The Public Enterprises Minister, Malusi Gigaba, and Deputy Minister, Bulelani Magwanishe, will participate in several Mandela Day community outreach activities in Witbank (Mpumalanga) and De Aar (Northern Cape) respectively. There will be another event outside Pretoria in Saulsville where the Director-General, Tshediso Matona, will lead other officials to make a difference at a children’s safety home.
The Department is heeding the call to celebrate former President Nelson Mandela’s birthday by dedicating 67 minutes to community work, thereby making a difference to the less fortune. Minister Gigaba will kickstart his 67 minutes with a visit to Witbank Hospital, then change into his overalls and paint classrooms at Mmagobana Primary School in Thushanang township. There will also an official hand-over of a newly built house to a destitute family.
Minister Gigaba and his delegates will end his visit at eMalahleni with a visit to Sizuzile Primary school, where he, amongst other activities, will get their hands dirty by fixing run-down classrooms.
Deputy Minister Magwanishe will be in De Aar, where Transnet and community volunteers will be on hand to rehabilitate a derelict old building. Deputy Minister will paint, plaster and put new ceiling to ensure that the building is suitable for human habitation. The building will then be handed over to the community of De Aar, where destitute and homeless children can claim their home of safety.
In a effort to ensure that all Department of Public Enterprises officials also pay homage, Director General Tshediso Matona will spend their 67 minutes by providing support to the Leamogetswe Safety Home in Saulsville near Attridgeville. Matona and his officials will donate food, clothes and study material to the home.
The Department of Public Enterprises would like to invite the media to the events as follows:
1) Witbank, Mpumalanga with Minister Malusi Gigaba and Eskom
Time/Venue/Activities: All day
Witbank programme
2) De Aar, Northern Cape with Deputy Minister Bulelani Magwanishe
Time/Venue/Activities: All day
De Aar programme
3) Saulsville, Pretoria, Gauteng with Director-General Tshediso Matona
Venue: Leamogetswe Safety Home
Time: 10h00-13h00
Saulsville programme
For RSVPs, kindly confirm with Sizwe Hlatshwayo on sizwe.hlatshwayo@dpe.gov.za / or 082 363 8885
For media enquiries contact:
Mayihlome Tshwete
Cell: 072 869 2477 or
Mr Richard Mantu
Cell: 072 488 1520
