The Olifants News Edition 58

Developing skills for township youth

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

It was the harbinger of great things to come when Sibusiso Skosana (33) won the best mqombothi brewer two years ago. The Emfi hlweni Section, born and bred entrepreneur, walked away with an R5, 000 cash prize and a gift voucher from African Brew and Tolokazi. Today he is a serial entrepreneur who owns multiple companies, including being a brewer, a farmer, a business coach, and an advisor.

“This year, I was also a judge for the Mqombothi competition,” Skosana told The Olifants.

Skosana has an office in Centurion, where he and his team overlook all the entities of 1632Crafts, which are projects aiming to develop various skills for township youth. Through this project, they aim to create employment through Entrepreneur ship and a sustainable value chain within the township.

“We are known for our Craft beer brand (1632 Crafts), clothing line, tourism, and events management. We recently got an opportunity to man age two farms that will be hosting our event soon. The farms will be our centre of tourism destinations. The farms are located in Preto ria near Cullinan, so the plan is to employ youth in Hospitality to make

it possible,” Skosana revealed, The 1632 Crafts has opened an arti sanal workshop specialising in timber furniture and steel. It is a crafts manship initiative that explores all possible crafts. They have teamed up with semi-skilled township artisans whom Sibusiso and his team grew up seeing doing business informally

around kasi.

“Our vision is to formally pass the skill to youth and later train them to use it to start their businesses through my entrepreneurship men torship. We have opened a workshop in Centurion, but we will work with townships around Tshwane and Thembisa. The workshop only has

basic tools. We have built our cut ting tables and shelves as part of our marketing and what we are currently capable of building,” he added.

Skosana’s team is made of people and plans to empower more people as they get more projects. Besides pallet furniture, they also custom ise designs and rent out some of the

furniture they build.

Businesses across South Africa are faced with a loss of profits during load shedding because, in most cases, they require electricity to function and run their businesses. During peri ods of load shedding business owners like Skosana are essentially not work ing during periods of load shedding.

“Loadshedding seems to be the biggest challenge so far because we using electrical power tools. Genera tors and solar systems are expensive to buy. We are basically paying for electricity that we can’t use per our lease agreement with less job done,” Skosana said.

Skosana’s future aspirations end goal is to see all of his entities sup porting each other in business. His ultimate goal is to supply furniture, do branding for his farm, bring events through his tourism entity to the farm, and host events.

He advises budding entrepreneurs to build a brand before anything else.

“It is crucial to know what you want. Set goals and targets, never are afraid to seek advice, and always start small. Understanding your business is also important and always be truthful to your goals. Report back on your failures and, most importantly, learn from them. They will build your suc cess,” he concluded.

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Tembisa - Sethopane Kodibona (33) from Tembisa started an unconventional business washing shoes for cash. Kodibona started his business in 2017 after years of unemployment. Employment is hard to find in Tembisa and the surrounding areas and this affected the entire household and it is what drove Kodibona to start this type of a business to make a living. “No one is working at home, one day I saw a guy washing shoes for cash I took the idea and started my own business so that I can

be able to feed my family, said Kodibona. Kodibona makes about R200 on a busy day which is on weekends mostly, he charges his customers according to shoe size kids pay R10 and adults R25 and all suedes shoes are R35. “My clients are the community, police, nurses and everyone who would love to support my business is welcome. Kodibona uses a big board which he places by the main road to market his business. “My wish is to see my business grow and employ other people, who are unemployed like me, said Kodibona

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Ngokocwaningo olwenziwe ngu Dokotela K. L Makhoba, ukuzila ngelinye lamasiko amadala acishe akhona cishe akhona ezizweni zonke. Ngisho nasebhayibheli imbala kuy avela ukuzila. UDokotela Makhoba uqagula incwadi kaGenesis 38:14, nefundeka kanje: “Wayesekhumula izingubo zakhe zokufelokazi.”

– Joblessness is high in South Africa but for Dennis Vundla (29) this was not game over as he found a niche in his community and started a laundry business to make a living. Vundla, a resident of Clayville Ext 26, started his business in 2016.

