As part of the department Women’s Month commemoration programme, Human Settlements Deputy Minister, Zou Kota-Fredericks will deliver a key note address at the Nomkhosi Mini memorial lecture in Port Elizabeth.
Before the lecturer, Deputy Minister Kota-Fredericks, accompanied by Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Pam Tshwete, Eastern Cape MEC for Human Settlements in Eastern Cape, Helen Sauls-August, SANDF Brigadier General, Winnie Bobelo and the Deputy Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Thando Ngcolombo will lead a procession to the graves of the first MK soldiers to be killed by the Apartheid government, including Nomkhosi Mini for a wreath laying ceremony. Nomkhosi “Mary” Mini was shot dead by members of the notorious Vlakplaas head squad during a raid in Maseru on 19 December 1985.
Details are as follows:
Date: 30 August 2014
Venue: Emlotheni Memorial site
Time: 12h00
NB: MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA ARE REQUESTED TO CONVERGE @ THE EMLOTHENI MEMORIAL SITE FROM 12:00 FOR A PROCESSION TO NOMKHOSI’S GRAVE SITE IN PAPENKUIL CEMETERY.
Enquiries:
Xolani Tyilana
Cell: 082 880 5399
Xoliswa Salman
Cell: 084 293 7617
