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Events in 2016

16 March	Change Day
7 April	World Health Day
11 April	World Parkinson’s Day
15 May	International Family Day
17 May	World Hypertension Day
1 June	World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
17 June	National Care Home Open Day
18 July	Nelson Mandela Day
21 September	World Alzheimer’s Day
26 Sept – 2 Oct	Week of Older Persons
1 October	International Day of Older Persons
2 October	Grandparents Day
12 October	International Arthritis Day
14 October	World Diabetes Day
1 December	World Aids Day
3 December	International Day of Disabilities

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Shocking indictment on DSD and SASSA

Black Sash

"While Sassa has reassured grant recipients that it is ready for the October payment cycle without CPS, we bring you a report from Xhora, where some people used to be able to tell by the moon when the cash truck was due.

The Post Office and Sassa arrived today to do the cash pension payouts. We are apparently one of the test sites for their cash payout trucks. What a mess!"

Read more: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-09-14-in-rural-xhora-in-the-eastern-cape-reality-bites-the-pockets-of-the-poor/

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This old age is not only worthwhile, but it is meant to be. Therefore, it is our responsibility to help people get the most of it

Ken Durand

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay

Madonna

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard

Madam C.J. Walker

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "I will try again tomorrow"

Mary Anne Radmacher

Aging presents us with the opportunity not only to grow old, but to grow whole.

Connie Goldman

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

Eleanor Roosevelt

We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult

Melinda Gates

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max Du Preez

Nothing will work unless you do

Maya Angelou

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about!

Benjamin Franklin

When you help an Elder, you also help the part of yourself growing old

Nader Shabahangi

If you can't fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward

Martin Luther King,Jr.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common

Ralph W. Emerson

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women

Madeleine Albright

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