Yoke van Dam speaks about “The subtle art of making conversation and getting your point across”

Posted on 2019-04-042019-04-11 by Andrew Connold

10th April 2019. Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon - Club Meeting Yoke is an International Facilitator, Professional Speaker and Distinguished Toastmaster who runs Y-Connect, a business that empowers people through training, coaching and facilitation to helps them identify the attitudes, behaviours and skills they want to modify and improve on. Through these interventions Y-Connect assist in increasing staff engagement, productivity, retention and client satisfaction and aiding business profi...

LEGO Education Kit Donations

Posted on 2019-03-032026-04-19 by Andrew Connold

A generous donation of LEGO kits provided by the MRC (Mikroskil Robotic Centre) LEGO Educational programme has facilitated the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon's onward donations to a large number of children at primary school level. The LEGO kit donations support a Rotary International key focus of promoting basic education and literacy by enabling learning to take place through construction rather than instruction, not only stimulating and encouraging learning, but accelerating the con...

Wheels for the disabled

Posted on 2019-02-192019-03-18 by Andrew Connold

Mandla with his new wheelchair. Seen here with Molly. The Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Northcliff's Wheelchair project, have been distributing wheelchairs to disabled persons for more than 20 years. Mandla, our most recent wheelchair recipient is located in Orange Farm. The Northcliff Rotary wheelchair project is one of the most successful and long-running initiatives in the club. It began in 1993 and is still going strong. The idea for the proj...

Retina SA “Ride for Sight” Marshalling Project

Posted on 2019-02-172026-04-18 by Andrew Connold

Reflective marshall jackets and flags shine through the early dawn as the members of RC Knights Pendragon and friends of club prepared for marshalling duty at the Retina SA "Ride for Sight 2019" cycle race in Boksburg, South Africa. For some 25 years, the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon has supported Retina SA's annual "Ride for Sight" cycle race to raise funds for furthering their mission of finding the causes, and hopefully cures, for retina degeneration that cause blindness in many patie...

Stove Upgrade for Bethany Home

Posted on 2019-02-072026-04-19 by Andrew Connold

Bethany Home's new industrial gas stove Knights Pendragon recently donated and installed a new gas stove, complete with gas oven, for the ladies of Bethany Home. With ready access to municipal gas, gas is the most cost-effective source of cooking energy for the 52 women and their children living at the home. However, with a number of repairs being necessary for the old domestic gas stove, it was discovered that the stove model is obsolete and spare parts are no longer available. In ...

Burns Night Fundraiser

Posted on 2019-01-292026-04-19 by Andrew Connold

The famous Scottish Bard, Robert Burns, was born 260 years ago on 25th January 1759. His legacy still lives on and is celebrated by Scots the world over each year. As a fundraiser for their 2 flagship projects, The Chris Hani Baragwanath Paediatric Burns Unit and the Bethany Home for Abused Women, the Rotary Club of Knights Pendragon hosted a formal Burns Night Supper for some 100 guests at the spectacular Johannesburg Country Club, Auckland Park, venue. The Marquis of Tullibardi...

Speaker Brahm Fleish on Improving Literacy in SA

Posted on 2018-09-302018-09-30 by Andrew Connold

With the September Rotary Theme of of Basic Education and Literacy, it was highly appropriate for Brahm Fleish, an associate professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, to address the club on the poor state of literacy in South African Schools and what is being done to change it. While reading tests show that at the grade 4 level the average standard of literacy is way below the average of first world cou...

District Governor Charles Deiner Visits

Posted on 2018-09-022018-09-02 by Andrew Connold

The District Governor's visit is an annual highlight where the Knights Pendragon Rotarians get to showcase the variety of project they have executed in the past Rotary year and what is planned for the current Rotary year. This year, Knights were treated to a most pleasant afternoon and evening where we talked about many aspects of Rotary, our club, the district, Rotary International, membership and our local communities needs, with a down to earth, interesting and inspiring Rotarian, District G...

KNIGHTS WELCOME SPRING WITH FELLOWSHIP

Posted on 2018-09-022019-01-30 by Andrew Connold

Saturday, 1st September 2108, produced a lovely warm Spring day with a pleasant breeze and the Knights Rotarians, their families and some friends from toastmasters got together to welcome Spring with a braai, good fellowship, networking and great conversation. The chosen venue at Fish Eagle Dam, Modderfontein Nature Reserve, lived up to its name with a pair of fish eagles periodically treating us to their iconic call as the cruised overhead or called from a dead tree across the dam. In ...

September Rotary Theme – Basic Education & Literacy Month

Posted on 2018-09-022018-10-02 by Andrew Connold

Rotary supports activities and training to improve education for all children and literacy for both children and adults. THE ROTARY FOUNDATION AREAS OF FOCUS STATEMENT OF GOALS AND PURPOSE The Rotary Foundation (TRF) enables Rotarians to ensure that all people have sustainable access to basic education and literacy by: 1. Involving the community to support programs that strengthen the capacity of communities to provide basic education and literacy to all; 2. Increasing adult literacy in c...