Charity partnership

Irish pop star Ronan Keating and South African golfing legend Gary Player raised more than R 2.2 million in a golf tournament and gala charity auction held at the Blair Atholl Golf and Equestrian Estate, near Centurion, at the beginning of the month. This is the sixth year in a row that they have worked together to raise money for the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital’s oncology unit and the Blair Atholl Pre-Primary School. Mr Keating, who sang some of his hits at the auction, said: “I lost my mom to cancer in 1998. Since then, I have been committed to raising funds for cancer awareness, prevention, and treatment and fund-raising for the children’s hospital has been an important cause for me over the years”.