The MEC for Transport and Community Safety in Limpopo, Mme Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya paid homage to Vision fm, a Mopani based Radio Station located in Nwamitwa village, on a Sunday, as part of the station’s Women’s Month program me, with BishopProf. Dr. Mlungisi Erusmas Malungana, the founder and head of the Don’t Blame God International Ministries (DBGIM) as the host.
In the past successive Sundays, Vision fm had hosted the departments of Health’s MEC Phophi Ramathuba and Social Development’s Nkakareng Rakgoale respectively, as part of the station’s enthusiasm to motivate young girls with demoralizing living conditions that anything is possible with fortitude and hard work.
The purpose of MEC Lerule-Ramakhanya’visit to the radio station was to be profiled live on air with reference to her life journey to becoming a female MEC and a leader of note, in commemoration of Women’s Month, discuss Gender Based Violence and outline the programmes of the now amalgamated department of Transport and Community Safety.
During her interview, MEC Lerule-Ramakhanya expressed her Identity Document saga (which explains her misspelled Surname) and the living conditions she confronted during her childhood life. She also responded to callers who joined into the live broadcast.
The MEC outlined her department’s programmes such as Community Police Forum, Community Safety Forum, Rural Safety, Youth Against Crime and Community Safety and reinvigorated that they should play a significant role in the fight against Gender Based Violence and Domestic Violence. She presaged that the signs are always there in GBV and acknowledged that most victims stay in toxic relationships with the hope that things will change for the better while being swallowed into the deep end.
Let us together fight against and put to an end Gender Based Violence! Enough is Enough!!
And since we are still under lock down, let us also continue wearing masks, sanitizing and observing social distancing!!
