24 November 2023 | Boitekong, Cloetesville, Community Safety, Dwarsrivier Valley, Jamestown, Kanyamazane, Kayamandi, Khayelitsha, Klapmuts, KwaMashu, Kylemore, Lantana, Magaliesburg, Mamelodi, Mbekweni, Nelspruit, Nodes, Orlando, Paarl, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Proud of my Town, Rustenburg, Stellenbosch, Tshwane, Umlazi, Zwide
A small group of unarmed women patrol the streets of a neighbourhood where the sound of gunshots rings out at night. A team gathers in the make-shift corrugated iron structure that is home to the ‘boardroom’ where they plan both safety and sports activities for their...
13 September 2020 | Boitekong, Cloetesville, Dwarsrivier Valley, Jamestown, Kanyamazane, Kayamandi, Klapmuts, Kylemore, Lantana, Magaliesburg, Mamelodi, Nelspruit, Paarl, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Proud of my Town, Rustenburg, Stellenbosch, Tshwane
Over the past five months, the Proud of my Town (PoMT) programme has invested over R1 million towards a host of relief and recovery interventions in 13 communities across seven provinces. Ranyaka has been rolling out the multi-faceted PoMT programme in a growing...
30 April 2019 | Lantana, Paarl, Proud of my Town, Sport, Art & Culture
Sport unifies, energises and creates a healthy platform for community interaction. Last weekend, 16 cricket teams and 16 netball teams from Lantana participated in a four-day sport tournament organised by a local team of volunteers who are driving a sport programme...
12 February 2019 | Fix Your Space, Land & Property, Lantana, Paarl, Proud of my Town
One of the topics raised at a community meeting in Lantana, Paarl today, was that of stones. Too many stones and rocks lying around in the streets, on the sidewalks, on the playground. So the question arose: What does one do with so many stones? One could carry them...
20 October 2018 | Collaboration, Lantana, Paarl, Proud of my Town
“You can’t clean only the part of the pool you’re swimming in.” – New York Times This sentence captures the essence of our approach to community transformation. We need to tackle the broader structures and systems that shape living...
20 October 2018 | Collaboration, Lantana, Paarl, Proud of my Town
This week we commenced community profiling in Lantana, a low income neighbourhood in Paarl East. This is an essential step in activating community ownership through the Ranyaka Protocol. We need to tackle the broader structures and systems that shape living together...
