Today marked the 57th Anniversary of the 1956 Women’s Anti-pass march. On this day in 1956, more than 20 000 women marched against the discriminatory pass laws which had restricted the movement of black people in the country.
The Departments of Social Development and Correctional Services will be handing over 13 refurbished beds to the Resthaven Old Age Home.
The Northern Cape Premier Ms Silvia Lucas will advance the empowerment of women, by honouring the best Female Entrepreneurs for their outstanding role in agriculture’s economic sector and the promotion of household food security. Premier Lucas together with the MEC for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Mr Norman Shushu will confer the honours at the gala awards ceremony in Port Nolloth, Namakwa District on 07th August 2013.
The Premier of the Northern Cape, Ms Sylvia Lucas, invites members of the media to a media breakfast to officially launch the Women’s Month Programme.
The month of August was declared Women’s month by the democratically elected government of South Africa following a series of political activism by women during the struggle for liberation.
The current administration under the stewardship of President JZ Zuma made a profound commitment to the people of the Northern Cape that the main focus of this current term of the administration is to establish a university in the province. On Thursday 25 July 2013 the President announced the name of the university and the interim council. The university in the Northern Cape will be named Sol Plaatje University.
The Northern Cape Provincial Government heeded the call by the United Nations to celebrate International Mandela day. On Mandela day individuals are encouraged to spend 67 minutes doing something to improve the lives of others.
The Premier of the Northern Cape Province Ms Sylvia Lucas, Members of her Executive Council and government officials will embark on a wide range of activities on Mandela Day 18 July 2013 to pay homage to the global icon of peace, human rights, and the international struggle for social justice, democracy and economic emancipation.
Various members of the community representing faith based organisations, private sector and the Public Service came out in numbers to pray for the former President of our country, Nelson Mandela. The prayer service was called to give thanks to the life of the former icon and also to pray that the Almighty should keep him in the palm of His Hand. Ministers present from different denominations also prayed for Mandela’s family and relatives and for unity of the nation.
Address by the Minister of Social Development, Ms Bathabile Dlamini, MP on the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Kimberley-Northern Cape Province on 26 June 2013
Address by the Premier of the Northern Cape, Ms Sylvia Lucas, on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 26 June 2013 at the Mittah Seperepere Convention Centre, Kimberley