Clayville

Ngokocwaningo luka Doko tela Makhoba, ukuncama ukudla ngaphambi kokuthatha uhambo. Umncamo ukuhlabisa umntwana ngaphambi kokuba aphume ekhaya eya emzini. Uhlatshelwa inkomo. Luyehlukana ulwazi lwawongoti ngale nkomo yomncamo. Abanye bathi kuba inkomazi enesu elilodwa. Isizathu salokho ukuba nomntwana afike azale emzini. Abanye bathi kumele kube isithole. Bathi isithole siwuphawu lokuthi umntwana usagc wele. Incazelo kaMthiya isho ukupha umntwana ukudla ahambe esuthi. Usuke engakayidli inyama yasemzini.

Lena yIntombazane ephelezela umakoti. Kumele kube intom bazane eyethenjwayo la ekhaya. Impelesi iphatha izinsila zengane eyemuliswayo. Ngezinsila kuqondwe ubuze bayo. Kulula kule ntombazane ukucwiya izinsila zale ngane eyemu layo, iyigile. Ngezinsila uKhumalo, (1994: 81) uthi:

“I have always wanted to be an entrepreneur, I noticed that most people in Clayville are the working class and don’t have time to do chores and their laundry, so I started a laundry company and merged it with house cleaning,” said Vundla. Eyethu Hygiene is currently providing employment to 3 people and has a monthly turnover of about R12 000.

Umhlalisi Umhlalisi yintombazane okumele ibe seduze kowemuliswayo. Ibizwa ngomhlalisi noma impelesi. Yiyona eyisandla sokuphonsa sowemulayo. Umemulo ungumfuziselo wom endo. Nangamhla igcagca le ntombi iyokuba nazo izimpelesi. EsiZulwini umuntu uyamdinga omunye ukuze bahlangane babe isizwe esibumbene.

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“The business can sustain itself, however I want it to grow even more,” said Vundla. Eyethu Hygiene provides a number of services including Wash, Iron, Folding and house cleaning. Eyethu’s clients range from businesses to households. Vundla’s long term plan is to see the co panding and providing more employment opportunities.

“I want to see my businesses growing with branches in other areas which will in turn provide employment to the youth of South Africa,” said Vundla.

Indawe ithongo elingena ithwasa ngendlela enganalulaka. Omu nye umuntu uzalwa nawo umoya wendawe, akhule nawo. Kuy enzeka kuthathe isikhathi eside ukuba libhoboke leli thongo ngoba alinandluzula. Indawe idlozi lesifa zane. Kuvamile ukuba indawe kube ngelasekhabonina lethwasa.

SAPS Crime Alert for Oakmore

One cop shot dead, and two wounded in Tembisa

By Staff Writer

Agroup of criminals robbed a store at the Tembisa fill ing station when police approached and were fired upon by the gang. Police have mobilised max imum resources after a police officer was shot dead and wounded during an armed robbery at a filling station in Tembisa.

It is understood a group of crim inals entered a filling station on Andrew Mapheto Drive early on

Thursday morning and robbed the convenience store of an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes.

As the group was about to flee, they noticed a group of police officers entering the filling station, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said.

Oakmore - High unemployment in South Africa is one of the major factors leading to an increase in crime rate. The SAPS in Olifantsfontein have recently released a statement alerting residents of crimes that are happening in Oakmore. Community members are advised to stop walking alone in the late hours because they might be victims of armed robbery and rape. The SAPS says motorists are advised not to park at the old Pretoria road next to Oakmore, rather they park at the nearest garage to avid being victims of crime. According to Constable Mokete Serakwana Communication Officer Olifantsfontein SAPS Oakmore has become a crime hotspot for criminals, many crime cases have been reported that happened in that area so it is best to avoid it especially at night.“We are urging the community members to take our crime alerts into consideration to avoid being victims of crime,” said Constable Serakwana.

“All three members and the security guard were taken to hospital for treat ment. One of the members sadly died in hospital. A manhunt is underway for the group of at least 15 suspects who fled the scene in a Toyota Quan tum and Toyota Corolla Prestige,” Mathe said.

