{"id":1339,"date":"2012-09-14T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T09:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/09\/14\/mec-shushu-lanched-arbor-week-by-establishing-food-gardens-for-the-impoverished-platfontein-community\/"},"modified":"2012-09-14T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T09:21:56","slug":"mec-shushu-lanched-arbor-week-by-establishing-food-gardens-for-the-impoverished-platfontein-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2012\/09\/14\/mec-shushu-lanched-arbor-week-by-establishing-food-gardens-for-the-impoverished-platfontein-community\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC SHUSHU LANCHED ARBOR WEEK BY ESTABLISHING FOOD GARDENS FOR THE IMPOVERISHED PLATFONTEIN COMMUNITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/Arbor-day-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Arbor day 2\" width=\"447\" height=\"336\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/Arbor-day-2.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/Arbor-day-2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><br style=\"clear: left;\" \/>The MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Mr. Norman Shushu established food gardens and planted trees for the impoverished Platfontein community outside Kimberley.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The establishedment of food gardens and tree plantation was part of celebrating National Arbor Week starting from the 1st to the 7th of September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The National Arbor week celebration was held in Galeshewe Stadium under the theme \u201cOur Forests \u2013 Our Future\u201d. MEC Shushu said by planting food gardens and trees is part of government\u2018s efforts to encourage every community to be a community of doers by rolling up their sleeves and start to plant. The MEC highlighted global warming as the greatest challenge to mankind and to the sector. He added that for projects to be successful, departmental experts in agriculture will assist the community.<\/p>\n<p>Arbor Week seeks to highlight the opportunities for sustainable environment, social and economic development, encourage community participation, poverty alleviation and job creation in forestry thereby contributing towards growth, development and better life for all. Whilst greening refers to an integrated approach to the planting, care and management of all vegetation in urban and rural areas, and to secure multiple benefits for various communities. It further intends to;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raise awareness of South African\u2019s urban and rural greening initiatives,<\/li>\n<li>Promote a better understanding of trees, particularly indigenous trees and fruit trees,<\/li>\n<li>Highlight the important role trees play in sustainable development and livelihoods of people and their environment.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage communities to participate in various greening activities within their own surroundings<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0To promote the role of fruit trees in household food security when integrated with other programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trees were also planted within the precinct of Galeshewe stadium in commemoration of fallen heroes and community builders in the area. About 1000 fruit and ornamental trees were planted and two hundred household food gardens in Platfontein. The planting of fruit and ornamental trees is also ongoing as part of the\u00a0 week long Arbor Celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was also used as a platform to award the best City Awards which was won by the Khara hais Municipality in the Northern Cape while Johannesburg scooped the best metropolitan award. Both municipalities each won a cheque of R 300 000.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held in partnership with the National Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, The Provincial Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Total SA and the Sol Plaatjie Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Issued by: Directorate Communication Services \u2013 Department of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development<br \/>Enquiries: Phemelo Manankong \u2013External Communications Officer \u00a0<br \/>Tel:\u00a0 053 839 7881<br \/>Cell: 071 889 5112 \u00a0<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:pmanankong@ncpg.gov.za\">pmanankong@ncpg.gov.za<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrinc.gov.za\/\">www.agrinc.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT','sans-serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Mr. Norman Shushu established food gardens and planted trees for the impoverished Platfontein community outside Kimberley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}