{"id":1561,"date":"2020-10-01T07:33:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/10\/01\/rabies-awareness-drive\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T07:33:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:33:40","slug":"rabies-awareness-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2020\/10\/01\/rabies-awareness-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"RABIES AWARENESS DRIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>30 October 2020<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The MEC for Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development, Ms. Mase Manopole, will launch the Rabies Awareness Drive in Galeshewe, Kimberley on Thursday, 1st of October 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">With this year\u2019s theme; \u201cEnd Rabies: Collaborate, vaccinate\u201d, there is general call upon all stakeholders to join hands and collaborate in their efforts to eliminate the dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 (\u201cZero-by-30\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The theme is a reminder that we have 10 years to end human deaths from dog rabies and that we can raise awareness at the global level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The awareness campaign will kick off on Wednesday, 30th of September 2020, at the Galeshewe Circle, with the distribution of flyers to create awareness to the community about Rabies disease and its management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">On October 1, the MEC will launch the Rabies Awareness Drive at the Galeshewe Circle at 9h00.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The event will be preceded by the MEC\u2019s visit to Kimberley SPCA, Kimberley Veterinary Clinic, Vets 4 All and the Belgravia Veterinary Clinic from 8h00 to donate rabies vaccines, in order for the Vets to offer free rabies vaccination to the clients who bring in their pets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The Rabies Awareness Drive will be wrapped up on the 9th October 2020, were a Rabies vaccination of pets will take place at the Mayibuye Center starting from 8h00.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Members of the media are invited to attend and cover the activities as per the details below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Phase One (Donation of vaccine)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Date: 1 October 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Time: 08:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Venue: SPCA, Kimberley<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><br \/><strong>Phase Two (The Launch)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Date: 1 October 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Time: 09:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Venue: Galeshewe Circle, next to Kimberley Pick and Pay<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">For media queries contact\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Mr Zandisile Luphahla<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media Liaison Officer and Spokesperson to the MEC<\/p>\n<p>Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development. Northern Cape<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Mobile: 083 391 5388<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: zluphahla@ncpg.gov.za \/ luphahlaz@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 October 2020 The MEC for Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development, Ms. Mase Manopole, will launch the Rabies Awareness Drive in Galeshewe, Kimberley on Thursday, 1st of October 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","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=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}