8 February 2006
In a first for the Western Cape MEC Jacobs will launch the Social Incubator
Programme - a strategy aimed at empowering and engaging learners after school
hours as a departmental contribution to the Provincial Social Capital
strategy.
The Social Incubator Programme will see the Department of Cultural Affairs
and Sport deploy resources and personnel to provide a wide range of arts,
culture, sport and recreation activities after school hours and help reduce the
dangers and social-ills confronting learners and youth, due large to the lack
of organised activities. The initial implementation phase will cost the
Department approximately R1 million at identified nodal areas. The areas to
benefit from this groundbreaking intervention include schools in Khayelitsha,
Mitchell's Plain and Beaufort West.
An exhibition of all planned cultural, sport and recreation activities will
be showcased at the launch as stated hereunder:
Venue: OR Tambo Hall (Mew Way) Khayelitsha
Date: Thursday, 9 February 2006
Time: 13h00
Enquiries:
Mandla Yeki
Media Liaison Officer
Tel: (021) 483 9804
Cell: 082 5533 477
E-mail: myeki@pgwc.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Western Cape Provincial
Government
8 February 2006
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government (http://www.capegateway.gov.za)
