Metro remembers the elderly this festive season
Mayor spends time with the elderly and showers them with gifts at special breakfast.
The elderly are often isolated and neglected by society.
To remind them of how precious they are, Ekurhuleni’s executive mayor, Clr Mondli Gungubele, invited the metro’s senior citizens for a Christmas breakfast at the Germiston Civic Centre on Thursday.
Elderly citizens from various parts of Ekurhuleni, dined with the mayor and were showered with gifts of food parcels, blankets and toiletries to be enjoyed during the festive season.
“Today’s breakfast is to say thank you for your blessings throughout the past year.
“Today we celebrate your lives, not as black or white grandfathers and grandmothers, but as the metro’s grandparents who fought for the democratic South Africa we enjoy today,” said Gungubele.
“We are what we are today because of you and our way of showing gratitude is by striving to continue making you happy through ensuring your living conditions are satisfactory.”
All that 117-year-old Gogo Lena Mmola, the oldest guest at the banquet table, could do was give the executive mayor a kiss on his hand to show gratitude for the kind gesture of remembering the elderly at this time.
The MMC for health and social development, Clr Makhosazana Mabaso, took the opportunity to thank the caregivers who care for the senior citizens and humbly requested that they continue to care for the metro’s jewels.
In closing the mayor wished his guests a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.
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