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German, Dutch and South African visitors to the Cape Whale Coast recently enjoyed a horseback adventure with Sarah Coronaios (owner of Gansbaai & Pearly Beach Horse Trails) and her team on Pearly Beach. They wound their way through the dunes and across this pristine beach, which is one of the most tranquil stretches of the Overstrand coastline. For more information, Sarah can be contacted on 083 427 5674. PHOTO: Kos Coronaios, Gansbaai & Pearly Beach Horse Trails

Plan to secure future water supply Writer De Waal Steyn

he Overstrand Municipality (OM) faces many challenges. One of their most daunting tasks is securing an adequate water supply for the ever-growing population of the region. To this end an important new document outlining the Overstrand Municipality’s draft water services development plan has made its way into the public participation arena and will be available for public comment until 30 April.

The Draft Water Services Development Plan (WSDP) for 2019/'20, compiled in cooperation with energy and resources consultants WorleyParsons, was tabled to Council on 27 March, while the final plan will be tabled for approval by council on 29 May. According to the draft WSMP, the most significant challenges are the augmentation of the existing water sources for Hermanus, the replacement and upgrading of the old water and sewerage infrastructure to accommodate development, the provision of sustainable basic services to informal settlements and to

ensure the provision of basic services to households located on privatelyowned farms. “The current replacement cost (CRC) of the water and sewerage infrastructure that will need to be replaced over the next five years is R629.3 million. The CRC of the existing water and sewerage infrastructure with a condition grading of “very poor” is R404.2 million. One of the key challenges of Overstrand Municipality is to identify adequate funds for the rehabilitation and maintenance of their existing infrastructure, which is critical to ensure the sustainability of

services,” states the report. Mayor Dudley Coetzee said water is a scarce commodity and the drought has emphasised the importance of not only conserving water but also undertaking strategic planning for future water supply and the continuous maintenance of current infrastructure. “The plans we have in place have led to a situation where we were not adversely affected by the drought. These plans also make provision for ensuring that we have sufficient water supply for the future. The

municipality spends in excess of R10 million annually on maintenance and this will continue in future,” he said. The report states that water supply systems in most municipalities in South Africa are under increasing threat of widespread failure due to inadequate rehabilitation and maintenance of the networks. “This is also the case in the OM's management area, with 60.7% of the water infrastructure and 55.1% of the sewerage infrastructure having nearly reached its full life expectancy. Continues on P4

MINI CHEFS, MEGA FLAVOUR!

Kid-friendly recipes that your little ones will love making.

Chocolate lollies

METHOD

Makes 8

INGREDIENTS

Less than 15 minutes

Decorate with colourful tape, ribbons or stickers.

METHOD

INGREDIENTS

• ¼ box (125g) chocolate cake mix • 1 large egg • 5 tsp (25ml) vegetable oil • ¼ cup (60ml) milk • ½ cup (125ml) Nutella chocolate spread • ¼ cup (60ml) water • Handful mini marshmallows • Cocoa powder, for dusting

• Place cake mix in a bowl. • Beat egg, oil and milk together for 30 seconds using an electric mixer. • Add to the cake mix. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds, then beat on high speed for 4 minutes. • Spoon 2 Tbsp (30ml) batter into four 1½ cup (375ml) capacity mugs. • Add about 2 Tbsp (30ml) chocolate spread to each. • Top each with 2 Tbsp (30ml) batter and 1 Tbsp (15ml) water. • Place one mug at a time on a plate and microwave in a 700W power microwave for a minute on medium. Cake will rise and drop down into mug. • Remove and top with marshmallows. • Microwave for a minute more. • Serve with a dusting of cocoa.

• 2 slabs (150g each) dark, milk or white chocolate, plus extra for decorating • 8 skewers or lolly sticks • Mini marshmallows, sprinkles, sweets or chopped nuts, for decorating

• Line 2 large baking trays with baking paper. • Place skewers on baking paper, about 10cm apart. • Melt chocolate in a large heatproof bowl in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds, until smooth. • Spoon 2 Tbsp (30ml) melted chocolate over the top of a skewer. • Flatten chocolate slightly with the back of a spoon and shape into a disc. • Sprinkle with your preferred decorations. • Repeat with remaining skewers and chocolate. • Set in the fridge for about 5 minutes or until chocolate is rm. • Remove and store in a cool, dry place until ready to serve. *Cook's note: Don’t refrigerate overnight as it may cause a fatty layer to form around the lollies.*

Nutella mug cakes Makes 4 Less than 30 minutes

Easter egg road shards INGREDIENTS

Makes 8 Less than 2 hours

This one's for the chocoholics.

• 5 slabs (80g each) white chocolate, chopped • 5 slabs (80g each) dark chocolate, chopped • 6 marshmallow Easter eggs, snipped into chunks • 1 packet (125g) mini chocolate eggs • Vanilla and chocolate ice cream, for serving

Easter nest cupcakes INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup (125g) butter, softened • 2 cups (260g) icing sugar, sifted • 3 Tbsp (45ml) cocoa powder • 12 PnP bakery cupcakes • 1 Flake chocolate • Handful speckled egg sweets

METHOD

Makes 12

• Beat butter, icing sugar and cocoa powder together using an electric mixer on low speed until incorporated. Increase speed and beat until smooth. • Spread icing over cupcakes. • Crumble over Flake and gently roll edges of icing into chocolate to form a nest shape. • Place a few sweets in the centre of each cupcake to complete the nest. • Serve.

Less than 15 minutes

A simple and quick way to jazz up cupcakes.

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METHOD

• Line a large baking tray with baking paper. • Place white chocolate in a glass bowl and melt over a pot of simmering water. • Pour into prepared baking tray. Set aside to harden. • Melt dark chocolate over a pot of simmering water. • Pour evenly over white chocolate layer. • Sprinkle marshmallow and chocolate eggs over chocolate. Set aside to cool and harden. • Snap into shards and serve with scoops of ice cream.

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From shack to council chamber Writer Elaine Davie

ive-year-old, Michaela, will always be his irst priority.

to achieve one’s goals through negotiation, conversation, dialogue.”

know what it means to live in a shack, to have the rain dripping through the roof in the winter and the cold wind whistling through cracks you didn’t even know were there,” confesses newly-elected DA Proportional Councillor Ronald Nutt, born and bred in Mount Pleasant. “And it’s not fair; everybody deserves the dignity of a decent home they can call their own.”

Ronald does not see himself as a politician; his focus has always been on enhancing the life of the community. When the new government came into power, people were full of hope that their lives would change for the better, he comments, and although there have been some improvements, not nearly enough. Twenty-ive years later, the people have become discouraged, especially when it comes to housing.

He believes that Helen Zille is making a genuine efort to ind a solution to the problem and admires her single-minded commitment. “She walks the talk,” he says. But he pleads for all parties to exhibit patience and tolerance. On the other hand, he feels that the administration needs to make every efort to speed up the process and cut through some of the red tape.

Although they may not have been rich in worldly goods, his mother and pastor-father brought up their three sons with a strong foundation of moral values and love of family. It is clear that this warm, friendly man with the big smile is a people’s person, deeply rooted in Mount Pleasant, his own community, as well as the greater Hermanus community.

“Mandela had a dream of a rainbow nation and Martin Luther King Jnr had a similar dream, and so do I,” he laughs, “but I believe we need to start in our own backyards. What I want for my children is a future without racism, crime, violence and fear, where there will be a chance of economic empowerment for them and where we can all live together as fellow South Africans.”

Like many Hermanus residents, he has a irm belief that this is a special place with a unique energy and the ability to show the way to the rest of the country, in terms of community development and cultural integration. These are aspects of life in the Overstrand about which he is passionate. And as a man who believes in deeds, not empty words, he has been actively working towards that goal for most of his adult life. Straight after matriculating from Swartberg Secondary School in Caledon, Ronald went to work at the Ibis stationery store in Hermanus, owned by Nico and Julie Toerien, now the owners of Oice National. When Ibis was taken over by Walton’s, he stayed on and two years ago when the business closed its doors in Hermanus, he had been working there for 24 years. “Yes,” he says, “loyalty is what it’s all about – that’s one of the values my father taught me from an early age, that and doing my best in

Ronald Nutt, the newly appointed DA Proportional Councillor of the Overstrand Municipality. whatever I undertake.” He has followed in his father’s footsteps in other ways too. He is passionate about the upliftment of his community and since he was retrenched, has dedicated himself full-time to evangelism and community work. As a talented keyboard player, he enjoys participating in gospel concerts. “But, whatever I do during the week,” he emphasises, “the weekends are for my family. My children have to know that their father plays an active part in their lives; we love to have rough-and-tumble games together.” Now that he is a councillor, he acknowledges that it is going to be more diicult to balance his responsibilities, but he is determined that his wife, Diane, who is his grounded centre, he says, together with eight-year-old Joshua and

Ronald has been an active participant in the negotiations around land and housing and feels empathy for those who have become frustrated and hopeless in their struggle for a decent place of their own. He says he knows of old people in Mount Pleasant who have spent their whole lives waiting for a home and who have eventually passed away without realising their dream. It is especially hard for people to accept their situation when they see land standing empty and are told it’s not for them. "I think the protests did achieve something useful," says Ronald. “They brought the challenge to the status quo into the open; it has created a greater understanding of the size of the need. I can’t argue with people’s right to ight for what they believe in, but there is no place for lawlessness, where other people’s lives are put in danger. Gandhi made his point without resorting to violence; it is possible

Council recognises long service Six employees who have served 20 years or longer with the Overstrand Municipality were presented with service awards at the Council meeting last Wednesday. One employee, Mgoduseni Nkunkumana, from in the parks department in Hermanus, has completed 30 years of service with the municipality.

awarded a long service certiicate for 20 years of service. Recognition was also given to Georgia Bucchianeri and Lorraine Botma from the budget oice with 15- and 10-years’ service respectively. Mayor Dudley Coetzee thanked them for their dedication and service to the Municipality.

Another four employees, Franklin Sherrif (sewage tankers), Sollie Ahrends (streets and storm water) and CD Klaas (sewage tankers) of the Gansbaai Administration; and Mcingeleni Gogwana (streets and storm water) of the Hermanus Administration, have completed 25 years with the municipality. Danwill Cronjé from the Kleinmond Administration (streets and storm water) was

Back: Georgia Bucchianeri (Hermanus - 15 years), Lorraine Botma (Hermanus - 10 years) and Mgoduseni Nkunkumana (Hermanus - 30 years). Middle: Danwill Cronjé (Kleinmond - 20 years), CD Klaas (Gansbaai 25 years) and Mcingeleni Gogwana (Hermanus - 25 years). Front: Sollie Ahrends (Gansbaai - 25 years) and Franklin Sherrif (Gansbaai - 25 years).

Ronald sees himself as a mediator and a peacemaker. He is a member of the Greater Hermanus Christian Leaders’ Forum, which is working towards reconciliation through prayer and dialogue. For the past eight years, he has also been a member of the local ward committee, so is not unfamiliar with the workings of the town council. However, he still feels completely overwhelmed by the speed with which events have been moving since he received his letter of appointment on 26 March. He says he’s still waiting for reality to set in. It’s been a case of sink or swim for him, but he is grateful to his fellow-councillors for their support. He admits to feeling somewhat intimidated at having to ill the big shoes of Nicolette Johnson on the council but once again, he falls back on his father’s advice: “Always remember who you are and where you come from. You have a name; that’s who you are. Positions and titles don’t deine who you are. You will be deined by whether you have added value to someone else’s life.” With the elections round the corner, it’s all systems go for Ronald and he has two pieces of advice for the electorate: “Look at the facts when you make your choice – don’t act on your emotions. And remember, don’t mess with something that works – and this municipality does!”

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Water plan open for comment From P 1 “This places considerable strain on maintenance operations and the only solution is for the municipality to continue with its current commitment towards a substantial and sustained programme of capital renewal works (rehabilitation and maintenance of the existing infrastructure). “The replacement value of the water infrastructure that is expected to come to the end of its useful life over the next 5 years is R553.9 million (an average of R110.8 million per year) and for sewerage infrastructure the value is R75.356 million (an average of R15.1 million per year). The renewal burden is set to continue to increase sharply over the next 15 years as is currently the case. Water and sewerage infrastructure assets with a total current replacement

value of R604.1 million and R95.8 million respectively will reach the end of their useful lives over the next 10 years and will need to be replaced, rehabilitated or reconstructed. “It is therefore important for the council to continue with its current committed capital renewal programme and to increase the budgets allocated towards the maintenance and rehabilitation of the existing infrastructure. The municipality’s dedicated renewal programmes need to target the poor and very poor assets. If this is not done, there is a risk that the ongoing deterioration will escalate to uncontrollable proportions, with considerable impact on customers, the economy of the area and the image of the Overstrand Municipality.” The report recommends the fol-

OVERVIEW OF WATER SERVICES IN THE OVERSTRAND Overstrand Municipality is situated within the Breede-Gouritz Water Management Area (WMA) and includes the following towns and water distribution systems: Rooiels, Pringle Bay and Betty’s Bay are supplied with bulk water from the Buffels River Dam. Kleinmond is supplied from the Palmiet River and the “Dorpsfontein”. A borehole sank in 1998 and located 300 m to the east of the fountain, is available as additional source in case of emergency. Greater Hermanus is supplied with bulk surface water from De Bos Dam and bulk groundwater from the Gateway, Camphill and Volmoed well fields. A portion of the final effluent from the Hermanus waste water treatment works is used for irrigation purposes at various sports complexes. Stanford is supplied with bulk water from the high discharging Stanford Spring, generally known as “Die Oog”, which was previously the sole source of supply of potable water to the town and the greater area. Two “Kouevlakte” boreholes were also drilled during 2010/2011 and a new bulk pipeline was constructed the

following year in order to connect the boreholes to the existing network. The water sources of Gansbaai, De Kelders, Kleinbaai and Franskraal are integrated with each other through the bulk water supply distribution system. In the past specific sources were utilised for specific areas, but due to supply limitations of underground resources during peak seasons, the system has become completely integrated. Bulk water supply to the Greater Gansbaai system is from the Franskraal and Kraaibosch dams and the Klipgat and Grotte water sources, which consist of a spring in the De Kelders caves and a spring at Stanford’s Bay. Final effluent from the Gansbaai waste water treatment works is used for irrigation purposes at a sports complex. Pearly Beach is supplied from seven springs located in the mountains some 6 km from Pearly Beach. The water from the springs is kept in storage at the Pearly Beach Dam. A Service Level Agreement is also in place for the supply of 0.26 Ml/d from the privately owned Koekemoer Dam free of charge to the municipality. Baardskeerdersbos Buffelsjag Bay is serviced from boreholes.

