Girl Guides South Africa

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Girl Guides South Africa
HeadquartersRandburg
CountrySouth Africa
Founded1910
Membership20,466
AffiliationWorld Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
Website
http://www.girlguides.org.za/
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The Girl Guides South Africa is a girls-only organisation and is recognised by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). As of 2003 it has 20,466 members.

Program and ideals[edit]

The programme of the Girl Guides South Africa caters for girls from 4½ to 25 years of age.

  • Teddies 4½–7
  • Brownies 7–10
  • Guides 10–14
  • Rangers and Young Leaders 14–25

There are a number of regions within Girl Guides South Africa, namely:

Eastern Cape

  • Butterworth
  • Cape East
  • Central
  • EG Kei
  • Mgwali
  • Mthatha
  • Queenstown

Free State - Orania Gauteng

  • Central
  • East
  • North
  • Soweto
  • West

KwaZulu Natal

  • Coastal
  • Inland
  • Midlands
  • Northern
  • Southern

Limpopo Mpumalanga

  • East
  • West

North West

  • Mafikeng
  • Rustenburg
  • Vryburg

Northern Cape Kuruman Cape West

Guide Promise[edit]

I promise to do my best,

To do my duty,

To my god and to my country,

To help other people and to keep the Guide Law

Guide Motto[edit]

Be Prepared

33rd World Conference[edit]

The Girl Guides South Africa hosted WAGGGS' 33rd World Conference from 6 to 12 July 2008 in Johannesburg. It was held in the Birchwood Executive Hotel and Conference Centre.

See also[edit]