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Meanwhile, SAPS management has also learned of the passing on

of three members in a fatal motor vehicle accident in Vereeniging on Wednesday morning. Mathe said at the time of the accident, the officers from the Vereeniging Police Station were conducting crime prevention patrols when a truck allegedly failed to stop at a four-way crossing.

“The truck drove into the SAPS vehicle and dragged the vehicle for at least 500 metres until it came to a standstill. The three SAPS mem bers were certified dead at the scene.

Mathe said the driver of the truck has since been arrested.

“A case of culpable homicide and reckless and negligent driving

is being investigated. The death and attack of these members take place a few days after the annual SAPS Commemoration Day. In the 2021/2022 financial year, 33 mem bers lost their lives in the line of duty.”

The National Commissioner of SAPS, General Fannie Masemola, has sent his condolences to the four members’ family, friends, and col leagues and wished the two members a speedy recovery.

Masemola said an attack on police officers is an attack on the author ity of the state.

“We are not going to allow crimi nals to run amok and do as they wish.

We are coming for each one of them. We are closing the net on each per son in this country who is found to be on the wrong side of the law”, said

Puleng Malete

Dennis Vundla (29) owner of Laundry Services

Inyanga uMandulo (Septem ber) yinyanga yethu lapho thina maAfrika siqhakambisa khona amasiko ethu. Babodwa abakwenza lokhu ngokuthi bavunule, bagqoke

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How will interest rates affect you?

There are two concepts that one needs to consider.

First is the Repo Rate, where banks can borrow money from the South African Reserve Bank. The current Repo Rate is 6.25%. The second consideration is the Prime Rate, the interest rate banks charge their cus tomers on credit products such as home loans. The current prime rate is 9.75%.

So, why are interest rates rising?

The Reserve Bank, which meets six times a year, uses interest rates to manage inflation. Inflation is sim ply how much a weighted basket of goods and services, such as groceries and petrol, goes up from one period to another.

The changes are expressed in per centages, and since South Africa’s inflation target is between 3% and 6%, the Reserve Bank’s mandate is to maintain this target range. Currently, South Africa’s inflation rate is 7.6%.

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Interest rates have increased sev eral times in the last few months in South Africa, and it looks like

they will keep rising for the foresee able future. So, this begs the question: what are interest rates, why are they rising, and how do they affect you?

What are interest rates?

The high inflation is due to several issues, but the main one is the rise in oil and agriculture commodity prices like wheat and sugar. This means it costs more to transport goods and produce necessities such as food.

What does this mean for the consumer?

If you have credit, whether secured or unsecured, and the interest rate goes up, your monthly repayment will also go up. For example, an R1 mil lion bond repayment will cost about R485 more per month now that the interest rate has gone up by 0.75%. This will, unfortunately, limit your spending as goods cost more.

Below are some quick tips for managing the strain of rising inter est rates on your pocket:

1. Keep track of what you spend. See where your money goes and if there are ways to cut back on some expenses you don’t have to. For instance, you could spend less on takeaways and treats and put that money toward your bond or other credit. Use tools like the Track your Spend feature on the FNB App.

2. Move your credit debit order as close as possible to the date you get your income. This way, you’ll know that your debit order has been paid and won’t have to worry about keeping money aside for the rest of the month.

3. Look at other ways to free up cash, such as using your loyalty

programmes, like eBucks, to supple ment your necessary expenses, such as groceries, fuel, and toiletries.

4. Food prices have gone up in the last few months, so look for ways to save money on food, like buying non-perishables once a month and creating a weekly menu from the pantry, then only buying a few fresh things every week.

The good thing about the interest rate cycle is that if you have savings, such as emergency savings or live off the interest from cash investments, the interest on these savings should also go up. This means more inter est will be earned, so more interest will be paid monthly.

If you free up cash via the tips above or the increase in interest paid on cash investments, think about using that to pay off any expensive credit you may have, saving for an emergency, or putting towards your longer-term goals, such as retirement savings.

Keep track of your budget and spending using the FNB Smart Bud get on the FNB App.

