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The department commemorated the following three prominent heroes and heroines of the liberation struggle during the 2019/20 ¿ nancial year at events attended by approximately 450 people. Charlotte Maxeke commemoration ceremony was held on 4 April 2019 in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg. The ceremony was hosted in partnership with the Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Institute at the Maxeke house and reminded people about the role she played in uplifting our communities. The Margaret Gazo public lecture and dialogue was held on 24August 2019 at the Ekurhuleni East Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College in Kwa Thema. The programme encouraged the “Missing Middle” category of young women in tertiary institutions to seize the opportunity in a patriarchal society and re À ected on the legacy of icons Margaret Gazo and Adelaide Tambo. The Charlotte Maxeke Lecture and Awards were held on 27 August 2019 at Z. K Matthews Hall at University of South Africa in honour of young women achievers. The department conducted ten community conversations during the 2019/20 ¿ nancial year bene ¿ tting a total of approximately 2 640 during the ¿ nancial year. The most signi ¿ cant dialogues discussions included Youth Month with the heading Annual Lecture: the right to education on 13 June 2019 at NASREC Expo Centre, Johannesburg. The Youth Day dialogue was hosted in partnership with international peace youth group organisations on 15 June 2019 held at the Randburg Library. The dialogue centred around the various topics that impact on social cohesion and nation building such as education for the youth. The Girl Child Dialogue was held at the Youth Expo from 13–17 June 2019 at NASREC Expo Centre focusing on creating a safe environment and raised awareness of health issues affecting young people. Topics included teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence, cyber bullying, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and sexual productive health. A Women’s Seminar was held on 12 November 2019 at Kagiso Archives Centre to empower women and to discuss issues including healthy lifestyles; empathy towards women’s health issues, new mothers, maternity leave and work-related

challenges. Girl child “Empower a girl to lead” dialogue was co-hosted with the DSD and Of ¿ ce of the Premier on 29 October 2019 at Siziwile School for the Deaf, Dobsonville, Soweto to encourage learners to value themselves and to care about education, health and safety. Human Rights Day dialogues were held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Memorial Lecture on 12 March 2020 at Vaal University of Technology (VUT); and an event on Quality of life of the LGBTIQA community in the context of the Bill of Rights, with the theme “A drive for Human dignity and basic rights and improving the lives of people” was held on 17 March 2020 at Sharpeville Exhibition Centre. The department conducted a total of 192 promotional interventions on national symbols at 169 schools, 1 ECD Centre, a number of libraries and an expo centre bene ¿ tting approximately 1081 people (437 male and 644 female). Awareness was created about national symbols to foster nation building, social cohesion and national identity through the distribution of SA and AU À ags and identity booklets giving information about the À ag protocols, exhibiting at the Rand Easter Show hosted from 19–28 April 2019 at Nasrec Expo Centre. A promotional interventions campaign was held at Constitution Hill from 29 July to 2 August 2019 in partnership with Constitution Hill and GDoE. A National Symbols training workshop was conducted in partnership with the City of Ekurhuleni and GDoE on 24 February 2020 at the Dumisani Masilela Theatre in Germiston. The workshop was attended by 141 participants (34 male and 107 female) who received identity booklets and copies of thePreamble to the Constitution. There was a public display of the national À ag and distribution of national symbols booklets at the opening of Atteridgeville library on 3 March 2020. Flag poles were installed for national À ags during the Back to School Campaign from 15– 16 January 2020, with distribution of national À ags, posters (national symbols, the national anthem and the Preamble to the Constitution) and Constitution booklets were distributed to various schools in Gauteng during the ¿ nancial year.

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