Hey Rovers! Ok, you’re probably reading this on your smartphone. Maybe you have a camera at home? Ever thought about filming something about your Scout experience? Now’s the time. Submit your entry for the World Scout Film Festival for the chance to screen your masterpiece at a special event in Kuala Lumpur. It could be…
Written by Madita Bϋnnecke Women’s month and the Rover Centenary provide the perfect platform to shed some light on some of the amazing female Rovers in our Movement. One such woman is Carmen Jearey who hails from Durban and is currently the RAC chair. Carmen’s Scouting adventure started when she was a Cub. She stayed there for a…
National Women’s Day offers the opportunity to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in lives of others in our country. When mentioning the word “Scouting” people picture it to be an organisation which is predominantly male. However, in…
Written by Lisa and Thomas With the Rover centenary and women’s month in full swing we continue to profile our women in Rovering. Twenty three year old Nikiwe Mthisi is a Rover in Mataffin, Mpumalanga. Nikiwe studies IT and user computing and wants to be a teacher once she has completed her studies. She loves Scouting, reading, singing and meeting up…
From the 6th to the 9th of December 2018, the Scout Association of Zimbabwe will be hosting the Southern Africa Zonal Rover Moot at Gordon Park in Matopo National Park, 40 km from Bulawayo. Scouts above 18 years of age can attend. Camp fee is USD50 and participants will need to cover all of their own…
Written by Madita Bünnecke “Who are you? Where do you come from? How long will you be here? What was your name again?” All those questions stayed in my life for the year I stayed here in South Africa. From the first day in August 2017, to the end of July this year, everybody was…
Be proud to be a Scout on World Scout Scarf Day! On the 1st of August Scouts and former Scouts stand together and wear their Scout scarves in public to make the “Spirit of Scouting” visible. Once again SCOUTS South Africa is running the “Scout Scarf Selfie Competition!” Take a selfie of yourself and/or your friends wearing their…
Thank you to all our SCOUTS SA supporters that voted for SSA in the MySchool Vote4Charity competition. Together we raised R515! The funds raised will go towards running our Scouting programmes in our rural communities. With over 180 000 members of which 90% live and grow up in rural and disadvantaged areas, SCOUTS South Africa…
Written by Madita Bϋnnecke As part of this year’s Rover Centenary we interviewed Lesego Ramothwala who is from Kimberley in the Northern Cape and a member of the 1st Isago Rover Crew. Lesego describes himself as an introvert who loves going out of his comfort zone to experience new things. “I am a very active person.…
Today, the 18th of July, we honour Madiba. Nelson Mandela was a wise leader, a humanitarian and SCOUTS South Africa’s Patron who was awarded the Africa Elephant Award, the highest Scouting Award given by the Africa Scout Committee on the African Continent. Let’s devote 67 minutes of our time to help others. As Scouts we are…