Franschhoek Tatler - March 2017

March 2017

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Harvest time

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Q&A: Minnie Petersen

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Agricultural history re-emerges

This old apple orchard has re-emerged because of the receding water level of the Wemmershoek Dam

With the Wemmershoek Dam at its lowest level in many years the weathered stumps of a longsubmerged apple orchard have emerged above the water level. The management of the dam have kindly shared some photographs with the Tatler.

The outline of the mountains in the old photograph can clearly be seen in the upper right corner of the contemporary photograph.

It is believed that the apple trees in the photo are most likely ‘Wemmershoek’ apples – a variety that in 1927 accounted for more than a quarter of South Africa’s apple harvest.

One of the few places the Wemmershoek apple can still be found is in the Tru-Cape Heritage Orchard at Oak Valley Estate in Grabouw. In somewhat of an

irony these trees are in fruit at the exact same time that the old stumps have been exposed.

(Tru-Cape is the largest marketer of apples and pears from South Africa.)

Buks Nel and Henk Griesel in their book ‘Apples in the Early Days at the Cape’ (2012) quote one IB Pole Evans as having said in 1909 that “the Wemmershoek apple is said to have arisen from seed grown on the farm Wemmershoek of the late Johannes Haumann of French Hoek in the Paarl district over a hundred years ago. The original tree, I understand, is still standing there today and is propagated by inlayers.”

Who knows, perhaps one of the exposed stumps is that of the original Wemmershoek apple tree…

Left: Wemmershoek apples. Right: Water, age and the elements have weathered the old stumps.

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Cabrière Street planning blues

A growing body of Franschhoek residents and the Franschhoek Trust and Ratepayers Association are bringing pressure to bear on Stellenbosch Municipality’s Planning Department to ‘stick to the rules’ and enforce compliance with building and zoning regulations.

They are opposing the flouting of these regulations at the site of a proposed new boutique hotel, ‘Maison Cabrière’, on the corner of Kruger and Cabrière Streets in the declared historic core of Franschhoek.

Top legal and town-planning teams have been hired to research and present their case and stop the Municipality from creating another ‘Lavender Farm’ situation. ** “We expect the DA municipality that we elected to enforce their own regulations, as they assured us they do,” said a spokesman for the group.”

In a submission to the municipality, lawyers for the group state, “Alarmingly, the six suite boutique hotel which is the subject of the application is already at an advanced stage of construction and is being advertised online. The construction is a flagrant and wilful violation of the Municipality’s planning bylaw 2015, read with the zoning scheme and a criminal offence in terms of the National Building Regulations and Standards Act, 1977 and should not be countenanced by the Municipality considering and approving ex post facto as it were, a zoning application and any associated building plans to regularise the unlawful construction and intended use of these unlawful structures.”

The saga began in March 2016 when the architects of the new owners of the property canvassed neighbours to ask permission to relax a small section of the building line adjacent to the original heritage house to accommodate a laundry and a toilet for a private residence. The neighbours were assured (in writing) that there would be no impact on them. No mention was made of the true nature and extent of the alterations to the original heritage structure, which involved the removal of the small loft windows and the installation of larger windows higher on the building, the removal of the original reed ceiling, raising of the roof and the additional ‘dwelling’ that would be erected or the impending rezoning application. As a result the neighbours have subsequently withdrawn their consent in correspondence with the municipality.

Shortly after the neighbours granted their consent for what they were told would be minor alterations that would have no impact on their rights and interests, foundations were laid for a second large building. No permission for change of usage had been applied for yet.

In June, a notice was served on interested and affected parties of the application for rezoning from single to general residential zone for the purpose of developing a ‘boutique hotel’.

There is also a dispute about whether the property comprises one or two erfs. Opponents claim the subdivision process was flawed and illegal. They maintain the property has never been lawfully subdivided. This would mean that the second structure that has been erected is unlawful.

“If however it is two erfs, as the owners suggest, then the municipality has allowed the building of a dwelling as a residence on the second erf that has no kitchen and no living room, just a series of en-suite bedrooms,” the spokesman said.

According to the group, the structure was clearly never meant to be a self-contained dwelling house, but rather to provide additional accommodation for the proposed boutique hotel to be serviced from the heritage building on Erf 173. They maintain that the presentation of the structure as a residential dwelling house is disingenuous and a ruse. This is confirmed in the application report which states, “An existing dwelling is to be upgraded and altered for guest house purpose and a second new structure is under construction to accommodate further guests”. This is despite the fact that the current zoning does not permit the construction of a boutique hotel.

The group is now asking how building plans for a boutique hotel could be passed when rezoning had not been granted.

In July, a Cease Work Order was served by the municipality for deviation from the approved building plan for the original house citing roof height violations and altered window positions.

