We held two national meetings in the capital city of Pretoria. The first was with the national chapter of UNIFEM, the United Nations International Fund for Women.
Mary met with Ms. Kamogelo Lekubu-Wilderson, the Regional Director. She was shown the PSAs and remarked that she has seen PSA #2 (Don’t discriminate) on national television. She said that she now plans propose to her the head of the office to incorporate the PSAs into their educational programs.
We met with two officials from the Department of education. Both of them had also seen Human Right #2 PSA (Don’t Discriminate) on national television and one stated that the PSAs might fit well within his program on race relations called “Hands-up for Democracy”.
We held an event at the Church of Scientology
of Johannesburg, which has been very much involved in promoting our program. The event opened with a group of young Zulu dancers who performed outside and then led the guests into the auditorium, past a series of banners depicting each of the 30 human rights.
The President for the Church welcomed the guests. Speakers included Anastacia Nyoka, Gauteng of the Department of Education and Sasha Rajah who is in charge of Values and Human Rights Education for the western Johannesburg region. Captain Amos Dladla, who is over the Social Crime Prevention program in the Thembisa Black community received an award from the World Tour for his actions to implement human rights in his region. We awarded Sarah Moraka, who heads up social services in Soweto, with the title of “Human Rights Ambassador for South Africa.” The event also included a human rights panel forum headed by local leaders and YHRI representatives with lively participation from the packed audience of 200 people.
