Jankees's Induction and the Club Launch of the Malaria Campaign

Let's start with the Induction of Jankees Sligcher as the 4th President of the Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn at our breakfast last week.  First, the fun.   Ian Widdop was entertaining as MC.  He looks as if he exhorting us to come up and be saved!  And he obviously is not mad on his breakfast either!  Lots of toasting and drinking champagne.  Linda Vink invited her mother to join us.  Jankees was caught with a gob-stopper in his mouth and Shirley Downie and Allan Beuthin are just enjoying themselves.  Arthur Begley is back from the wilds of Kazakhstan albeit but briefly and he is obviously delighted to be with Lucille Bloomberg & Niel Chen!  Mike Vink believed in serving the croissants and Judith Sligcher looks apprehensive.

 President Graham Donet handed out President's Award Certificates...a nice touch.....and after his brief resume of the year the serious part of the meeting took place.  Jankees Sligcher was led, like a lamb, to the slaughter.  I suppose we shouldn't really tell Presidents Elect about the true nature of their induction prior to receiving the badge...cold baths, sword dancing...all of those dangerous things.....because it makes them nervous.

The moment came!  And afterwards photographs with his wife, Judith, PDG Shirley Downie and our outgoing AG Billy Philips.  Arthur Begley presented the Club with $1 000 in notes and more dollars and lots of money was raised by our weekly brag.

You can see that we ended up with a very happy President for 2011 - 12!




Our Speaker this week is Roly Boardman, Director of Impact Human Resources and Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Association of Personnel Service Organisations



Two days later Jankees hosted, at his home, his first official function.  The internal launch of the Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn's Malaria Campaign.  This was conceived by Steve Du Plessis and has been taken up by District 9400, the Africa Zone and also by Rotary internationally.  One of the major fund-raising methods to buy mosquito nets is a song to be recorded next week by Yvonne Chaka Chaka who is the UNICEF Ambassador for the eradication of Malaria.  All over the world people will be able to down-load the song from the internet for the cost of a mosquito net.  There are also bead bracelets to be sold that not only provide money for nets, sprays etc  but they also provide employment for a group of women (and a couple of men) in Khayelitsha.   We are hoping that, as well as assisting with the distribution of nets and sprays we will be able to increase the number of people employed in making the bracelets.  Nandos and the explorer, Kingsley Holgate, have been involved in the Malaria Campaign for quite some time and now Rotary International will also be involved.


At our little party President Jankees hosted Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Louis Da Gama, her Humanitarian Advisor, and PDG Shirley Downie who heads the District PR & Communications Committee and has already promoted the Malaria Campaign at the Rotary International Conference in New Orleans.  Despite the evening having a serious side it was also great fun.  IT IS ONLY THE BEGINNING!

As you can see representatives of our two Interact Clubs were also there, the Dominican Convent School, Belgravia and Mcauley House School



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