VILLAGERS LEAGUE REPORT
KWA-ZULU NATAL
UMDONI MUNICIPALITY
CLLR ASGHAR KHAN & ADELLE
In Umdoni area, Cllr Asghar is hosting an ‘Each one Feed one’ campaign at the Umzinto Offices. Members from the community that can donate, or sponsor hampers or items of food deliver them at our office and we distribute to community members who leave their names at the office if they are in need of food.
I attended the launch of the Al Jama-ah Women’s League in Cape Town Pelican Park. I delivered a speech on behalf of the Al Jama-ah Villagers league encouraging Women Empowerment in small business ventures.
The campaign is growing well, and we are helping to fight hunger in our community.
The two voting station officers in Umdoni has signed up over 1600 membership forms for Al Jama-ah since April 2023 till date.
I attended a Women’s Day stall event in Umzinto ICC and put up the Al Jama-ah stall to make the party visible in our community and I informed the public about Al Jama-ah.
The Al Jama-ah Umzinto Offices continues to assist the community with Indigent free water applications and rates applications and thus far has written off R800 000 worth of water bills from several community members. The office is opened to the public if they require any needs of assistance or service delivery.
PIETERMARITZBURG
ML ABDUL AZIZ
Signed up 40 paid up members. The membership that paid the fees are from the following areas: Lion Park, Inhlazatshe, Mafakathini, Mpoopomeni and Mashingeni. Imbali zone 1 and 15, the person responsible for collecting the forms and fees is out of town and expected to be back in the first week of September 2023.
Dambuza, Sweetwaters had no progress inspite of meeting Sheikh Sulieman twice.
In Enkethini Village they met Appa Habib Milanzi, she is joining Al Jama-ah and is organising for them to have a launch there.
In City Centre PMB, they introduced Al Jama-ah to Pastor N Ntuli, he and Sister Noleen of Scottsville are joining Al Jama-ah.
We are still intending to look for sponsors for food parcels and are in need of food parcels.
There is still no progress with the water sanitation project in Mpopomeni, for Mashingeni Village
GROUTEVILLE
MA LUTHULI
Ma Luthuli attended the women’s league launch in Cape Town on the 9th of August and is now the President of the Al Jama-ah women’s league. She has requested to send in an application to DUT to request for a tasting of her peanut butter. I am waiting for the updated document then I will send off to DUT. She has started making peanut butter again which is some good news. She has attended a training for resource mobilisation. On the 4th of August she met with the National Development Agency regarding funding for fencing an area where the co-op will plant its own peanuts. She said it is a long process but in the mean time the co-op must look for quotes.
UMZIWABANTU-HARDING
CLLR GOODWILL CELE
Cllr Goodwill together with the PRO and his team organised a learnership programme with lifeline for young girls aged 20 to 24 years old. This programme helps them to begin their own businesses.
He also helped one of the local child-headed families where one of those children had gotten burned and passed away while he was sleeping. There was no funeral cover so we organized a coffin, transportation and covered some of the costs.
He also did door to door campaign recruiting and signing up of memberships. They managed to do about 30 memberships, but not all have paid up – they are still waiting for month end so that they can all get paid and send them in. The challenge that he is facing is that Al Jama-ah T shirts is the major concern when they are recruiting people in different wards. They are also requesting Gazebos with an Aljama-ah design.
FREE STATE
DIHLABENG MUNICIPALITY
KWA KWA
They have 502 signed up members from when they started, and 35 paid up members, They are facing challenges of volunteers who are complaining about not getting lunch, as they continue with the door to door campaign’s – and, as their numbers keep growing, they are in need of sweaters. They plead with leadership to assist, they need the visibility – especially when in meetings.
They are also requesting that the reports sent to national leadership be read, they are expecting feedback on their scope of work. They are sending requests, but we don’t get feedback. Feedback is important to them as it can help them answer questions from their members and their community at-large.
EASTERN CAPE
MPAME VILLAGE
ABDULLAH
Abdullah stated that they had a lot of meetings in their village based on the project side built by President. They are awaiting permits for the land, and last week they went to Nature conversation offices with the councillor, for the houses that didn’t receive electricity.
The President assisted to maintain their borehole, but after 2 weeks they didn’t have water in the village.
They require assistance with basic materials for them to go on with campaigns, things like t shirts, banners, and a tablecloth with aljamah logo. They said that even if it’s old stuff they can use it. There are projects and small business profiles they submitted; the community is asking a lot of questions, especially about Vodacom funding for agriculture. They have no answers to give back to the community. They need a response on these issues. He stated that now that we are coming to national elections, other parties have started campaigning, and talking bad about us, saying at the end of the day we have empty promises.
GAUTENG
TSHWANE
KHADIJA
We attended a women’s day event at Pelican Park in Cape Town to launch Al Jama-ah Women’s League.
The event was a success and representatives from the area came in good numbers.
They are Launching in Hammanskraal on the 16th of September.
And on 24th September in Tshwane.