Community Information Network

By Ilhaam Hoosain
11 September 2007

Notice Board

#You are invited to an evening of Jazz with Black Current for a Molo Songololo Fundraiser and Raffle Draw on the 13 September 2007 at Manenberg’s Jazz Café in the Waterfront. Cover charge: R40 time from 19h00 till late the raffle draw will take place 21h00 and for just for R20 you stand chance of winning a 2 night stay for 2 at a Protea Hotel, Funds will help Molo Songolo to protect children from abuse, sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Bring family and friends for more information contact: Shirley on 021 762 5420

#On Friday the 19 October will mark the third annual “Do IT Day” once again for a community in need. The Greater Good South Africa Trust, which implemented this initiative in partnership with the JDI Foundation, is scouring the country for thousands of volunteers to help out for just one day. Interested volunteers should visit www.DoItDay.co.za or call 021 794-0580

#The South African Human Rights Commission hereby wishes to announce that it will be conducting Public Hearings which are expected to deal with issues related to farming communities, focusing specifically on safety on farms, land tenure security including evictions, and labour relations. The hearings are scheduled to take place at the Commissions head office in Parktown, Johannesburg over three days on the 18th, 19th and 20th September 2007

# Cape Town Child Welfare is seeking people, preferably under the age of 45, to become adoptive parents or emergency parents. Any stay at home mothers, with slightly older children of their own, should consider this way of making invaluable, but temporary contribution in a baby’s life. For more information contact Anne Bruce or Mandy Frieslich on 021 790 2300


#The week of the aged is from the 1-7 October, incorporating the International Day for Older Persons on the 1 October and ending with Grandparents day on 7 October. Grandparent’s day has been celebrated globally for many years and initiated by Age-in-Action in 1996. For more information about the Week of the Aged, please call Natalie Ockhuys on 021 423 0204 or visit our website on www.age-in-action.co.za.

If you have any information for the CIN team regarding events happening in you community, please feel free to contact us on 021 4485450 or fax us on 021 448 5451. Alternatively you can email us on news@bushradio.co.za.