{"id":103041,"date":"2015-10-27T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=103041"},"modified":"2015-10-27T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:06:28","slug":"thembakazi-gcn-put-faith-in-bouclette-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/10\/27\/thembakazi-gcn-put-faith-in-bouclette-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Thembakazi, GCN put faith in Bouclette Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bouclette Top will be racing for victory at this weekend\u2019s Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile.<\/p>\n

The horse will be running for the Thembakazi Primary Aftercare Centre located in Vosloorus.<\/p>

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The Germiston City News, as media partner, has been teamed up with Thembakazi and our celebrity on the day is Top Billing\u2019s presenter search winner in 2012, Jonathan Boynton-Lee.<\/p>\n

The Peermont Children\u2019s Trust assists ten schools in the Gauteng area by assisting with the provision of school uniforms ever year, daily hot meals for all pupils, food parcels for the school holidays, building of jungle gyms and an annual Christmas party.<\/p>

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The majority of these schools are in underprivileged areas with many children being orphaned and malnourished.<\/p>\n

The trust also assists with aftercare programmes and assistance with homework which helps the pupils to improve on their academic results and school attendance.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Peermont Children\u2019s Trust after school programmes supports nine centres which cater for 22 primary schools in Gauteng.<\/p>\n

The trust works very closely with the Department of Social Development and Department of Education.<\/p>\n

Thembakazi, along with Reahile Primary Aftercare Centre in Katlehong, are part of the trust\u2019s projects.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the unveiling of the field for this year\u2019s Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile took place with the 16 racehorses for the main Grade 2 race on the day being paired with each of the 16 celebrities, 16 media partners and most importantly, the 16 charities who will all receive proportionate amounts of the R 1-million prize money, depending on the allocated horse\u2019s placement.<\/p>\n

Phumelela Racing Executive Clyde Basel, said that this year\u2019s Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile will be bigger and better than before, because of the greatly increased prize money donated for the 16 worthy charities by Peermont Emperor\u2019s Palace and also the increase towards stakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event is a highlight on the Gauteng racing calendar and year on year proves to be a fun, exciting, successful race day that raises a lot of money for very worthy causes,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been involved in this event for ten years and this year we have increased the prize money to R1-m, all of which goes to charity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay the best horse win,\u201d said Vusi Zwane, Peermont Group Corporate Affairs Executive.<\/p>\n

Celebrity and MC at the barrier draw event, Neil Andrews, re-iterated what a wonderful event the Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile is.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the horse that runs last wins R 50 000 for charity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile takes place at Turffontein this Saturday (October 31).<\/p>\n

The GCN will be cheering on Bouclette Top for the win in order for Thembakazi to take the top prize of R150 000.<\/p>\n

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