Nov 19 2010

Johannesburg expands its urban forest

Category: Community health, environmentmark @ 9:21 am

All over Soweto, people like Alice are adding greenery to their surroundings. When the township was originally built in the 1940s by the apartheid government, it was intended to be a place where black people would live on a temporary basis. They would inhabit the small brick houses only while their employment contracts were valid. They were supposed to live in Soweto only in order to be able to work for white people in Johannesburg.

Since 2006, however, there has been a massive effort to extend this forest into Soweto. The Soweto Greening Project began that year with 6,000 trees being planted. The aim is to plant 200,000 trees throughout the township to give the residents a green environment

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Nov 15 2010

The Africa Yoga Project

Category: Community healthmark @ 11:15 pm

The Africa Yoga Project uses the transformative power of #yoga 2 empower communities & change lives http://africayogaproject.org/

Baron Baptiste & Africa Yoga Project from Baptiste Yoga on Vimeo.

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Nov 15 2010

Khayelitsha Climbers to Ascend Kilimanjaro

Category: Sport, Youth, sponsorshipmark @ 7:03 pm

Dr Ivan Meyer, Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport, invited two mountain climbers from Khayelitsha, Loyiso Koyana and Luwanda Mxosana, to meet him 11 November 2010 on top of Table Mountain minutes before he and Jenny Hartnick, Chairperson of the Western Cape Provincial Standing Committee on Education, Cultural Affairs and Sport, sent an SMS to vote for Table Mountain in the New7Wonders campaign.

The Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport is prepared to assist with the facilitation of any form of sponsorship to make the dream of these aspiring mountaineers come true. This will, in turn, translate into creating opportunities for those who would not otherwise have had similar dreams and opportunities.

Full story..

Mabandla Kelengeshe

The Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport

Cell: 082 677 6370
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Nov 11 2010

Christmas cards from kiberapaper.org

Category: Entrepreneurs, business, ecommercemark @ 3:59 pm

Kibera Paper Card Project is a church based organisation. The project started in May 2001 at Kibera Slum. It was founded by Dr. Max Collision an Anglican Church Missionary from Australia. He was with a team of men(committee) from All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi. The project is located in the edge of Kibera Slum.

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Nov 08 2010

O Sole Mio from the the Gugulethu Tenors

Category: Musicmark @ 10:00 am

Watch the Gugulethu tenors perform live in Cape Town this Sunday.

Event info:

November 14, 2010 6:3011pm : THE GUGULETHU TENORS IN CONCERT at On Broadway, Cape Town

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Contact info:
On Broadway
Work: +2721 424 1194
44 Long Street

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Nov 08 2010

Sign up for the Peoples Marathon

Category: Organisations, Sportmark @ 9:33 am

Established over 19 years ago and has been in the running calendar since its inception. The Soweto Marathon 2010 Race is happening and it is here to stay. Affectionally known as “People’s marathon” the race will start and finish in greater township of Soweto, passing the well known street “Vilakazi Street” and Hector Peterson memorial place.

For more information contact:

Work: +2711 873 2726
Germiston Stadium, Delville North Road

Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa 1414

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Nov 02 2010

Gugulethu carnival a success

Category: Dance, Music, Theatremark @ 6:40 pm

THE first Gugulethu carnival attracted thousands of people, leaving organisers thrilled with the support shown by the community.

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Nov 01 2010

RCS Gugs Celebrating 10yrs of Reconciliation

Category: Sportmark @ 1:57 pm

Our club RCS Gugulethu Athletics Club will be hosting its annual 10km race on the 16th December again. This year’s event promises to be even bigger and better. The race this year is in its 10th year. The race started off in 2000 and then it was called Amy Biehl Reconciliation Day Race. As you will recall Amy Biehl was the exchange student who met her untimely death during those turbulent years in our townships. We named the race after her to try and bring that reconciliation amongst the people of Mzantsi.

Click here to view poster

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Oct 30 2010

Khayelitsha shebeen shuts doors for learners to study

Category: Entrepreneurs, News, Youth, educationmark @ 7:29 pm

A group of Khayelitsha pupils needed a peaceful place to work. The place they chose was a rather unconventional one - Mpumie’s Place, a local shebeen.

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Oct 29 2010

Clowning around boosts HIV-positive children

Category: Dance, Music, Organisations, Theatre, Youthmark @ 9:06 pm

KHAYELITSHA, 29 October 2010 (PlusNews) – Shrieks of laughter echo through the community centre in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha as 20 children aged between four and 15 play a game of tag.

They are part of the Cirque du Monde Ibhongolwethu Project run by Cape Town’s Zip Zap Circus School with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Zip Zap Circus School

Work: +27 21 421 8622
Founders Garden Jan Smuts Street

Cape Town, South Africa 8001

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