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Lotters Pine: Making Things Better For The Rainbow Children

MyPR: Lotters Pine: Making Things Better For The Rainbow Children:

Armando Teixeira
Armando Teixeira a director of Lotters Pine and Jackie Vorster Country Director from JAM SA outside the Rainbow Creche Photo: Adilia Joubert of Listen Up

To honour and celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day 2019, Lotters Pine are embracing the spirit of taking action against poverty. They have partnered with well-known children’s charity, JAM SA, to make a difference to some of SA’s poorest children.

JAM SA is helping the Rainbow Day Care Centre in Lanseria, Johannesburg, to break the cycle of poverty by providing a safe, supportive environment for children so that their parents can go out to work.

Kids being kids, they occasionally become unwell and may need to spend time in the centre’s sick bay. Lotters Pine identified an opportunity to make this experience less uncomfortable for sick children by donating a quality bed and mattress.

“We hope that our donation will help the Rainbow Day Care kids be more comfortable if they’re sick, so that they can recover faster and get back to playing and learning with their friends,” explained a Lotters Pine director Armando Teixeira. “As part of our 50th Birthday celebrations this year we are looking at ways to give back to our customers and communities and this is just one of the ways we have been able to do that.”

The bed and mattress were delivered on Nelson Mandela Day, with Lotters Pine staff donating 67 minutes of their time to deliver and construct it.
“This is a great imitative and we thank and support JAM SA for all their good work that they do at over 2000 schools across South Africa. We need to take care of our vulnerable and children definitely fall into that category,” concludes Armando.

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Sophiatown: The Lost “Paris of the Transvaal”

Sophiatown’s golden age was the 1940s and 50s. It was a dense, vibrant, and often dangerous neighborhood, characterized by “backyard” rooms, shebeens (illegal speakeasies), and a sophisticated social scene. It was the birthplace of Kwaito’s ancestors and the legendary “Marabi” music—a blend of traditional African rhythms and American ragtime. The streets were home to the most iconic figures of African literature and music: Miriam Makeba found her voice here; Hugh Masekela received his first trumpet from a local priest; and the writers of Drum magazine, like Can Themba and Bloke Modisane, used the neighborhood as their muse. They dressed in Fedora hats and double-breasted suits, channeling the style of Hollywood gangsters and Harlem intellectuals, creating a world that was cosmopolitain, intellectual, and radically multi-racial.

However, the “Bohemia” of Sophiatown was an existential threat to the National Party’s vision of total racial separation. The government viewed it as a “black spot” in a white area. In 1955, the state launched Western Areas Removal Scheme. On the morning of February 9th, 2,000 heavily armed police officers moved in, forcing families into trucks at gunpoint. They were relocated to the newly established matchbox houses of the South Western Townships (Soweto), 20 kilometers away. The resistance was led by figures like Trevor Huddleston, the Anglican priest whose church, St. Joseph’s, still stands today. Despite the slogan “Ons dak nie, ons pola hier” (We are not moving, we are staying here), the bulldozers were relentless.