ANC Youth League members did volunteer work on Wednesday at a family welfare organisation in Khutsong on the West Rand run by an Afrikaner women’s body.<\/p>\n
They did so as part of their 67-minute contribution to mark former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
SA Vrouefederasie regional manager for Carletonville, Suzette Oosthuizen, said: “There were a lot of people.”<\/p>\n
She said the league visited a centre for the aged in the area and helped with the food gardens, which residents had been struggling to establish.<\/p>\n
“For the elderly to work in the garden is a challenge,” said Oosthuizen.<\/p>\n
They enjoyed having the young people over. “We should have it more often,” she said. Her wish was that someone would make a year-long commitment to help out.<\/p>\n
League spokeswoman Khusela Sangoni-Khawe said: “As much as we speak about economic freedom, we understand the key components are about looking after people in general, including the elderly.”<\/p>\n
It was irrelevant that the family welfare organisations they visited were run by Afrikaners. – Sapa<\/p>\n
“I don’t think the divisions in our society are such that we [should] forget that we are one people,” she said.<\/p>\n
Every year on Mandela’s birthday, people are encouraged to donate 67 minutes of their time to some form of community service in his honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ANC Youth League members did volunteer work on Wednesday at a family welfare organisation in Khutsong on the West Rand run by an Afrikaner women’s body. They did so as part of their 67-minute contribution to mark former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday on Wednesday. SA Vrouefederasie regional manager for Carletonville, Suzette Oosthuizen, said: “There were … Continue reading “ANC Youth League help at Afrikaner old-age home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[85,432,576,12250],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-afrikaners","tag-anc-youth-league","tag-khusela-sangoni-khawe","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}