John (left) and Ann Kelly sit with Paul Kirchmann (Rotary Club of Germiston member).
It was inspirational all-around for the Northfield Methodist Church (NFMC) when guests enjoyed an inspirational talk from Wayne Duvenage and the church made a whopping R2 700 profit from the breakfast.
“The money will be used towards missions and outreaches in Benoni,” said NFMC member, Quinton de Beer.
The inspirational breakfast, which was held in conjunction with the Benoni Aurora Rotary Club, took place at the church recently.
“With many people losing faith in South Africa as a result of some of the challenges our country faces, we were inspired and wanted other guests to be inspired by Wayne’s positive outlook on how we can bring about change to our country,” said Benoni Aurora Rotary Club member, Sonja Shear.
“… and to continue to remember what an amazing country we live in with so much to offer.”
Wayne is the CEO at Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) and has on many occasions challenged the e-toll system.
“Our aim is to ensure that the government spends money wisely so that everyone, including those on the lower level, can benefit from it,” Wayne explained.
According to Wayne, when the e-toll system was implemented, it was at the cost of 60 cents a kilometre, which was then challenged by his team and dropped to 30 cents per kilometre.
“This made us further question what was the other 30 cents initially going to be used for?” he said.
The court hearings were lengthy and cost money that Outa eventually did not have, so they turned to the public for help to keep fighting.
“If we gave up, the government would win a bad campaign and our plea to the public showed us that society still has power,” he explained.
“We need to do more for the public and hold local municipalities to question.”
Wayne explained that as the public, paying for infrastructure is not the issue, instead, holding the government to account is.
A question and answer session was held shortly after his presentation.
Another interesting man who attended the event was Happy Mozan who comes from Malawi as a Global Mission Fellow.
“I live in Lakefield and came to Benoni in November 2018. I will stay in Benoni until 2020,” he explained.
“I am part of Global Ministries and was sent here to work in missions and outreaches in eTwatwa and Daveyton.”
NFMC took Happy under their wing during his stay as he heads out into the areas to speak to those who are drug and substance addicts.
“We look at the level of addictions and try to get them into a rehabilitation centre,” Happy explained.
He was selling raffle tickets at the event and the winner will be chosen at random on April 29.
Sonja encouraged people to join the rotary club because they aim to better the lives of those in the community.
“Our motto is service before self,” she explained.
Happy Mozan sells raffle tickets.
Wilma (left) and Gerry Krama from Rynfield enjoyed the breakfast and talk. They are seen here with friend Ruth Kiely from Farrarmere.
Lauren van Zyl (left, Marister) attended the event with her friend, Lizelle Smith (Farrarmere) to be inspired.
Ntombi Ndlela (left) and Diana Mutshutsisi from Etwatwa wanted to be motivated and share the knowledge they grasped at the inspirational talk.
Quinton de Beer welcomes guests.
Wayne Duvenage is the CEO of Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse.
Speaker of the event, Wayne Duvenage sits with Benoni Aurora Rotary Club members, Sonja Shear and Brian Moseley.
