First Group's La Vita Health Spa at the Palace in Durban treated the three winners of the 2018 Hillcrest Aids Centre Gogo of the Year competition to a day of pampering. As the winners, the Gogos were given a brunch at the hotel's Pesto restaurant, which was followed by body treatments at the La Vita Spa, cosmetic gift hampers, and a travel set from Vaczone.
The seventh annual 5 For Change Black Tie Gala debuted in Joburg on 27 October. The event raised funds and awareness for five social enterprise beneficiares: Dlala Nje, Olico Maths Education, Hustlenomics, CRSP Dsgn and enke: Make Your Mark. Read more about the event here.
The Tsogo Sun Silverstar Casino donated more than 189 staff hours and over R700,000 in various upliftment projects in celebration of Mandela Day. Its beneficiaries include the Bethany Trust House, which has several homes and centres under its care in Krugersdorp, as well as the Tower of Life, which shelters for men and women, and several others.
Sponsors, donors, and volunteers gave back this past Mandela Day and the days thereafter by doing a wide variety of activities at Afrika Tikkun's Centres of Excellence in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
United Nations Messenger of Peace Charlize Theron recently visited non-profit organisation Dlalanathi in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Dlalanathi is one of nine Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) programme partners.
Clover has awarded Dorah Semenya of the Shalate Drop-in Centre in Seshego, Limpopo with the 2018 funding for a valued site improvement as well as bread baking training. This forms part of the Clover Mama Afrika Madiba Week, which Clover is running with fleet and mobile asset management solutions company MiX Telematics.
Qhubeka, Tsogo Sun, and the City of Johannesburg donated 40 bicycles to the staff of Diepsloot Safe-Hub on 26 June 2018. The bicycles will help the staff in their efforts to build the Safe-Hub programme in the area by travelling further, faster, and at no cost.
To play its part in giving back to communities this past Mandela Day on 18 July 2018, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages and its partners used its 67 minutes to distribute food parcels to various places in the Western Cape.
