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Just a few minutes of your time and R12 can feed 6 hungry people – You Can Make A Difference The Sunninghill Community Ratepayers Directors, residents and churches in the area have challenged the Corporate Community of Sunninghill to come together on 11 November, 2011 @ 11h11 and help pack food for the hungry children in our country. We have had enormous response from the Corporate Community and over 70 people will be assisting the Stop Hunger Now team put together food packs for the hungry. • Help feed the hungry South Africa Child • Children are fed at school encouraging education, on a Friday each child is sent home with packet for the weekend. • Each packet feeds 6 • Assist us by packing the food which takes around 3 minutes for one packet • Cost of a packet = R12 Meet us at St Stephens Church on the 11/11/2011 at 11h11 and join in to packing food into packets for the hungry child -bring R12 with you! Kerry Mawson – Sunninghill Community suncommunity@iafrica.com www.sunninghillnews.co.za

What is Maintenance? • Every Parent must honour their duty to maintain their child! • Every child’s basic rights must be fulfilled! • How much money is the right amount? • What happens if maintenance is not paid? • Do I still pay if the other parent has remarried? Guest Speaker: Old Mutual’s Janine Bredenkamp Divorce, the financial realities        Venue: Rivonia Sports Club, 7 Achter Road, Paulshof Date: 15 November, 2011 @ 6:30 PM

Dear Ward 93 Residents, You will have noticed the Gautrain busses in our area and we have had a number of requests for the bus routes (see attached documents).  The Sandton bus route ends at 12th Avenue (corner Wessels) Rivonia, however the Midrand / Sunninghill Route has 10 bus stops within the Sunninghill Community. Visit the following website for timetables and fares – http://join.gautrain.co.za/map.aspx  or click on the following bus route downloads Sunninghill or Rivonia

THE GREATER KYALAMI CONSERVANCY (GEKCO) PRESENTS A Permaculture Course for gardeners and grooms Let’s start a Permaculture revolution! •    Up skill your gardener/groom •    have a great vegetable garden •    make use of your horse manure •    save water •    save money Dates:  on Thursday mornings once a month •    6th October 2011 – Unit 3 •    10th  November 2011 – Unit 4 •    1st December 2011- Unit 5 •    (dates for units 4 -8 will be set with the group for 2012) Time: 8:30 to 1pm Venue: Beaulieu Preparatory School Cost:  grooms/gardener fee R60 per unit or R420 if paid in full at the start of the course Facilitator: John Nzira To book: RSVP mdonde@iafrica.com 0824966214 Learning units Unit 1: The Permaculture and agro-ecology principles and ethics. Garden planning and designing (design your own garden or farm, easy way) Know your elements and connect them for a sustainable garden. Unit 2: Plant propagation, start your own plant nursery. What plants are good for vegetative propagation or for seeds? (Know your plants) Unit 3: Soil classification and soil improvement? You will learn about Compost, liquid manure, Earth worm farming, mulching, green manure. (Know your plants) Unit 4: Water conservation and [...]

  ACRONYMS WORTH KNOWING… The http://www.netlingo.com/top50/acronyms-for-parents.php site lists some of the (sometimes hair-raising) MXit and Internet acronyms used by children when they communicate with their mates. Here’s a sample: ILU – I Love You                182 – I hate you       420 – Marijuana                  CD9 – Code 9 -parents are around    F2F – Face-to-Face             GNOC – Get Naked On Cam HAK – Hugs And Kisses          IWSN – I Want S.. Now KPC – Keeping Parents Clueless     LMIRL – Let's Meet In Real Life MOS – Mom Over Shoulder         NIFOC – Nude In Front Of The Computer NMU – Not Much, You?          P911 – Parent Alert 8 – Oral s..                         PAL – Parents Are Listening PAW – Parents Are Watching       PIR – Parent In Room POS – Parent Over Shoulder -or- Piece Of Sh** TDTM – Talk Dirty To Me             WUF – Where You From WYCM – Will You Call Me?         WYRN – What's Your Real Name? ZERG – To gang up on someone          Hopefully not all our kids know all of them, but many do. WHAT SHOULD WE AS PARENTS DO? Our children are being exposed to more [...]

