Letter from the National Chairperson
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NAG Teaser
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Smart benefits
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Letter from International Chairperson
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Leap 2016
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The Rapid Growth of Mensa Japan
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70th Anniversary Celebrations
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Photographer of the Year 2016
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Membership renewal
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SIGS
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New webpage
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Events
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AGM
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Mensa was founded in 1946 so this year sees us celebrating 70 years! Roland Berrill and Dr Lancelot Ware had the idea of forming a society for very intelligent people with a high IQ and Mensa was born. The organisation has grown to over 133 000 members worldwide in 100 countries. In our international constitution Mensa’s purpose is: 1. To identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity; 2. To encourage research into nature, characteristics and uses of intelligence; and 3. To provide a stimulating, intellectual and social environment for its members. Running a society of this nature takes manpower and there can never be too many helpers. If you feel you can contribute in any way, please feel free to contact any of the National Committee (details to the left).
Webpage: www.mensa.org.za
We would love to hear your comments, suggestions and thoughts so get in touch with us today!
National Chairperson: Simone Deyzel-O’Brien chairperson@mensa.org.za National Treasurer: Schalkwyk van der Merwe National Secretary & National PR Co-ordinator: Lorraine Steyn
Heidi Franck EDITOR chronicle@mensa.org.za
marketing@mensa.org.za National Admin Officer: Yvonne Steyn admin@mensa.org.za
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FROM THE DESK OF THE SA NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON Hi there Mensans, If you are a member of our Facebook group, you will be aware of the recent issues surrounding the behaviour of specific members on the Facebook group. It is the Executive Committee's view that the membership in general should be made aware of the issues in question and the steps being taken in order to resolve them: The remedial action from the Executive Committee included the removal of a post which was deemed to be inappropriate due to the fact that it had the potential to disturb certain of our members, while keeping in mind that the Facebook Group is accessible by our underage members. There was also another post where a serious accusation was raised against an Executive Committee member, which also lead to the Executive Committee being compromised in the eyes of the membership. The complaint was subsequently resolved. The member was reprimanded by the Executive Committee and is no longer part of the Committee. A second unauthorised Facebook page was created by a member, where explicit content was free to be discussed by Mensa members and which unfortunately led to abuse and reports were made to the Executive Committee again. It is
difficult to administer a group which was created specifically to avoid Executive or National Committee intervention or protection. In this regard I have consulted with the international community of Chairpersons also known as the International Board of Directors (IBD) and was pleased to receive feedback from multiple Chairpersons as well as our International Executive Committee. As a result, a second official Mensa South Africa Facebook page will be created where members are free to discuss anything, as long as it does not contravene Facebook’s own community rules or Mensa’s Constitution. The latter is to try and prevent ad hominem attacks etc. If a post on the main group is thought to be too risqué, the member who posted it will be asked to move it to the second group. This second official Mensa South Africa Facebook page can be joined upon request and will be monitored to ensure that our underage members cannot access it. Regarding members who have acted in contravention of our Constitution on the main Mensa South Africa Facebook page, the Mensa South African Executive Committee has elected to engage with and where appropriate, take disciplinary action. This position has received the support from several other IBD members, as well as members of the International Executive Committee. We have already commenced with some of these engagements and would like to ask for patience from our membership. We are here to serve the membership but 2
we are not full-time volunteers and unfortunately cannot move as fast as we would like to in this regard. The private complaints we received regarding how long it took to remove the offending posts, have all been addressed to the satisfaction of those who wrote to us. We do however invite anyone who either wants to support or oppose anything we do to write to chairperson@mensa.org.za. On a lighter note, I’m pleased to announce that our new website is going live. During the course of June, we will attempt to enable our online membership renewals as well as our e-commerce shop. Some of the items that will be available include personalised Mensa mugs, Mensa South Africa fleece jackets, slogan tshirts, membership pins and stickers.
would be very grateful to hear back from you if you experience any errors. Your feedback enables us to create a better experience for all. I would like to extend a word of thanks to all who have renewed memberships. We hope that you will find you get more value out of your membership for the next year.
