CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

 SERVICES RENDERED

Who are we?

We are the Corporate Communications component of the Strategic Support Services Directorate at Cedara Head Office.

What the component does

Public Relations

• Provide guided tours around Cedara for schoolchildren and agricultural interest groups.

• Displaying Departmental activities at Agricultural events, Launches, Royal Show and Parliament.

• Attend meetings where present, future plans and campaigns are discussed to get first hand information for dissemination (ie. Provincial Land Summit, Cabinet Lekgotla, Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the KZN DAEA and Heifer International, etc.)

• Organizing and implementing Departmental Launches all over KwaZulu-Natal.

Media Relations 

• Write and send media releases and articles to both electronic and print media.
• Invite the media for coverage of events/functions.
• Attend to media during events/functions.
• Visit both electronic and print media with an aim of strengthening the relationship between the Department and them.
• Advertise Departmental activities using both electronic and print media.
• Assist in interviewing and recording of Departmental officials (usually scientists, technicians, veterinarians, environmental officers) on various agricultural and environmental topics (eg. meat production, soil erosion, rabies, no-till, controlled and non-controlled livestock diseases and many othersAssist in monitoring of print and media.
• Monitoring of electronic media.

Publications, photographing and language services

• Produce publications (ie. Annual Report, Umlevo, Isigijimi, Brochures and Leaflets etc.).

• Take photographs for Departmental publications as well as outside publications eg. Online, Farmers’ Weekly and various newspapers.

• Take photographs for Departmental display boards for use at farmers’ days, agricultural shows and Agricultural and Environmental Launches.

• Produce photographs which document scientific work done at Cedara and other research stations.

• Provide language services ie. translating and editing.

Graphic Work

• Produce halftones and negatives for the Printing Section for the production of internal publications, student notes and the Guidelines series of publications.

Administration

• Supporting the Communication Component.

• Provide typing and wordprocessing for the Section.

• Record and taking of minutes.

• Take quotations, completion of VA2's and processing of payments.

• Checking the expenditure reports monthly.

• Updating information (executive telephone directory and mailing list).

• Distributing newsletters, Annual Report and leaflets to the clients.

• Distributing guidelines to farmers and students.

• Organise printing for guidelines.

• Check the Section’s incoming mail.

• Media monitoring ie. newspaper cuttings.