{"id":2766,"date":"2019-08-22T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2019-09-02T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:51:19","slug":"2766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/2019\/08\/22\/2766\/09\/45\/","title":{"rendered":"ELDERLY WOMEN TO RECEIVE NEW HOMES IN COMMEMORATION OF WOMEN\u2019S MONTH\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEDIA RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATT: REPORTERS, ASSIGNMENT EDITORS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>21 August 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ELDERLY WOMEN TO RECEIVE NEW HOMES IN COMMEMORATION OF WOMEN\u2019S MONTH<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>East London&#8212;&#8212;- <\/strong>In celebrating Provincial Women\u2019s Month, the EC government will handover new homes to destitute women in Matatiele, Cabazana and Ntabankulu in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality. The women have benefitted from the EC Department of Human Settlements\u2019 efforts to change the lives of the most destitute and vulnerable beneficiaries, through a programme that prioritizes the elderly, disabled, child-headed families and military veterans.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Women\u2019s Day Celebrations, the Provincial Executive Council led by Premier Oscar Mabuyane will visit Alfred Nzo District Municipality to bring service delivery to those communities. The MEC for Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements, Nonkqubela Pieters, will handover a new home to 98-year-old Amelia Mitswadi from Matatiele. Gogo Mitswadi lives with her grandchild under poor conditions in a shack. On the day, 79-year-old Madlamini Nokweyise from Ntabankulu and 84-year-old Nomathamsanqa Fazo from Cabazana, both staying in dilapidated mud structures, will also receive new homes.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Day is marked as a commemoration of the famous 1956 march of 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The women marched in protest against the pass laws in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the media are invited to the handover ceremony, to be held as follows;<\/p>\n<p>DATE: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 23 August 2019<\/p>\n<p>VENUE: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matatiele, Ward 4<\/p>\n<p>TIME:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10h00<\/p>\n<p>..<strong>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..ENDS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISSUED BY: Ministry of Eastern Cape Human Settlements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enquiries: Spokesperson Mr Masiza Mazizi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cell: 072\u00a0389 8609<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook: EC Human Settlements News Channel <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATT: REPORTERS, ASSIGNMENT EDITORS 21 August 2019 ELDERLY WOMEN TO RECEIVE NEW HOMES IN COMMEMORATION OF WOMEN\u2019S MONTH\u00a0 East London&#8212;&#8212;- In celebrating Provincial Women\u2019s Month, the EC government will handover new homes to destitute women in Matatiele, Cabazana and Ntabankulu in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality. The women have benefitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}