Cloud Chatter November 2014

1. November celebrates
Foundation Month
Issue 6
November 2014
Cloud
Chatter
Showcase your projects
to the world!
When we focus on sustainable projects we can
achieve so much more when we have access to the
Rotary Foundation funds – However, in order to
make a measurable impact, we need to contribute
to the Rotary Foundation.
We see only 30% of the total iceberg at sea level –
the remainder is under the ocean. Rotary funding
has a similar pattern. You can see the amounts
involved through the Rotary Foundation funded
projects annually (above sea level). The non-TRF
funded projects is a far larger fund (below the
ocean)… but both funds guarantee 1000s of
projects worldwide. Your contribution will make a difference!
Rotary Showcase allows clubs and districts to boast about the projects undertaken. Rotary Showcase has other
benefits which allows countries to experience different project ideas which they could use. Showcase’s Impact Tracker
includes information of the number of project volunteers, how long they spent on the project and the worth of the
contributions in either cash or
kind.The value of
Showcase is
shown on the
diagram.
Load your project/event via the Internet browser:
Showcase works best with Chrome, Firefox, or
Safari - register your project by signing into Rota-
ry.org. Go to Develop Projects section of the Take
Action menu. Rotary Showcase is supported Rotary
languages and Google translate. You can include
your project and club partners. Video your project or
event and load it onto YouTube. Showcase allows
you to post up to 20 photos.
Include information about the project, volunteers,
the hours spent and the impact that the project had
on the community. Other social media to consider is
Facebook; Twitter and your district or club blog and
website.
Tell the world what Rotarians and Rotaracts do –
use Rotary Showcase to seek sponsorship – the more
the corporates see, the more they would want to be
involved.

2. As we head for our first anniversary……..
The RC of Roodepoort (70 years) and Roodepoort
Central (40 years) were celebrating their birthdays.
None of us will be around to celebrate this kind of
anniversary but we will leave behind a legend!
Pres Brian (right) PDGS Ernie
Hendriks (2nd from left) and Robin
Liedtke (2nd from right) and DG
Annie in the middle - AG Hans is
on the left.
DG Annie with Pres Brian Keith Robertson
from Roodepoort and PP Annemarie (E Club).
Out and about with the Rotarians from Miami, USA
What a special evening. Dinner was held with Rotarians from Miami and they have poten-
tially confirmed their
support to assist us
with the centre in
Mathibestad.
Right: Rtn Judith
Chinkumbi (Rotary
Club of Northcliff), DG
Annie Steijn (D9400),
PE Edie Spiegel

3. Members of our E Club
showing lots of passion
in their commitment
making a
difference in
Mathidestad
Below: Tara Ison Dr
Pat and Dr Mashadi
Tara Ison, Charlotte, DG Annie
Steijn & Sue Paget
Win Bauer and Dr Pat Francis
Tunnel gardening at Mathibestad

4. It is hoped that the Ruth First scholarship will enable promising learners whose parents may have considered Jeppe
Girls to be out of their financial reach the opportunity of attending this school.
Ruth First attended Jeppe from 1939 - 1941 where her talents as a leader, writer and
thinker were already evident. A library prefect, she won the English prize as well as
obtaining a distinction in English, which was a very rare occurrence in those days.
Born into a middle class family, Ruth, spurned a comfortable and privileged life to
become a remarkable leader in the anti-apartheid struggle.
She was an exceptional writer and political thinker who used
her skills and intellect to highlight the injustices in South
African society. She enrolled at Wits to do a BA degree and
became involved in student politics, joining the South African
Communist Party.
Her first job was as a researcher in the Johannesburg munici-
pality, which she found exceptionally boring. She left and be-
gan working with trade unions, where she distinguished her-
self as an investigative journalist, exposing the vicious truth of apartheid rule.
Ruth joined the Guardian newspaper and later became editor. The South African govern-
ment sought to crush all opposition to apartheid during the Fifties and Sixties. In 1956 the
Guardian was banned and Ruth was one of 150 people charged with high treason, along-
side Nelson Mandela and her husband Joe Slovo. She spent 117 days in solitary confine-
ment before she was acquitted. She died in 1982 when a letter bomb, sent to her by apart-
heid agents, exploded in her office at the university in Maputo.
Justice Albie Sachs has agreed to be a patron of the fund, and has this to say "Ruth First was a wonderful friend, a
brilliant thinker and writer and remarkably courageous in pursuit of freedom. I will do everything I can do to
honour her memory. I am delighted that Jeppe High School for Girls has taken this initiative which I support whole-
heartedly. I commend it to all who value Ruth's profound contribution to the establishment of democracy in South
Africa and respect the sacrifices she made. It will be wonderful for many young women of diverse backgrounds to
be given the opportunity to obtain top quality education at Ruth's old school and thus follow in her footsteps."
RUTH FIRST
FOUNDATION
AWARDS EVENING
Judith Chinkumbi, Judge
Edwin Cameron and
PE Annemarie Mostert
The Ruth First Foundation bursary awards
evening as held at the Jeppe Girls High. PE
Annemarie Mostert with Rotarian Judith
Chinkumbi are founding members of the
memorial fund and supporting a bursary of
one child for 5 years.
The Ruth First Memorial Trust aims to pro-
vide scholarships and support that will
help turn young women from ordinary
circumstances into principled
leaders who will make a difference in
South African society.
Late PP Nelson
Mandela & Ruth
First

5. NEST DRESSED
COUPLE
Night at the Races: RC of North-
cliff’s fund-raiser -
PE Annemarie representing our
club
Hassan-ii-Mosque -
Casablanca:
Morocco
Morocco was a special place!
Rotary International Image Coordinator for
the 10 countries in Southern Africa, PDG
Shirley Downie, spent two weeks in Morocco
working for Rotary International.
The first two days was spent in Casablanca,
on holiday! The rest of the time was spent training incoming Governors for 2015 & 2016 for
Zones 20A and 20B—18 countries involved from Africa and Southern Europe.
Shirley then attended the Rotary Coordinators meeting and the Foundation seminar. Then
two days were spent at the Zone 20B Institute (493 people attended) and she delivered a
paper - and then the Reach Out to Africa (ROTA) two days Seminar.
Rotarians are very special people the world over! Lots of new ideas and hundreds of
projects being undertaken.
Night market—Marrakesh

7. Twinning club— making history
On Monday 17 November @ 7pm SA time an historic moment. Was enjoyed by many It was the twinning of 2 Rotary Clubs –
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