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2023 Highlights

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REPORTS

ORANGE FREE STATE

MOULANA HOOSAIN | BLOEMFONTEIN

Their biggest problem that they are facing at the moment is that people want to know how long they should wait for them to receive their membership cards.

The people that have sighed including himself are:

1.Boitumelo Khabola = (068 003 7332)
2. Jasien Ben = (072 465 6355)
3. Matshidiso Ebrahim Thipe (078 7958 604)
4. Morongwa Lucia Anisa Moiloa = (064 628 6235)
5. Husein Remaketse Moiloa = (067 165 9204)
6. Abongile Skele = (073 486 5823 )
7. Mbulelo Willson Abdul Shakur Mooi = (078 416 1350)
8. Mohammad Ali Akbar Olifant = (078 857 0195)

Still waiting for response from other people to sign for the party.

EBRAHIM | QWA-QWA

  • As they are looking forward to having more members and more Ward’s. Since they started their soup kitchen it helped their community a lot, as they are coming in great numbers. They continue to make sure that everyone is benefiting from our Soup kitchen.

  • He would like to request for a top up to their previous budgets, because of the number of people who are benefiting from our Soup kitchens.

  • As they are going to celebrate their Eid as Muslim Communities, they would like get support from Aljamm’ah so that we can invite all leaderships to join them, as they celebrate Eid and that will play a very important role towards their campaign.

  • Memberships forms are needed urgently.

EASTERN CAPE

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.

LIMPOPO

SAITI NTOLA | SHILUVANE VILLAGE

* 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.

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WESTERN CAPE

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.

* When it rains, school children stay at home because they get wet while walking through the muddy path and some slip into the mud. Some of the farm dwellers who own cars, must park their vehicles at a neighbouring farm about 3km’s away and walk back to their houses. No vehicles including emergency vehicles such as ambulances and fire engines can access their dwellings as the pathway is way too narrow. The sick and aged miss their doctors’ appointments as they are often not healthy enough to walk through the narrow path to get transport from the main road.

* There was a fire incident and the fire engines had to take a longer route by accessing a neighbouring farm to extinguish the fire. Not even a hearse can access the property and the dead bodies must be carried through the narrow path to the hearse parked on the side of the main road.

* ELECTRICITY – The farm owner has installed electricity boxes through Syntell, a private provider. The farm dwellers pay more for electricity (R50 for 13.6 units compared to just over 20 units when purchased from local municipality) and do not benefit from the municipality’s free units to indigent people. Because of the high electricity cost, many of the families spend most weeks in a month without electricity.

* WATER – They do not have running water inside their homes and must collect from a water tank, which they say are often empty, faulty and if there is water in the tank, the water supply is at a painstakingly slow pace. During summer the problem is worse, and they must wait long hours for the tank to fill up.

* REFUSE REMOVAL – Despite the court order that the farm owner is responsible for refuse services, this has been denied to the dwellers. They often must burn their refuse which causes pollution and coughing as they live on a very confined space.

* CONCLUSION – The farm dwellers want to be treated with dignity, humanely and enjoy the basic rights all citizens deserve. They feel unsafe as they are ‘fenced in” and vulnerable to fires.; they have no easy access and exit from the farm – they want the road to be reopened so they can park their vehicles where they live; they pay more for electricity and are denied the municipal benefits for indigent people because they live on ‘private’ property; and water supply remains a challenge.

* We had Disaster for past two weeks had to assist residents one of our ladies that is cooking house were affected Municipality was assisting all affected areas as we reported as Cllr after review all residents were pleased with the Municipality response

– Few complaints that need to follow up for repairing of rental stock.
– Soup Kitchen is up and running again.
– They assisted with the recruitment of new members too.