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Chohan and Jordaan to celebrate Youth Day in NMB

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The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Fatima Chohan, will be visiting the Ndlambe Local Municipality in Alexandria and the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality on the 15th and 16th of June to celebrate Youth Day.

On 15 June, she will meet with the Ndlambe local municipality leadership, led by the Mayor and the Ndlambe Home Affairs Stakeholder forum to discuss the position of vulnerable youth, the late registration of birth campaign and recent occurrences of xenophobia.

This will be followed by a meeting with local and foreign national youth structures, struggle stalwarts and religious leaders to focus on teenage pregnancy, birth registration within 30 days and the discontinuation of late registration of birth, the involvement of youth in crime, substance abuse, and the legacy of the Freedom Charter. Learners and stalwarts will also receive smart ID cards from the Deputy Minister.

On Youth Day, 16 June, the Deputy Minister will Join the new Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Dr Danny Jordaan, together with youth and learners to celebrate Youth Day at Sowetho-on-Sea Multi-purpose Centre. Following these celebrations, she will launch the Home Affairs Provincial Youth Forum at the City Hall: Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality and will thereafter interact with local and foreign youth structures and struggle stalwarts at the same venue. The interaction will focus on integration, xenophobia and the involvement of youth in crime.

Some of the objectives of the Deputy Minister’s visit are to promote registration of births within 30 days, encourage citizens who are 16 years or older to apply for ID’s, bring the Department closer to the people and solicit partnerships with communities in achieving key government priorities, of which the National Population Registration Campaign is an example. She will also encourage the building of harmonious and cohesive communities through the values of Ubuntu.

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