I have been given the honour and privilege to introduce our guest speaker today.
Our speaker has and still fills many roles. Besides the traditional roles of wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and friend, she is also an athlete, counsellor, public speaker, social justice activist, director and the list continues.
However, she stands out most for her work as human rights defender and more specifically the rights of women in gender-based violence.
She is a leader in a community that is plagued by the social ills of poverty, drugs, violence and gangsterism.
She is by no means an angel that came from above to save the below. She was forged and rose from the trenches and become a beacon of hope for the local community and society at large.
In her youth, she was a victim of GBV and has used this devastating experience to support, uplift and empower other women.
She is currently the executive director of a non-profit organisation which does sterling work in the local community to address the basic need of food security, and other social issues they are affected by.
She plays a leading role in working with the government to try and address the scourge of GBV at a national level as well as in the poorest township and communities.
I would like to call up Ms Caroline Peters.