GEORGE NEWS - The board for the Rosemoor Home for the Aged has upset many community members and interested parties when it held its 2017 annual general meeting (AGM) behind closed doors.
Before the meeting at Fancourt on Tuesday 28 November, the chairman of the existing board, Kenneth Africa, called the George Herald journalist aside, saying the board had decided not to admit the media to the AGM.
Africa said they would issue the George Herald with a press statement after the meeting.
Despite numerous requests for the information, there was no sign of the promised statement at the time of going to print - more than two weeks after the controversial AGM took place.
The cloak and dagger meeting follows an AGM notice in the George Herald on Thursday 23 November, in which no mention was made of which organisation's AGM was being announced.
Rosemoor Home For the Aged was not mentioned once.
At the Fancourt conference centre, members of the public, who had travelled from different suburbs, waited patiently for permission from the board to enter the venue, but some were denied access.
The reason given was that their memberships were not in order.
The membership prerequisites were explained in the non-specific AGM notice.
The old age home has been in the news a number of times over the past few years and had been placed under administration by the Department of Social Development in 2015, a claim the board later denied, saying it was never "officially" placed under administration.
Control of the home was given back to the board in May 2016.
Sihle Ngobese, spokesperson for Albert Fritz, Western Cape MEC of Social Development, said the Act clearly states that an annual general meeting is a legal requirement.
According to law an AGM must also be advertised to inform the public of the event.
ARTICLE: MYRON RABINOWITZ, GEORGE HERALD JOURNALIST
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