YEI News – From the Editor’s desk – 18 November 2020
Welcome to You’ve Earned It, the digital media platform for South African 60-plussers.
As this annus horribilis draws to a close,
YEI is very happy to bring you
great new senior offers and fabulous features
specifically geared at the 60-plus market.
Welcome to new YEI members
Welcome to all the new YEI subscribers and Facebook fans! We would love you to encourage your senior family and friends to join You’ve Earned It. They are most welcome to sign up for YEI’s FREE fortnightly newsletter here.
While we can see that you are reading the content and taking up the offers, we ask that you engage with the content. Why? Your actual engagement demonstrates to YEI advertisers and partners that it is worth supporting You’ve Earned It. The YEI advertisers and partners are offering great services to the 60-plus community. Engagement costs nothing, takes a fraction of your time, and makes an enormous difference to the You’ve Earned It senior community, in that advertisers and partners are more inclined to offer seniors great savings, benefits and offer.
We love to get great reviews! Good for team morale! Thank you Anthony Bass for your glowing recommendation below! Much appreciated!
Thank you,
Marilyn, YEI Editor
Information sent to YEI
We thank all YEI members for continually sending information to YEI. Rodney Everson sent the following:
SANParks free access week begins November 16
The 15th annual South African National Parks (SANParks) Week will begin on November 16 until November 20.
Locals with valid South African identity documents can visit any national park without having to pay an entrance fee at the gate. Agulhas, Bontebok, Table Mountain, Tankwa Karoo and West Coast National Park will be extending South African National Parks Week until Sunday, 22 November 2020. The only non-participating parks are Boulders Penguin Colony, Table Mountain Aerial Cableway in Table Mountain National Park, and Namaqua National Park.
It is important for South Africans to visit and familiarise themselves with the country’s national parks. They act as spaces to practice sustainable conservation, as spaces that preserve and celebrate our culture and heritage, and we now see national parks playing the critical role of empowering communities living adjacent to parks through job creation and we continue to explore ways of creating business opportunities particularly for small business owners.
Shoprite/Checkers
You have seen that Shoprite now also have the XTRA savings card. Existing Checkers XTRA savings card users can update or register to the Shoprite card.
YEI’s online book reviews
Come and share with us what you have read in the last month. You can also click here to read online book reviews on YEI!
Three most popular recent posts on the YEI Facebook page.
YEI Facebook fans were asked to caption this image.
Click here to hear what they had to say.. Share your caption in the comments section below.
Events are published regularly on the YEI Facebook page.
YEI published the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital’s first online Virtual Day of Remembrance which took place on 11 November 2020. Time to reflect and remember …
If you would like to see events such as these, like the YEI Facebook page here.
81 year old Granny marries Egyptian 45 years her junior – Click here to read more..
- Please note that you will only be able to connect on the above links if you are a Facebook user.
Obituaries
RIP Kimi Makwetu
South Africa’s well-respected Auditor-General, Kimi Makwetu, died of Stage 4 lung cancer. Click here to read more..
RIP Des O’Connor
Entertainer Des O’Connor has died at the age of 88. Click here to read more…
What’s On – locally and internationally
Click here to view the What’s On column
Reviews on YEI and the YEI Facebook page
The help and assistance from YEI is actually beyond measure. It’s just the best, even if only reading all the pages
Anthony Bass
Click here to read this review
If you would like to post a review on the YEI Facebook page, these are the steps to follow:
- Click here to go directly to the You’ve Earned It – Reviews page –
- You will see a box saying – Would you recommend You’ve Earned It – Pensioner discounts, deals and benefits?
- If you would like to recommend YEI, you click on “Yes”
- A pop up box will appear saying “What do you recommend about YEI..?”
- You simply write your recommendation in this box
- Then click “Post”
- Your own individual recommendation will appear on the YEI Facebook page.
Some good news senior stories
Daughter Gets Job in Dad’s Alzheimer’s Care Home So They Can Be Together in Pandemic – And Finds Her Passion
Click here
Why we should prioritise older people when we get a COVID vaccine
Click here
Ballerina with Alzheimer’s returns to Swan Lake
Click here
On a lighter note…
Until next month… Stay safe, stay at home and please keep well
Kind regards,
Marilyn and the YEI Team
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