The Northern Cape Department of Transport, Safety and Liaison joined South Africans and the world as celebrations of 67minutes unfolded on Mandela Day.
The 18th of July is observed as Mandela Day, in honour of our beloved late President Nelson Mandela, where we are requested to spend 67minutes in doing good in our communities and serving others.
Officials spent their 67minutes of doing good working across the Province and assisting our local communities: painting, cleaning, serving meals, handing out clothes and food.
MEC Ms Martha Bartlett spent her 67minutes of service spending some time with the elderly in De Aar, handing out blankets, food, attending a Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture and painting.
More programmes unfolded across the Province with officials unfolding various projects in their respective communities.
Our Transport Operations Directorate started a 365 Days Mandela Day programme, where they adopted the Phutanang Old Age Activity Centre in Mataleng, Barkly West. They spent the day with more than 30 elderly people, cleaned the facility, gave the elderly blankets and prepared for them a Northern Cape favourite meal for them, potjiekos. In the coming months they will still assist the centre with groceries, cleaning material as well as to assist with the electricity connection.
Some of our other projects as a department included cleaning and painting identified houses and facilities, a visit to Rooiwal near the Namibia border to distributed donated clothes to identified household, cleaned the Jan Kempdorp Hospital, and donated disposed assets and furniture to a Non-Profit Organisation in Britstown.
Our Corporate Service Directorate served soup at the soup kitchen they established last year at Promised Land in Kimberley; handed out clothes, donated clothing to needy families and food packages.
Our regional office in John Taolo Gaetsewe District revamped the Wrenchville Clinic playground where children play, cleaned the facility, handed out clothes and treats to the children.
Our Social Crime Prevention Directorate partnered with the local community and structures to host 50 elderly people for lunch, gave them soup packages and blankets.
The Directorate’s Director, Catherine Khwezi Jonkers led the project that reached out to our future leaders at the Leekrans Creche.
“We donated a computer, clothes, blankets and toys to the Leekrans Crèche, an effort done in conjunction with our regional office,” Jonkers explained about their efforts at the crèche where they spent the day with the children and had various activities such as painting.
Meanwhile, Colesberg received a clean sweep and a fresh coat of paint from a team made up of our regional office officials and the local EPWP Safety Volunteers where they cleaned the local clinic and painted the local Early Childhood Development Centre.
Innovative ways of honouring the late icon also saw our Kagisho Safety Volunteers in Kimberley host the community for a movie session where they honoured the life of Tata Madiba.
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