THE Morning Trade market will be on a Sunday weekly from 8am to 2pm as a market platform for local farmers, artisan producers and organic merchants to share their wares with Durban’s public. The market is situated at 8 Morrison Street, Durban.
Go along and source your locally-produced fresh and speciality goods, or just to meet friends over delicious artisan food and drink.
TAFTA will host a support group for friends, family members and care givers of Alzheimers patients at TAFTA Lodge, 42 South Beach Avenue, Durban. Contact Nivashnee on 031 332 3721 for more information.
THE Nazareth House Charity Shop on Ridge Road is open between 9am and noon every Tuesday.
The charity shop raises much needed funds for the home and needs the support of the public.
Any donations of clothing, bric-a-brac etc are welcome. Nazareth House will collect.
Contact 031 261 2207.
SASFA, South African Senior Fitness Association, will hold exercise classes for the over 50s every Thursday morning from 9am to 10am at the Masonic Lodge, 25 Hunt Road. SASFA guarantees seniors will have fun and meet new friends.
To join and for more information, contact Gill on 031 702 6522.
UP.MARKET, art craft and food, is at Umhlanga Centre (formally Buxtons Centre), 185 Ridge Road, Umhlanga, every Sunday from 9am to 2pm.
WEEKLY meditation classes in Morningside at 323 Innes Road on Tuesdays, 7.45am to 8.30am and Tuesdays, 7pm to 8pm.
Learn to transform your fear, anxiety and insecurity and to connect with your inner potential for peace and happiness. Everyone is welcome to drop in, relax and enjoy practical advice and meditation practice. Classes are a R30 donation to a non-profit organisation. Contact 031 764 6193 or email info@meditateindurban.org
IF you are interested in the hobby of stamp collecting or picture postcards, the Highway Philatelic Society is looking for new members.
Go find out about this interesting hobby at the next meeting on Saturday 9 August at 9am at the Westville Round Table hall, next to the Westville Athletics Club at the intersection of Maryvale Road and Syringa Avenue, Westville.
Contact John on 031 266 1020 or Bev on 083 679 4080.
LIFELONG Learning presents Understanding the start of WW1 with Charlotte Mbali at the Chantecler Hotel, on Saturday 9 August at 10.30am. Cost is R180 or R160 early bird booking. For more info and to book contact 073 725 7381 / www.lllkzn.net
THE Durban and Coastal Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa will hold its monthly meeting from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday, 9 August at the Family History Centre, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, 144 Silverton Road, Durban (entry from Montgomery Lane).
Speaker will be John Dovey of Just Done Productions which is a print-on-demand publishing house. He will be talking informally about the process of self-publishing and will focus on both ends of the process – preparing the information to get it ready for publication, and then the mechanics of actually getting it printed/published. All welcome.
MANOR Gardens – Garden/home Interests Club will meet on Tuesday 12 August at St John the Divine church, Clark Road Glenwood at 9.15am to noon.
Members R10 per meeting, visitors welcome at R20, including tea and cakes. The speaker will be Pat Demmers from the Sharks Board.
Contact 082 454 4333.
THE KwaZulu-Natal Branch of the South African Military History Society will meet on Thursday 14 August in the Murray Lecture Theatre, Department of Civil Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus at 7pm.
The two speakers will be James van Vuuren on Sites of conflict in KZN – Who carries the Can? and Dr Mark Coghlan on The Umvoti Mounted Rifles in World War 1. This talk forms part of the Branch’s commemoration of the centenary of the Great War.
Contact Charles Whiteing on 082 555 4689 or Ken Gillings on 031 702 4828.
DURBAN seniors social club (former KZ-NARPE) will host a coffee morning on Wednesday 20 August at Berea Congregational Church, Pardy Gardens Road, off Musgrave Road, at 9am for 9.30am.
There will be a musical morning with entertainment by Pat Haley and her ladies.
All ladies and gents welcome. Cost is R10 for members and R12 for visitors which includes refreshments.
Contact Mona on 031 303 8336.
