MOULANA HOOSAIN | BLOEMFONTEIN

EBRAHIM | QWA-QWA

ABDULLAH | MPAME VILLAGE

1. Last month they collected groups items of agriculture support for Vodacom funding. Many people came out to be interested in this funding and he is hoping that they will get a response very soon.
2. His village had meeting regarding Nature Conversation issues with land issues. The community needs the land back from nature and some houses didn’t get electricity because Nature says the land, they build in is under Nature Conservation. They have called several meetings with this department, but they are not responding to the community demands.
3. They approached Shoprite to sponsor Mpame village with food parcels for the needy families.
4. Lastly the chicken project really helped recently and is developing step by step in one of the villages

They are organizing their Mpame soccer and netball tournament together with Al Jama-ah birthday celebration on the 28th of July.

We will keep more updates on memberships after the 1st of July.

* Shiluvane Area cleaning- Attendance (30)
On the 13th of May 2023 we had a meeting and discussed on how we can give back to the community, the outcome of the meeting was that as AL-JAMAAH we will intervene, there is a particular area within Shiluvane that was very bushy and unsafe, On the 14th of May 2023. We went and cleaned the area, during the process of cleaning the community and the traditional council were impressed and instantly joined forces with us, and about 25 shirts were distributed and members were recruited.

* 20th may fun walk to Motupa -Attendance 90 -Signed 65(16 paid)
We had a fun walk of approximately 4km from Mokwakwaila to Ga Motupa, during the walk we managed to recruit over 70 members of which 30 T-shirts were distributed and membership forms signed. They were ready to pay the membership fee, but we informed them to pay through to AL-JAMA AH national account and we instructed them to forward the proof of payment to us for confirmation.

* 28th May Maselapata Village – Attendance 16
We had an agent meeting called by the chairperson NTOLA in order to discuss the Smart Village and programs to be implemented within our respective areas. We discussed about our mandate to the community, we agreed and pictured areas that are in need of services, e.g after care in Maselapata Village, Boreholes in Maselapata , Hospital view ,Makhubidung, Mine view and Shiluvane village.

* 03rd June (Sekororo/Baloon campaigns) – Attendance 60 Singed – 25 (15 paid)
On the 03rd of June, we campaigned in Sekororo Village under Maruleng Municipality, we were welcomed by the community and senior members of the community. The meeting was attended by approximately 50 people and 27 signed the membership forms. We discovered that they complain about poor service delivery.

* 04th June (executive and community meeting) – Attendance 20
Earlier on, we met as task team to discuss the previous campaigns and preparations on upcoming event to be held on the 16th of June in commemoration of the Youth Day. In the afternoon we met with the community members to inform them about the initiative that we undertook in order to celebrate the Youth of 1976, who sacrificed their lives for the betterment of our education system.

* 16th June Youth Day celebration- Attendance 1000 Signed 700(16 paid)
Early in the morning we marched in remembering those Youths who sacrificed their

lives for the betterment of the education system, we singed the struggle songs. Later, the Soccer Tournament began, during the tournament many people came forward and they were given membership forms, large number showed interests. The tournament continued to Day 2, on which the winning teams and runner ups were crowned.

CLLR STULWENI | DRAKENSTEIN

* He attended monthly meetings at council and had a training session ITAMS which deals with informal trading.

* He hosted Lantana Jamaat Khana seniors and residents for lunch.

* On Saturday 10 June 2023, Al Jama-ah’s Councillor Ahmed Stulweni and Voting Station Officer Achmat Patel visited farm dwellers living on the Nantes farm in Northern Paarl,

* Drakenstein Municipality. The farm dwellers attended the Presidential Imbizo which was held in Paarl recently with the hope of sharing their grievances with President Cyril Ramaphosa. Unfortunately, they were not selected to address the President and approached Al Jama-ah members who were at the Imbizo to assist them.

* Their mailer has since been raised in Parliament by AL JAMA-AH’s leader and Member of Parliament Hon Ganief Hendricks when he delivered his speech on the Appropriation Bill on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development.

* Since the Nantes farm became under new ownership, their “lives have been turned upside down,” say the farmer dwellers. The new owner fenced off their houses from the rest of the farm as well as the farm road leading to the main road. Instead, they must make use of a narrow sandy path of about 1800 metres long to access and exit their houses. The narrow path is sandwiched between two fences; people must walk in a line through it. During winter, the path is muddy and slippery.