Simoné Deyzel-O’Brien National Chairperson Mensa South Africa chairperson@mensa.org.za
** as of 4 July we have not yet created the 2 nd Facebook group. We will announce once it is in place.
We will also be enabling online voting in future. We believe this will encourage more involvement from the membership, especially those who would otherwise have to travel far to participate. Mensa South Africa has also drafted a brand new Constitution. The Constitution will need to be ratified by membership before it can be officially adopted and to this end, we are going to use our evoting system for the first time. Members who choose not to register a profile on the site will still be able to vote in the previously existing ways. As with any new system though, we anticipate teething problems and
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From the Chairman In my first article to you as international chair, I could only speak about the newly-elected Executive Committee and the future plans I had. Initially, I had to listen and learn a lot. After about eight months, I can happily say that our work has started to yield results. The Executive Committee, including me, has been very busy with the faceto-face ExComm meeting, held in Berlin during the EMAG, and after that, with the preparing and conducting the IBD meeting in Novi Sad. We had about 50 people around the table representing 35 countries, ploughing through a huge agenda with 40 items. Having that behind our backs, I could concentrate on progressing towards the achievement of the goals I promised in my election materials. In August, 2015 I created a Facebook page for ExComm. The aim was to create an interactive channel for those interested in learning more about the work of the International Board (i.e. the officers they elected), and through that to better see how Mensa works at an international level. The page has slightly over 600 likes (up to the time of writing) – which is quite a low number for our society with 130,000 members. I invite you all to check it out and join at:
https://www.facebook.com/ExCommM ensaInternational/. My plan is to set up a FB page for Mensa International as well, to serve the ‘outside world’ with news and interesting things about us, to further strengthen the Mensa International brand within the greater community. Hopefully, by the time you read this, it will be fully functional. Meanwhile, we started to tidy up our Facebook presence by eliminating fake FB groups with names ‘Mensa’, ‘Mensa member’, ‘Mensa International’ and the like. Fake groups just proliferate, without any permission from Mensa to use the name and the logo. They are very deceiving, confusing and can easily
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be mistaken for the official group. Some even block easy FB addresses without any right to do so. With Executive Director Michael Feenan, we started to proceed in banning the 5-10 biggest of them. Co-operating with Stacey Kirsch, administrator of the official group, we managed to change the address of the group so that it may easily be identified. You can join that group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/M ensaInternationalOfficial/Please join the official group (and leave the others). The IBD in Novi Sad passed a motion to create a new non-voting volunteer position of International Communication Officer to perform all kinds of public relations, communication and branding tasks. This was a long-overdue appointment. Ultimately, the successful candidate was Ivett Vancsik. She is a professional with a relevant career of about 20 years. She is a marketing expert by qualification, she is an active marketing and communication consultant with management skills and with rich experiences among others in the field of Public Relations, branding, communication, business strategy. She speaks very high level English. You will surely hear more because she will be a tremendous help for us – and particularly for me as chair. Welcome,
Ivett! Well, you do not need a PR diploma to establish that while several national groups have excellent visual identity, Mensa International completely lacks that. Visual elements are not coherent on the website, business cards, letterheads etc. Some are taken from here, some from there, and there is little coherence. That situation is not worthy of our society. Therefore, I asked the ICO to help me in changing that and to ask a graphic designer to ‘refresh’ the corporate image based on what we have so that it becomes coherent and uniform. Hopefully, it will be ready by the time you read this! You all know that in 2016, Mensa will be celebrating its 70th anniversary. I hope that we can celebrate this all together! To be consistent with its communication to the internal and external audience, I’ve entrusted Ivett to draft news releases and supporting materials for the countries to facilitate their local communication of the event. Another major achievement in modernising our historical society is that the 2017 elections will be held electronically where applicable. The Evoting committee and the Web Board have been working on this issue very closely. The Governance Paper Advisory Committee made the necessary
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adjustments to the election rules. The rules have been approved by the ExComm and, by the time you read this article, by the IBD as well. In the meantime, we have begun the considerable task of renewing the international website. That is top priority for me and I cannot die until I see it working. I started by analysing the problems of the current website and then prepared a concept on how the new one should look. Without quoting the whole document, I will just mention the most important things: in my opinion, the MIL website should serve three audiences. The website should be an extensive point of information about Mensa, a hub for an international organisation embracing all Mensa groups; a place for members to meet and interact internationally; and an easy-to-look-up central database, pool of information, and (rules, documents, governance, data, reports, best practices etc.) for the countries. The underlying problem is that the existing structure was inherited from the previous very static website. Hence the greatest obstacle to renewing www.mensa.org was to create an appropriate structure. The biggest trick was to find the structure that was comprehensive and well-arranged, but flexible enough to accommodate future
needs. I created a menu structure – and I hope it will be good. Michael and I discussed it in detail and further improved it. Having that in hand we can finally proceed. We continue working and managing that long project. I do hope that by the time you read this article, you will all have had first hand experiences of the achievements of Mensa International. Floreat Mensa! Bibiana Balanyi chair-mil@mensa.org
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L.E.A.P 2016 In 2016 the Leadership Exchange Ambassadors Program (LEAP) received 16 applications from 12 countries – Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Mexico, Montenegro, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. After reading and viewing the materials sent by the applicants, the LEAP committee selected six ambassadors for 2016.
