{"id":1403,"date":"2017-07-06T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2017\/07\/06\/launch-of-departmental-men-s-forum\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:14:00","slug":"launch-of-departmental-men-s-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2017\/07\/06\/launch-of-departmental-men-s-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Departmental Men&#8217;s Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department to launch the Departmental Men&rsquo;s Forum in support of the Provincial Call to Action.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Cape Department of Transport, Safety and Liaison will be launching the Departmental Men&rsquo;s Forum in support of the Provincial Call to Action tomorrow in Kimberley.<\/p>\n<p>The recent spate of brutal attacks on women, children and other vulnerable groups prompted the Provincial Government to have a Provincial Call to Action to address issues concerning violence and abuse in a coordinated and systematic manner.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the call, MEC for Transport, Safety and Liaison Ms Pauline Williams and MEC for Social Development, Father Gift van Staden saw the need to launch a structured Men&rsquo;s Forum called, The Provincial Men&rsquo;s Forum. The mandate of the forum will be, amongst others, to expand the scope and coordination of programmes of already established men&rsquo;s structures and help give guidance to forums yet to be established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department to launch the Departmental Men&rsquo;s Forum in support of the Provincial Call to Action. The Northern Cape Department of Transport, Safety and Liaison will be launching the Departmental Men&rsquo;s Forum in support of the Provincial Call to Action tomorrow in Kimberley. The recent spate of brutal attacks on women, children and other vulnerable groups<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2017\/07\/06\/launch-of-departmental-men-s-forum\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}