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Ministers of Education and Home Affairs to visit the Nyandeni Great Place in Libode (O.R Tambo District and Libode Local Municipality) as part of the Government’s Imbizo focus Week
07 April 2008
The Ministers of Education and Home Affairs, Ms Naledi Pandor and Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, respectively, will on Friday, 11 April 2008, spend the entire day interacting with the community of Nyandeni Great Place in Libode (OR Tambo District and Libode Local Municipality) as part of the Government’s Imbizo Focus Week (7 to 13 April 2008).
The two ministers will be joined by the provincial MECs, the mayors and the King of the Pondos, Chief Bongolethu Ndamase.
On Saturday, 12 April 2008, at 10h00, Minister Pandor will be the guest of honour at the launch of the first classes of Kha RI Gude (the Government’s mass literacy Programme) at Tombo TRC Office at Tombo in Eastern Cape.
The Kha RI Gude Mass Literacy Campaign, launched by the Minister of Education, Mrs Naledi Pandor, is intended to enable 4,7 million adults to become literate between 14 April and the end of 2012. Kha ri Gude (Tshivenda for ‘let us learn’) invites adults who missed out on their schooling, and who cannot read or write, to join one of about 20 000 literacy classes that will be held all over South Africa, starting on 14 April.
Imbizo programme on Friday
07h00: arrival of event officials
08h00: arrival of the Ministers
08h15: briefing Meeting with the Royal Family
09h00: visiting Projects within and around the Great Place
09h30: door to door IDs and birth certificates delivery
10h30: formal programme begins
13h10: formal programme ends
For more information, contact:
Lunga Ngqengelele
Cell: 082 566 0446
Cleo Mosana
Cell: 082 902 8796
Issued by: Ministries of Education and Home Affairs
7 April 2008