THE EVER-CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS The on-going migration into the Overstrand Municipal area will place increasing demands on the infrastructure and available space for urban growth. The increased footprint in the municipal area needs careful management if it is not to impact negatively on the natural environment of the Overstrand.

Estimated total population: Total number of permanent households: Average household size: Total number of settlements:

102 072 35 470 2.88 people 36

lowing implementation strategies regarding capital funds: • To focus strongly on revenue collection because most of the funds for the water and sewerage capital infrastructure projects are from the municipality’s own funding sources; • To actively implement the customer care, credit control and debt collection policies to minimise the non-payment of municipal services; • To identify all possible sources of external funding over the next number of years to assist the municipality in addressing the bulk infrastructure backlogs that exist in the various towns and to ensure adequate rehabilitation and maintenance of the existing infrastructure; • To develop asset management plans for all water and sewerage infrastructure, which will indicate the real replacement values, the service life of the assets and the funds re-

CLIMATE CHANGE In terms of adapting for climate change, water systems will need to be more robust and new, alternative sources of supply may need to be found. Increased skills will be required from water managers and long-term water projections are required. Although an overall decrease in rainfall is generally not forecasted, increased variability in the climate and frequency of extreme events, as well as increased temperature and wind could have an impact on water sources, particularly surface waters. It is necessary to develop climate response strategies and reduce levels of non-revenue water. Water-related climate change adaptation and mitigation planning should be incorporated into all WSDPs and IDPs. This must be implemented by all water sector institutions and water users and should include the optimisation of dam and groundwater operation, as well as the reduction of physical water losses and the introduction of water-efficient appliances and processes.

quired to provide for adequate asset replacement; and • To carefully balance cost and affordability of future capital budgets. In terms of the operational budget, maintenance activities have been increasingly focused on reactive maintenance as a result of the progressive deterioration and failure of old infrastructure. Consequently, there has been a fall-off in preventative maintenance of other infrastructure. Expenditure on repairs and maintenance does not keep up with the increase in asset values as well as the ageing of the infrastructure. “A regime of planned preventative maintenance should be established for all infrastructure assets classified as critical and important. A maintenance management system was

SHORT-TERM PROJECTS The 2018/’19 IDP lists the following major water services projects which are planned for the short to medium term:

• Expansion of the Gateway well field in Hermanus; • New reservoirs at Sandbaai, Pringle Bay and Gansbaai; • Phased replacement and upgrade of the bulk and reticulation water systems in all areas; • Refurbishment of De Bos and Buffels River Dam inlet structures and equipment; • Refurbishment of the Kleinmond and Buffels River water treatment works; • Stabilisation Water treatment works at Stanford; • Water treatment works for Buffeljags Bay; • Direct waste water re-use scheme for Hermanus, or alternatively a seawater desalination scheme; and • Possible transfer scheme from Theewaterskloof Dam for Hermanus and Kleinmond.

recently established which enables the municipality to better manage its risks, and more effectively plan and prioritise the wave of renewals that are going to be required over the next 20 years,” according to the report. Regarding the boreholes in the region, the municipality will continue with the implementation of its groundwater monitoring programmes for areas where groundwater is abstracted. The groundwater monitoring data is regularly processed, analysed and reported on by an experienced hydrogeologist in order to ascertain whether the resources are being sustainably utilised and to ensure compliance with the approved wateruse licenses. The Hermanus borehole projects are to be expanded.

MUNICIPAL CHALLENGES The municipality’s challenges regarding the provision of basic water and sanitation services are as follows:

• To provide basic water and sanitation services in the informal areas to new citizens moving into the informal areas and to ensure that health and hygiene awareness and education is part of the process of providing basic services. • To identify suitable land for the relocation of the people from informal areas, with existing communal services, to formal houses with a higher level of water and sanitation service (Services inside the erven). • To identify adequate funding for the rehabilitation, maintenance, replacement and upgrading of the existing bulk and reticulation infrastructure in order to support the sustainability of the water and sanitation services. • To monitor the provision of basic water and sanitation on privately owned land.

It is therefore advisable for the municipality that a conservative approach be followed regarding the management of water sources. It is proposed that the following approach be adopted to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change:

The following major sanitation services projects are planned for the short to medium term:

Hermanus will experience a shortfall by 2030 in water supply under all growth scenarios. This will increase to 2.874 million m3/a by 2040 under the low-growth population scenario and to 8.632 million m3/a under the highgrowth scenario. The current water sources have adequate supply to cater for the medium- and longer-term future water requirements. Potential augmented sources:

• All resources, especially surface

• Upgrade of the Stanford waste

• Develop groundwater to its full

water resources need to be re-evaluated; • Increase assurance of supply of water resources by ensuring that there is at least 10% additional capacity (headroom), when considering the maximum 24-hour demand on the peak month of the year; • Not to undertake new developments unless a proper investigation of the implication on water sources and sustainability in the long term has been undertaken; and • Diversify water resources, e.g. surface water, groundwater, wastewater re-use and sea water desalination.

SANITATION PROJECTS

water treatment works; • Upgrade of sewerage pump stations; • Upgrade of Zwelihle sewer network; • Upgrade of Kidbrooke sewer; • Extension of sewer networks in Kleinmond, Stanford and Gansbaai; • Replacement of sewer rising main pipelines in Kleinmond and Greater Hermanus; and • Refurbishment of components / processes at Hawston and Kleinmond waste water treatment works.

potential (licenced volumes).

• Regional scheme with Overberg Water for possible bulk supply from the Theewaterskloof Dam or the Palmiet River. • Direct and indirect potable water re-use. • Desalination of seawater. WSDP document be available The document will be will available for for perusal inthe all the public libraries perusal in all public libraries and and at www.overstrand.gov.za. at www.overstrand.gov.za. attention: Comments can be sent for attention H Blignaut, Draft WSDP, 1 Magnolia Street, Hermanus or fax 028 313 8030

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Make your waste disposal a priority S ewerage blockages can to a large extent be attributed to objects such as stones, pieces of iron, plastic, branches, grease and household garbage that enter the system and form an obstruction.

In a press release, the Overstrand Municipality again appealed to residents not to dispose of materials such as used cooking oil, motor oil, yard and pet waste, paint, concrete slurry and construction materials or any other household hazardous chemicals into the storm water infrastructure. Preventive measures: Do not dispose of used cooking oil and grease by dumping it into the storm drain. Allow fat (from fatty foods when cooking) to cool and congeal or solidify. Once it is solid, wrap it in newspaper or put it in a bag before placing in the refuse bin which is emptied weekly.

• Rags, paper, tampons and disposable nappies should be disposed of in the normal household bin or sanitary bins provided by businesses. • Keep yard clippings out of the street. • Recycle used motor oil. • Sweep driveways clean instead of hosing them down. • Keep litter, pet waste, leaves, grass clippings and debris out of street gutters and storm drains. Outlets blocked by excessive debris, such as leaves and grass clippings, could lead to flooding of your street. • Most building materials enter the sewer system when contractors/ builders dump these materials into the sewer through manholes. This causes unnecessary stress on the system. Please keep the manholes and drains clean and continue to report sewerage blockages to the municipal

control room on 028 313 8000/8111.

Alternatively, phone Kleinmond on 028 271 8400, Hermanus on 028 313 8090, Gansbaai on 028 384 8300 and Stanford on 028 341 8500 to request service.

Where to dump? There is no excuse for dumping waste illegally in our neighbourhoods or next to the roads, as the municipality provides a highly reliable refuse collection service and drop-off facilities across Overstrand. Hermanus: • Hermanus Transfer Station in Mbeki Street (general waste and garden refuse only). Mondays - Fridays 08:00 - 18:00, Saturdays 09:00 16:00, Public Holidays 09:00 - 14:00; • Voëlklip Weekend Drop-Off in 7th Street (household waste, black bags only). Mondays to Fridays 08:00 - 18:00, Saturdays 09:00 –

Make a change with reusable plastic bags Reusable grocery bags are environmentally friendly – but only if you actually use them repeatedly. The Overstrand Municipality has called on residents to buy reusable bags instead of ordinary shopping bags. “In this way the public will assist us greatly in our environmental conservation and waste management efforts. It is of particular concern that worldwide an estimated 4 billion plastic bags are reportedly ending up as litter each year. Tied end to end this means that these could circle the earth 63 times,” said the municipality in a statement. Reusable bags are for sale at the Hermanus and Gansbaai libraries as well as Gansbaai Tourism at R20 each. The bag is compact and rolls up into itself with a built-in little holder bag.

In addition, it has a long handle that you can sling over your shoulder and it can carry a heavy load of library books or groceries. Start making a difference through the small things. Get into the habit of carrying reusable shopping bags with you and always keep reuseable bags in the car. Be mindful of where cigarette butts are thrown and keep litter off our beaches and out of the sea by thinking twice before using single use plastics. We ought to develop the habit of using our own reusable bags whenever we go shopping and always keep reusable bags in the car. Ndumiso Rwezann of the Hermanus Library encourages library users to purchase a reusable grocery bag from the Hermanus Library at R20 each and to keep it in your car or handbag.

16:00, Public Holidays 09:00 – 14:00; • Voëlklip Prawn Flats Drop-Off (garden and general household waste). Mondays to Fridays 08:00 - 18:00, Saturdays 09:00 - 16:00, Public Holidays 09:00 - 14:00; • Hawston Drop-Off in Church Street (garden and general household waste). Mondays to Fridays 08:00 18:00, Saturdays 09:00 - 16:00, Public Holidays 09:00 – 14:00; • Karwyderskraal Landfill (builders’ rubble, garden waste and general household waste). Mondays to Fridays 08:00 - 16:30. Kleinmond: • Pringle Bay and Betty’s Bay weekend drop-off for household refuse and Betty’s Bay drop-off for general and garden refuse. Mondays to Fridays 08:00 - 16:00, Saturdays 09:00 - 16:00, Public Holidays 09:00 – 14:00. • Kleinmond Transfer Station for

household, general and garden refuse and small quantities of builders’ rubble (bakkie builders) up to 1 ton. Mondays to Fridays 08:00 16:00, Saturdays 09:00 - 16:00, Public Holidays 09:00 – 14:00 • Karwyderskraal Landfill for all your builders’ rubble of more than 1 ton. Stanford: • Stanford Transfer Station for general and garden refuse and small quantities of building rubble. More than 1 ton should be taken to Gansbaai Landfill. Gansbaai: • Gansbaai Landfill for building rubble and general and garden refuse; • Pearly Beach drop-off for general and garden refuse and small quantities of building rubble (bakkie builders).

Taking the road to serious recycling Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape is gearing up to build the first plastic road in SA. Mayor Horatio Hendricks at a media launch in Jeffreys Bay that local civil engineering and construction companies SP Excel and Scribante Construction would partner with Scottish firm MacRebur to build a 1 km stretch as a trial run in the coastal town. Resident Vicky Knoetze first pitched the idea to the provincial legislature, which shot it down, in 2017. She said that up to 1.8 million plastic bags could be used to build a 1 km stretch of road. "Non-recyclable plastic waste, which ends up in the ocean or clogging up landfill sites, is processed into pellets and used to replace a large component of the bitumen in a conventional asphalt mix," said Knoetze. "The result is a road that is stronger and more durable. Water, the main cause of potholes, does not penetrate it as easily as with traditional asphalt mixes and it is also more heat resistant." Work is expected to start in about a month. The trial is free for the municipality, with the partners set to pay for it. Hendricks said if the trial was successful, the municipality may build a factory to recycle and produce plastic pellets locally. Source: www.timeslive.co.za

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LET’S TALK Winter is coming! And it is an exciting prospect & Thyme. More recently, Brasserie South and Vida e Caﬀè have decided to call it quits.

As we near the end of the summer season it is heartening to see our towns ﬁlled with visitors, especially over weekends.

It is a sobering reality that the quieter winter months are knocking at the door. For many business owners, cash ﬂow is still a problem and they are ﬁnding themselves in survival mode from month-to-month.

After the huge economic losses suffered during 2018, our economy seems to be regaining some of its momentum. Some businesses, however, have not been able to bounce back and a number of restaurants, in particular, have had to close their doors over the past few months, including The Deli Aﬀair, Source, The Hungry Monk and Brinjal

We urge our readers to make a point of supporting local businesses this coming winter. The importance of this can-

not be underestimated. But our support must not just be limited to businesses; events such as the Hi-Tec Walkerbay Xtreme, FynArts and Kalfiefees also need local support to assist in making them a success. Often residents refer to winter as the time when our towns close down, and nothing happens. This is a self-fulfilling fallacy. Winter in the Overberg offers some of the most beautiful, green landscapes, a bay filled with whales, warm and inviting fireplaces at

restaurants and wine farms and, to top it all, the opportunity for our economy to grow. The time has come for the Overberg to be marketed as the perfect winter holiday destination. If you are not convinced of this, let’s meet over a cup of coﬀee on a crisp winter morning while the whales are breaching or enjoy a glass of red wine while the pouring rain ﬁlls our dams with water that will make the vines bloom next summer. This is the good NEWS – Ed

Dot the eyes, cross the tease; mind your peas and queues

A Far Kraai

By Murray Stewart

and the penny dropped.

