Carryou Ministry does its bit for Mandela Day
The mayor and members of the ministry plated seeds for the ministry's vegetable garden.
Carryou Ministry and the Randfontein Local Municipality Executive Mayor Sylvia Thebenare and her team kick-started Mandela Day on Thursday by planting seeds in Carryou’s vegetable garden.
“While others will be doing their bit to dedicate 67 minutes for Mandela Day tomorrow (18 July), we decided to kick-start ours today together with Randfontein’s first citizen and plant seeds for our vegetable garden,” said the Ministry’s general manager Reverend Lawrence Mabaso.
“We wanted to give our residents an opportunity to join hands with the mayor in honouring Madiba by dedicating 67 minutes towards our farming initiative,” said Mabaso.
He added that the main purpose of the event was to teach people the importance of growing their own vegetables, which in turn will help eradicate poverty and help them with self-empowerment.
The herald spoke to Thebenare who says she supports such initiatives and hopes it will bring about food sustainability.
“The municipality supports what the ministry is doing, especially with this vegetable garden.
“It serves to provide food for the less fortunate and we must be thankful for people going out of their way to feed the hungry in this community.
“I urge people not take this for granted,” says Thebenare.
She said it’s important to teach people how to grow their own vegetables instead of having to buy it.
Mabaso concluded by quoting the late Nelson Mandela, “A garden was one of the few things in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.”