Simultaneously, they served a Cease Work Order in respect of unlawful deviations from the building plans for the new building on the basis that the roof height was not approved and the fact that thatch and not corrugated iron (as specified in the plans) was used for the roof.

Revised plans have since been submitted to the Municipality. The group however opposes these too as they view it as a way to gain approval for the previous illegal work that was carried out.

The statutory provincial heritage authority, Heritage Western Cape, whose mandate is to ‘identify, protect and conserve the rich and diverse heritage resources of the Western Cape’ has also come out strongly in opposition to the deviations from the plans that were originally presented to them for their approval and has issued its own Cease Work Order. It currently remains in place.

Heritage Western Cape’s Built Environment and Landscape Committee (BELCom) that is responsible for considering permit applications for alterations and demolitions to buildings older than 60 years has recently resolved as follows: “The Committee was of the opinion that the reasons for non-compliance have not been adequately addressed and resolved that the original building permit be revoked. The committee was of the opinion that the unauthorised work has negatively impacted heritage significance in terms of the scale and massing of the additions and recommended that Heritage Western Cape lay charges.”

The owner has been afforded an opportunity to make representations as to why the permit should not be revoked and why criminal charges should not be brought against him by Heritage Western Cape.

Revised plans have subsequently also been submitted to HWC. In the submission the heritage practitioner for the owners contends that previous owners had

The Maison Cabrière development has neighbours up in arms. Reasons include lost views (above) and alterations to a historic cottage (below).

already altered the original heritage building to the point where it no longer had heritage significance and that heritage legislation should therefore not apply.

The opponents’ advisers say that this is not the case and that it is in fact the work done by the current owners that has undermined the building’s heritage significance.

The opponents also vigorously dispute the visual impact study that the owners have commissioned – particularly with regard to the new building. The visual impact assessment states “Although the project buildings are two storey, among many that are one, and one and a half storey, they are deemed compatible with others in the locality, they fit into the local streetscape character, and do not negatively impact upon the existing sense of place.”

The matter was due to be heard at the HWC Belcom meeting on 28 February.

Penny Gordon, the writer of this article is one of the objectors.

** At Lavender Farm, despite serious breaches of various laws and the fact that both the Cape High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal have set aside building plans and zoning approvals that had been unlawfully granted by the Municipality, the owner of Lavender Farm continues to operate a guest house

La Cotte stream water pollution resolved?

Users of water from the La Cotte stream have been complaining of pollution in the stream since late November 2016. Problems experienced included discolouration; yeasty, sewerage-type smells; slimy deposits in the stream and soapy/frothing water that clogs filters in irrigation systems. The source of the pollution was identified as the Libstar 3 plant on Chamonix farm.

According to Libstar’s corporate brochure: “The Group concentrates on supplying the needs of the private label segments of larger retailers, the manufacturing of products for brand owners as well as its own branded products and the food service industry.” Libstar’s clients include food service players, including McDonalds and KFC, major retailers such as PicknPay and Woolworths, large brand house such as Unilever, Tiger Brands and Nestlé.

The primary users of water from the La Cotte stream are a number of down-stream farmers, who use it for irrigation purposes, and the Franschhoek Cellar, that uses it for cleaning purposes as part of the wine making process.

As a result of the pollution Franschhoek Cellar has had to incur additional costs, as they had to replace the water they use from the La Cotte stream with municipal water. Franschhoek Cellar’s owners, DGB (Pty) Ltd indicated to the Tatler that they “will not be claiming reimbursement at this stage, but reserve the right to institute a claim if the situation regarding the pollution is not rectified.”

Water quality analyses by downstream water users in November 2016 and January 2017 showed acidification of the water, increased dissolved solids and increased levels of Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium. The January tests also showed increased E coli levels – although these were still within the environmental disposal limits.

(The comparison is between samples taken from the La Cotte stream at points above and below its confluence with the Chamonix stream.)

In response to questions from the Tatler Libstar acknowledged that “there have been some issues that were identified during the start-up and commissioning

The source of the water pollution that has been plaguing down-stream users of the La Cotte stream’s water since November 2016. Corrective measures have now been put in place.

of the new effluent treatment system at our water bottling operation on the Chamonix farm.” According to Libstar “A faulty pump control resulted in sporadic overflow from the waste water handling system from the cool drink and water bottling plant.” Libstar also pointed out that “the installation and operation of the plant falls under the landlord’s jurisdiction.”

Libstar assured the Tatler that corrective measures have been taken and that as of the end of January 2017 all problems have been resolved. The corrective measures include: • Replacement of the 1000 litre buffer tank with a 5000 litre tank, with a second one to follow, • Installation of an upgraded drain pump, as well as a standby pump, • Installation of alarms in the buffer tanks to alert management if levels surpass a predetermined

safe level Further improvement of the wastewater treatment system is being conducted by Libstar’s wastewater treatment contractor. This is included in Chamonix’s Water Safety Plan which will be submitted to the Dept. of Water and Sanitation (DWS) and Stellenbosch Municipality.

