Mpumalanga Safety, Security and Liaison MEC Vusi Shongwe and SAPS Provincial Commissioner Thulani Ntobela will tomorrow hand over a Wendy House to the Schoemansdal Police Station near Malelane in Nkomazi Municipality.
The Wendy House will be donated by the department in partnership with Greater Nelspruit Rape Intervention Programme (GRIP), and will be used as a Victim Empowerment Centre to assist victims of crime, especially those who have been involved in domestic violence and sexual abuse.
The department will also donate furniture, microwave, refrigerator, coffee tables and bedding material.
The initiative is part of the department’s effort to assist the victims of crime and to ensure that they are not subjected to any secondary victimization. Nkomazi Municipality is targeted due to high prevalence of gender based violence in that part of the region.
The media is invited to attend the event scheduled as follows:
Date: 4 August 2011
Time: 12h30
Venue: Schoemansdal Police Station
Enquiries:
Joseph Mabuza
Tel: 013 766 4055
Cell: 082 678 1450
