08 April - Human Rights

In today’s show we were joined on the line by Mansoor Jaffer – Project manager of the Imbizo Focus Week. The National Imbizo Focus Week started on Monday, the 7th of April, with the Western Cape hosting 15 izimbizo. Twelve are community izimbizo whilst three are sectoral, single-issue meetings. The theme for the week is “Building Communities, Changing Lives”. The izimbizo will give residents a chance to interact with senior government officials. There will an imbizo tonight in Mitchell's Plain at Westridge Civic. Premier Ebrahim Rasool, MEC Lynn Brown and MEC Richard Dyantyi will be in attendance to answer some of the residents questions. For more information contact 084 407 1503 or 082 665 6479 alternatively go to www.capegateway.gov.za

We also spoke to Dr Tony Booysen – From the Western Cape Health Department. The Western Cape health department formed a task team to relieve the service pressures at community health care centres in Mitchell’s Plain and Khayelitsha. The team aims to develop and improve management systems of severe services within the primary health care facilities. Dr Booysen explained more. If you want more information you can contact the Mitchell’s Plain Community Health Care Centre Facility Manager on (021) 391 5903.

Lastly we were joined Instudio by Alison and Lili Goldberg – They run a Community outreach project. Lili, a grade 10 pupil at St Cyprian High School is not like most girls her age who spend their spare time at the mall. Instead this 16 year old serves lunch to hundreds of homeless people in town. Lili and her mother run this project but need community involvement in order to feed more homeless people. If you want more information or you would like to help call 082 784 5053.

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