Cloud Chatter July 2014

RI President-elect Gary C.K. Huang chose Light Up

Rotary as his theme for 2014-15. Huang was

inspired by the teachings of Chinese philosopher

Confucius who said: "It is better to light a single

candle, than to sit and curse the darkness."

"There are so many problems in the world, so many

people who need help. Many people say, 'There's

nothing I can do.' So they sit there doing nothing.

Meanwhile everything stays dark," Huang told the 537 district

governors and their spouses and partners who are attending the 2014

International Assembly in San Diego, California.

"The Rotary way is the Confucius way. The Rotary way is to light a

candle. I light one, you light one, 1.2 million Rotarians light one.

Together, we light up the world," said Huang, who is a member of the

Rotary Club of Taipei in Taiwan.

"How you Light Up Rotary is up to you," Huang said. "You know where you are strong, you know what

your community needs, and you know how you can help."

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District Governor Annie Steijn (RC of Benoni) was inducted

at the 4th District Annual Conference held at The Ranch Hotel,

Polokwane on 15 June 2014.

Annie endorsed the Light Up Rotary theme and added that every

Rotarian, Interact and Rotaract Members, Rotary Anns and the Friends

of Rotary Make A Difference - and that as a result, we are all MAD!

And she is right!

Our members and our friends need to Light Up the lives of hundreds of

people who need us, our experience, knowledge and dedication. No

matter what the project, deed or service we tender, we need to make a

difference in their lives.

The more members we have, the more we can achieve. No matter how small or large your project is,

everything we do counts.

Enjoy the year ahead and have lots of fun and fellowship too!

A New Rotary year begins….

E-Club Newsletter

Club President: Kanthan Pillay

www.rotaryeclubsa9400.org

Issue 4

Ju;y2014

Cloud

Chatter

Mark Doyle (rt) of the e-Club

presents PDG Patrick Chisanga

(D 9210) and 2014 – 2019

Chairman of ROTA (Reach Out

To Africa) with his Honorary

Membership of the e-Club

together with the iconic e-Club

scarf at the induction of Dr Stella

Anangwe at the Rotary Club of

Pretoria West on Tuesday 24 June 2014.

PDG Mark Doyle (e-Club), PDG Patrick Chisanga, Dr Stella Anangwe )Pres RC Pretoria West

2014/2015) and PDGA Lyn Doyle

At the 4th Annual District

conference, DG Anneas Balt

invited First Lady, Madam

Bongi Ngema-Zuma to become

an Honorary Member of Rotary

International and she accepted. DG

Anneas pinned a Rotary badge on

her and we are delighted to an-

nounce that Madam Bongi is now

an Honorary member of our club!

This is no doubt outstanding news

for us all and we look forward to

supporting Madam Bongi with the

Diabetes Foundation that she

formed.

Madam Bongi also arranged for the

nursing sisters to test the

delegates ‘ sugar level at the

conference. An excellent gesture.

Welcome to our club Madam Bongi.

DG Anneas Balt was inducted as an Honorary

member to our club at the 4th Annual District

Conference in June 2014.

PDG Mark Doyle handed the certificate and scarf to

DG Anneas.

Welcome DG Anneas! It is great to have you as an

Honorary member.

Pres Kanthan Pillay (right) receives the charter of the e- Club from Rhett Gardener, Liana v d

Walt and Annemarie Mostert. All the members are wearing the new club scarf

- if you wear one, you will be identified as an e-Clubber! Thanks to Liana for organizing the

scarves.

Left: Annemarie Mostert with two littlies with soccer balls at the Monthly picnic at Covenant Garden Estate.

Right: Tara Ison visiting CGE yesterday......thanks to Charlotte for

giving the caps and soccer balls to them.

Above and right:

Rhett reports: Consta-

ble Mmela handed over

a dozen pairs of shoes

to a group of elderly

widows.

Their delight at

receiving the gift is

quite apparent.

Iain Purdon RC Louis Trichardt, Leon Barnard Pres RC Louis Trichardt, Mark Doyle RC Club Southern Africa D 9400,

General Skalk van Heerden Officer Commanding Makhado Air Force Base, PP Ian Bannatyne, RC Louis Trichardt.

Rotary branded wheelchairs

Summarised invitation for the

wheelchairs

Greetings to all Rotary Club members.

Follow up enquiry and telephone

conversation with Mark Doyle regarding the

donation of two wheelchairs hereby refers.

It is with great pleasure and honour to

inform you that your proposal to visit Air

Force Base Makhado to hand over the two

wheelchairs have been approved by the

Officer Commanding Air Force Base

Makhado, Brigadier General Schalk van

Heerden.

The base is looking forward to meet the

delegation from your office on Friday 13

June 2014 at 09:00.

From Sergeant T.T. Mulaudzi Media Liaison

AFB Makhado.

Liana made many

deliveries

Liana delivered 300 kilograms

of meat donated by Hennie

Venter of the Groenkloof

Slaghuis to Filidelfia Ark which

was donated as well as many

beautiful fleece jackets for the

toddlers - seen right.

