The ceremony takes place in Heritage Month and the list of honorees have all, in some way, rendered meritorious service in making the Western Cape truly a 'Home for All'.
Rasool said: "A Home for All can only be a vibrant, healing and creative reality in a Province that celebrates and shares its diversity and uniqueness with everyone. In recognising the individuals that receive various Provincial Honours this Heritage Month we reaffirm the need to value the contributions of fellow citizens and to see in their actions the building blocks of a new heritage in a Home for All in the Western Cape."
On the urgent need to build a 'Home for All', Rasool said: "We still have incidents of intolerance, religious extremism, xenophobia and tensions between communities. These do not mean that a Home for All is not attainable. It means that a Home for All is now even more urgently needed."
Provincial Honours were instituted in 1999 by manner of the Provincial Honours Act 9 of 1999. Herein section 6 (1) of the Western Cape Provincial Constitution makes provision for the recognition of persons rendering exceptional achievements and meritorious service in the interest of the Province of the Western Cape.
The following categories were instituted:
- The Western Cape Golden Cross - for exceptional achievement
- The Order of the Disa, in the following 3 classes
- Commander : for rendering excellent meritorious service
- Officer : for rendering outstanding meritorious service
- Member : for rendering noteworthy meritorious service
- Premier's commendation certificate - to give recognition to individuals by way of honorable commendation for meritorious and exemplary actions worthy of recognition.
DATE: SAT, 29 SEPTEMBER 2007
TIME: 15H00
PLACE: CAPE TOWN COLLEGE (HEWAT), ATHLONE.
Jeremy Michaels
Chief Director: Communications(Acting)
Director: Media Relations
Office of the Premier
Provincial Government of the Western Cape
Cell: +27 (0)82 772 1122
Office: +27 (0)21 483 9955
Fax: +27 (0)21 483 7196
Email: jmichaels@pgwc.gov.za
Postal address: PO Box 659, Cape Town, 8000.
Physical address: Office of the Premier, Mezzanine Level, M23, 7 Wale Street, Cape Town, South Africa, 8001.
Website: www.capegateway.gov.za/premier
iKhaya Lethu Sonke - A Home for All - 'n Tuiste vir Almal
