WeeklySA_AdminAmid fanfare and glitz, London’s most Instagram-worthy café opened its doors at Mall of Africa in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The famous UK café and lifestyle chain, internationally known for its innovative menu offering, unique interiors and specialty coffee, is a true showstopping novelty with its stunning features, With 32 stores already dotted around the globe in locations such as Milan, Paris and Dubai, among others, the first branch is finally opening its doors in South Africa at the newly developed Mall of Africa.
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LIMPOPO TYCOON COMES TO GIRLS TEAM’S RESCUE
PHILANTHROPY: Mito Stars FC club receives donations from a businessman…
By Priscilla Malinga
TYCOON COMES
TO GIRLS
TEAM’S RESCUE
A Limpopo businessman surprised Mito Stars FC, a female only soccer team based in Zola Soweto during the recent Women’s Day, football gear and other personal accessories as part of his company’s initiative to support and back a girls’ team.
Matome Rapetsoa, founder and chief executive of Mahuma Group, said, with communities battling the scourge of gender-based violence, it was important for all law-abiding citizens and men who were against such deviant behaviour to show support to women. His company, Mahuma Group, wanted to let women know that it hears their cries and cares.
Rapetsoa generously donated a set of soccer gear, hoodies, bags, and beanies, sanitary towels, amongst other things, as one of his company’s initiatives to support women and to empower them so they know that their dreams could be realised.
In addition, Mito Stars, a club led by coach Mito Matola, received a soccer kit from Kaizer Chiefs FC on Mandela Day as part of their 67 minutes initiative in observance of the Mandela Day, which celebrates the late statesman’s birthday.
Kaizer Chiefs and Toyota arranged the Mandela Day event in Soweto, where they spent their 67 minutes teaching young stars football tricks. Mito Stars was the only girls’ team at the event and brought along girls whose ages ranged from 10 to 30 years. They were sponsored with a soccer kit that still needed branding, and that was when Rapetsoa came to their aid.
“Kaiser Chiefs is my favourite club, this is another reason I got interested,” Rapetsoa said.
He then realised that he needed to do more, that was when he came up with the idea to spend time with Mito Stars on Women’s Day, to attend to their needs with whatever he could manage.
“Helping communities should be a community effort and that is why I sometimes raise money by asking for donations,” Rapetsoa says. “This way the community is involved in helping other communities without being present,” he added.
There was a need to assist the girl with sanitary towels as it was unacceptable for the girls to miss training or school or normal daily activity because they could not afford sanitary towels.
Rapetsoa said that a girl child faced a lot these days. “No one feels as unsafe as our girls do, and we need to stand up and do something as men, and it starts with us, as Mahuma group, to stand up for the girl child”.
