Since his arrival in South Africa in 1975, David has held senior management positions in the fields of retail, marketing and advertising. His latest venture being as the Marketing Director of Magscene, an importer of international magazines. 

David’s love of cricket stems back to his school and university days in the UK and was a committed member of both Inanda CC and The Ancients in Johannesburg where he was the Chairman and Keeper respectively. He joined Kent Park Taverners in the late 80’s and is currently the Chairman. 

The opportunity to start a local chapter of the Lord’s Taverners arose in 2014 and the UK agreed to this venture in July of this year. The South African Club and Charity is committed to the same aims as in the UK, namely providing support for disabled and disadvantaged children, under the banner of “giving young people a sporting chance”. 

The first initiatives in 2016 will be to introduce table Cricket into schools for the disabled as well as partnering with Sporting Chance to explore opportunities for previously disadvantaged children.

Monthly Rotary Club of Sandton board meeting

Wayne Duvange will be our speaker explaining the vision and ambitions of OUTA as they move beyond the e-tolls campaign.

OUTA is a Civil Action Organisation, born in 2012 as the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance when it challenged Government’s decision to subject an upgrade of South Africa’s busiest freeway network (in Gauteng) to an inefficient and irrational electronic tolling (e-toll) system to finance the upgrade.

While the e-Toll challenge has been stretched out over a number of years, the organisation has grown stronger and has developed into a more efficient entity with its own internal litigation capacity, researchers, investigators and other skills. The internal growth has enabled OUTA to move beyond the e-Toll issue, as the team sets out to challenge and expose inefficiencies, maladministration and corruption in other areas of state taxation policy making and state managed expenditure.

In doing so, at the start of 2016, OUTA changed it name to become the “Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse”, which enabled its retention of the OUTA acronym, whilst clearly depicting in its new name, the work and purpose of the entity.

It is no secret that since the leadership of Nelson Mandela, who led our nation out of the shackles of apartheid and nurtured the birth of an inclusive rainbow nation filled with possibilities and opportunities, the South African Government, over the past decade, has failed to maximise our nation’s potential and ability to produce sizable growth to our economy – when compared with other emerging economies.

Our current governmental leadership has lost their moral compass and lacks the ability to be transparent and inclusive of the people when introducing significant state expenditure on matters that require meaningful engagement. All indications from various monitoring reports depict a nation fraught is growing maladministration and state revenue plunder on many projects which more often than not, cost society a few hundred percent more than they ought to. This leads to a significant loss of revenues which could be well utilised in providing the necessary services to society.

OUTA’s role is to become active in challenging some of the serious issues at play and to hold those responsible for the poor governance and corruption to account for their actions. To halt the wasteful expenditure and irrational decisions which are not in the best interests of society at large.

Claudine is the Director at JPCCC, and is an experienced social worker. She recently joined the JPCCC team, and is passionate about taking the organisation to new heights. 

`The Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Centre (JPCCC) is a counselling, training and development agency which provides short or long term therapy for adolescents, families, adults and couples and play therapy for children. Trauma, bereavement and crisis counselling are also offered and counselling is undertaken in numerous schools on a weekly basis in order to identify young people's problems early on and intervene where necessary.

We provide consulting, training and mentoring for schools and other organisations and educational, psychological and career assessments are undertaken for children and youth ranging in age from 2-25 years.

The Centre works with parents/caregivers and families in the community to strengthen their ability to care for their children and provides psycho-social support and development projects for families in difficult circumstances by providing them with opportunities to mobilise themselves to reach their full potential.