EShowe Rotary milestones celebrated
AFTER nearly 60 years of service to the uMlalazi community by the eShowe Rotary Club, 40 years of classroom building in Zululand in partnership the eShowe Community Action Group (ECAG) and 10 years of support by the Africa Classroom Connection from the USA, Rotarians, community members and friends gathered at the eShowe Hills Eco-Estate last Thursday to celebrate the milestones.
Guests included Princess Dr Gcwalisile Kabanyane (daughter of the late Prince Gideon Zulu), her husband Dr Sidima Kabanyane (former Municipal Manager of the Drakenstein Municipality), Mari Maurstad (founder of the Zulufadder Children’s Trust), Dr Jethro Mdlalose (ECAG Chairman), Henry Bromelkamp (Africa Classroom Connection Director) and Rotary District 9370 past district governors, presidents and members of local clubs.
Local assistance
If one visits schools in the uMlalazi district, especially around Mbongolwane,
Nqoleni and KwaKhoza, one will notice that most have classrooms and laboratories donated by ECAG.
This group cannot be mentioned without Prince Gideon Layukona Zulu wakwaMinyamazi emzini wakwa Ziphethe.
He mobilised business people and farmers to champion the education of rural children in uMlalazi.
Education, water and sanitation, food security and economic development remain the pillars of existence.
The crèche in King
Dinizulu was also built by ECAG in 1990.