NPA SOCA Community Dialogue - 9 December 2023

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Join us for a free workshop focusing on Maintenance and Family Law. Our community of professionals is dedicated to facilitating discussions on the relevant challenges encountered in court by parents, court officials, attorneys, mediators, and social workers as well as members of the public. We aim to establish safe environments where we can collaboratively seek solutions to various pressing issues pertaining to Maintenance. 

This month, our focus is on marking 16 days of activism of no violence against women and children).

We are honoured to have an amazing lineup of speakers, offering valuable insights into the diverse challenges that impact mothers within our justice system:

Ms. Bongelwa Qandashe (MC/Host): Will address the voice of the vulnerable women and children in Family Courts and how the NPA Community Dialogues can assist mothers in Family and Maintenance courts.

Abongile Khwaza (Founder of Help A Girl Campaign): Will be discussing period poverty and the devastating impact it has on girls and young women. 

Ronel Ras (mediator): Mapping the Maintenance Process.

Dereck Beukes (Pastor, mediator and dialogue expert): Let us have these difficult dialogues in broken relationships.

Natalie Ruiters (La Poppie Mediations and Amplifier for 100 Days Challenge at Wynberg Court): Discussing report and feedback of 100 Days challenge that will be coming to an end on 7th December 2023. **Please note, this is to be confirmed

Laurie Greyvenstein (Mediator and Trainer): Mediation and conflict - what is mediation and how relationships can be restored via mediation.

Panel discussion on Mediation (Laurie Greyvenstein, Dereck Beukes, Anneke Greyvenstein and Natalie Ruiters).

Advocate Deon Ruiters (NPA Senior Prosecutor maintenance): Will allow in person attendees to ask questions on Maintenance answered by Advocate Deon Ruiters, for an hour.

T&Cs apply:

*Please make sure you select the correct ticket type – either online or in person. This is important for us as it helps us cater accordingly.

**Please ONLY reserve a ticket if you intend coming. If something comes up, kindly let us know to free up the ticket for someone else. Email: hello@communitydialogues.co.za

Head count helps us with planning logistics like printing materials, refreshments, number of volunteers on the day. Please do honour your ticket, as so much work goes into planning these dialogues. As these are free events, they are volunteer run, please honour and respect our volunteers and guest speakers time.

***We have limited space for children, booking tickets for your children and not pitching takes opportunity away from a parent that needs it. Also we rely on volunteers in the kiddies corner, if kids do not pitch volunteers end up coming in for nothing (they give up their Saturday for us). Please ONLY book a kiddies ticket if you intend coming. Repeated no shows will be not be allowed to book a ticket in future.

Please remember to save your ticket QR and barcode to sign you in. Please bring your ID to confirm identity. NO ID, no entry. Thank you.

This a free ticket to attend in person. Please only select if you commit to attending. This helps with planning logistics as noted in T&Cs.

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