Take action today and become a Water Champ!
World Water Day is observed annually on the 22nd of March with this year’s theme being ‘Nature for Water’ – exploring nature-based solutions to the water challenges we face in…
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Earth Hour 2018, remember switch off your lights
On Saturday, 24 March 2018, the world celebrates EARTH HOUR 2018. Starting as a symbolic lights out event in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour is now the world’s largest grassroots…
National Cub Challenge 2018
Single-use plastic items are destroying habitats and ecosystems all over the world. Items like plastic shopping bags, drinking straws and plastic water bottles are made to only be used once…
10th Serbian National Jamboree
SSA members are invited to attend the 10th Serbian national Jamboree from the 27th of July to the 5th of August 2018. The jamboree will be held on the shores…
What is the Rover BP Award?
2018 is the Rover Centenary and we are focusing on the ins and outs of Rovering in South Africa. The BP Award is the highest Scouting award available to Rovers…
Rovers, where we have come from, where we are going!
2018 see’s Rovers enter and reflect on the past 100 years of Rovering in South Africa. In writing this article it is great to see how Rovers have grown and defined…
Message on the occasion of Founder’s Day 2018
By Craig Turpie, Chairperson World Scout Committee Our Founder’s birthday is an occasion for Scouts everywhere to celebrate. Today, 22 February, we recall our Scouting adventures, meet our Scouting friends, proudly wear our…
Entsha Scout Programme roll out
The current SSA programme was launched in 2002 and after 16 years we will soon be introducing the Entsha Scout Programme. The Entsha Scout Programme was due to be released…
Nomads Camp, Kazakhstan
The organization “Scouts of the great steppe” of Kazakhstan have international volunteers positions for the summer “Nomads camp”. Nomads camp is the summer camp for children aged from 11 to 17 and…
SSA’s Water Champ Challenge!
SCOUTS South Africa has a special Water Champ Challenge badge which was developed to help focus energies around avoiding water outages and focus on water saving around the country. The Water…