Media
Release:
“
15000 Observers of SA Democracy
Date:
30 December 2013
Time
: 10 am
We
welcome you to the launch of Hola Bon Renaissance (HBR) Foundation's Observers
programme for the 2014 National General Election, Titled “15 000 Observers of
SA Democracy” and our motto “Observing and legitimizing democracy” which is the
14th programme launched by HBR since its existence in the year 2000, and
official registered in 2004.
As
we enter a new progressive year 2014, a new dawn, and a new world order. It is
imperative that we civil organizations in the country and the world over, play
an active role in any democracy, independently without government and political
alignment, as defenders, advocators, observers and legitimizes of democracy.
We
stand in response to a call that says “A new world will be achieved not by
those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in
the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the
course of the contest”.
HBR
proclaims 2014 to be the year the people of this country and the world join
hands in celebrating South Africa’s 20 years of democracy, a democracy forged
by all race, genders, nations, it was earned by South Africans who served,
sacrificed and survived to be where we are today as a nation, as
Africans and human race in general in the world.
HBR
FOUNDATION during the course of the year 2013, applied to the IEC for an
observer's role and has underwent all due processes, for it today to
proudly pronounce to the nation and the world, that HBR Foundation is an IEC
Accredited Observer for 2014 national elections.
An
apostle once said “When there are many lacking decency, there are always others
who have decency of many, they are the ones who rebel with terrible forces
against the robbers of their people’s freedom- hence robbers of their decency.
Such men are the embodiment of thousands, of a whole people, of human dignity.”
-Apostle Jose Marti. It is in this regard we opted to rise to embody democracy,
we carry as patriots of this country, our SA flag and its constitution high for
the very first time as a civil organization. Hence our mission is to recruit
and deploy 15 000 men and women in the country and anywhere else in the world
to observe and legitimize the 20th year of democracy in a free, fair and
transparent democratic South Africa.
ü Observe
the democratic process
ü Affirm
free, fair and transparent elections
ü Validate
counting of votes
ü Report
all activities of the elections
ü Confirms
the announcement of elections results
ü Legitimize
the 2014 elections
The
national general 2014 elections activities and rollout of the strategy will be
outlined in due course by the NOC, which includes the infrastructures, systems
and processes, operations, website, recruiting and deployment strategy, media
strategy, fund-raising strategy and all other activities related to 2014
elections.
In
our preparation to achieve a free, fair and transparent 2014 democratic
elections, HBR organizational structure and deployment strategy will be as
Follows:
SPHERES
|
DEPLOYMENT
|
DESIGNATION
|
||
National
|
1
|
12
|
National Observer Committee
|
|
Provinces
|
9
|
36
|
Provincial Observer Team
|
|
Metro’s council
|
8
\
|
24
|
Metro’s Observer Team
|
|
District council
|
44
|
132
|
District Observer Team
|
|
Local council
|
226
|
678
|
Local Observer Team
|
|
Wards
|
4277
|
4277
|
Ward Observer Leader
|
|
Voting Station
|
22264
|
7422
|
VD Observer
|
|
Operation center
|
unconfirmed
|
Unconfirmed
|
To be confirmed by NOC
|
|
Other Countries
|
unconfirmed
|
Unconfirmed
|
To be confirmed by NOC
|
|
Administrative & other activities
|
unconfirmed
|
Unconfirmed
|
To be confirmed by NOC
|
|
We further welcome the IEC
decision that of recruiting a total of 19,856 electoral staff, such as
presiding officers and area managers, which have been trained to date. Overall,
more than 250,000 election officials will be recruited by the IEC.
Registered Statistics
|
Deployments Percentage
|
Observers estimates
|
|
National
|
24120436.00
|
100.00
|
15000
|
Gauteng
|
5673691.00
|
23.52
|
3500
|
Kwa Zulu Natal
|
4829979.00
|
20.02
|
3000
|
Eastern Cape
|
3149520.00
|
13.06
|
1900
|
Western cape
|
2774433.00
|
11.50
|
1700
|
Limpopo
|
2382150.00
|
9.88
|
1400
|
Mpumalanga
|
1752563.00
|
7.27
|
1000
|
North West
|
1594534.00
|
6.61
|
900
|
Free State
|
1389197.00
|
5.76
|
800
|
Northern Cape
|
574369.00
|
2.38
|
300
|
Abroad
|
?????
|
Hence we are on a campaign to
request private, public and international donors to assist us to realize our
national call of duty as observers and continual realization of the dream and
aspiration made by the laid former president Nelson Mandela and many South
Africans that advocated for a democratic and a free society.
HBR Foundation is a
non-profit (civil) organization that advocates to empower, unite, inspire,
educate and uphold democracy in African through skills transfer that are
aimed at developing the Africans to take responsibility for personal
development of the continent , to enable them to participate in building the
continent and also to encourage the communities’ transformation by creating a
community that is skilled, self-sustained with a central economic opportunity
and our selfless initiatives result in economic growth and job creation.
Long live freedom! Let
freedom reign, The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Thanks
Bontshitswe Mothopeng
(Chairperson OF HBR Foundation)
Chairperson@hbrfoundation.org.za Cell No: 0840544733
Thanks In anticipation
Ms Lebogang Moima
Head of Communication
Hola Bon Renaissance
(HBR) Foundation
Tel No: +27(0) 11 492 3908
Cell No: +27(0) 79 914 1904
Then African Empowerment and
Defender of the human race
Head Office : 58 Marshall
street, 6th floor The Business Place, Johannesburg, 2101, South Africa
Postal Address : P.O Box 62541, Marshalltown, Johannesburg, 2107. South Africa
