Awareness campaign empowers locals
Miss Mpumalanga 2017 said she was confident that the campaign was making a positive impact to change people’s perception about a variety of issues that they did not know much about.
The national awareness and education campaign that the Department of Trade and Industry is undertaking across the country will go a long way in changing people’s perception positively.
This was the sentiment shared by the reigning Miss Mpumalanga, Geraldine Williams, who spoke at the eMbalenhle South Hall on Thursday, 21 September.
The purpose of the campaign is to educate South Africans about how pieces of legislation such as the liquor, national gambling, lotteries amendment, national credit, consumer protection, copyright and performers protection, and companies acts benefit them and how they can use the legislation to improve their living conditions.
Ms Williams, who hails from Volksrust, attended all the sessions in her capacity as the Mpumalanga Gambling Board’s Responsible Gambling Ambassador.
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