Capacity workshop on naming and renaming in Free State province
The Free State Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation (DSACR) in partnership with the South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC) and the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) will be driving a capacity building and productive awareness campaign in the Free State Province in order to address the transformation of geographical names. This will be envisaged through a one day workshop where all stakeholders will engage on processes to be followed when standardising geographical names.
Procedures on name changes will also be followed in line with the government’s mandate on the transformation processes, public participation and consultation as well as jurisdiction partnership and cooperation on all three spheres of government. This national workshop is aimed at creating awareness of standardisation of geographical names in order to achieve transformation, forging new national identity, social cohesion and nation building.
The workshop will take place as follows:
Date: 20 October 2017
Venue: Indaba Auditorium, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality
Time: 9h00 to 16h00
Delivering her 2017/18 Budget Vote speech, MEC Mathabo Leeto said, “The department will accelerate the naming and renaming of streets, towns and public buildings. To this end we will collaborate with the Department of Cooperative Governance, Traditional Affairs and Human Settlement as well as municipalities. We want to encourage communities to consider the names of our heroes and heroines as and when they name or rename geographical places.”
Your media house is invited to cover this event.
Enquiries:
Tankiso Zola
Director: Communication and IT
Cell: 082 940 2392
Tel: 051 – 410 4742/4786/4735
E-mail: tankiso@sacr.fs.gov.za
