The Deputy Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform Candith Mashego-Dlamini will on Friday, 1 June 2018 host a Rural Women Stakeholder’s Engagement Imbizo Session with the rural Women/ Cooperatives of Ingquza Hill Local Municipality at Flagstaff.
The purpose of this session is to plan an integrated support system, capacity building and empowerment of rural women in agriculture through promoting awareness, by identifying training needs, policy awareness, and technologies essential to link rural women entrepreneurs to the market and to the world.
This rural women’s stakeholder’s engagement imbizo session will also provide a platform for local politicians and stakeholders from the villages of Flagstaff and Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape to interact with the department’s leadership and officials on service delivery progress, and challenges.
The Deputy Minister will also handover sewing material to 20 rural women cooperatives from Flagstaff and Port St Johns.
The Rural Women Stakeholder Engagement Session will take place as follows:
Date: Friday, 1 June 2018
Time: 10h00
Venue: Assemblies of God, Esiphaqeni, Flagstaff
For RSVP and further information regarding the event kindly contact the following official:
Ms Thabile Mehlomakhulu
Communication Services
Tel: 043 700 7000
Cell: 073 696 3309
Enquiries:
Ms Linda Page
Chief Director: Strategic Communications
Tel: 012 312 8502
Cell: 083 4604 482/ 071 334 3479
E-mail: linda.page@drdlr.gov.za
