The Deputy Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform Mr Thulas Nxesi cordially invites members of the media to a briefing to be held at Mnambithi Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal on 8 March 2011.
The media briefing will focus on how the department intends to provide social relief to the affected rural communities falling within the rural areas declared under the National Disaster Declaration of 21 January 2011 pronounced by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. After the briefing the Deputy Minister will help in distributing households’ goods at Matiwane village.
The department will spend more than R27 million to help communities affected by the recent floods. The project will cover indigent households, the unemployed, child-headed homes, pensioners and disabled people. The project is going to provide 800 emergency housing to disaster-stricken communities. Households will be given 800 lightning conductors, 800 solar lights, 800 solar radios and 800 oil lamps. The campaign of helping the affected families will also be rolled over to other seven affected provinces in the next eight weeks.
The briefing will be under the following details:
Date: 8 March 2011
Venue: Mnambithi Local Municipality offices, KwaZulu-Natal
Time: 10h00
Accreditation: Journalists who will be attending the media briefing will be required to provide their press cards for their media organisation or any form of Identity.
RSVP:
Sehloho Mphati
Tel: 012 312 8112
Cell: 083 977 4040
Tshepo Diale
Tel: 012 312 8532
Cell: 071 850 1751
