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Khalid Sayed praises appointment of Sarah Helena Roberts as Children's Commissioner
The appointment of Sarah Helena Roberts as the new Commissioner for Children for the Western Cape has been welcomed.
The role was created to advocate for and protect the rights of children in the province, carries a five-year term and is renewable once.
The leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Provincial Legislature, Khalid Sayed, commended the Caucus of the 6th Administration for working collaboratively along political lines to implement the Western Cape Constitution by ensuring this position was not just an idea on paper but a functioning mechanism to protect the rights of children.
'I must commend our Standing Committee Chairperson for the non-partisan manner in which she led the process, ensuring that we could agree on one candidate in the end. We trust that this appointment will build on the important foundation laid and that it will not be reduced to a mere tick-box exercise. The role of the Commissioner must be one of active advocacy, visible leadership, and fearless defence of children's rights,' Sayed said.