It seems as though they were

celebrating the normal year-end

festive season well in advance!

Driver Klaas Mashishi collected

840 trees from Wildlands

Conservation Trust in

Vosloosrus and delivered them to

the Austin Roberts Bird

Sanctuary for distribution.

Thanks to everyone for their

exceptional generosity. The

communities are enriched by

what you do with us.

Rhett Gardener reports…………. I attended on the Mamelodi East SAPS station on 3 June to see Sgt Nozizwe Gwebu with Constable Katlego Mmela. There was a cold front and it was bitterly cold. I handed over the Rotary e-Club of SA D9400 blankets that I had collected from Liana. Sgt Gwebu was, on behalf of the Children's' Shelter so very grateful. The gift could not have been more timely! Cst Mmela took the attached picture of the handover in front of the Police station. Sgt Gwebu undertook to send pictures of the children in the Court- sanctioned "place of safety' with the Rotary gift.

Rotary be praised - Rotary makes a difference.

Club members are recognized for their excellent service in

Rotary for various reasons.

At the 4th Annual district conference over the long weeks in SA, DG Anneas Balt handed out

several certificates and awards and even although our club is new, we achieved a great deal.

Annemarie Mostert, Sue Paget, Mark Doyle, IPDG Anneas Balt and Shirley Downie received

recognition from Marion Bunch of the Rotary Family Health Day programme (certificate and

trophy). The club received a certificate as well.

Annemarie received the Excellence Award and Shirley received the Service Excellence Award.

In addition, Shirley was presented with a District Paul Harris Sapphire (her third) by

DG Anneas.

Our club also received the Rotary

International Presidential Citation - an

incredible achievement considering our

club was only officially chartered on

5 March this year.

We also received the District Service

Excellence Award with Merit.

Congratulations everyone and thanks for

all your hard work, dedication and

loyalty - not only to Rotary International

but to all the community members whom

we serve.

RC of Northcliff

acknowledges a star

performing Rotarians.

PP Annemarie Mostert seen in

the middle of the picture with

President Hans Mostert

(husband as well) and DGE An-

nie Steijn at the Northcliff event.

Annemarie was awarded her

third sapphire pin.

Congratulations. Definitely well

earned.

More Northcliff Awards Charlotte Khoza

E-Club member Charlotte received her award for the unselfish and dedicated contribution over many years

to Rotary Club of Northcliff.

Assistant Governor for the RC of Northcliff and one of our

newly appointed members (transferred from the RC of

Morningside) receives a beautiful bouquet of flowers from

Pres Hans (Northcliff) for her unselfish and dedicated

support as the club’s Assistant Governor.

AG Belinda Alport has done an outstanding job with all

the clubs in D9400 that she under her region. Well done

Belinda and we are so pleased to have you on board!

D9400 is divided into 9 Regions and

we are fortunate to get IPDG Anneas

Balt as our District Governor

Representative (DGR).

Our Assistant Governor is Ferdi

Heyneke (RC Bedfordview).

We look forward to working with both

Anneas and Ferdi in the next Rotary

year.

Don’t forget to register for the Presidential

Induction Brunch on 12 July @ 10:00 at the

Radio YFM offices in Hyde Park.

Cost? R 120 pp. Please book early.

Registration forms have been sent

DISCON 9400

EXHIBITION DIPLAY

There were 12 exhibitors at the 4th

annual conference at The Ranch and

our display was excellent….well done

to Annemarie and Trevor (and I am

sure that Hans helped as well) with

putting it up.

Conference delegates were amazed at

the number of brilliant projects that we

have undertaken.

PDG Shirley Downie was nominated by Pres. Kanthan Pillay for

the Council of Legislation Representative position. The clubs

voted and the results were announced at Discon. Shirley will represent

D9400 and PDG Frances Callard is the alternative representative.

The COL demands a lot of work before the final meeting in April 2016,

in Chicago where 536 district representatives meet and deliberate on

all the proposals made worldwide.

Clubs are invited to make suggestions of how to do things differently

and if the District agrees to the clubs’ proposals, then this goes

through to RI and voted upon internationally.

GETS Training in Ghana

Shirley has been invited by Rotary International to be a trainer at

the Governor Elects Training Sessions in Accra in September

2014.

Shirley will also attend the RI Institute in Ghana as the Rotary Public

Image Coordinator for Southern Africa...she serves her 3rd and final

year in this post.

The Humanitarian Distribution Centre

of Southern Africa has for the past 12 years re-

ceived over 150 containers from Texas with at least

40,000 in each container.

The books are offered free of charge (and in some cases we

receive a donation) for schools, libraries, prisons, nursery

schools, universities etc.

Call Shirley (083 308 0042) or email

[email protected] if you want books.

Govenant Garden Estate youngsters enjoy the books.

There are 32 youngsters in the estate now but there are

plans to have 96 in the future.

Tara Ison and Judith Chinkumbi with

Centre management.

Visit our new Facebook page and see what our club

has been doing….

Please remember to send

your articles and pics iro

the projects you undertake.

www.eclubsa9400.org

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