This group of future leaders will travel to the American Mensa’s 2016 Annual Gathering in San Diego (June 29 – July 3) and the European Mensas Gathering (EMAG) in Kraków, Poland (August 10-14) to present workshops on their leadership experience and innovative ideas that have helped their own Mensas grow and thrive. The applicants were ranked according to communication skills, presentation content, topic relevance to Mensas worldwide, their previous involvement in Mensa, and other criteria mentioned in the application form.
The following listing is alphabetical by surname and does not represent the candidates’ actual standing in the selection process.
Predrag Djukic, Serbia, plans to share his country’s experience with IC Development Games. The main idea was to introduce an activity that provides newcomers with an easy way to become familiar with long-time Mensa members and the Mensa organization itself. IC Development Games are simple, short, easily adjustable, and fun, which makes them ideal for communication, collaboration, and enjoyable competition. (video, motortrim@gmail.com)
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Rosemary Horwood, Canada, is a YAM (Young Adult Mensan) and the first YAM national coordinator in her Mensa. Her workshop will feature ways to attract other young members with strategies that have increased Canada’s membership growth in recent years. Rosemary’s three key leadership functions and actionable steps can be duplicated and implemented to have positive effects on worldwide Mensa membership.
Richard Klysz, Australia, is interested in what happens when involved members leave the group. Is there a succession plan and is there an efficient transfer of volunteer skills? Does the group have to start again from the beginning? Richard will discuss how preparing your replacement keeps your Mensa group healthy and growing. (video, rjklysz@hotmail.com)
(video, Rosemary.Horwood@RichardsonGMP. com)
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Fernando Villafuerte, Mexico, will focus his presentation on how a national Mensa group can develop and minimize the pain of expansion without losing the intellectual attraction that brought in members originally. There’s a balance to be maintained when a group seeks to become a Full National Mensa while keeping the local members happy. (video, rrpp@mensa.org.mx)
Teresa Wong, Australia, says that there are natural leaders, but most of us are not so inclined. To create and see a project to successful completion requires energy and enthusiasm. Teresa’s presentation, “Simple Project Management for Complex People,” may ignite Mensans’ passions to organize great events create excitement for the next interesting project. (video; twong333@bigpond.net.au)
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Mensa’s future leaders without IBD’s involvement.
Best regards, Leadership Exchange Ambassador Program Committee Jacek Cywinski (Chair) Bill Zigo, United States, has given workshops on leadership and management of local Mensa groups for many years. One issue he will address in his LEAP presentation is volunteer burnout, which may happen eventually to the most enthusiastic volunteers. To avoid burnout, Bill suggests ways to maximize volunteer efficiency and re-energize volunteers.
Aleksandra Demeter
Borovic,
Beth
Anne
Cinthia Reyes, Elissa Rudolph Petr Mazal
(video, bzigo@optonline.net)
We believe that this year’s candidates will bring new ideas to captivate, entertain, and educate all who attend their presentations. Thanks to the 12 National Mensas who nominated their members for this committee to consider. Thanks also to the IBD and national chairs for their continued support of LEAP. We know that it would not be possible to have this program and get to know some of Reprinted from Mensa World Journal, issue #041, June, 2016 Editor Kate Nacard
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The Rapid Growth of Mensa Japan JAPAN MENSA surpassed membership of 2000 last autumn and had 2,141 members at the beginning of 2016. As shown in the graph below, the increase over the years has been rapid; membership has expanded tenfold in the last nine years.
According to Satoki Takeichi, current Chairman of Mensa Japan, the reasons for this increase are many and diverse.
External Factors - Japan is a narrow country but has a large population (about 127 million), so there are a number of potential members. - Since almost everyone has access to the internet and/or mobile coverage, there is much more community awareness of Mensa. - Because Quiz shows are popular on TV in Japan, we provide quiz questions and answers for some of them, again increasing community awareness of Mensa.
- In Japan, it is difficult for individual persons to obtain information about his or her own IQ. The results of IQ tests that we take as school students are known only to the parents, so a lot of people do not know their own IQ. People who occasionally think “I may be smart” have to take the (inexpensive) Mensa test!
Internal Factors - Members share curiosity and the spirit of “hospitality”, with the result that in each region of Japan, new members can make new friends at a variety of Mensan activities. - We have a Board composed of 15 highly-skilled people; each has been working with specialized knowledge and passion.
