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Media Invite: SAHRC KwaZulu-Natal Provincial office human rights month commemoration (Roadshow/Human Rights Day)


Attention: Editors and Reporters

09 March 2018

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will commemorate Human Rights month in the Harry Gwala and Ugu Districts from the 12 - 16 March 2018.  The following interventions have been planned viz.:




Date Activity Area/Venue Time
12 March 2018 Information Session and Pamphlet Distribution Ixopo:

1. SASSA Office:
29 Margaret St, Ixopo

2.  Dept. of Home Affairs:
11 Margaret Street, Ixopo

3. Ixopo Clinic:
19 Main Road, Ixopo
11:00
  Information Session and Pamphlet Distribution Umzimkhulu:

1. SASSA Office:
Old Boarder Post on the R56, Umzimkhulu

2. Dept. of Home Affairs:
Main Street, Umzimkhulu

3. Umzimkulu Magistrate Court:
1 Hospital Road, Umzimkulu

14:00
13 March 2018 Visit to Schools –
Presentation on Human Rights & Child friendly complaints handling procedures
 Mount Currie School

4 School Avenue, Kokstad

 

Franklin Senior Secondary
Thomas Drive, Franklin
08:00

 

 
08:00
  Walk-about:

Information Session/ Presentation /
Help-desk

Swartberg: Visit to farms

 
New Amalfi: Visit to farms

10:00 - 12:00

 

13:00 – 15:00
14 March 2018

Visit to a School:

Presentation on Human Rights & Child friendly complaints handling procedures

Shayamoya High School:

Chief Albert Luthuli Drive, Kokstad

08:00
  Visit to Local Clinic:

Information session/
Help-desk
Kokstad Clinic::

Cnr Barker & St Johns Street, Kokstad,
10:30
  Walkabout:

Information session/
Pamphlet distribution

Shayamoya Township

14:00
15 March 2018 Human Rights Day Commemoration

EDU-tainment/

Helpdesk/
Exhibition stand
Ward 8: Bhongweni Community Hall (new hall) :

Intersection of July Rd / Gcadinja Rd, Bhongweni
09:00 – 15:00
16 March 2018 Visits to Old Age Homes:

Presentation/
Helpdesk
Elonwabeni Old Age Home:

296 Mnyaiza Rd, Bhongweni,  

Kokstad

Elonwabeni Old Age Home: Harding

 
Entokozweni Old age Home   
Ezingolweni;  Mlozane
08:30

 

 

 
11:00

 

 
13:30



The interventions are part of the Commission’s Human Rights Month activities and are intended to raise rights awareness and to increase the prospects of individual and community driven rights assertion.  It will also provide a platform for communities to engage directly on matters that affect them and to register complaints on human rights violations.
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For more information contact SAHRC KZN Provincial Manager Ms. Tanuja Munnoo or SAHRC KZN Advocacy and Research Officer Mr. Ayanda Nene on 031 304 7323/ 073 338 5388.

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