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English, like many languages, evolved organically over the centuries and resembles a fruit salad of phrases, grammatical inconsistencies and inexplicable spelling, made up from tastes and textures tossed in from Delhi to Denmark. Over centuries, certain trends and peculiarities emerged, like rhyming poetry, puns, malapropisms, alliteration and spoonerisms. These linguistic quirks are the dollops of ice cream on the fruit salad of a language. They add to the flavour with a twist of wit, playfulness or pathos, and I wonder if similar tangs titillate other tongues like Cantonese, Urdu or Swahili. Well, this ‘play on words’ is still evolving in the English language today, and I don’t know about yours, but my ancient computer (diesel) doesn’t even recognise the word ‘neologism’. (It’s stuck in American-spell). However, by going old school, to coin a phrase, I dusted off and thumbed through a tried and tested Oxford English Dictionary,

Neologism is ‘word-coining’ – the fairly recent art of analysing the components of a word and using them to portray something entirely different. So, this concept of literary tomfoolery got us hacking through the old spider-webs in The Explanation of Everything archives, and the somewhat newer webs on the internet, to start compiling a modern alternate dictionary. So far, the elves have found a handful of potentials. Described as a noun, coffee is the person upon whom one coughs, so a coffer – apart from being a casket – does the coughing. Sadly, your bathroom scale doesn’t lie, so it’s understandable that if you’re appalled at how much weight you’ve gained, you’d be flabbergasted. Now, we’re all aware that many fitness junkies and gym-club jocks pursue a taut six-pack, and some proudly achieve it. But to abdicate is to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. A more savoury meaning for flatulence is the emergency vehicle that

arrives when you’ve been run over by a steamroller. Nothing too rude or distasteful about that really, but only slightly offensive is the word negligent. This describes a condition in which a lady absentmindedly answers the door to a man in her underwear. And sticking with the almost rude ones, rectitude is the formal, dignified attitude adopted by a respected proctologist. Pokemon is a Rastafarian one. Balderdash, according to the elves, describes a rapidly receding hairline, and lymph is to walk with a lisp. They also decided that seizure means Roman Emperor, and willy-nilly (also slightly rude) is just a polite reference to impotence. Esplanade is to attempt an explanation whilst drunk, and circumvent is the opening in the front of underpants worn by Jewish men. If you think that is linguistic lunacy, how about this (slightly embellished) extract from an email by Margo Roark. The spelling of every word is correct according to the computer’s English spell-check, and must confuse the hell out of anyone trying to make head or tail of this ridiculous language. (Read aloud.)

Eye heifer spell cheque. It came with my pea sea, and marques miss steaks eye ken knot sea. Eye strike the quays and weight four it two say weather eye am wrong oar write. But aim shore your please two no, it’s rare lea ever wrong – purr fiction awl the weigh. My chequer tolled me. Sew their! Other phrases can be even more confusing, like when two narcissists meet, it’s an I for an I. A shotgun wedding is literally a case of wife or death, but sadly some guys require a mistress to break the monogamy. In such cases condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion. Adding to the tomfoolery, Douglas Adams in his book The Meaning of Liff, has compiled a dictionary of newly-invented words for everyday occurrences where no word existed before. Like the 4th wheel on the supermarket trolley that just spins mindlessly round and round, the cleaning up you do at home before the cleaner arrives, or creating artworks from the chewing-gum under restaurant tables. Well worth a squizz. Any weigh, god a go, sew chairs till necks thyme.

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LET’S TALK

Healthy and robust debate are crucial for democracy. The Village NEWS firmly believes in freedom of the press as well as the right of individuals to freely express themselves, as long as they don’t infringe upon the rights of others. The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors therefore do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of The Village NEWS. Letters may be shortened and/or edited for clarity and style. Send your letters to letters@thevillagenews.co.za

Support Hermanus Siyakha The public launch of Hermanus Siyakha was held at the Youth Café at the RDP Centre in Zwelihle on Thursday 14 March. The more than 40 people who attended were informed about Hermanus Siyakha’s mission of “transforming communities by building relationships and growing businesses.” This initiative rests on two pillars: the first is the provision of interest-free loans through the non-profit company that has been formed to assist in developing micro-enterprises operating in poor communities. The second is just as important: the assistance provided through careful mentorship to enable the borrowers

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to manage and grow their enterprises successfully. The response to this launch and the articles in the local press have resulted in a steady stream of applications for interest-free loans from small business owners. A typical project is a request for a loan from a resident of Zwelihle who has lived in Hermanus for the past 19 years. She has five children and two grandchildren for whom she is responsible. She is requesting a loan of R6 000 to purchase a freezer and stock of pork and processed sausages that she sells to existing customers from her home.

of stock, expand my business, increase sales and reduce the frequency of trips to Cape Town to purchase stock.” We are now appealing to the public to respond by loaning to the Hermanus Siyakha projects of their choice; these loan contributions in turn fund the loans to the specific projects. These projects are showcased on the Hermanus Siyakha website (www. hermanussiyakha.org.za) which is also where members of the public can indicate their financial commitment to the project of their choice.

“If I was able to purchase a deep freeze I could keep greater quantities

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Mediclinic doctor is ‘an angel’ I took very ill recently with a lung infection. I have no medical aid and was forced to pay R520 to see a private doctor or go to the provincial hospital. The latter was not an option as I am 77 years old and an asthma sufferer and I could not sit and wait to be attended to. After two consultations with a private doctor (thanks to my wonderful daughter) I was still not getting better. I was told to hire a nebuliser at the pharmacy but they would not

help me as I did not have the money to pay for it. In tears, I went home. By midnight I was struggling to breathe. I called the Mediclinic and asked to speak to a doctor, who told me to come to the hospital. I was put on oxygen and given a cortisone injection. My daughter was distraught because she was worried not only about me but also how she was going to pay the bill. The doctor gave me a third antibiotic and a nebuliser to use three times a

day and also at night, as I could not lie down. When I was discharged the doctor said “no charge”. Thanks to the actions of the emergency doctor at Mediclinic (an angel) I am completely well now, but without him I might not be here to tell my story. I would like to thank Dr Siecker and his staff for their kindness and care. I will never forget what they did for me.

OVERSTRAND HOSPICE 600 CLUB DRAW: The club draw was done on Tuesday, 19 March by Sr. Esmé Potgieter, Patient Care Manager of Hospice. Lynn Sillifant from Don Adams Auditors monitored the proceedings. Also present was Dave Shutte, the Vice-Chairman of Hospice. The winners for March were: 1st Peter Richardson; 2nd Hermanus Rotary Anns; 3rd John Truswell. By joining the 600 Club, your donation of R50 a month will go towards the care of Hospice patients – and you’ll stand a chance of winning a monthly cash prize. Please contact Norma Scott-Tomlin on 028 312 4679 for more information or visit Overstrand Hospice at their offices at 10 Hope Street, Hermanus. Email: 600admin@overstrandhospice.com | Facebook: Overstrand Hospice @OverstrandHospice

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Discovery clarifies its network strategy I am writing in response to the letter Discovery disappoints with their prescription, published in the 27 March issue of The Village News. On several of its options, Discovery Health Medical Scheme requires that members use certain network pharmacies to ensure full cover for their chronic medicines. This is done in the best interests of members, since it allows us to reduce dispensing fees and to eliminate or reduce out of pocket co-payments that members would

otherwise have to pay. Pharmacies in the network offer members information about affordable, formulary and generic alternatives, which further assists in saving costs. Together, these aspects of the pharmacy network save money for the affected members and for the medical scheme as a whole. It is vital to note that medical schemes are not-for-profit entities, and are owned by their members. This means that any savings benefit the collective

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The network also offers members a variety of choices in how they obtain their chronic medicine. These include: • Having the medicine delivered at no additional cost anywhere in South Africa • Pre-ordering and collecting the medicine from participating pharmacies • Walking in at any participating pharmacy to fill your prescription

We realise that in implementing a network strategy, there may be negative impacts on smaller local pharmacies. To avoid this, we have ensured that the preferred pharmacy network is broad and inclusive. This means that any registered pharmacy that meets the participation criteria can join. Currently, this nationwide network includes more than 1 800 retail pharmacies and is made up of

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independent community pharmacies as well as the larger chain pharmacies such as Dis-Chem, Clicks, Medi-Rite and Pick n Pay. I hope this clarifies why the Scheme requires members on certain options to use network providers, and that this arrangement should have no negative impact on local pharmacies and a very positive impact for our members. Dr Jonathan Broomberg, CEO Discovery Health

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And the waters covered the earth Writer Elaine Davie

ar to the North of us, a tragedy is unfolding which beggars description, devastating the lives of thousands, if not millions of people in three of our neighbouring countries, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. It is doubtful if most South Africans are fully aware of the extent of the destruction which Cyclone Idai has wrought in these countries and how long it is going to take them to get back on their feet again. Yet there are many people living in our midst for whom the tragedy is personal and immediate. Last year, when Hermanus resident Elvia Bury celebrated her 90th birthday, one of her special guests was a remarkable young man called Zeddy Chikukwa from a village in the Chimanimani highlands of Eastern Zimbabwe, close to the Mozambique border. At a gathering at the Volmoed Retreat Centre, Zeddy described to a group of invited guests and students how his community had brought about a complete transformation to their badly degraded environment. In an article in The Village NEWS of 19 – 25 June 2018, we wrote: In the beautiful Chimanimani Mountains in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe lies the remote village community of Chikukwa. Their fat cattle graze in the long grass, indigenous shade and fruit trees flourish and each homestead has its own vegetable garden, watered by perennial streams from the mountains. It is clearly a thriving community, at peace with itself and the world.

William Chiwara has turned his Natural Health Coffee Shop in Kleinmond into a drop-off point for donations which he will be taking to cyclone victims in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe. PHOTO: Altus Tolken

We went on to describe how this transformation had been achieved through permaculture, and by dint of faith and hard work over a period of about 20 years. By following the permaculture farming model to eradicate rural African poverty, Zeddy, his grandfather, who was the village chief, and other community members started a permaculture school where neighbour taught neighbour how to grow vegetables on a patch of land no bigger than a door. They collected the seeds of indigenous shade and fruit trees and started a tree nursery, planting new trees on the mountain slopes, and in the village itself, mangoes, peaches, avocados, paw paws. Because of their isolation from medical centres, they also grew herbs, making teas and infusions which helped to heal a variety of ailments. Now, in the blink of an eye, this has all gone, swallowed up by the raging waters that have swept across Manicaland Province. In an email from Zeddy received this past weekend, he reassures us that he is physically healthy, but he says his “mind is blown out”. He describes the horror of the situation: “About 80 hectares of irrigable land has been washed away, leaving only rocks on the fields. This makes it impossible for crop rotation to happen, to grow maize, yams, sweet potatoes, peas and beans. All this is gone. Massive amounts of rich top soils have been washed away. Nutrition gardens have

Zeddy Chikukwa sent us these photos of the devastation that Cyclone Idai wrought on his Chimanimani Village.

been destroyed. The result is poor diet and pressure on resources. We also lost some livestock; bridges were destroyed and we are still cut off from the rest of the world – no power, no road connection.

how we are going to survive in the months ahead.” Although he points out that there were more deaths and casualties in other villages in the region, the impact on many families has been severe.

“Aid agencies and rescuers came once with a helicopter. Only 348 out of 1 121 people were assisted during that one visit and we are wondering

“A family of five was swallowed by a landslide – both parents and three children perished. The only survivor of this family was at school in another

district. We have 65 homeless households and we are looking after them in the permaculture centre, where we are feeding them and checking their health once a week. There are 101 more who are living in cracked houses, putting their lives at risk, and 161 toilets have been destroyed. Seven of the most badly affected families will have to be relocated; they will not be able to rebuild their houses where they were living.” He adds that they are threatened with health problems like malaria, cholera, typhoid, pneumonia and malnutrition, but as he has had training in homeopathy, he has been able to deal with the situation up to now, both from a preventive and curative point of view. He expresses his gratitude to the Mission School of Medicine for the training he received, which is enabling him to be useful in a time like this. Another local resident who has been deeply affected by what has been happening in his home country, is Kleinmond coffee shop owner, William Chiwara, originally from Mutare. Ever since Idai struck Manicaland, he has followed events there with growing distress and then outrage. Not only has he been shattered by the individual tragedies he has heard and seen described on social media and the radio, but also the corrupt way politicians and members of the government forces are handling the crisis. “People have been sending aid from all over the world,” he says, “but it hasn’t been reaching the people it was intended for. They have survived the cyclone, only to be threatened with death from hunger, disease, septic wounds and exploitation by the

authorities. Soldiers are told to distribute the aid, but they will only give it to members of the governing party, or else they demand sexual favours from the women, before allowing them to have food for their children. Starving, injured people have to walk kilometres to access assistance and this is what they’re faced with when they get there! I sit here and listen to these terrible stories and I just cry.” William decided to take matters into his own hands and, placing a video on his facebook page which was seen by over 3 000 viewers, he called for help. Almost immediately, donations started to stream in, mainly in the form of clothing, linen and tinned foods. He is now planning to take it up to Zimbabwe himself by bus and trailer, paying for the trip himself to the sum of between R7 000 and R10 000. When he reaches Mutare, he and his brother will travel across the region, by ox-cart where necessary, when roads are otherwise impassable. They will visit outlying villages in Chimanimani, Chipinge, Mutambara and other flood-hit districts. “I know I won’t be able to help everybody,” he sighs, “but I will make sure that the right people receive the support and half a teaspoon is better than none.” Anybody who is able to send contributions in cash or in kind to this disaster-struck region of Zimbabwe – clothes, household goods, bandages, toiletries, tinned foods, antiseptics, pain killers, tools, anything that will help them survive and start over again, can contact either Elvia Bury on eabury@hermanus.co.za or William Chiwara on 078 492 5175 or ndichilhwa@gmail.com, or drop goods off at the Natural Health Coffee Shop at 28 Main Road, Kleinmond.