What we have done? - Our Strategic Plan Our membership exceeded 1500 in 2014. We had built a system to share authority amongst board members
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and various sub-committees, but having reached 1500 members, the plan needed revision. For a further increase in members, and members’ happiness, we implemented a variety of measures as follows.
Currently, we accept offers for appearing on TV and for making up quizzes for various media. We receive about 10 requests for quiz-making and 5-6 TV coverage requests per year. In addition to TV, we are using Facebook Page and Twitter. Face book page “Reach” is 1,000-3,000 per article. We also have our own web page, by which candidates can know the dates of tests and subscribe to the page.
Admission test We have a highly automated missioncritical system for the test implementation. Candidates’ applications from the web page automatically appear on a roster. After scoring, the successful applicants receive a congratulatory e-mail.
Welcoming newcomers We held five regular meetings promoted by members and nine orientations for new entrants last year in various parts of Japan. In addition, members held private meetings over 200 times during year. These activities are a strong driving force for an increase in membership. For members’ satisfaction, we publish discussion with the board, resulting in less criticism for board decisions.
Challenges Urgent ongoing challenges are the activation of member activities in regions other than in Tokyo and the establishment of incorporation for JAPAN MENSA. to address these challenges, we have established specialized sub-committees for each.
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Mensa International’s formal 70th Anniversary celebrations will be held in Kyoto Japan, during the International Board of Directors’ meeting.
October 13 - 16, 2016
For further information, www.mensa.org
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Members and members from countries not holding national contests are eligible to enter the International competition directly.
MENSA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2016
The art of photography is an area where Mensans from over 50 countries with different languages, customs and traditions can converge with a single, visual language! Use your creativity, skills, and technical expertise to produce your entry in this year’s PhotoCup competition. The theme for 2016 is “UNEXPECTED!” Let your imagination run wild.
The Mensa International Photographer of the Year 2016 could be you!
Therese Moodie-Bloom Director of Administration, admin-mil@mensa.org
MIL CONTACT DETAILS Office Tel/Fax: +44(0)1400272 675 mensainternational@mensa.org
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MENSA PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION Intercontinental Project Convergence “IPC� The Search for the International Mensa Photographer of the Year 2016 RULES OF THE COMPETITION FOR PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES 1. This competition is organized by the National Mensa of South Africa as part of the International Project Convergence. 2. The theme for 2016 is UNEXPECTED! 3. There is no fee for entry into the Competition. The entrant must be a financial member in good standing of Mensa SA for the duration of the competition. 4. Photos should be in JPG format not exceeding 1 MB. Entries in the national competition must be received by 20 July 2016 [NB: Winning prints will be scanned into JPGs for entry into the International competition.] 5. Name, membership number and title of photograph should be included in the photo information/label or in the text of the email.
6. The photos should be in JPG format and e-mailed to the following national mailing address: marketing@mensa.org.za 7. Each entrant may submit up to three images only. 8. All entries must be the sole work of the entrant. 9. The three best entries in the national competition will be selected by a locally organized judging panel. Entries will be judged on the effectiveness of how they convey the theme as well as composition, technical and other considerations. The decision of the judging panel is final. The national winner will win the title of Mensa South Africa Photographer of the Year 2016. 10. The three best entries in each national Mensa competition will be included in the Mensa World PhotoCup competition run under the supervision of Mensa International. The closing date for the (International) Mensa World Photographer of the Year) will be selected by a professional judging panel which will include the Mensa International Chairman ex-officio.
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PhotoCup is 20 August 2016.The International winner (MIL 11. Winning photographs will become part of the “Mensa IPC Collection� and will be exhibited at the Annual Gatherings and otherwise publicized, inside and outside Mensa. 12. Entrants will retain copyright of their photos but will grant Mensa non-exclusive rights for publication in Mensa journals, on Mensa websites, on Photo SIG posters, for display in exhibitions, or other appropriate places as part of the Mensa IPC Collection without any financial reward to the contestant. 13. Contestants agree that their name and country may be published nationally and internationally. 14. By submitting entries for the competition, the entrant accepts all the conditions listed above.
