the centre and spend the day with about 30 elderly people as well as to clean the facility. Officials will also hand out blankets to the elderly and prepare a Northern Cape favourite, potjiekos, for them. In the coming months they will still assist the centre with groceries, cleaning material as well as to assist with the electricity connection.
Some of our other projects as a Department will include cleaning and painting identified houses and facilities, a visit to Rooiwal near the Namibia border to distribute donated clothes to identified household, Cleaning of Jan Kempdorp Hospital, spending the day and helping the elderly in Santa Santa in Kimberley and donating disposed assets and furniture to a Non-Profit Organisation in Britstown.
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Keitumetse Moticoe
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