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Preserving Genadendal’s rich cultural history Writer & Photographer Tweet Gainsborough-Waring

orn and bred in the picturesque Overberg town of Genadendal, Dr Isaac Balie remembers playing on the banks of the river, skinny-dipping at Stroomdrift’s pool, playing traditional country games like kennetjie, marbles and vrot patat. All of which left an indelible mark on his memory. As a result, this former curator and director of the Genadendal Mission Museum grew up with a love of the town’s culture and traditions, along with a burning desire to save them for future generations. It was a goal that saw Isaac, even as a young lad, frittering around under beds and in dusty attics, always on the hunt for artefacts that were integral to the daily lives of those who lived in the town. After school he studied teaching, got married and returned to his home town to teach at the Emil Weder High School, ultimately being promoted to principal. Throughout his teaching career, his passion to preserve the culture and history of his home town always burnt bright. He knew the Moravian church had precious artefacts stored in the attics of its precinct, but it was those sourced from the community – used, chipped or cracked – that were of most value to him, as these carried with them the essence of life as it had been. “We had what we had, and that was enough,” he said. He had noted with sorrow that antique collectors and auctioneers would visit the town in search of saleable pieces, and of course if you had nothing to eat that day, the sale of a chair or washbasin for fifty bucks was very appealing. In 1963 he started working with the Moravian bishop to expand the collection in order to start a museum.

All the while Isaac was furthering his studies in the subject at Stellenbosch University, where he graduated with a doctorate in social and cultural history. Now all he had to do was to put his knowledge and qualifications to good use in creating a museum. He needed exposure, so he invited people interested in preserving cultural heritage, among them, architect Gawie Fagan and the then director of the South African Museum, Dr Frank Bradlow to visit Genadendal. He also invited Dr Douglas Hey from the Provincial Authorities. He showed all of them around the dilapidated church precinct. In 1980, all 25 church buildings were declared National monuments – truly a red letter day. In 1988, as part of Genadendal’s 250th birthday celebrations, the Superintendent of the church asked Isaac to put up a display of the town’s history in the Boys’ Hostel, a double-storey building on the church precinct. This was the beginning of a museum. Within two weeks he had conceptualised the themes and knew where they would go. The town has a rich artisanal history, producing the first knives in South Africa, having one of the best water mills in the country and, in the early 19th century, a printing press – the only one in the Cape that could print music. Many historical objects had been left untouched and covered in dust, like the Cape’s oldest ox wagon and fire engine. Genadendal had also been home to the country’s first infant school, the first teacher training college and one of the Cape’s best libraries, while the original Moravian mission church housed the oldest pipe organ in South Africa. To showcase these facts, he set up his exhibition based on themes relevant to the town’s activities, all of which were put into a world and South African context. He

A retired Dr Balie welcomes visitors to the Genadendal Mission Museum complex.

later established working exhibits, including a printing press, pottery, spinning, weaving, paper-making, knife-making, carpentry and wheat milling in other buildings within the church precinct. Unfortunately this museum got very little support from the Provincial government – the main budget being reserved for “white” museums. Isaac was shattered to the core and made no bones about his feelings towards the then government. He even went so far as to tell a visitor that lack of funding was a result of Afrikaner selfishness. Two years later he received a call from a lawyer asking him if he was the man who had made this statement. Always forthright and honest, he said yes. In an ironic twist, the lawyer replied that Dr Hendriene Lamprecht (the visitor to whom he had made the remark) had died and bequeathed R1.2 million to the museum. Around this time there were several high points. Not only was the museum’s content declared National Cultural Treasure in 1991, it also won the National Sanlam Trophy for restoration work. Isaac considers one of the highlights of his life to have been when he was requested to submit a proposal to then President Mandela’s office in 1995 for the renaming of the presidential residence in Cape Town. After it was announced that the house would be named Genadendal, Mr Mandela came to visit the mission station on 10 October 1995, where Isaac gave him a guided tour. The museum flourished and won awards from various organisations such as the SA Academy of Arts and Science (2008), the Department of Cultural Affairs’ trophy for Best Museum in the Cape Province (2015) and the SA Heritage Association (2016). Despite retiring a few years ago, this dynamic man just can’t seem to hold himself back from his overriding passion and is poised to publish another book on the social and cultural history of Genadendal. It is currently with Dutch publishers and should be released within the next three months. The proposed title for the book is Genadendal – a long walk through the history of the first mission station in the RSA. Richly illustrated, it covers historical events which were not included in his first book, Die Geskiedenis van Genadendal – 1738 -1988, published by Perskor in 1988. It is Isaac’s hope for the future that the museum will continue to flourish under the curatorship of his daughter, Judith. As a committed Christian he attributes its success over the years to his unflinching faith, quoting Ps 16:6, “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance”.

Dr Isaac Balie in the museum with a mock-up of his latest book on the history of Genadendal.

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Step ‘Into the Light’ with Lize

THIS FRIDAY 5 - 8 PM

Join us for an evening stroll through the art galleries of Hermanus

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You are invited to stroll through the village, savour a glass of local wine and enjoy the impressive range of art and craft on display.

We’ve known her for years as Lize van der Walt, but this local artist has undergone a personal transformation over the past 18 months that prompted her to not only take a new direction in her artistic life but also to reclaim her maiden name, Lize Smit. Leaving the old Lize behind, the new Lize is now stepping forward into the light with an explosive burst of artistic and spiritual energy. She has produced more than 70 new works for an exhibition at The Barefoot Cook, which opens on Thursday at 18:00. Come and toast Lize’s journey into the light with wines from Bosman Hermanus. You’ll ind The Barefoot Cook at 12 Aberdeen Street.

Hermanus First Fridays is our part of a worldwide initiative to make art and art galleries more accessible to the public. On the First Friday of each month all the central art galleries in Hermanus remain open until 8pm. DATE Thursday 4 April 2019 TIME 18h00 - 21h00 VENUE The Barefoot Cook, Aberdeen St, Hermanus

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A craftswoman with handfuls of talent Writer Elaine Davie

ver the years I have come to accept that my spirituality and creativity can best be expressed in the physical realm,” confesses Sharon Peddie, Greyton’s talented chef/woodcarver/goldsmith. When she was a little girl, her accountant father whose hobby was carpentry, let her help him at his bench, so she grew up with a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other. Later, she added a metal saw and an egg whisk. Creativity flows through her fingertips. After she left school, Sharon trained as a goldsmith and began her career in Pietermaritzburg repairing and copying Victorian jewellery. Later, she and a business partner established the successful Scarab Jewellery Studio in Claremont. The business is still going strong but Sharon, with her itchy fingers and passion for new challenges, moved on. She discovered that sawdust still lingered in her brain and when she came across a book on violin-making, her curiosity was piqued. Violin-makers are not to be found round every corner, but through a chance encounter on the very day she was to leave to start a new life in Greyton, she was introduced to not just any fiddle-maker, but a master craftsman who created instruments on commission for professional musicians all over the world. His name was Brian Lisus. She asked if he would take her on as a trainee and, because she already had considerable experience in wielding a chisel, he soon started her on carving scrolls. As Brian was later to say, “I was in such awe of the scroll that she produced that I promptly decided to ‘confiscate’ it and use it on my own violin.” And then one slow day, as they were idly chatting, Brian told her of an idea he’d had. He wanted to honour South Africa’s four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Chief Albert Luthuli, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, former President FW de Klerk and his successor, President Nelson Mandela – by creating a string quartet of the finest quality instruments all made from the same tree, consisting of two

violins, a viola and a cello. Each of the instruments would be named after the qualities for which the laureates were most recognised: Peace (Tutu), Reconciliation (de Klerk), Freedom (Luthuli) and Hope (Mandela) and the group as a whole would be known as the Quartet of Peace. A nudge from Sharon was all he needed and before long the two of them had begun to carve the instruments. The project developed a life of its own and since the Quartet was launched in 2010, it has travelled all over the world (in special cases designed to provide maximum protection for the instruments). The instruments have been played in centres as diverse as King’s Place, London, L’Atelier de Picasso in Paris, St Thomas Church in Lepzig, Germany – the burial place of Bach – and in South Africa at the Cradle of Humankind and the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch, where they are permanently housed at the Music Conservatory, under the care of cellist, Peter Maartens. The centuries-old, string-making company, Pirastro offered to donate strings for the instruments in perpetuity. In 2012 a Quartet of Peace Charitable Trust was established in South Africa and later in the UK, into which the proceeds of the concerts are paid. Its main aim is to provide financial assistance to talented young South Africans from underprivileged communities to advance their qualifications and a career in music through tertiary training, either locally or abroad. It also wishes to promote the qualities for which the Nobel laureates stood, through the medium of beautiful music played on fine instruments which are tuned to play in perfect harmony together. Another aim is to address the need for training instrumentrepair craftsmen in South Africa. While this runaway project was blazing a trail of its own, Sharon and her former life-partner, Angela Craig were running their own guest house and retreat centre in Greyton and Sharon was also able to indulge in another great passion – cooking. Her whole face lights up when she says, “I love cooking!” So, while Angie organised the retreat programmes encompass-

ing modalities like reflexology, kinesiology and aromatherapy, Sharon had a field day in the kitchen, preparing plant-based menus for the needs and preferences of each participant, using locally-sourced fresh produce, some of it grown in their own beautiful garden.

ABOVE: Goldsmith Sharon Peddie works on a ring at the workbench she made herself in her jewellery workshop in Greyton. BELOW: In October 2012, the irst Quartet of Peace house concert was held in Stellenbosch, where the Amici Quartet played to an intimate audience that included former State President FW de Klerk and his wife Elita.

Although she and Angie are no longer a couple, she continues to fulfil her love of cooking in the High Hopes kitchen. In addition, as lifecycles are wont to do, she has been brought back full circle to her first love, jewellery-making. Together with local carpenter, Aziz Jacobs, she has made all the benches and additional furniture she needs for her workshop. She works in gold and silver and loves precious and semi-precious stones for their colour and healing properties. Redesigning and repairing old pieces and giving them a whole new lease on life gives her particular satisfaction. Across the road from her workshop is the Greyton Candle Shop which will stock some of her pieces (she is presently building showcases for them), and she intends selling a small selection of her work online, but her preference is to work on commission, where she and her client can each contribute to the final design. As a goodwill gesture to the candle shop for showcasing her jewellery, she is

carving wooden stands for the handmade candles sold there. But as lifecycles also tend to do, hers has revealed threads she didn’t realise were there. Suddenly, a pattern seems to be emerging and the range of hands-on crafts Sharon has mastered have pointed her strongly in the direction of training others, especially young people from disadvantaged communities who require the

skills necessary to produce an income on the one hand, and a means of expressing the prodigious talent latent in many of them. With her restless energy and creative drive, it will not be surprising to see something new and exciting emerge from the hands of this master-craftswoman in the near future. Sharon can be contacted on sharonpeddie.highhopes@gmail.com

WHAT’S ON

OVERBERG Thursday

Book reading The Betty's Bay Library invited their very own local writer Gerard Scholtz to talk about his book Hier gaat ons! Reise en rampe, comprising travel letters, articles and journals from Europe and the Balkans. Gerard and his wife, Anuta's bikes and their beloved scooters, Silver and Blue, become spectators and fellow travellers. According to one reviewer, this is the most comprehensive travel book in Afrikaans. All are welcome to attend. Betty’s Bay Library | 10:30

Travel & Adventure Talk U3A presents a talk on Peru and Ecuador: Mountains and Forest by Gavin Turner. During a mountain club trip to Peru and Ecuador in 2011 he visited two remote, pristine destinations, but very different from each other – a multi-day alpine trek above the tree line in the Andes, and a visit to a National Park down in the Amazon rain forest. Come and enjoy his presentation on the beautiful but physically challenging Cordillera Huayhuash trek and the Cuyabeno National Park down in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. Catholic Church Hall | 10:00 Hermanus First Fridays Join the HFF Artwalk and stroll from gallery to gallery, mingling with the artists and gallery owners while admiring the impressive array of art and fine craft on display. The Artwalk is part of a world-wide initiative to make art more accessible to the public (see map on P 10). Hermanus Old Town | 17:00 – 20:00

Rotary Club of Hermanus Visitors are welcome at Rotary’s weekly meetings, every Thursday. Contact Frank on 082 870 1187 to confirm your attendance. Mollergren Park, Main Road, Hermanus | 19:00

Friday

Hermanus Hacking Group Volunteers are welcome to join the HHG, every Friday morning, on Rotary Way. For more information contact Charlyn Vosloo on 082 558 8731 or charlynvosloo@gmail.com Rotary Way | 06:45 – 09:00 Bhuki Café Everyone is welcome at Friends of the Library's Bhuki Cafe where a cup of tea or coffee and delicious eats will cost only R25, every Friday. Each cup helps to raise funds for new books. Hermanus Library | 09:00 – 11:30 Kolwyntjie Teetuin Enjoy a sweet treat and tea or coffee at a nominal fee, and make new friends at the Onrus Care Centre (Dienssentrum), every Friday morning. Onrus Dutch Reformed Church | 09:30 – 11:30

For more information, contact Riekie Louw on 028 314 0662. Fernkloof Hall | 13:00

your own enjoyment at your own pace. The route is dog friendly and children are most welcome. Camphill Road, Hemel-en-Aarde Valley | 08:00

Hermanus Bird Club Everyone is welcome to join the club on their monthly walk. The April outing will be to Meer-en-See, led by local resident and keen birder, Ian Glenn. Participants will meet in Onrus to consolidate transport. For more info, contact Chairman John Saunders on 028 316 2302 or antares@hermanus.co.za Onrus Trading Post |07:00

