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At New Media we do it after hours

That was the slogan on our T-shirts a couple of years ago. And yes, we work hard, but luckily we also know how to play, and we make plenty of time for it.

In the spirit of the 2010 World Cup, the guys in the company got together at the beginning of the year to form our very own soccer team, which challenges other companies on a monthly basis to a real match. And now they have the purple shirts to prove it!

Then there’s the monthly social event at the Greek Club in Mouille Point where you can win some small change and improve your poker face. And let’s not forget the weekly braai on our balcony, with Ami Kapilevich lighting the fire under the boeries on a Weber donated by Natalie Jardine. Things also got heated during the recent week-long ( held during lunch hours!) 30 Seconds tournament – which was won, incidentally, by the clever Hip2B² team.

Of course we’ve participated in some more serious community

projects as well, such as painting Prestwich Primary’s library and redecorating their first-aid room; repainting the toilets at the shelter in Green Point; and sponsoring the Shine Literacy project’s annual report. We’ve built houses in Mfuleni with Habitat for Humanity and redecorated the doctors’ common room at Tygerberg Hospital in association with Plascon Spaces. We’ve even participated in the annual Twilight fun run through Cape Town in aid of charity. Actually, those weren’t all that serious – they’re simply more fun ways of being the change we want to see in the world.

One for the Team
from Jude Patandin (IT Support) after our last soccer match

Tonight, with shin splints throbbing, I am truly proud of what we represent on the soccer pitch. We may have lost the match 3-1, but what we gained was worth writing about.

We played a much younger team but we play in the spirit of fun – we’re not so much the unofficial ‘has been’ team, more like ‘never was’. Boebie, Zieyaad, Robert Kamildien and uncle Ronny were treated with so much respect, as was, of course, our manager and organiser Emelda Davids.

I was taught a lesson by these youngsters. At the end of the game, after we shook everyone’s hands, they called us over and asked our Captain Boebie if he had anything to say. Then they said the following: they had never played a game with so few fouls, and that they had really enjoyed it. They asked for our company name since they’d always thought it was Media24. What came next was something I will try to live up to.

One of the team members then said that if this was how we play soccer, our company must be a special company and must be a ‘lekker’ place to work, judging by how we played and conducted ourselves.

I was really proud of all my co-workers at that point and, yes, we all have differences, but there on the field with our families around us we are the NMP soccer team and we represent our company proudly.

Have a great weekend. I know I will.
Jude

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