T Marawu to celebrate Mandela Day, 18 Jul class="MsoNormal">As part of her contribution to the Nelson Mandela Day programme, Eastern Cape Transport MEC Thandiswa Marawu, will be leading Operation Asihleki roadblocks with traffic officers during the re-launch of scholar transport throughout the province on Monday, 18 July 2011.
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The Extra Ordinary Summit of the Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation, which was held in Swaziland yesterday, decided to submit to SADC a number of resolutions on the development in Madagascar. That matter is going before SADC Summit and I am certain that SADC will be equal to the task of defining sanctions. With regards to SADC action, yes SADC should have acted long before this thing happened.
The Ministry of Defence has noted with alarm and shock media reports that a member of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) had shot and killed a 70 year old woman and at a separate incident, another member attacked and stabbed a woman seven times inside a court.
The Minister of Defence, Mr Charles Nqakula will on Thursday, 8 January 2009, visit with over 300 new South African Air Force Military Skills Development System (MSDS) recruits at the South African Air Force Gymnasium in Thaba Tshwane. Once assembled they will be transported to the various training institutions of the four Arms of Service, (SA Army, SA Air Force, SA Navy and SA Military Health Service) of the SANDF to begin their basic military training.
Briefing by Minister Charles Nqakula on the signing ceremony of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and update on the Burundi situation Pretoria: The South African Defence Minister, Mr Charles Nqakula will address the media on the signing ceremony of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and update on the situation in Burundi. Members of the media who wish to cover the briefing should produce their press cards or South African identity documents (IDs) for easy access.
The South African delegation comprises of the Ministers of Home Affairs, Honourable Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Correctional Services, Honourable Ngconde Balfour, Intelligence, Honourable Dr Siyabonga Cwele, Justice and Constitutional Development, Honourable Enver Surty, Safety and Security, Honourable Nathi Mthethwa, Deputy Ministers of Defence, Honourable Fezile Bhengu, Correctional Services, Honourable Lorretta Jacobus and senior government officials.
Those countries are Uganda, the Chairperson of the Regional Initiative, Tanzania the Deputy and South Africa as the facilitation country. The meeting will be co-chaired by the three respective chairs: SADC President Motlanthe, EAC President Kagame of Rwanda and from COMESA and President of Kenya and Uganda is the host of this meeting.
The report we gave to the recent Lekgotla, therefore, dealt with the following aspects: * the review of the criminal justice system serious and violent crime * the detention and rehabilitation of offenders * issues relating to migration * the protection of major events. It is the cluster's intention to build a solid foundation for the overhauled system because an effective Criminal Justice System is the best guarantor for the reduction of crime.
Our people dissociated themselves from the displacement from our various communities of more than 40 000 South African citizens and foreign nationals. The displaced people were put in temporary shelters, after they themselves had sought refuge at police stations, community and church halls. The biggest number of people is in the Western Cape where about 5 175 people are accommodated and in Gauteng, where there are approximately 3 000.