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Mark Haze live performance The talented Mark oozes rock ‘n roll but also dabbles in various music genres. Music lovers might remember his stint on Idols SA Season 7 (he came second). Come and enjoy his powerful guitar riffs at Hermanus’ popular late-night venue. Entry is free but booking is advised. Call 028 312 4840. Tapas Food & Wine Bar | from 20:00

Saturday

Hermanus parkrun Meet for the weekly 5 km timed walk or run, come rain or shine. Run for

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Betty’s Bay parkrun Join this free weekly 5 km timed run (or walk) where it’s only you against the clock. The whole family is welcome. Grab a post-run coffee in the Red Disa restaurant with fellow parkrunners. Harold Porter Botanical Garden | 08:00 Market in the Garden Hunt for treasures at this peaceful market set among the shady trees of a beautiful garden. St Peter’s Church, Main Road, Hermanus | 09:00 – 13:00

Hermanus Country Market A favourite among the locals. Young, old, two-legged and four-legged family members are all welcome. You’ll find wholesome goodies, homemade crafts, local produce, beers and wine, speciality foods, coffee and live music. Next to Hermanus Cricket Field | 09:00 – 13:00 Die Markie Where local and international foodies and wine lovers meet. You’ll find real plates and real cutlery; real cups and real glasses; a real hangout for real people. Hermanuspietersfontein wine cellar | 09:00 – 13:00 Stanford Saturday Morning Market Come and sample the artisanal delights on display, from home-made sheep and goats’ cheeses to cured meats, farm-fresh vegetables and deli delights to tantalise your taste buds! Stanford Hotel Stoep | 09:00 – 12:00 Gansbaai Farmer’s Market Specialising in organic, homemade and homegrown products such as fresh farm produce, oven-fresh bakes and pastries, local wines and craft beers, and indigenous plants and herbs. No plastic or polystyrene packaging, only eco-friendly wood, paper, glass and earthenware used to display goods. For enquiries, contact 028 384 1439 or doulene@gansbaaitourism.co.za Kapokblom Street, opposite Gansbaai Tourism | 09:00 – 13:00

Nataniël Gesels Don’t miss Nataniël, one of South Africa’s favourite entertainers, when he comes to Hermanus to tell his humorous stories. It promises to be a unique experience! Tickets at R200 pp are available at www.itickets.co.za Curro Hermanus | 11:00 (doors open at 10:30)

Passionately Porter Come and enjoy a wonderful evening of Cole Porter's music when this popular and well-rounded production, with a cast of 10 highly-talented performers, pays a special visit to Kleinmond. Invite some friends and bring your own picnic basket. Table settings for 8 or 10 people. Picnic starts from 18:00 and the concert at 19:00. Tickets are R70 pp, available from Albertyn Pharmacy and Jak De_ Sign in Harbour Road (083 283 4459). All funds raised will be donated to the local Handevat Music Project. Dutch Reformed Church Hall, Kleinmond | 19:00

Sunday

Mindful Mondays Join Wellness Coach Nicholas McLean and Ferdi Appelgryn, health and life coach from C Beyond Health, for a group session on Mindfulness, Movement and Meditation, every Monday. Let go of stress and distraction, and realign body and mind to find inner focus and calm. R50 donation. Contact Nicholas on 082 437 9776 or nicholas@guthealthyogi.com Fynbos Crescent, Sandbaai | 18:00 What can we expect after the upcoming elections in May? Join the Hermanus Business Chamber for a talk by Dr Frans Cronjé from the Institute of Race Relations, who will discuss possible post-election scenarios for South Africa and Hermanus. The talk will be preceded by the Chamber’s AGM from 17:00 – 18:00. Booking is essential. R100 for Chamber members, R120 non-members (catering included). Bank details: Standard Bank, Branch code 050312, Account name: Hermanus Business Chamber. Account no: 082257833. Use your name as reference and email proof of payment to info@ hermanuschamber.co.za. Hermanus Varsity Campus | 18:00 for 18:30 Astrophotography Join the Hermanus Astronomy Centre for a presentation on Image Processing and a discussion of hardware and software compatibility. For more information, contact deonk@ telkomsa.net. Deon Krige’s house | 19:00

Tuesday

Summer Fun in the Courtyard Enjoy oysters and bubbly, local wines, craft beer and tapas-style plates, every Sunday. For more info or to reserve a table, call 082 082 0007. The Wine Glass, 2 Harbour Road, Hermanus | from 12:00

Monday

U3A Afrikaans Lecture Series Nickie van der Walt, who retired from the State Security Service in 2015 and now lives in Hermanus, will present a case study from his years with National Intelligence that relates to South Africa’s relationship with the European Union in the years 1991 1995. Catholic Church Hall | 10:00 Duplicate Bridge All who enjoy playing bridge are welcome to join in, every Monday.

BodySensing Restore Join Wellness Coach Nicholas McLean for a group session of BodySensing to release tension and restore energy and mobility. The feel-good movements of BodySensing will put the spring back into your body. Every Tuesday. The drop-in cost is R120 or R100 per session if paid monthly. For more info call Nicholas on 082 437 9776. Fynbos Crescent, Sandbaai | 07:30

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Cladding

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Landscaping

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Geological Wonders of the World U3A Overberg continues its popular series of DVD courses on the world’s greatest geological wonders with Rock of Gibraltar – Catastrophic Floods and Bay of Fundi, Canada – Inexorable Cycle of Tides. Catholic Church Hall | 10:00

Piano Soiree

Duo performance by Swiss pianist Yaël Anaïs Dengler and South African pianist Stefan du Toit.

Finlayson wine at R30 a glass before the performance, which will include works by Schubert and Dvorak. Tickets for this special fundraising event are R120 pp and can be booked by contacting christine@hermanusvarsity.co.za Bouchard Finlayson Wine Estate | 17:30 for 18:00

Wednesday

Graze Farmer’s Market Reduce your carbon footprint and get your fresh veggies – always seasonal, always fresh. Stay for coffee and breakfast. For more info, call Tabby & Alex on 076 243 1930. Graze Slow Food Café, Stanford | 09:00 – 12:00

All proceeds to Hermanus Varsity Trust Bouchard Finlayson Winery 17:30 for 18:00 Tickets R120 pp christine@hermanusvarsity.co.za Piano Soirée with Four Hands Swiss pianist Yaël Anaïs Dengler will join hands with her partner, South African pianist Stefan du Toit for a duo performance in aid of Hermanus Varsity. Enjoy a glass of Bouchard

Home Industries Market Get your fresh micro-greens, home-processed and home-baked goodies at this family- and pet-friendly market, every Wednesday. New vendors are welcome. Contact Lani

on 082 679 7819 or visit www.afdaksrivier.co.za Café Tango & Afdaksrivier Nursery | 09:30 – 12:30 Meditation for Beginners Let Dr Arien show you how to relax and unwind at will. Bring your own cushion or use the chairs available. Attendance is free but booking is essential. Contact 067 1166 111 or hermanus@DrArien.co.za Arundel Medical Rooms, Westcliff | 17:30 – 18:00

Thursday

Women in Business WIB is an open, voluntary, community organisation for female entrepreneurs and women in business in the Overstrand and Overberg. Bring your business cards and other relevant marketing material along to connect and share with fellow attendees. You are also welcome to bring prizes for the Lucky Draw. The theme of this WIB networking event is Female Health and will include a presentation on Peri-menopause to Post-menopause by Dr Arien van der Merwe. R160 pp includes refreshments (please pay cash at registration). For more information, contact Anneke Otto on 079 872 9631. The Wine Glass, 2 Harbour Rd | 08:30 for 09:00

Saturday

Awaken your inner tribalistic shamanistic funkadelic dancer On the beautiful greenery of the Last Resort campsite Stanford

celebrate the end of the harvest. Since the shave-off on 1 February the winemakers have vied to grow the most luxuriant beard during the harvest, culminating in this popular festival’s Beard Parade. Come and taste new vintage wines straight from the barrel as well as new release wines, enjoy delectable country food, meet the winemakers, make new friends and party the night away. There will also be a wine auction that benefits school-level educational projects in the region, followed by dinner, also known as the Botriviera feast! Tickets at R450 pp are available at www.quicket.co.za. Wildekrans Wine Estate | 17:00

Saturday 13 APRIL 18:00 - 22:00 Entrance R200 pp includes potjiekos Tickets available @ Quicket Barrels & Beards Join the wonderfully eclectic bunch of talented Bot River winemakers as they

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he Whale Coast Theatre is celebrating the premiere of Die Seemeeu on Friday 5 April by giving away two tickets each to three lucky readers of The Village NEWS.

breathtaking footage of the natural scenery of the region, which is why it is appropriate to celebrate the film’s nationwide release right here in Hermanus.

Lotz); his long suffering wife Paulina (Martelize Kolver); the puppy dog, poverty-stricken teacher Simon (Geon Nel); and the famous writer Boors (Alyzzander Fourie).

Make sure you don’t miss this glittering occasion – in the company of some of the film’s stars! Yes, not only will you get to see the movie first, but the lucky winners will also have the opportunity to mingle with some of the actors and enjoy a glass of Hermanuspietersfontein wine from 18:00, before the film is screened at 19:00.

Die Seemeeu comfortably transposes the well-rounded characters of Chekov’s masterpiece to a contemporary era at the other end of the world. Each of them is struggling with their own fears, longings, doubts, regrets, recriminations and frustrations – all of their own making – which come to the fore during a holiday on the family farm.

Adapted by Christiaan Olwagen and Saartjie Botha from the Chekov play, The Seagull, the film stars Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Rolanda Marais, Deon Lotz, Albert Pretorius and Cintaine Schutte. Performed in Afrikaans, with English subtitles, the film is set in South Africa in the 1990s, almost 100 years after Chekov’s classic play was written.

You’ll get to meet the vain and self-absorbed theatre diva, Irene (Sandra Prinsloo); her ailing and ageing brother, Piet (Marius Weyers); the self-doubting, insecure, lovelorn playwright and neglected son, Konstant (Albert Pretorius); the naïve, ingenue Nina (Rolanda Marais); the gloomy, alcoholic, dope-smoking Masha (Cintaine Schutte); the cheerful philosopher and witness to the drama, Dr Eugene (Gerben Kamper); the brash farm manager Elias (Deon

Die Seemeeu is brought to you by Marche Media, which also produced director Christiaan Olwagen’s two previous feature films, Johnny is nie dood nie (2016) and Kanarie (2018). Hailed by South African critics as a landmark in Afrikaans cinema, Johnny is nie dood nie won Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Screenplay, Art Direction, Music, Best Director and Best Film at the Silwerskerm Festival.

Filmed in the Hermanus and Stanford areas in 2017, Die Seemeeu includes

To stand a chance of winning two tickets to the premiere of Die Seemeeu at the Whale Coast Theatre, readers will have to make hay while the sun shines – you only have two days to send an email with your name and contact details to hedda@thevillagenews.co.za. The lucky winners will be contacted on Friday morning.

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Office National – as local as they come Writer & Photographer Hedda Mittner

As is the case with most small businesses in Hermanus, Nico says Hermanus Office National experienced many challenges in 2018. “There were many factors that impacted our business, including the opening of the mall and the protests. Which is why we were most surprised, and all the more grateful, to be honoured at the annual Office National congress last month as the first runner-up in the 2019 Dealer of the Year award.”

he owners of Office National, Nico and Julie Toerien, bring a whole new meaning to being local. Not only have they lived here for three decades while raising three children and running their own businesses, but Hermanus Office National is focused exclusively on supplying and supporting independently-owned local businesses. Like many people who now call Hermanus home, the Toeriens used to spend weekends and holidays here, on his mother’s smallholding in Onrus. “We decided to get out of the rat race and move here permanently when Emile was a few months old,” says Nico. Emile is their son who joined the family business ten years ago and is now the manager, while his parents prefer to work behind the scenes. “We are shy people,” says the soft-spoken Emile, although he is clearly capable of running a tight ship. Julie, who has an honours degree in Museum Studies and used to work at the Stellenbosch Museum, is the artistic one in the family, and Nico says Emile’s younger sister, who is a graphic designer and jewellery manufacturer, takes after her mother. Their third child and laatlammetjie, another daughter, is still at school. Shortly after settling in Onrus, Nico

The owners of Hermanus Office National: Nico and Julie Toerien and their son, Emile. and Julie started a business in town called Ibis Stationery, which was located in Astoria Village. “It was a different world back then,” smiles Nico, as he remembers that the Village Square had not even been built yet. “At that time businesses had different needs; it’s amazing to think we were selling things that no longer exist, such as typewriter ribbons and filing cabinets.” After 13 years of serving the local business community, Ibis was purchased by Walton’s and, faced with a restraint of trade for four years, Nico

decided to try his hand at smallscale vegetable farming. As soon as he could, though, he got back into the stationery business. “A lot had changed in a short period of time,” he says. “Many of my old clients had closed shop and other businesses had sprung up.” New business technologies and methods of communication also meant a bewildering array of new products ranging from stationery, office supplies and ink and toner cartridges to office machines, accessories and furniture.

The Toerien’s business was called ‘Papyrus’ (“I thought the name was apt but people struggled with the pronunciation!” says Nico) before they joined Office National, the largest independently owned provider of office products and stationery in South Africa, with a host of outlets across the country. “Hermanus Office National is not a franchise,” Nico emphasises. “Although we use their name, we own the business, while also benefitting from Office National’s support service, and collective management, marketing and pricing.”

