Moral Regeneration Movement set to work with within the City
JOBURG – Participants at the recent virtual MRM consultative workshop agreed that Johannesburg was best placed to lead the moral revival.
Moral Regeneration Movement resuscitated to fight the decay or anti-social behaviour in communities.
The City of Johannesburg is looking to rebuild morals following the increased corruption, widening inequalities and broken promises. This is according to the programme manager of the Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM) structure Neo Chaka. The MRM was set up in 2002 as a broad partnership between the government, civil society and business. The aim was to facilitate the collective activism against the escalating moral decay or anti-social behaviour in society. Participants at the recent virtual MRM consultative workshop agreed that Johannesburg was best placed to lead the moral revival.
The MRM was brought back to life in July 2020 with the aim of engaging and communicating. Speaker of the Council Nonceba Molwele expressed, “This is a consultative workshop with stakeholders, therefore the input of stakeholders is most welcome. It is our collective rededication to the revival of the spirit of Ubuntu, the ideals of the Constitution and our common values.” She added that they would love to see all seven regions of the City being represented in the structure. Princess Nikiwe Bam from Afrikan Young Indigenous Leaders said her organisation is supporting the intentions to form the Joburg MRM structure. “We would like to be a partner with MRM as well, since moral regeneration is key to restoring respect, humanity, indigenous knowledge and indigenous leaders also play a significant role.”
According to Chaka, the MRM is focusing, among others, on building and strengthening the family, developing and nurturing ethical leadership, combating crime and corruption, values education, riches and poverty, positive images in the media, gender transformation, focusing on youth and religion. She explained, “We need to start to look at the quality of our leadership. We’ve reached a point whereby institutions which used to be credible, but because of their leaders, their ethics and credibility are questioned. We need to deal decisively with crime and corruption.”
Chaka said the stakeholders needed to push harder to raise the issues such as the eradication of poverty and inequality.
