HAPPY NEW ROTARY YEAR
First were the Toasts!
And then the Induction itself. Jankees Sligcher handed over the weight of the presidency to Amina Frense!
And then the evening carried on!
Congratulations to the organisers. It was a great evening with a few short formalities and a lot of fun!
An Invitation to Morningside's Induction Dinner
The Rotary Club Johannesburg
Attention: Amina Frense
On behalf of outgoing President Shirley Downie, your members and
their partners are invited to the induction of Rotarian Kanthan Pillay, as
President of the Rotary Club of Morningside on 8th July 2012.
The occasion will include the presentation of a number of special
awards by President Shirley, as well as the induction of a new member.
The induction will be held at Sophia’s Bistro, Illovo Square 3 Rivonia
Road
The cost will be R150 per head.
Please complete the attached registration form and ensure that you
return it to Shirley together with a copy of the deposit slip. Kindly use your
surname and the word ‘induction’ as the reference. To assist with logistics, the
event will be pre-paid with no payments being accepted on the day.
Your soonest reply would be greatly appreciate as final numbers are
required by Thursday, 5 July 2012
We look forward to welcoming you to this fabulous event in a WEEKS
time.
Best wishes
Belinda (Alport)
Guest SpeakerWell he's not really a guest! Georg Knoke will be saying how "A Policeman's Lot is not a Happy One!" He'll be talking about our new head of the Police Service,
Mangwashi Victoria “Riah” Phiyega
Riah Phiyega was born in Polokwane and received her primary and secondary education in various schools in Limpopo.
She holds a BA (Social Work) degree from the University of the North, a BA Hons (Social Science) from Unisa, an MA (Social Science) degree from the University of Johannesburg and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Wales- University- Cardiff. She also attended Executive Development Programmes at the National University of Singapore and Wharton University, Pennsylvania in the US.
She is a past Group Executive of Absa Bank Limited. While at Absa, she chaired the All Pay boards of Gauteng and Eastern Cape; she was also a board member of Absa Actuaries, Chair of Gotswelela Trust and Trustee of the Absa Foundation.
She was Group Executive at Transnet where she was a member of the Executive Committee and an attending member of the Transnet Board. She served on numerous Transnet subsidiary boards and chaired the Production House, Transmed and Petronet Vusisiwe Trust. She was also Board Member of Connex Travel as well as Trustee of the Transnet Foundation.
She was part of a team of Senior Executives that was responsible for the restructuring of the old Portnet into two major separate entities, Port Operations and Port Authority. Subsequent to the above restructuring, she became part of the Executive of the National Ports Authority of South Africa. It is during this period that she championed the establishment of the International Relations in the Maritime Sector.
She became a member of the board and committees of the International Association for Ports and Harbours (IAPH) and as well as the Port Management Association for East and Southern Ports (PMAESA). During this period, she chaired the committee that organised the first International Conference for Ports and Harbours, hosted on the African continent which saw over 2000 executives of the Maritime industry coming to Durban.
Community development, engagement and empowerment add colour to her illustrious career. In the community development area, she served as Director for Development at the National Council for Childwelfare. She started her career in Pretoria Childwelfare. She spent some few years at the Chamber of Mines as an Employee Wellbeing Consultant.
In recent times, she was appointed as Chairperson of the Presidential State Owned Enterprise Review Committee. The Committee was tasked with the responsibility of reviewing State Owned Entities and to make recommendations for their future repositioning. She is the current Vice Chairperson for the Independent Commission for Remuneration of Public Office Bearers.
She chaired the Road Traffic Management Corporation Investigation Task Team which looked into maladministration, corruption and poor corporate governance. The Task Team made major intervention and restructuring recommendations to the Minister of Transport assisting to put the agency on a fresh footing.
She has served in other significant National structures among which are serving as a board member of the 2010 Bid Committee that delivered hosting of the 2010 Soccer World Cup by South Africa, Commissioner for the Commission of the Road Accident Fund Commission led by Judge Satchwell that made recommendations into reasonable, equitable and accessible systems of payments by the Road Accident Fund.
She was also Chairperson of the National Welfare Forum that actively participated in the Social Welfare Restructuring Committee responsible for the development of the post apartheid Welfare White Paper. She also sat on the Council for Medical Aid Schemes.
She was a member of two University Councils namely Medunsa and University of Limpopo. She also served on Council Committees of Technikon Witwatersrand and the Tshwane University of Technology. She is offering her services several NGO boards, notable among which are the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and the Southern Africa Trust.
Apart from the above, she is involved in women empowerment:
· As member of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa (IWFSA),
· As a coach and mentor linked to mentoring programmes of various organisations including, among others, Association for Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP), International Women’s Forum: SA (IWFSA), African Women Chattered Accountants (AWCA) and The Graca Machel Scholarship.
· She is Chairperson of the Ladies Forum of her Church
· She believes in personal transformation and seeks to drive that through motivational speaking and coaching others
She has received recognition awards for her leadership in business, community development and women initiatives.
She is driven by what she calls the ISE Philosophy; i.e. Integrity, Service to others before self and Excellence. She is a wife, mother and grandmother.
Why the Rotary year begins 1 July
Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended. The convention of the Rotary Clubs of America was held in Rotary’s birthplace, Chicago, in 1910.
Ever wonder why the Rotary year begins 1 July? The international convention initially played a key role in determining the start date of our fiscal and administrative year.
Rotary’s first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended, on 18 August 1910. The 1911-12 fiscal year also related to the convention, beginning with the first day of the 1911 convention on 21 August.
At its August 1912 meeting, the Board of Directors ordered an audit of the International Association of Rotary Clubs’ finances. The auditors recommended that the organization end its fiscal year on 30 June to give the secretary and treasurer time to prepare a financial statement for the convention and board, and determine the proper number of club delegates to the convention.
The executive committee concurred, and at its April 1913 meeting, designated 30 June as the end of the fiscal year. This also allowed for changes to the schedule for reporting club membership and payments. Even The Rotarianchanged its volume numbering system to correspond to the fiscal year (beginning with vol. 5, July 1914).
Rotary continued to hold its annual conventions in July or August until 1917. Delegates to the 1916 event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, approved a resolution to hold future conventions in June, mainly because of the heat in cities where most of them occurred. The next one was held 17-21 June in Atlanta, Georgia.
The term "Rotary year" has been used to signify Rotary’s annual administrative period since at least 1913. An article in The Rotarian that July noted, “The Rotary year that is rapidly drawing to a close has been signalized by several highly successful joint meetings of Clubs that are so situated as to assemble together easily and conveniently.”
Since the executive committee's decision in 1913, the end of the Rotary year has remained 30 June.
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