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The event entailed a trip to the Portuguese Isles off the coast of Mozambique aboard the MSC Musica, which thankfully returned just ahead of the cyclone that devastated large parts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. “The award was largely determined by feedback from our suppliers,” says Nico. “At the end of the day, the success of a business is not just based on sales figures, but on relationships. And that is what our business is all about – the quality of our service and the relationships we forge with both our suppliers and our clients.” Hermanus Office National is not focused on corporate clients but the smaller, local clients who need office products and supplies at competitive prices, conveniently delivered to their doorstep. Visit their friendly and professional staff at Hermanus Office National, 22 Arum Street, Hermanus Industria or call 028 313 0003. Visit www.hermanusofficenational.co.za for easy, online shopping.

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Eat for FREE at Dutchies! Diners are invited to eat for free at Dutchies Restaurant on Grotto Beach from 8 – 13 April as part of their awareness week for the self-empowering initiative, #itsmyshop. Based in the Overstrand, the aim of #itsmyshop is to assist disadvantaged women to set up and run a small home-based business and earn a sustainable income. So what’s the catch? All you have to do to enjoy your free meal and a glass of wine at Dutchies is to bring a minimum of 25 used (but still usable) items to donate to this worthy cause. Guests will have a choice between an aromatic chicken curry served with basmati rice or fresh hake served with chips and salad, in exchange for the 25 donated items. By contributing to this project you’ll be sharing in our town’s spirit of Ubuntu by not only making a difference in these women’s lives but by assisting in the upliftment of our poorer communities as a whole.

The items should be in a good, working condition and could be anything from kitchenware (utensils, pots and pans), crockery, Tupperware, linen, blankets, duvets and pillows, to curtains, heaters, electronics and tools.

We all have unwanted items in our homes, so what are you waiting for? Reservations are essential. Contact Dutchies on 028 314 1392.

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Bientang’s Cave

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Char’d Grill & Wine Bar

Shop 4, Village Square Market Street T: 028 312 1986 EAT Restaurant

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Eden Café

Gateway Centre Hermanus T: 028 312 4439 Gecko Bar

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Harbour Rock

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Financial Matters

How do you choose a financial advisor?

By Janet Hugo CFP Director – Sterling Private Clients When I chose to study for a postgraduate diploma from the Free State University in financial planning, it was purely for selfish reasons. I wanted the information for myself and my family. My husband had been “sold” various retirement annuities, and quite a few life policies that included investment contributions, but I couldn’t understand how they all fitted together.

to be registered with the Financial Services Conduct Authority (www. fsca.co.za). This is a government organisation designed to regulate the conduct of the industry and its representatives. You can search their website to check whether the advisor is registered with them. While the intention to improve disclosures to clients and industry conduct is a good one, this doesn’t necessarily safeguard your hard-earned savings.

Several diplomas later, I felt brave enough to start unravelling what the insurance broker had sold us. Some were sound, but many were, let's just say, questionable. Now, many years later, I am very grateful I channelled my frustration at the industry in a positive way.

The industry talks about independent or tied, which must be confusing to consumers. “Tied” refers to the fact that the advisor may only advise you regarding their company range of products. Think of Henry Ford and the famous phrase, “You may have the car in any colour as long as it is black”. It is all well and good if you really wanted a black car, but what if you later discover that you needed a green one?

What to look out for At the very least your advisor needs

The other challenge consumers have with tied advisors is that the sales-

AANSOEKE OM HULPTOEKENNINGS VIR DIE 2019/20 BOEKJAAR Hiermee word geleentheid aan organisasies en ander instansies gebied om aansoeke by die Munisipaliteit Overstrand in te dien vir hulptoekennings. Die doel van die hulptoekennings is om finansiële hulp te verleen aan nie-profyt organisasies wat befondsing benodig gedurende die 2019/20 boekjaar vir die implementering van gemeenskapsprojekte in die Overstrand munisipale area. Sodanige aansoeke sal kragtens die bepalings van die munisipaliteit se Hulptoekenningsbeleid oorweeg word. Dié beleid, tesame met die voorgeskrewe aansoekvorm, is op die munisipale webtuiste by www.overstrand.gov.za, beskikbaar of kan aangevra word. Projekte wat vir hulptoekennings oorweeg sal word, moet die Munisipaliteit Overstrand se doelstellings, oogmerke, programme en aksies aanvul. Die doel is om organisasies te ondersteun met gemeenskapsprojekte wat gemeenskapsontwikkeling in die munisipale area bevorder. Slegs projekte onder die volgende kategorieë sal vir hulptoekennings oorweeg word: gesondheid, omgewing, vaste afval (reiniging), welsyn en maatskaplike ontwikkeling en sport en ontspanning; verwys asseblief na die Hulptoekenningsbeleid vir meer besonderhede. Aansoeke moet ons teen sakesluiting, naamlik 16h00, op Dinsdag 23 April 2019 bereik. Adresseer asseblief geposte aansoeke aan die Direkteur: Plaaslike Ekonomiese, Sosiale en Toerisme Ontwikkeling by een van onderstaande adresse en dui duidelik aan dat dit n Aansoek vir n Hulptoekenning is. Fisiese Adres: Munisipaliteit Overstrand Korporatiewe Hoofkantoor Magnolia Straat 1 Hermanus 7200

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person may make more money from selling their own brand, even if they show you a sales floor full of variety. The regulators are grappling with how to accurately describe advisors so that the consumer knows what kind of advice they will receive. To my mind, there is value in independence. What else can you do? Globally, the industry recognised qualification for providing financial advice is a Certified Financial Planner® or CFP®. To achieve this designation, after either completing an honours degree in financial planning or a postgraduate diploma, one needs to pass a board exam set at an international level and be a member in good standing of the local professional body. In South Africa, this professional organisation is the Financial Planning Institute (www.fpi.co.za). Their website lists the advisors registered with them, their qualifications and their areas of speciality. I believe that this

qualification sets financial planners apart from brokers. The board exam covers the areas of financial advice that impact our lives, like retirement planning, investment structuring, risk and tax. The FPI, like many other professional bodies, requires their advisors to complete 36 hours of continuing professional development every year. There is also a lot that can be said for experience. I know I have learned so much that can’t be found in textbooks, including keeping up with changes in the industry, whether product knowledge or legislation changes. It is important for your advisor to be able to say they have investigated an investment product and decided against it for the following reasons. A good third of my time is spent researching and analysing on behalf of my clients. If your advisor is new to the industry, it is probably good to look at the team or company they

work with. Important to know Morningstar is an international investment research company that published a study showing the impact of correct tax advice. They calculated that the tax drag on a high equity portfolio was 1.23% annually. Compounded over 40 years, this translates to a 30% difference. That’s a big number. The point is that the right advice can be very beneficial, but that advice won’t come free. The fee discussion with your advisor should be open and fair. The FSCA regulates the maximum amount of commission that can be earned on some products, but I believe that any advisor should be able to demonstrate the value they add relative to their fee, even if that value is just peace of mind.

APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS-IN-AID FOR THE 2019/20 FINANCIAL YEAR

IZICELO ZEMALI YESIBONELELO SIKARHULUMENTE SONYAKA-MALI WAMA-2019/20

Herewith the opportunity is presented to organisations and other institutions to submit applications to Overstrand Municipality for grants-in-aid. The purpose of these grants are to provide financial support to Non-profit organisations that need funding support for community projects in the municipal area during the 2019/20 financial year.

Kunikwa eli thuba iintlangano namanye amaziko ukuba afake izicelo zemali yesibonelelo sikarhulumente kuMasipala wase-Overstrand ngenjongo yokuxhasa ngemali iiprojekthi zoluntu kummandla walo masipala ngonyaka-mali wama-2019/20

Applications will be considered in terms of the municipality’s Grant-in-Aid Policy. This policy and the relevant application form is available on the Municipality’s website www.overstrand.gov.za or can be requested. Projects that will be considered for a grant-in-aid should complement Overstrand Municipality’s goals, objectives, programmes and actions. The objective is to support external organisations in delivering services to communities which fall within the municipality’s area of responsibility, to contribute towards community development. Only projects under the following categories will be considered for a grant-in-aid: health, environment, solid waste (cleansing), social development and sport and recreation, please refer to the Grant-in-Aid policy for more detail. Applications should reach us by no later than Tuesday, 23 April 2019, at close of business, viz 16h00. Please address mailed applications to the Director: local economic, social and tourism development on any of the addresses below and clearly indicate that it is a Grant-in-Aid Application. Physical Address: Overstrand Municipality Corporate Head Office 1 Magnolia Street Hermanus 7200

Postal Address: PO Box 20 Hermanus 7200

Geen laat, onvolledige of onvoldoende aansoeke sal oorweeg word nie. Aansoeke van vorige begunstigdes wat nie volledige finale verslae ingedien het nie, sal nie oorweeg word nie. Die Munisipaliteit hou die reg voor om nie ’n hulptoekenning te maak aan enige of alle organisasies wat aansoek doen nie.

No late, incomplete or non-compliant applications will be considered. Applications from previous beneficiaries who did not submit final comprehensive reports will not be considered. The municipality reserves the right not to allocate a grant-in-aid to any or all organisations applying for grants.

Navrae / versoeke vir aansoekvorms: Gerhard Smit: Tel: 028 313 8035; e-pos: gsmit@overstrand.gov.za

Enquiries / requests for application forms: Gerhard Smit: Tel: 028 313 8035; e-mail:gsmit@overstrand.gov.za

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Izicelo ziya kunikwa ingqwalasela phantsi koMgaqo-Nkqubo WeSibonelelo SeMali KaRhulumente kamasipala. Lo mgaqo-nkqubo kunye nefomu efanelekileyo yesicelo uyafumaneka kwijelo likamasipala elileli www.overstrand.gov.za okanye unokucelwa kwi-Ofisi kaSodolophu okanye eyoMphathi wezoNxibelelwano. Iiprojekthi eziya kunikwa ingqwalasela yokufumana le mali yesibonelelo sikarhulumente kufuneka zihambisane nezinto ajolise kuzo, iinjongo, iinkqubo kunye nemisebenzi kaMasipala waseOverstrand. Injongo kukuxhasa iintlangano zangaphandle ekuhambiseni iinkonzo ezinokuthanani noxanduva analo umasipala kuluntu, nokufaka isandla kuphuhliso loluntu kwanokuyila amaqhina obudlelwane obuhlala buhleli ukuze sikwazi ukuphumeza iinjongo zesiCwangciso SikaMasipala SezoShishino njengoko sandlalwe kwi-IDP. Lo mgaqo-nkqubo ukwavula amathuba okubonelelwa ngemali kwamaphulo adibeneyo kunye nee-arhente zangaphandle ngelokuhlangabezana neenjongo zophuhliso kurhulumente wezekhaya. Ziprojekthi eziphantsi koludidi kuphela eziyakunikwa ingqwalasela yokufumana isibonelelo semali sikarhulumente: ezempilo, ezendalo esingqongileyo, ezenkunkuma (ukucoca), uphuhliso lwentlalo yoluntu kwanezemidlalo nolonwabo, nceda ujonge incwadi yenkqubo “policy” yesicelo semali yesibonelelo “Grant-in-Aid” ukuba ufuna inkcazelo ethe vetshe. Ezi zicelo zifanele zifike kuthi engadlulanga uLwesiBini umhla we 23 Eprili wama-2019, ekupheleni komsebenzi, ngentsimbi yesi-16h00. Ncede uthumele imbalelwano ziye kuMongameli: Wenkonzo zabasebenzi nakweyiphi idilesi kwezikhankanyiweyo ngezantsi ze ubhale ngokucacileyo ukuba sisicelo semali yesibonelelo. “Grant-in-Aid Application” Physical Address: Overstrand Municipality Corporate Head Office 1 Magnolia Street Hermanus 7200

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Izicelo ezifike imvakwexesha, nezingagqitywanga ukugcwaliswa kunye nezingathobeli ngokwesicelo azisayi kunikwa ngqalelo. Izicelo zabaxhamli zangaphambili abangazange bangenise iingxelo yokugqibela ebanzi aziyi kuqalaselwa Umasipala unelungelo lokunganikezeli ngemali yesibonelelo kuyo nayiphi na okanye kuzo zonke iintlangano ezifaka izicelo zemali yesibonelelo. Imibuzo/nesicelo sefomu yesicelo nxibelelena no: Gerhard Smit: kulenombolo: 028 313 8035, imeyili: gsmit@overstrand.gov.za UMPHATHI KAMASIPALA Isaziso 37/2019 Umhla we-19 ka Matshi wama-2019

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MY WELLNESS Youthful Getting to grips with Living colds and flu By Dr Arien van der Merwe

ost of us get a feeling of impending doom as winter approaches. The reason: cold and flu season, with its associated stuffy noses, fever, aches and pains. The following information might just help you to prevent and control the winter blues! Why do colds and flu strike mostly in winter? Contrary to what many people believe, the increased incidence of colds during autumn and winter is actually not due to the cold weather as such. Why then do more people get colds and flu during the winter months? Probably because of more time spent indoors, increasing the opportunity for viruses to spread among people. The warm, dry air inside helps viruses to thrive and also dries the lining of the nasal passages, making us more susceptible to infection.

efforts to get rid of the viruses. A cold may sometimes lead to secondary bacterial infections of the middle ear or sinuses, while flu (the common name for influenza) can lead to potentially life-threatening complications like bronchitis or pneumonia. Colds usually begin slowly, two to three days after infection with the virus. The first symptoms are mostly a scratchy, sore throat, followed by sneezing and a runny nose. Temperature is usually normal or only slightly elevated. A mild cough can develop several days later. Cold symptoms usually last from two days to a week and tend to be worse in infants and young children, who sometimes have temperatures of up to 39°C. Flu can mimic a cold in many ways and is mostly a mild disease in healthy children, young adults, and middle-aged people. Flu can, however, be life threatening in older adults and in people of any age who have chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart, lung, or kidney disease, or a compromised immune system.

