3 May 2021 | Building Business, Collaboration, Community Safety, Early Childhood Development, Fix Your Space, Gqeberha, Land & Property, Mamelodi, Mbombela, Paarl, People Development, Polokwane, Proud of my Town, Rustenburg, Sport, Art & Culture, Stellenbosch, Strong Schools, Tell Your Story, Umlazi
Introducing the Proud of our Towns Facebook Groups “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success.”The world of social media did not yet exist when Henry Ford spoke these wise words. But many decades later,...
5 August 2020 | Collaboration, Community Safety, Fix Your Space, Land & Property, Paarl, People Development, Programmes, Sport, Art & Culture, Strong Schools
What does one get when you have a large-but-unloved piece of open land, next to a school with a proactive principal, a community that cares and partners with vision? A beautiful transformation that is already unfolding into one that holds the potential to enrich the...
4 June 2020 | Community Safety, Gqeberha, People Development, Zwide
Proud of my Town (PoMT) has spread its wings to the township of Zwide in Port Elizabeth and last week, we had the privilege of working with Ubuntu Pathways to help bring relief to vulnerable families in need. Thanks to the Nedbank Proud of My Town...
6 April 2020 | Community Safety, Magaliesburg, People Development, Proud of my Town
As part of the fight against Covid-19 in the area, the West Rand District Municipality launched its public spaces sanitizing programme in Magaliesburg last Wednesday. Work continued this morning after rain halted the process over the weekend.
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18 March 2020 | Collaboration, Community Safety, People Development, Proud of my Town
The message is clear. Wash your hands, do not touch your face, do not shake hands. It is easy and natural, in times like these, to feel helpless and to wonder about what one could and should be doing to make a difference. We would like to urge NGOs, NPOs, faith-based...
29 May 2019 | Community Safety
Numbers can numb us. We hear big numbers about big problems. Hundreds of thousands victims of abuse, addiction and violence. Hundreds of thousands unemployed, unskilled and desperate. We hear the numbers, but the faces behind those numbers and the stories of those...