Social Development MEC, Sisi Ntombela will next week 3 to 7 August kick-start the department’s ‘Operation Hlasela’.
This follows the premier’s call for all departments to fight poverty and unemployment in our communities. The MEC, the social protection and development cluster and Mafube municipality officials will lead Operation Hlasela supported by South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), South African Police Service (SAPS), Department of Home Affairs, social workers and community development workers.
The visit is aimed at amongst others, helping out with grant, identity (ID) and birth certificate applications, visiting institutions funded by the department and identifying impoverished households with a view of effecting immediate as well as long term interventions.
Programme is as follows:
Date: 3 August 2009
Venue: Frankfort Town Hall
Time: 08h00
Venue: Cornelia, Ntswanatsatsi Ekukhanyeni Community Hall
Time: 10h00 to 15h00
Date: 4 August 2009
Venue: Tweeling, Mafahlaneng Community Hall
Time 08h00-17H00
Date: 5 August 2009
Venue: Frankfort
Time: 08h00-19H00
Date: 6 August 2009
Venue: Frankfort Villiers
Time: 08h00-19H00
Date: 7 August 2009
Venue: Frankfort Town Hall
Time: 09h00-13h00
For any media enquiries contact:
Ipeleng Morake
Cell: 071 850 8630
Email: ipelengm@socdev.fs.gov.za
Issued by: Department Social Development, Free State Provincial Government
31 July 2009
