The Pretoria Legacy Foundation held a plenary session on Wednesday 16 June 2021 to ratify its constitution and to announce the names of the trustees that have been appointed to oversee its activities.
In a virtual meeting held via Zoom as a result of the looming pandemic, members of the PLF unanimously adopted the constitution.
A twelve-member Management Committee was elected earlier this year at a public meeting to oversee the establishment and functioning of the foundation.
The Management Committee members of the Pretoria Legacy Foundation are:
Daya Chetty: Chairperson
Judge Jody Kollapen: Vice Chairperson
Sadia Gani: Secretary
Amarlal Soma: Treasurer
Hassen Ebrahim
Farida Mohamad
Ismail Abramjee
Roshan Mahomed
Haroon Noormohamed
Hassen Mohideen
Benjamin Lawrence
Ahmed Gani
Thushan Padayachey: Co-ordinator of working committee’s.
The Mancom also announced the names of the five trustees that will serve a five year term.
The trustees who accepted appointments and were subsequently confirmed as office bearers (in no particular order) are:
Dr Murthi Sooboo
Mahendra Sita
Tasneem Carrim
Pastor Kevin Naicker
Fouzie Shamshodien
The Chairperson of Mancom, Daya Chetty will also serve as a member of the board of trustees in a non-executive position.
The meeting was described by those attending as highly fruitful as the PLF starts establishing and positioning itself as a credible and trusted community organisation, intent on preserving our history and the legacy of our forebears.
The strategic objectives of the PLF is also to celebrate our diversity, promote peace, religious, and cultural tolerance and to contribute to the development of our society and to assist with its welfare.
A priority of the foundation will remain to provide leadership and promote social cohesion.
The next phase of the activities of the PLF will be to strengthen engagements with stakeholders and establish working relationships.
Another important objective will be to establish a series of working committees that will encompass several community and cultural activities with a strong emphasis of getting the youth involved.
In this regard the PLF will once the pandemic has eased, visit schools to speak at assemblies and to History students about the legacy project and provide some literature about our history as a community.
The foundation will also strive to better the development of our society and contribute to the resolution of conflicts through mediation and other interventions and has recently successfully done so in a matter that was seen as decisive to our community.
The foundation expressed its thanks to all its members especially the trustees who have accepted the responsibilities to guiding and navigating the foundation to achieving its strategic objectives and mission.