Spring clean your finances

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

Spring cleaning season has arrived and is an opportune time for one to reflect and spring clean their finances. The new season presents a good time to take stock and review one’s financial com mitments and insurance covers to ensure they are prepared to handle any unexpected turns for the remain der of the year.

Without a doubt, the current upward interest rate cycle, fuel increases, and the increased cost of living is placing massive financial strain on households, which might have led to consumers considering insurance policy commitments.

Lee Bromfield, Chief Executive of FNB Insurance says, “The one key lesson that the past 2 years has taught us is the importance of hav ing adequate insurance cover. We encourage consumers to take the time to review their insurance poli cies while generally reviewing their finances and ensuring that their fami lies and assets are adequately covered for the unexpected.

Suppose you have loved ones who

count on you for financial support. In that case, your priority for the remainder of the year should be to ensure that you keep or upgrade your insurance coverage to protect your self, your family, and assets should the unfortunate happen.”

FNB Life recommends consum ers consider the following points in the process of spring cleaning their finances:

● Review your budget: You’ll be surprised how much you can save by diligently monitoring and tracking your expenses. Make this a weekly exercise to assess what you spend your money on and which items are necessary.

● Consolidate your life insur ance: Consumers who hold several policies with multiple providers inev itably pay more due to administrative costs. Consider covering your family under one policy to pay one premium. For instance, with FNB Life, you can cover up to 21 family members under one policy.

● Choose debit order to avoid skipping repayments: It’s much eas ier to see what has or hasn’t been paid when all your payments come

from one bank account. This helps you to stay on top of every obligation and minimises the risk of mistakenly skipping a payment.

● Revisit your policy: If you had an increased premium on your policy as a result of health condi tions or dangerous habits, you could approach your insurer to reconsider the premium if your health has improved significantly or when you no longer take part in the dangerous hobby, i.e., drinking and or smoking

“While canceling an insurance policy may seem like the easiest option to relieve immediate finan cial pressure, you need to ensure that you avoid losing all your premiums for short-term financial relief. We encourage all consumers to stay the course and to remain committed to their policy obligations to avoid com promising their cover.

As an integrated financial ser vices provider with a holistic view of our customers’ financial portfolios, we recommend that our customers reach out to the bank for guidance on making the necessary arrange ments to manage their obligations rather than canceling their existing policies,” concludes Bromfield.

Ekurhuleni takes proactive steps to mitigate load shedding

By Staff Writer

On the 22 of September, the Executive Mayor, Ald Tania Campbell, and the MMC for Water, Sanitation and Energy, Cllr Senzi Sibeko, visited the Zestfon tein Solar PV Project site. It is one of the projects that the municipality aims to use to mitigate load shedding.

According to a statement issued by the municipality, the 90 Megawatts (MW) projected will be brought into Ekurhuleni’s power grid. Along with the other solar PV projects in the city, which are at various stages of completion, the total self-generated power supply will be enough to off set Stage 1 load shedding.

This is one of the proactive steps by the City of Ekurhuleni to move away from its reliance on Eskom. Through September, high load shedding took

Olifantsfontein girls’ school receives 600 sanitary pads

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

The City of Ekurhuleni, in part nership with the franchised retail business AJP Group, donated 600 sanitary towels to learn ers at Madibatlou Middle School in Olifantsfontein.

The donation forms part of the City’s broader social and economic regeneration programme.

Speaking at the event, MMC for Health and Social Services reminded the audience, mainly the learners, that according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an esti mated 3 out of 10 girls miss school because of menstruation each month.

“The sanitary towel donation will go a long way in alleviating the hard ships faced by girl children. It will also bring back their dignity and boosts their self-esteem so that they can also play a meaningful role in the development of the country,” the MMC said.

She further appealed to other pri vate companies that have the means

to make a difference in the girl child’s life in the region, to follow the example set by the AJP Group.

“Government can only do so much, but it is a matter of common course that societal problems need vari ous stakeholders – mainly public-private partnerships.”

Speaking on behalf of her school peers, Grade 9 learner Inga Potose said: “It is disheartening to miss school because of not having sanitary towels. We are grateful for the donation, and it will go a long way to encourage us to even do better at school.”

a tremendous toll on residents of the city, its infrastructure, and the economy. Earlier in the year, the city lost R2 billion due to Stage 6 load shedding.

