Hon Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes the innovative initiative of elderly women of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, who started growing organic vegetables in their backyards 12 years ago to feed their families;
2) further notes that their initiative was so successful that they soon required more land and the local Luhlaza High School initially allowed them to use some of the school's land but soon it too became too small and they then obtained land from the municipality;
3) further notes that they now provide work to unemployed people and, apart from selling their produce, they also donate some to the church, the hospice and the poor;
4) recognises that they recently won the Western Cape category for a subsistence project in the 2011 Female Entrepreneur of the year competition run by the national Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; and
5) takes this opportunity to commend these women on their remarkable initiative, endurance, hard work and achievement and calls on others to follow suit.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.