In winter we also tend to eat fewer salads and fruit, and more soups and stews, with a resulting decline in our intake of antioxidants and other immune-boosting phytonutrients (phyto = plant). Less time spent outdoors soaking up the sun’s rays, from which we get Vitamin D and melatonin, may also be a contributing factor. A lack of these nutrients simply means that our bodies don’t have the right tools to fight viruses, making it easier for us to get sick.

Signs of flu include sudden-onset headache, dry cough and chills. The symptoms quickly become more severe than those of a cold. The flu sufferer often experiences extreme exhaustion, with muscle aches in the back and legs. Fever of up to 40°C is common. The fever typically begins to subside on the second or third day, and then respiratory symptoms like nasal congestion and sore throat appear. Fatigue and weakness may continue for days or even weeks.

The difference between colds and flu Both colds and flu are highly transmittable respiratory infections, caused by many (more than 200) viruses. They spread easily from person to person through droplet distribution when an infected person coughs or sneezes. The viruses infect the nose, throat, sinuses, upper airways and lungs, and the symptoms are mostly side effects of the body’s

Cold and flu-like symptoms can sometimes mimic more serious illnesses like streptococcal infection of the throat, measles, and chickenpox. Allergies can also resemble colds with runny noses, sneezing, and generally feeling miserable. Younger children are more prone to colds and flu, because of their lack of acquired immune resistance to infection and close contact with other kids

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in schools and day care. Women's closer contact with children may also explain the greater prevalence of colds in women than in men. What about the flu vaccine? The flu vaccine is made from highly purified, egg-grown influenza viruses that have been made non-infectious. The latest research, however, indicates that vaccines may actually suppress your immune system. As a doctor of natural medicine, I would never recommend the flu vaccine for everybody. There are very effective, natural remedies and precautionary measures to support the immune and respiratory systems, while also helping to control and improve symptoms. It is also important to remember that the flu vaccine does not prevent the common cold. Vaccinations should only be recommended for the following high-risk groups: • People aged 75 and older who have a predisposition towards flu, bronchitis and pneumonia during winter; • Residents of nursing homes and other facilities that provide care for chronically ill persons; • Those with certain underlying medical conditions that required hospitalisation or regular doctors’ visits during the preceding year. These conditions include: asthma, anaemia, chronic diseases such as uncontrolled diabetes, heart, lung or kidney disease, impaired or compromised immune system function due to HIV infection, treatment with drugs such as long-term steroids, or cancer treatment with radiation or chemotherapy; • Health-care workers, nursing home personnel, and home-care providers, to reduce the risk of transmitting flu to high-risk persons (and to protect themselves from infection). Police, ambulance personnel, fire fighters, and other community service providers may also sometimes find vaccination useful. It takes the immune system about six

to eight weeks to respond to vaccination. The best time therefore to get the flu vaccine, is from mid-March to end-May, before the flu season starts. Use antibiotics with caution Throughout the world people have begun to realise that antibiotics are no longer the miracle cure for all infections. Due to the excessive use and abuse of antibiotics over the past few decades, bacteria have become increasingly resistant. Researchers have been forced to call a halt to what now appears to be a move in the wrong direction and reconsider matters. This development should encourage us to take responsibility for our own health and to educate ourselves about the harmful side effects of all medication, not only antibiotics. As we become more aware that there are alternatives and other effective options available to us, we can insist on using them as our first choice of treatment for infections and other ailments and diseases. Antibiotics can be kept for the really serious bacterial infections; they will then be more effective and save lives. The problem of bacterial resistance is particularly serious in patients with a reduced immunity (for example, after transplantation of kidneys and other organs, in Aids patients and diabetics, during chemotherapy or after major surgery). These patients often die as a result of overwhelming infection caused by bacteria that are resistant to even the most toxic antibiotics. Anyone who uses antibiotics unnecessarily is adding to this problem and, as responsible members of society, we all have a duty not to abuse antibiotics. When we abuse antibiotics, our immune system will develop an increasingly reduced resistance to bacterial and viral infections. Unless

children are exposed to various foreign organisms, they will never develop an optimal, general resistance to the different organisms and they will continually experience infections. These are prematurely and unnecessarily treated with antibiotics and it becomes a vicious circle. Antibiotics also disturb the delicate balance between the essential bacteria and fungi in our digestive tract. This can lead to candida infections (thrush), a problem for many women as soon as they take antibiotics. When the beneficial flora in the intestines are destroyed, the fungi take over and thrush develops. The normal population of bacteria in the digestive tract can be maintained by taking supplements or probiotics. These ‘friendly’ bacteria, which occur naturally in the alimentary tract, keep your immune system healthy; they produce vitamins (for example vitamin K) and help with the detoxification of environmental toxins and other substances. These functions are all very important for biochemical balance in the body. Now for the good news! In my next column we’ll be looking at Nature’s Own Pharmacy – the many natural remedies available to support your immune and respiratory systems through winter and spring. Dr Arien van der Merwe is a medical doctor, specialist holistic health counsellor and stress management consultant, corporate health & wellness service provider and author. Her rooms are at the Arundel Medical Centre (opposite the Mediclinic) and she also consults in Somerset West on Mondays. Contact her on 067 1166 111 or Hermanus@DrArien.co.za. Visit www.DrArien.co.za

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New home for Provenance

t has been only two years since Eve Wilson set up shop in the charming little thatch-roofed heritage cottage in Mitchell Street and in the space of this short period Provenance gained a solid reputation as a destination shop for all things bright and beautiful. As the owner of Provenance Oils, Eve manufactures a popular range of natural skincare products made from essential oils and organic plant extracts, which are supplied to select retailers and guesthouses in Hermanus, Cape Town and further afield. They are also for sale in her shop, along with a delightful mix of exclusive gifts, homeware, linen, clothing, jewellery and accessories. The Mitchell Street premises, although charming, soon became too small for Eve’s burgeoning business, especially the area she was utilising as her workshop. When the opportunity arose for her to relocate to new premises in the CBD, she made the leap and can now be found next to the Pam Golding office and bookmark in Main Road. Eve is thrilled with her new shop and says she had her best day of trading, ever, on 1 March, the day she opened. “We love everything about living in Hermanus,” she says. “It is like a city and a village all rolled into one, with the advantages of both. The town has all the necessary infrastructure but at the same time there is a laid-back village atmosphere and the town is still small enough for you to get to know your customers by name and build relationships.”

Eve and Peter originally hail from the Garden Route, where they owned a 6 ha property on the banks of the Bitou River near Plettenberg Bay for 18 years. They sold the property in 2009 to live out their dream of farming plants such as rose geranium and lavender to distill their essential oils. They found a farm in the Koo Valley near Montagu, which they called ‘Provenance’ from the French verb provenir, which means ‘to originate or arise from’ – a fitting name for their farm and their products. Farming, however, was extremely hard work and by 2014 Eve says they realised they were not as young as they used to be. They decided to sell the farm after five years and moved to a new home in the picturesque town of Montagu, where Eve opened her first Provenance shop and continued to manufacture their popular range of body-care products from a small factory at the back of their house. “The main reason we moved to Hermanus was because my husband, Peter, who has been a surfer his whole life, badly missed the sea and felt he could no longer live away from the ocean,” says Eve, clearly pleased about the new direction their lives have taken. Pop into Provenance at Shop 2, Twin Gables, 171 Main Road or call 083 292 3359. Visit www. provenanceoils.co.za for all the details on their products and to do your online shopping directly from the website. – Hedda Mittner

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ABOVE: Eve has happily settled into her new premises next to Pam Golding and bookmark in Main Road.

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MY HOME

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Are you in love with your real estate agent? By Stephen de Stadler Managing Director Fine & Country Hermanus, Arabella and Kleinmond

he residential property market in Hermanus, Kleinmond and Arabella is exhibiting conditions that translate into what is traditionally called a buyers’ market. What does this actually mean? asks a seller as he is being counselled to consider reducing his selling price in order to attract a different or new crop of potential buyers to his property.

economic model of demand and supply. In a traditional buyers’ market the number of sales will temporarily decline as the market adapts to a reduced selling price, but will then revert to normal transaction volumes in the short to medium term. This has not yet taken place in Hermanus, Kleinmond and Arabella, as is evident from a review of properties sold over the last 8 to 12 months.

A buyers’ market is one where the buyers have the stronger purchasing power. This normally means that the supply of available properties exceeds the number of potential buyers, which means in turn that the properties which reflect the best value for money are likely to attract those buyers first.

While the volume of sales has declined, asking prices have not. The reason for the latter is normally that sellers are not necessarily “required to sell” in the short to medium term and are holding their prices in the hope that a sellers’ market will emerge in the longer term again. The problem with this assumption is that this would only be the case if properties are withdrawn from the market, but we are frankly not seeing that at this time.

Conversely, in a sellers’ market there are more buyers than properties in the market, which leads to situations where increased prices can be achieved because more than one buyer is competing for each sale. That is the theory, based on the simple

The message to all serious sellers is thus to consider reducing your asking price in order to attract buyers to your property. Many sellers (and unfortunately, some agents) include a negotiation margin in their asking price. Rather reduce your asking price

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by the negotiation margin to arrive at a firm and realistic asking price, and indicate to your estate agent that buyers should be made aware of this prior to submitting an offer. Perhaps then sellers and buyers will be in love with their estate agents again. We are not feeling much love at the moment, but this quickly changes when the market turns, and sellers are presented with potential agreements of sale. Are there perhaps other ways to improve this vital relationship? An evening of research on various website revealed the following pearls of wisdom which may assist the selling process, leading to more loving feelings towards the much-maligned estate agents. First impressions count, so please do cut the lawn and keep the garden neat during the selling period, and especially in preparation for a show day. In addition, will it really take that long or be so much of an effort to repaint or varnish a front or garage door that needs a touch up? Tell your friends, use your social media accounts, like and repost the links to the property portals, Face-

book pages, Twitter posts, Instagram pictures and LinkedIn updates that your estate agent is spending a lot of effort on in order to promote your home. If your agent is doing a good job, provide him/her with a positive testimonial. All these actions will market your home to a wider and more receptive audience, which will bear fruit in the short to medium term. If you are going to sell your home, please accept that the normal and most effective way for your property to actually be sold is to allow the estate agent to show it. Show your agent some love and don’t ask them not to bring people around at specific times. And please keep the house

As a parting shot, we all know the expression ‘spreading the love’, or alternatively ‘paying it forward’. Yes, exhibiting a Sold board on your property may seem to you to be a total waste of time, but just like the Sold board on the last property sold by your agent may have caused your buyer to call your agent, the Sold board on your property may help to make the day of another seller in your neighbourhood. Please let us show off our skills and abilities just for a short time. After all, you do love us!

Source: Property24.com Hermanus – a Buyer’s Market Number of properties for Sale April 2018: 2 389 | October 2018: 2 755 | March 2019: 3 380

What's on the market? Number of Bedrooms October 2018 Plots 1 147 1 Bedroom 32 2 Bedroom 198 3 Bedroom 760 4 Bedroom 367 5 Bedroom 251

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Overberg Grand Prix success for Toyota team

ive-time South African National Rally Champion driver, Guy Botterill, and navigator, Simon Vacy-Lyle’s quest to defend their title has started on a solid footing with a win at the 2019 Cape Overberg Grand Prix this past weekend. Only 35 seconds separated the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA team in their Toyota 1600cc Etios car from the Subaru Impreza WRX STI team of Llewellyn Jones and Chris Pichon in second place. Third place went to the Verco Energy Ford Fiesta team of JJ Potgieter and Tommy du Toit, also known as Team Boertjies, who were a full one minute and 48 seconds behind Botterill and Vacy-Lyle. The first six stages of the Cape Overberg Grand Prix, covering a total distance of 555 km over two days, were held in Caledon on Friday, with Stages 7 to 14 focused on the Klipdale f Farm dirt roads on Saturday. This was the first event on the 2019 South African National Rally calendar. The Parc Ferme (the secure area where the cars

are driven to after the races) and the podium champagne spray were held on Saturday evening at Rûens Kollege, a private Klipdale school about 15 km from Napier. Drivers, their crews and spectators were treated to magnificent sunset mountain views, a deserving ending to two days of sometimes hair-raising driving, with 20 of the 21 national teams completing all the stages. Organised by the Cape Town-based Cape Car & Motorcycle Club (CCMC), a club with over 50 years of racing history, the Cape Overberg Grand Prix has been five years in the planning. “The weekend was an absolute success. I am excited about the results of the event and all the positive feedback that I received,” says Kesevan Naidoo, the Vice Chairman of the club and the main organiser of the rally. While there are no plans yet for the Overberg to host another national rally, Naidoo says: “A Cape rally will definitely be wanted. The question is where it is going to be held and who is going to host it. There are actually three clubs in the Western Cape. The past two nationals

PHOTO: Raphael da Silva Celebrating their performance in the 2019 Cape Overberg Grand Prix on Saturday are, from left: Llewellyn Jones and Chris Pichon from the Subaru Impreza WRX STI team; ive-time South African National Rally Champions Guy Botterill and Simon Vacy-Lyle from the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA team; and the Verco Energy Ford Fiesta team of JJ Potgieter and Tommy du Toit. that we have had in the Cape have been combined with the clubs getting together to organise and raise sponsorship. A regional rally will definitely take place in the Overberg though.” Saturday’s racing counted towards the Western Cape Rally Championship and was the second event of the regional calendar, with the first race held in Darling on 2 March. The Subaru

Impreza WRX STI team of Llewellyn Jones and Chris Pichon came first, one minute and 17 seconds before second-place team, Ishmaeel Davids and Yusuf Ganief in their Toyota RunX S2000, and two minutes and six seconds ahead of third-place finishers Paul Franken and Hilton Auffray in their VW Polo. – Raphael da Silva