“To continue to rely solely on Eskom would be naïve. Eskom has approached the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) requesting a proposed 32% electric ity tariff increase for next year.”

“We categorically oppose this increase as residents cannot afford this extortionate cost hike. We encourage residents to exercise their rights and submit their objections to NERSA,” said the statement.

Campbell is expected to write to President Cyril Ramaphosa to highlight the negative impact load shedding has had on the City of Ekurhuleni and its residents. She will also write to NERSA expressing their opposition to the potential huge increase proposal. Most residents are overburdened and stretched and

cannot afford the proposed increase in electricity.

“This administration is taking pro active steps to ensure that residents of Ekurhuleni are shielded from the impact of load shedding and its knock-on effects. We categorically oppose Eskom’s excessive price hikes and are working tirelessly to create a self-generated energy network. We encourage all residents and busi nesses with self-generated, excess energy to approach the city to feed back into the grid.”

One cop shot dead, and two wounded in Tembisa

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

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of criminals robbed a store at the Tembisa fill ing station when police approached and were fired upon by the gang. Police have mobilised max imum resources after a police officer was shot dead and wounded during an armed robbery at a filling station in Tembisa.

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It is understood a group of crim inals entered a filling station on Andrew Mapheto Drive early on Thursday morning and robbed the convenience store of an undisclosed amount of money and cigarettes.

As the group was about to flee, they noticed a group of police officers entering the filling station, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said.

“All three members and the security

guard were taken to hospital for treat ment. One of the members sadly died in hospital. A manhunt is underway for the group of at least 15 suspects who fled the scene in a Toyota Quan tum and Toyota Corolla Prestige,” Mathe said.

Meanwhile, SAPS management has also learned of the passing on of three members in a fatal motor vehicle accident in Vereeniging on Wednesday morning. Mathe said at the time of the accident, the officers from the Vereeniging Police Station were conducting crime prevention patrols when a truck allegedly failed to stop at a four-way crossing.

“The truck drove into the SAPS vehicle and dragged the vehicle for at least 500 metres until it came to a standstill. The three SAPS mem bers were certified dead at the scene.

Mathe said the driver of the truck has since been arrested.

Scam alert!

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

The City of Ekurhuleni warns business owners to be on the lookout for scammers posing as Environmental Health Practitioners and issuing fraudulent Certificates of Acceptability (COA) for a fee.

The City reminds residents of Thembisa that the COA, which is compulsory for all food premises, is free of charge.

According to the City’s Public Health by-laws, the Environmental Health Division can only issue a COA once a practitioner has inspected the premises. Also, if they are satisfied that those facilities comply with the National Regulations governing gen eral hygiene requirements for food premises, the transportation of food, and related matters.

The City encourages businesses visited by environmental health practitioners to demand proof of iden tification from such individuals and to deny them access if they fail to furnish such evidence.

Furthermore, the municipality advises anyone running a food busi ness without a COA to go to their nearest customer care centre and arrange for an inspection to obtain one.

For more information and per mit requirements, the public health by-laws and environmental health services tariffs are available on www.ekurhuleni.gov.za, or call 011-999-2968.

Members of the public who have information on the fraudsters mas querading as the City’s officials are encouraged to report them to the SAPS at 08600 10111 or contact the City’s fraud hotline at 0800 102 201.

“A case of culpable homicide and reckless and negligent driv ing is being investigated. The death and attack of these members take place a few days after the annual SAPS Commemoration Day. In the 2021/2022 financial year, 33 mem bers lost their lives in the line of duty.”

The National Commissioner of SAPS, General Fannie Masemola, has sent his condolences to the four members’ family, friends, and col leagues and wished the two members a speedy recovery.

Masemola said an attack on police officers is an attack on the author ity of the state.

“We are not going to allow crimi nals to run amok and do as they wish. We are coming for each one of them. We are closing the net on each per son in this country who is found to be on the wrong side of the law”, said Masemola.

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applications will officially open on 26 September 2022 and close on 16 October 2022. This gives all the youth 3 weeks for applications,” the department said.

