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The Citizen
14-07-2025
- General
- The Citizen
Mandela Month food drive to support hungry children in north Durban
WITH food insecurity in Amaoti reaching alarming levels, a local NPO is calling on the community to help ensure no child goes hungry this Mandela Day. Lungisani Indlela, a north Durban-based NPO that works closely with vulnerable families in Amaoti, has launched a food drive for Mandela Month, aiming to collect non-perishable food items to distribute to struggling households. Also read: Umhlanga Ski Boat Club brings early Christmas cheer 'Food security has always been a problem in Amaoti, but in the last few months the situation has worsened,' said Faye Curtis of Lungisani Indlela. 'We've heard heartbreaking cases of children putting themselves in danger just to find something to eat. Recently, a young girl fell out of a tree and broke her arm while searching for berries. That's the level of desperation we are seeing.' The organisation is appealing to the public to donate essential food items such as tinned food, mielie meal, rice, and long-life milk, which have a longer shelf life and do not require refrigeration. Donations can be dropped off at the Lungisani Indlela office in Phoenix, Harvest Church in Somerset Park, or Claire's Thrifting in Durban North. 'People can also sponsor a child in our Learner Support Programme for just R200 per month, volunteer at our weekly literacy programme on Wednesday afternoons, or help prepare sandwiches for our daily aftercare,' she said. 'You can even support us by making Lungisani Indlela a beneficiary on your MySchool or Woolworths card.' Curtis said Mandela Day is an important reminder to act in service of those who are suffering year-round. 'As Mandela said, 'Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs.' This month is an opportunity for us all to make a tangible difference in our communities.' For more information or to get involved, contact Lungisani Indlela at 031 505 8811 or email [email protected]. For more from Northglen News, follow us on Facebook , X or Instagram. You can also check out our videos on our YouTube channel or follow us on TikTok. Click to subscribe to our newsletter – here At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
The Citizen
26-06-2025
- Politics
- The Citizen
Residents willing to go to court if Prestondale taxi ‘holding facility' goes ahead
Residents willing to go to court if Prestondale taxi 'holding facility' goes ahead RESIDENTS of uMhlanga said they are willing to go to court if a plan to build a taxi and bus rank or 'holding facility' on a vacant plot of land in Prestondale is approved. The plan proposes a three-level holding facility with more than 570 bays in Prestondale, next to the Umhlanga Ski Boat Club. In December last year residents voiced their opposition to the plan at a public meeting with city officials and members of the eThekwini Traffic Authority (ETA). The reason to build the rank or holding facility is due to a lack of a designated taxi rank in the uMhlanga CBD. Also read: Historical building in Durban North faces ruin Currently, taxis are parked on the M4 Ruth First Highway off-ramp, and while there is a limited number of bays for taxis on Ridge Road behind Oceans Mall, there are no public transport facilities within the uMhlanga Rocks precinct to hold hundreds of taxis. Ward 35 councillor Bradley Singh, who met with Northglen News at the proposed taxi and bus holding facility site, said the residents would not be bulldozed by the City. 'During the public participation process the City received more than 2000 objections to the proposal. At the moment the City will put its proposal together to present their report to either the town planning committee or the executive committee. The residents have made it very clear that under no circumstance will they be bulldozed by the City and they are willing to fight this in court. 'To build this facility will cost hundreds of millions of rands which the City doesn't have. The biggest issue is the taxis need to go somewhere and we feel the solution is not here in uMhlanga but the alternative site in Cornubia. So while I thank the City for trying to resolve this issue, what they've proposed will impact residents in the uMhlanga Ridge area. Both the residents and I feel Cornubia would be ideal as it would be able to house a large number of taxis. The taxi associations are not too keen on that arrangement, but the status quo cannot stand as there is more congestion within uMhlanga and it's dangerous having so many taxis illegally parked on an off-ramp,' Singh said. For more from Northglen News, follow us on Facebook , X or Instagram. You can also check out our videos on our YouTube channel or follow us on TikTok. Click to subscribe to our newsletter – here At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
