TONIGHT is the biggest day in the lives of the selfless servants of the people of Northern Cape who will be honoured at the annual Community Builder of the Year Awards in Kimberley.
This nation-building project of the Northern Cape social development department and Sowetan is inspired by erstwhile Sowetan, SABC and Old Mutual Community Builder of the Year Awards.
It left an indelible corporate social investment mark for recognising, acknowledging and rewarding community builders nationwide for more than 10 years.
It was among the first nation-building projects launched by late former Sowetan editor-in-chief Aggrey Klaaste as a journalistic response to, and intervention in, moral, social, political and economic decay and-or fragmentation.
Candidates are found in the youth, adult, senior and group categories.
Last year's winners were Sylvia Swartz, Obakeng Lechuti, Rosina Phillips and Kristien Bahumi.
Phillips won the seniors category, Lechuti the youth section, Bahumi the adult section and Swartz the group category. They each received R20000 for their projects.
Phillips heads the Women Against Crime Project in Port Nolloth, which counsels, motivates and protects abused, vulnerable and displaced women.
Lechuti's Batlharos Theatre Practitioners, based in Batlharos, keeps the youth off the streets with drama, music, poetry and dancing workshops. Bahumi's Kagiso Day Care Centre in Ritchie caters mostly for disabled children.
She stresses that these children should not only be kept safe, but should be stimulated through reading, storytelling, physical exercises and other creative activities.
Swartz runs the Foundation for Alcohol Related Research in De Aar.
Its accent is on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder or foetal alcohol syndrome, which affects children whose mothers abused alcohol during pregnancy.
The 16 other finalists won R2000 each.
Senior category: Susan Engelbrecht, Condoline Bezuidenhout, Keitumetse Kwenamore and Anna Sehako.
Youth category: Jerry Scott, Mbulelo Kafi, Marylin Jantjies and Leonard McKay.
Adult section: Rochelle Ford, Hermien Steenkamp, Tshegofatso Ditoronyane and Marianna Mouton.
Group section: Victor Tshekedi, Morgan Hendricks, Edwin Mabotsa and Rose Louw.
Honoured for being selfless
TONIGHT is the biggest day in the lives of the selfless servants of the people of Northern Cape who will be honoured at the annual Community Builder of the Year Awards in Kimberley.
This nation-building project of the Northern Cape social development department and Sowetan is inspired by erstwhile Sowetan, SABC and Old Mutual Community Builder of the Year Awards.
It left an indelible corporate social investment mark for recognising, acknowledging and rewarding community builders nationwide for more than 10 years.
It was among the first nation-building projects launched by late former Sowetan editor-in-chief Aggrey Klaaste as a journalistic response to, and intervention in, moral, social, political and economic decay and-or fragmentation.
Candidates are found in the youth, adult, senior and group categories.
Last year's winners were Sylvia Swartz, Obakeng Lechuti, Rosina Phillips and Kristien Bahumi.
Phillips won the seniors category, Lechuti the youth section, Bahumi the adult section and Swartz the group category. They each received R20000 for their projects.
Phillips heads the Women Against Crime Project in Port Nolloth, which counsels, motivates and protects abused, vulnerable and displaced women.
Lechuti's Batlharos Theatre Practitioners, based in Batlharos, keeps the youth off the streets with drama, music, poetry and dancing workshops. Bahumi's Kagiso Day Care Centre in Ritchie caters mostly for disabled children.
She stresses that these children should not only be kept safe, but should be stimulated through reading, storytelling, physical exercises and other creative activities.
Swartz runs the Foundation for Alcohol Related Research in De Aar.
Its accent is on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder or foetal alcohol syndrome, which affects children whose mothers abused alcohol during pregnancy.
The 16 other finalists won R2000 each.
Senior category: Susan Engelbrecht, Condoline Bezuidenhout, Keitumetse Kwenamore and Anna Sehako.
Youth category: Jerry Scott, Mbulelo Kafi, Marylin Jantjies and Leonard McKay.
Adult section: Rochelle Ford, Hermien Steenkamp, Tshegofatso Ditoronyane and Marianna Mouton.
Group section: Victor Tshekedi, Morgan Hendricks, Edwin Mabotsa and Rose Louw.
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