Applications for Phase IV of the Presidential Youth Employ ment Initiative (PYEI) are now open in the Basic Education sec tor. According to a statement issued by the government, all applications will close on 16 October 2022.

In a statement on Sunday, the Department of Basic Education announced that Phase IV would offer job opportunities to 255 100 youth across the nine provinces in around 20 000 public ordinary schools and schools for learners with special edu cation needs (LSEN).

“Phase IV comes as the country‘s youth have reaped the benefits of more than 850 000 job opportuni ties coupled with training offered throughout this initiative. The

All the youth aged 18-34 years residing within a radius of 5km from a school are requested to register on SAYouth.mobi and apply for the Edu cation Assistant and General School Assistant job opportunities.

“There is no cost to the youth for accessing SAYouth.mobi, as the site is zero-rated. There will be no appli cations at schools,” the department said.

The opportunities have been dis tributed as follows among provinces:

PROVINCE ALLOCATION OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES PER PED 2023 FOR PHASE IV

EASTERN CAPE 40 100 FREE STATE 15 500 GAUTENG 40 000

Women’s health put under the microscope

Two African males lifeless bodies found in an open veld

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

The police found lifeless bod ies on Saturday at 7:00 am by the members of the Ivory Park SAPS. The police officers were attending to a complaint of two counts of murder in an open veld, dumping area next to the River between Kaal fontein Extension 7 “A” and “B.” Both the deceased sustained stabbed and

gunshot wounds on the middle and upper body.

On arrival at the scene, they found 02 African males aged 26 and 29, lying down.

The victims were certified dead by paramedics. The Victims were identified as they are related to each other and staying together at the same address in Kaalfontein as tenants.

“There are no eyewitnesses at this stage. One of the community

members alleged that she heard gunshots on 2022-09-24 at about 01:00, but the suspects and the motive behind the killings are still unknown,” said the statement.

All role players were summoned to the scene. The Police in Ivory park is requesting members of the com munity who might have information regarding the suspects to phone the Police on 011 990 9600 or 08600 10111.

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

The City of Ekurhuleni com memorated the Cervical Cancer Awareness Month on Friday, 23 September, to raise awareness about women’s health. The commemora tion was held at Church Evangelical Assemblies of God of South Africa in Daveyton. Addressing the public, Them bane Masina, manager of the city’s

maternal, child, women, and men’s health, encouraged women to pri oritise their health and not to ignore minor ailments that could be early warning signs for cervical or breast cancer.

The issues highlighted during the health talk were sexuality, sexual, and reproductive rights. Masina encouraged residents to visit the city’s health facilities regardless of how insignificant their health con cerns might be.

Soccer pitch made from old chip bags

By Dumisani Hlatswayo

Thembisa has a soccer pitch made from more than three million used chip packets. The fully recyclable artificial turf has been hosting educational sport ing programmes for almost a year, bringing soccer lovers together.

The pitch, which is also Lay’s branded, was handed over to the community of Thembisa in June 2021. The pitch is expected to stay in good condition for the next eight years, nine before being completely recycled. Lay’s is planning to create additional similar pitches by 2023. Ekurhuleni Municipality uses the power of play and football to address social issues impacting local commu nities through long-term educational sporting programmes.

“With its RePlay concept, the Lay’s brand uses the power of play and foot ball to address social issues impacting local communities through long-term educational sporting programmes,”

“ Initial calculations were to see approximately 500 participants in RePlay programmes per month, but the average is actually over 1000

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per month. With this huge growth in demand, not everyone could be accommodated by the initial lim ited sessions on offer,” the statement continued.

Since the Lay’s RePlay pitch launch in Thembisa, three other pitches have been built in Leicester, UK; San Paulo, Brazil; and Turin in Italy. Four

more pitches are currently under con struction, with another three planned for 2023. Across these four pitches, 15000 community members are regularly using the pitches, 1800 community members are attending regular Edufootball programmes, and over 2100 hours of program ming have been delivered.

Pepsico statement said. According to Lay’s statement, the idea was to give the commu nity of Thembisa a place to create “Safe Hubs” for the township youth.