Good day friends,

I trust this message finds you well and safe.

I'm writing to invite you to the Wikimedia South Africa Annual General Meeting (AGM) which will take place this coming Saturday, *25 September 2021 beginning from 10 am (South African Standard Time)*.

The chapter was established in 2012 by volunteers like you to support the South African Wikimedia community and its languages, outreach programms, and advocacy work as well as to organize ourselves to make it easy to receive funding. Every year, we apply and receive funding from the Wikimedia Foundation and other organisations, including donations made by other Wikimedians. As a chapter, we are only stewards of these funds, the rightful owners are you! Meaning we always strive to exercise transparency and accountability in the way we spend them.

In this regard, we would like to share with you our chapter's activities https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM_ZA/Activity_Report_2020-21, celebrate milestones achieved over the Covid19 financial period, and hear from you on how best we can reach out and support volunteers in South Africa and neighboring countries. We would also like to take this opportunity to elect a new board, I need to stress that any active Wikimedian or reader of Wikipedia can nominate someone or themselves to sit on the WikimediaZA board.

To participate in the meeting kindly register on the link here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1C4070xLwekqe5C7-4Yg3qPOk7HmdeGBXieWQQC9Nv4Q/edit .

Meeting details below:

Date: Saturday, 25 Saturday 2021 Start time: 10:00 AM SAST Intermission: 13.00 PM SAST End Time: 16:00 PM SAST Location: Online Meeting

Kind regards, Bobby Shabangu WikimediaZA President.