HAPPENINGS

EVENTS

● The Midlands Sai Primary School will hold a blood donor drive on November 4 from 10am to 4pm.

● The Southern Region Eisteddfod Movement’s AGM will take place on November 3 at 3pm at the Saiva Sithantha Sungum Hall in Westcliff, Chatsworth. Call Steven Govender at 084 5255 025.

● The Hillgrove Vishnu Shakti Mandir holds yoga classes every Wednesday from 7pm to 8pm at the AMF Hall in Hillgrove, Newlands West.

● The ex-residents of Cornubia Estate are invited to a reunion at the Mariemmen Temple Hall in Mount Edgecombe on November 17 at 1pm. Call Jayce at

082 461 5478.

● The 1860 Indentured Labourers Foundation Verulam (ILFV) will commemorate its 10th anniversary with a conference that will pay homage to the 1860 Indian forebears and observe the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth, on November 17 at the Sastri College Education and Convention Centre. Speakers at the conference, billed From Indenture to Mandela & Freedom, will include Professor Goolam Vahed (an overview of the history of indenture); Betty Govinden (role of women in indenture); Professor Rajend Mesthrie (languages in indenture); Professor Kalpana Hiralal (education in indenture); and Professor Ashwin Desai (influence of indenture on South Africans of Indian descent). Call Shirley at 082 081 7010.