  Helen Zille, Leader of the Democratic Alliance 9 August 2010 Today we pay tribute to the women of South Africa. They are the daughters and granddaughters of the women of 1956 who had the courage to stand up for themselves, and each other, as many South African women have done — before and since. Over half a century later, on Women’s Day, we have an opportunity to assess our progress in expanding opportunities for women. There is cause for some celebration, but much needs do be done. There has, according to the latest Worldwide Index on Women’s Advancement, been an improvement over the last five years in the socio-economic conditions of women in South Africa and this must be applauded. However, most women still do not reach their potential. The core problem facing women in South Africa today is that so many lose their opportunities before they use them. According to a recent South African Institute of Race Relations study, more than 72,000 girls between the ages of 13 and 19 did not attend school last year because they were pregnant. Most of these young girls will drop out of school, and their opportunities in life will be severely [...]

The root causes of women's oppression – Helen Zille Helen Zille 10 August 2009 The DA leader on the real obstacles to female advancement in SA Failing our women: A tragic loss of human potential On Women's Day it is important to look beyond the symbolism of this public holiday, and address the root causes of women's oppression. The risk of trinkets, cards and gifts on such occasions is that they disguise (rather than address) the substantive issues. The vision of an "open, opportunity society for all" faces major obstacles, none greater than the situation facing most women (not only in South Africa, but in many other countries). The reason is that most women forfeit their opportunities before they begin to use them. Their careers end before they begin. On Women's Day, we should look hard at the catastrophic loss of human potential among South African women. For far too many, life's opportunities have been shut down well before their 20th birthday. Multitudes have dropped out of school. Large numbers have become pregnant by fathers who will never support them or their children, so that both they and their babies are doomed to stunted, impoverished lives. The South African Institute [...]

In the usual lip service action to the statutory requirements of Council, the long awaited for Performance Assessments for 2009/10 of the Executive Directors of the various City core departments were presented at the July Council meeting.  Consequently none of the councillors, except those in the ANC executive, had time to form a rational opinion on the performances which determine these directors’ bonuses.  (The Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 explicitly states that bonuses may be awarded only after an evaluation of performance and approval of such evaluation by the municipal council concerned.) In spite of regular DA protests to this practice in the past, the report gave no detail except the final assessment figure and off course, the percentage bonus and R amount.  Diametrically opposed to the DA’s contention that bonuses should only be paid if services had been rendered and the City’s liquidity allows for it, Mayor Parks Tau emphatically stated that service delivery was not taken into account as it is an emotional perception of the residents. Residents therefore have no direct or indirect (through their councillors) say on whether they think the respective performances justify the bonuses. The five year contracts of most of the executive [...]

Latest News Report of the Council Meeting of 30 June 2011 Compiled  by Cllr Laurette van Zijl Mayor Parks Tau showed total lack of understanding of the eminence of the role of Mayor as First Citizen of Johannesburg when he deemed it appropriate to leave the Council chamber during the discussion of the budget and related matters.  Any probable viable excuse was however refuted when Cllr Vondo, one of the newly appointed members of the Mayoral Committee, attributed his own absence from the Chamber during that same period to a prior arranged meeting with the Mayor!  This in spite of MMC Rehana Moosajee,in her capacity as Leader of Council Business, informing Council that Cllr Vondo had to leave Council due to urgent business he had to attend to. During the Mayor’s judicious absence, the DA echoed Mayor Tau’s call on employees who do not do their work ‘to do the right thing and resign’ and asked Mayor Tau to resign as he was in charge of Finance during the previous term.  The real gravity of the City’s financial demise was brought home with the tabling of the Auditor General’s Qualified Report on the City’s 2009/10 financials.   This report will be [...]

River Clean Up When: Saturday the 6th of August, 2011 at 08:30 Where: Rivonia Riding Club, Achter Road, Paulshof Paulshof residents are organising a cleanup of the river.