Mensa membership renewal Did you know that Mensa turns 70 this year and that you are one of more than 120 000 members internationally? That's some networking! South Africa contributes 1 400 members to that global pool and we encourage you to keep your membership current to enjoy our speaker evenings, Mensa SIGs, group outings and online communities. Refer to the Mensa website for current news and the Events page for a detailed diary of happenings throughout the country. October 2015 saw a new chapter being established in the Western Cape; Mensa Winelands is now an officially-recognised regional chapter of Mensa South Africa, with representation on the National Committee. 18
The Mensa SA Executive will be liaising with members in Bloemfontein later this year with the goal of establishing a formal regional chapter there as well. Our 2015 National Gathering, hosted by the Cape Town chapter in Stellenbosch last August, was well-attended and highly enjoyable. You can book online for the 2016 National Gathering (incorporating the AGM) being held at Dinokeng outside Pretoria later this year, from 19 to 21 August. Be there or be square! Payment is now due for the 2016/17 membership year renewing is quick. Discounted rates, for one year only, are available to members under 18 and over 65.
Payment Options
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Fineprint: 1. Direct cheque deposits are also accepted at a Nedbank near you (please don't post cheques to us, we don't want your payment to go missing). 2. Please do not send proof of payment; all payments are processed from the bank statement based on your very important reference.
Mensa SA's Bank: Nedbank Branch: Randburg 198765 Account: 1984 429 124 Payment Reference: This reference number is included in the mail sent out on Sun, 29 May 2016 to all members whose subscription payments are now due. Please email admin@mensa.org.za if you need to change your region or any other details. Renew now - it's a small price for some great mental stimulation and many wonderful friendships! Kind regards, Yvonne Steyn National Administrator Mensa South Africa admin@mensa.org.za 19
JOBURG SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs) Parent SIG: Beccy Stone stones@yebo.co.za Boardgames SIG: Karini Govender Karini.govender@gmail.com Philosphy SIG: Jacques Rossouw Js.rossouw@gmail.com Social SIG: Miriam Jorna hoimir@gmail.com Mensans at play: Amanda Horn marketing@mensa.org.za
WINELANDS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs)
ASSISTANCE FOR VISITING FRENCH FAMILY Bonjour, We are a French Mensan family. We have two gifted children, one boy Erwan, nearly 7 and one girl Aude, 5 years old. We would like them to improve their English and the best way is to meet a family. We have just decided to start home schooling next year, it's not usual in France. We can come in South Africa anywhere for one or two weeks between 22nd of July and 09th of August. We can move easily as I'm Air France pilot. We will be happy if our children can meet and play in English with other children. And we ´ll also be happy to meet you. Please contact us on anguillerm@yahoo.fr Pascal and Anne Le Sayec, members of Mensa France
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committees. However, the products listed in our last newsletter, will be among other products that will be up for sale.
Registered members of the site will be able to create their own blogs which will only be accessible to other registered members.
Blogs are created from your personal profile page (where you change your profile and cover pictures).
There is a forum for each Chapter. You are allowed to create threads for different topics under each of the Chapter forums.
We would like members to apply for the role of moderator.
We will be uploading governance documents under the National section.
You are able to request an @mensa.org.za email address. This address will be name.surname. If there is duplication, then middle
NEW MENSA SA WEBSITE We’re very happy to announce that we've changed over to our new website. I hope we’ll be able to build up a healthy active online community there. Some things to note:
You will notice that not all of the Chapters (legacy “Regions”, the 'branch' you belong to) have content loaded. This is because we are still waiting on content such as newsletters and photos from your respective committees. This will be updated soon. The eStore has no products listed at the moment. Again, this is because we are waiting for the images and pricing from the respective local
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name options etc. will be provided.
When you change your profile and cover pictures, you have to complete the information update form as well.
Events can be downloaded to any type of digital calendar which, if you’re like me, is essential.
Lastly, please be patient with us as we process your registration applications. We expect a high volume of requests over the next week or two. As part of the registration form you will be asked for a temporary username. No special characters please. We will be replacing this username with your membership number, which you will use to log in with as soon as we’ve approved your application.
support ticket directly to the hosting company (bottom left of the home page under FAQ) or you are free to email chairperson@mensa.org.za, or marketing@mensa.org.za or admin@mensa.org.za. As mentioned in the previous newsletter, we will have features such as online voting come online once we’ve crossed the go-live teething stage. Here's to happy browsing! Website URL www.mensa.org.za
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Saturday, 23 July
09h30 Winelands Testing 10h00 Pretoria Testing
EVENTS CALENDAR JULY Saturday, 30 July Saturday, 2 July
10h00 Johannesburg Testing
Saturday, 9 July
19h00 Johannesburg Social SIG and new members evening
Wednesday, 13 July
19h30 Winelands Discussion SIG
Thursday, 14 July
19h00 Winelands Stargazing evening
Saturday, 16 July
14h00
09h00 Cape Town Testing
Please refer to www.mensa.org.za/events for further details.
KZN Cryptic rally quiz Thursday, 21 July
19h15 Winelands Speaker evening 23
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