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iThemba – Behind our Back, right on front of our Eyes?

March 6, 2018Admin135SA Heroes

ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT’S HAPPENING BEHIND OUR BACK RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES! I spent the better part of a day with a friend of mine Grant Edkins who spends his waking hours passionate about Early Childhood Development (ECD) in Sweetwaters, a sprawling township south of Pietermaritzburg His target is to develop some...

Mar

Turning Hope into Reality?

March 6, 2018Admin135Newsletters

Turning hope into reality By Derek Carstens I am only too aware of the fact that “simple solutions to complex problems are invariably wrong “. However as we also know it is easy to write a long speech, the real challenge is to write a short one. So in the interests of brevity and fully...

Mar

Given the change are we prepared to do something worthwhile?

March 6, 2018Admin135Blog

AFTER THE LAST 10 YEARS ARE WE READY/PREPARED TO DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE? Here at SA Good News we were hugely inspired by President Ramaphosa when he quoted from Hugh Masekela’s song Thuma Mina (Send Me) in his State of the Nation address. Just as a reminder, here is the quote he used: “I wanna be...

Mar

Parents are being upskilled to improve Early Childhood Development at home

March 6, 2018Admin135Good Deeds, NGO

March 2018 Parents of young children across Kathu, Debeng, Sesheng, Mapoteng, Olifantshoek and Siyathemba, in the Northern Cape, are signing up to learn how to effectively improve their children’s Early Childhood Development (ECD), through unique parental training programmes. REISA launched the second phase of its Early Childhood Development (ECD) Flagship Project – Parental Involvement Programme...

Mar

New amphibious wheelchairs to improve accessibility at selected Blue Flag beaches

March 6, 2018Admin135Corporate, Good Deeds

In an effort to create awareness and to make our beaches universally accessible to persons with disabilities, WESSA has donated amphibious wheelchairs to four coastal municipalities in South Africa, with the support of generous funding made available by The Ford Motor Company Fund. The amphibious wheelchairs were supplied by Blue Flag partner AccessRec and have...

Mar

Eighty wheelchairs participate in Cape Town Cycle Tour’s Lifecycle Week