Pretoria - As part of the Thusong Service Centre week, Communications Deputy Minister Stella Ndabeni–Abrahams will today launch the Thusong Success Stories Booklet at Leretlhabetse Thusong Service Centre, in Moretele Municipality, North West.
The Thusong Success Stories Booklet shows how the centres have become the hubs of life changing development initiatives by profiling small entrepreneurs, such as mothers who have a beading project at the Colesburg Thusong Service Centre in the Northern Cape.
The Deputy Director-General of Government Communications and Information System (GCIS), Nebo Legoabe, said many of these centres are hubs for government and community partnerships in the fight against the scourge of HIV and Aids.
“They change lives through the food garden they run, like the one shared in the book by Mr Tsietsie Mokoena, the Centre Manager at Siyathemba Thusong Service Centre in Mpumalanga,” Legoabe said.
The Thusong Service Centre week was launched by Communications Minister Faith Muthambi on Sunday in Mamelodi. The week seeks to highlight service delivery successes achieved through Thusong Centres.
Thus far, the GCIS and partners have hosted 52 Thusong events and more will be held across the country until Friday.
Thusong Service Centres are one-stop centres providing integrated services and information from government and other civil society groups to communities close to where they live as part of a comprehensive strategy to better their lives.
Currently there are 183 Thusong Service Centres across South Africa.
The public can locate their closest centre and download the Thusong Service Centre Success Stories Booklet at www.thusong.gov.za or by calling 012 473 0348/ 0331.
The closing event of Thusong Service Centre Week will be led by Minister Muthambi on Friday, in Botshabelo, Free State. – SAnews.gov.za