Hermanus players shine at Boland Bowls tournament Twelve players from Hermanus Bowling Club were honoured to represent Boland Bowls in the prestigious Bowls SA Inter District Tournament hosted in Gauteng in March. Bowlers from 20 districts throughout South Africa annually participate in the tournament in Open and Veteran Men's and Ladies' events, consisting of 2 teams of 4 players each. Seven ladies and three men from Hermanus participated in the Veteran section and two players in the Open section. The Veteran ladies won the Bronze medal. Furthermore, two Hermanus Junior players, Hanru Pool and William van der Merwe (absent), represented Boland Bowls in Bloemfontein in the Bowls SA Under 20 National Championships last week. PHOTO: Magriet Hugo

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MY SPORT South African golfers compete for the iconic green jacket By Tony O'Hagan

harl Schwartzel, Trevor Immelman, Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace and Jovan Rebula make up the South African contingent who will strive to don the famous green jacket at the conclusion of the US Masters this year. The 83rd edition of the US Masters, commonly known as ‘The Masters’, will take place from 11 – 14 April at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, USA. Schwartzel (2011) and Immelman (2008) are former winners of the

event while Oosthuizen lost a sudden death playoff to Bubba Watson in the 2012 Masters. Branden Grace is a multiple winner on the European Tour and Jovan Rebula (nephew of Ernie Els) is the current British Amateur Champion. Oosthuizen is currently the top South African on the world rankings, coming in at no. 20 and probably our best chance for the green jacket. He has the unique record of a win at the British Open and a second place finish in all four Major Tournaments. South Africa and Spain are joint second, after the USA, for country winners of the Masters, both with three winners and five green jackets. Gary Player was a three-time winner while Ballesteros (twice), Olazabal

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(twice) and Garcia account for the Spanish victories. The Masters is the only major tournament played at the same venue every year as opposed to the other three, The Open, PGA and US Open which move locations every year. The tournament has a number of traditions. Since 1949 a green jacket has been formally awarded to the Champion, who must return it to the Clubhouse one year after his victory, although it remains his personal property and is stored with other Champions' jackets in a specially designed cloakroom. The first recipient of the formally-awarded green jacket was Sam Snead. Another tradition at the Masters is the Champion's Dinner, inaugurated by Ben Hogan in 1952, which is held the Tuesday before each tournament. It is open to past champions and certain board members of the Augusta National Golf Club. The defending champion, as the host, selects the menu for the dinner. The golf course was formerly a plant nursery and each hole is named after a tree or shrub with which it has become associated. Examples of this are Flowering Peach (3rd hole), Magnolia (5th), Azalia (13th), and Holly (18th). The most Masters wins have been recorded by Jack Nicklaus (6), Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods (4 each) and Gary Player (3). Gary was the first non-American to win the coveted event in 1961 and gained two more green jackets in 1974 and 1978. We wish our boys well in their quest to add another green jacket to those won by South Africans hanging in that special cloakroom at Augusta.

Gary Player handing the green jacket to Jack Nicklaus in 1975.

Javelin champ brings home gold

Shaune Dreyer (above) with her proud mom, Florina. Shaune, a local 14-year-old girl from Mt Pleasant who attends the De la Bat School for the Deaf in Worcester, competed in the SASA (South African School Athletics) National High Schools Championships from 20-23 March in Port Elizabeth. Shaune usually competes in track events at her school, so she and her family were pleasantly surprised when she won gold in the U15 javelin event at the zonal athletics trials in February, earning her a place on the Boland team. Shaune went on to compete at the Dal Josafat Stadium in Paarl and was chosen to join the Western Cape High Schools LSEN (Learners with Special Educational Needs) Athletics team. Finally, after winning another gold at provincials, she was chosen to compete at the SASA National Championships where she achieved her inal win – and brought home yet another gold medal. Well done, Shaune! PHOTO: Taylum Meyer

RIGHT: Shaune Dreyer in action at the SASA National High Schools Championships in Port Elizabeth last week. PHOTO: OnSite Image

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UHLAHLOLWABIWOMALI OLUQULUNQWAYO LOWAMA-2019/2020

Kennis geskied hiermee ingevolge artikel 21 van die Wet op Plaaslike Regering: Munisipale Stelsels, 2000 (Wet 32 van 2000) en artikel 22 van die Wet op Plaaslike Regering: Munisipale Finansiële Bestuur, 2003 (Wet 56 van 2003), dat die volgende dokumentasie ter insae beskikbaar sal wees by die kantore van die Areabestuurders in Gansbaai, Stanford, Hermanus en Kleinmond, in alle openbare biblioteke in die Overstrand, die Korporatiewe Hoofkantoor in Hermanus en op die webwerf by www.overstrand.gov.za onder Overstrand Budget, vanaf 28 Maart 2019.

Notice is hereby given in terms of Section 21 of the Local Government : Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000), and Section 22 of the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003, (Act 56 of 2003), that the following documents will be available for perusal during office hours at the offices of the Area Managers in Gansbaai, Stanford, Hermanus and Kleinmond, in all Overstrand public libraries, the Corporate Head Office in Hermanus and on the website at www.overstrand.gov.za under Overstrand Budget, as from 28 March 2019.

Esi sisaziso esikhutshwa ngokweCandelo 21 loMthetho weeNkqubo zoLawulo looMasipala wama-2000 (Act 32 of 2000), neCandelo lama-22 loMthetho woLawulo lweeMali zikaMasipala wowama-2003, (Act 56 of 2003), sokuba la maxwebhu alandelayo aza kufumaneka ngexesha lomsebenzi ukuba abantu bawafunde kwii-ofisi zabalawuli eGansbaai, eStanford, eHermanus naseKleinmond, kuzo zonke iilayibrari zoluntu eOverstrand, kwaNdlunkulu eHermanus nakwi-webhusayithi www.overstrand.gov.za phantsi kwamaxwebhu emicimbi ephambili/ibhajethi (Strategic documents\Budget) ukususela ngomhla wama-28 Matshi 2019.

Konsep Kapitaal- en Bedryfsbegroting vir die 2019/20 finansiële jaar, aangeduide begrotings vir 2020/21 en 2021/22, voorgestelde skedule van belastings, tariewe en heffings vir die 2019/20 finansiële jaar wat vanaf die 1ste Julie 2019 opgelê word en begrotings vewante beleide. (Kontakpersoon : B. King, Telefoon (028) 313-8154 gedurende kantoorure)

Draft Capital and Operating Budget for the 2019/20 financial year, indicative budget forecasts for 2020/21 & 2021/22 financial years, proposed schedule of rates and taxes, tariffs and charges for the 2019/20 financial year to be imposed as from 1 July 2019 and Budget related policies. (Contact Person: B. King, Telephone (028) 313-8154 during office hours)

Ibhajethi equlunqwayo neyokusebenza kukamasipala yonyakamali wama-2019/20, enengqikelelo yeminyakamali yama-2020/21 & 2021/22, izicwangciso zerhafu, amaxabiso acetywayo awonyakamali wama-2019/20 aza kumiselwa ukususela ngomhla wo-1 Julayi 2019 nohlahlolwabiwomali oluphathelele kwimigaqo. (Umntu ekunokuthethwa naye: B. King, ifoni (028) 313-8154 ngexesha lomsebenzi)

Skriftelike kommentaar/vertoë insake aangeleenthede in hierdie kennisgewing vermeld moet die ondergemelde teen Maandag, 30 April 2019 om 12:00 bereik.

Comments/representations in writing on any matters mentioned in this notice must reach the under mentioned by Monday, 30 April 2019 at 12:00.

Persone wat nie kan skryf nie, kan gedurende kantoorure by die onderskeie Areabestuurders in Gansbaai, Stanford, Hermanus of Kleinmond besoek aflê waar daardie persone gehelp sal word om hul kommentaar of vertoë op skrif te stel.

Persons who cannot write can visit the Area Managers in Gansbaai, Stanford, Hermanus and Kleinmond during office hours where such persons will be assisted to transcribe their comments or representations.

Abantu abangakwaziyo ukubhala bangaya kubalawuli eGansbaai, eStanford, eHermanus nase Kleinmond ngexesha lomsebenzi bancediswe babhalelwe izimvo nezindululo zabo.

CC Groenewald MUNISIPALE BESTUURDER Overstrand Munisipaliteit Posbus 20 HERMANUS, 7200 Kennisgewing nr. 48/2019

CC Groenewald MUNICIPAL MANAGER Overstrand Municipality P O Box 20 HERMANUS, 7200 Notice No. 48/2019

CC Groenewald UMPHATHI KAMASIPALA UMasipala waseOverstrand P O Box 20 HERMANUS, 7200 Inombolo yesaziso 48/2019

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Boys rule… for the moment! Scores at a glance

Congratulations to them, and well done to the ladies for letting the guys win this year!

By Julian Shaw

reetings to you all again; I hope this week has been good to you. As we are moving ever so quickly towards winter, the days are definitely drawing to a close earlier and there is a distinct chill in the air in the mornings. For us at the Hermanus Golf Club, winter is much quieter and gives us all a chance to get some R & R and take on new projects around the course. Boys rule This is something I cannot write very often, but the truth was revealed in our latest competition which is held every couple of weeks. Normally, as the title indicates, we play two ladies and two guys in a team, but once a year they play for the wooden spoon, which I think is quite apt! All the scores from the guys are added up and all the scores from the ladies, and the team with the most points wins. Last year the girls took the title; this year the guys took revenge by gaining the most points and putting their name on the spoon!

SATURDAY ALL TOGETHER 23 MARCH Betterball Bogey Plus 121 players East Course 1st: Jan Kuhn & Frans Prins +8 2nd: Terry Westbrook & Andy Sherwood +7 North Course 1st: Rusty Demmer & Zenith Meiring (C/I) +7 2nd: Sally Leggett & Yvonne Teixeira (C/O) +7 South Course 1st: Gavin Levick & Daan Dockel +7 2nd: John Hartshorn & Bob Ferguson (C/I) +5 Best Gross: Desmond Sauls 73

New rule clariication As most players know, we had a major shift in the rules of golf, starting this year. But I can tell you that although the rule book is easier to navigate, there is still confusion about some of the rules. We have had such a case with the wrong ball rule, and the clarification is that when you play the wrong ball, it is a general penalty (2 shots) and not penalty-free, which does make more sense! And you have to replay the shot from where you made the mistake. So guys and girls, please make sure you identify your ball correctly! Interesting fact The list of the top 20 richest golfers has been released, interestingly on the same week that our own legendary Ernie Els created yet another world record and notched up over 300 top 10 career finishes. He is the 8th richest golfer on $85 million, but is dwarfed by the top position held by Tiger Woods, who has earned a massive $850 million. Quite unbelievable!

LADIES’ TUESDAY 26 MARCH 3 Ball Alliance 66 players South course winners: Terri Sulley, Yvonne Teixeira and Elize Nykamp - 69 points East course winners: Wina Loubser, Wendy Dunn and Glenda von Beneke - 69 points.

The two team Captains, Lynne Behagg (ladies Captain) and Les Adams (committee member) with the club’s wooden spoon.

MEN’S WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH Individual progressive stableford 124 players East course Winner: Jacques Bruwer - 41 points Runner-up: Jem Seciari - 39 points South course Winner: Dylan Burger - 40 points C/I Runner-up: Kruger van der Walt 40 points C/O North course Winner: Roelof Kuiper - 40 points Runner-up: Kevin Middleton - 37 points

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ermanus High School hosted their sixth annual Nowan Cornelius Festival this year from 28-30 March. Over 1 000 students from 20 high schools participated Augsburg Landbougimnasium (Clanwilliam), Emil Weder Secondary School (Genadendal), Bredasdorp High School, Cannons Creek (Pinelands), Curro Hermanus, Curro Durbanville, DF Malan High School (Bellville), Duineveld High School (Upington), Swartberg Secondary School (Caledon), Worcester Gymnasium, Langenhoven Gymnasium (Oudtshoorn), Hugenote High School (Wellington), Paarl Gymnasium, Robertson High School, Brackenfell High School, Outeniqua High School (George), Stellenberg High School, Strand High School, Glenwood High School (Durban) and Punt High School (Mossel Bay). This made it one of the biggest school sporting events in the country. The standard of sport this year was once again very high as the 26 rugby teams and 18 hockey teams played against each other in a series of knock-out rounds over two days, with the finals being held on the third day (Saturday 30 March). In rugby, there were three to four final games in each age group. The final results for the games Hermanus High played in were very close: the U14A boys team lost by 10 points to Paarl Gymnasium; Robertson High beat the U16A Hermanus High team by only 7 points; and Paarl Gymnasium beat the U15A Hermanus High team by a mere two points.

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PHOTO: Philip Fyfer B-team games. The U16B girls finished second and the U16B boys finished third. The U16A boys finished fourth in the A-team games. The Nowan Cornelius Festival was initiated in 2013, in honour of U15 Hermanus High rugby player Nowan Cornelius, who sadly passed away on 2 June 2012. Nowan had suffered a head injury at rugby practice the day before. The reason for the sports festival is not only to honour Nowan, but also to raise funds to be used for: • Supporting seriously injured sportsmen in the school (most of them have no medical aid) • Bursaries/subsidies for learners to reach their full potential, irrespective of their financial background • Subsidising developing teams to participate in the sports festival

ABOVE: Connor van Tonder (right), an U15A rugby player from Hermanus High wins the ball in a line-out in a game against Paarl Gymnasium. LEFT: Mario Barnard, an U15A player from Hermanus High, tries to get the ball past the opposing team, D.F. Malan. BOTTOM LEFT: Lucian Louw, from Hermanus High weaves through Paarl Gymnasium competitors to get to the try line in one of the inal U15A rugby games. BELOW: Jeandré Overmeyer (U15A) from Hermanus High scores a try after running almost half the length of the rugby ield through D.F. Malan players.

The Hermanus High hockey teams did very well, with the U14A boys hockey side (they were the only U14 hockey team and played against U16B teams) finishing first in the

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PHOTO: Philip Fyfer

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