67 reasons to love your community

A safe environment, knowing your neighbour and unity within a community are some of the 67 reasons why residents love their suburbs in the greater Randburg area.

As residents prepare to donate 67 minutes of doing good deeds in honour of Nelson Mandela, here are some of the reasons why residents love their communities:

• Effective communication between residents
• Community members who work tirelessly to keep their suburbs safe
• Active residents who support each other
•  Diversity
•  Humanity
•  Resident’s associations
• Rainbow nation
• Monthly crime meetings to discuss strategies to combat crime
• Residents who are often on the lookout for suspicious activities
• Unity
• Greatness through united leadership
• Residents who strive to do good for their community
• Clean and safe parks
• Sense of love and sharing
• Generosity
• Share messages through WhatsApp groups to intensify a sense of being part of one community
• Monthly river walks and mountain walks
• Neat pavements, roads and gardens
• Monthly competition to encourage residents’ participation in community initiatives
• Friendly residents
• Beautiful scenery
• Developments in the community
• An inspiration to create opportunities
• Neat roads
• Shopping centres close to suburbs
• Friendly petrol attendants
• Race, gender, and language lines fall away in times of need, and residents act quickly to help out
• Acts of kindness and selflessness still exist in communities
• Cultural diversity
• Entertainment centres
• Private security companies that strive to keep residents safe
• Law enforcers who go out of their way to help residents
• Residents who arrange clean-up initiatives to keep their open areas clean and secured
• Residents who support local businesses and enrich one another
• Happiness
• Various sporting codes, which allow residents to participate in health and fitness
• Flea markets
• A fleet of taxis when you driving through Randburg CBD
• The smell of neighbourhood braais
• Amazing schools
• Diverse languages
• Tree-lined streets
• Community historical sites
• Public swimming pools
• Weather
• Friendly petrol attendants
• Police stations
• Walking your dog
• Cycling
• Free Wifi inside restaurants
• Golf Clubs
• Traffic calming signs
• Simple life
• Traffic Testing station
• Sports centres
• Warm summer evenings
• Walking distance to the shops
• High-speed internet
• Excellent radio reception
• Garage sales
• Kids play sports on the street
• Community policing forums (CPF)
• Street parties
• Community newspapers
• Community libraries
• When you’re short of sugar, your neighbour always has a cup for you
• Community pride.