Irrigated treated effluent is monitored monthly in accordance with DWS requirements, ad hoc internal monitoring is done and an independent laboratory is recording regular samples of the irrigated effluent and the water quality in the stream.

Relevant authorities, including Stellenbosch Municipality, the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning and the Department of Water and Sanitation are aware of the work that has been done and continue to monitor the situation.

illegally and for significant financial gain a number of years later, facing a mere proverbial ‘slap on the wrist’ from the Municipality for his conduct. The Lavender Farm matter is now also the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Public Protector’s office.

What others say

When asked for comment, the Executive Mayor of Stellenbosch, Adv Gesie van Deventer, said: “I note with concern the information provided. Lawyers have been appointed to take this matter further. In the light of legal processes it is not wise at this stage to comment further in the public or media on the matter”.

The ward councillor for the area, Mr Aldridge Frazenburg (Ward 1, DA), said it was difficult to comment on the technical aspects, but has promised to keep an eye on the situation.

The municipality’s Director of Planning and Economic Development, Mr Dupre Lombaard, did not wish to comment, but says he has discussed the matter with the mayor.

At the time of going to press the owners of the property had not responded to a request for comment.

Die geval van die vergete rekenaar

Op ‘n Dinsdag middag in Februarie, net na middagete is ‘n verlate skootrekenaar in Franschhoek se Build It opgemerk.

Niemand was naby nie. ‘n Werknemer op die vloer, De Earl Cleophas, sê toe sy die rekenaar in die gangetjie by die boorpunte sien, het sy eers gewag om te De Earl Cleophas sien of iemand dit kom haal. Sy hou toe haar oog daarop en stel die ander personeel in kennis van die situasie.

Almal was bewus dat dit ‘n sekuriteitsprobleem kon wees en wou graag sien wie die verlate item sou kom afhaal. Teen die einde van die werksdag het niemand opgedaag nie en die eienaar, Jonathan Peach, het De Earl gevra om die skootrekenaar na die kantoor te neem. So gesê so gedaan.

Die volgende oggend is besluit om die rekenaar oop te maak. De Earl is rekenaarvaardig en het agtergekom dat daar nie wagwoorde op die rekenaar se bedryfstelsel was nie. Sy het op die Skype toepassing die eienaar se selfoonnommer gekry en hom gebel.

Die eienaar was baie verlig toe hy die oproep kry.

Hy was erg bekommerd en sy stresvlakke was hoog omdat hy nie sy rekenaar kon opspoor nie. Hy het nie meer raad gehad oor waar hy kon navraag doen nie; volgens hom “is sy hele lewe op die rekenaar.”

Toe hy sy rekenaar by Build It kom haal, het hy gevra om met die bestuurder te praat en vir Maryse Peach, Jonathan se vrou, gelukgewens met die eerlikheid en goeie waardes van die personeel en die moeite wat hulle gedoen het om sy eiendom aan hom terug te besorg. Hy kon nie glo dat mense nog soveel omgee vir ander nie.

Maryse dink glad nie dis ongewoon nie. Sy verduidelik dat almal wat daar werk ‘n goeie verhouding met mekaar en met klïente het. “Dis net wat ons doen.”

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New pro outfit seal victory at TransCape

The Ellsworth-ASG outfit of Pieter Seyffert and Travis Walker finished off the TransCape mountain bike race in style by claiming victory on the final stage to cement their overall triumph on Saturday, 11 February.

It was the perfect start for the new pro outfit, who rode together for the first time when they lined up in Knysna for the seven-day, 690km race to Franschhoek.

They were followed in the general classification by the Belgian team of Eddy Feliers and Kristof de Neys (Cicero Baik), with David and William Wertheim Aymes (Bromance) completing the podium.

The final days route over 78.5km from Villiersdorp to Franschhoek included the famous Groenlandberg Travis Walker, riding for Ellsworth-ASG, enjoys the moment as teammate climb, arguably one of the toughest Pieter Seyffert looks on after taking the men’s title in the TransCape ascents on the race, which Walker mountain bike race following the final 78.5km stage from Villiersdorp to Franschhoek. The seven-day, 690km journey, which started in Knysna, described as “a real test”. ended at the La Couronne Wine Estate. Photo: Jacques Marais “It’s a hard climb due to the terrain, with lots of sand and rocks,” said the we will really do well together.”

25-year-old from Hilton in KwaZulu-Natal. “But He said the moments that stood out for him were once you get to the top the views are amazing so it is the evening functions, which exemplified the spirit worth the effort.” of the tour. “These are the heart of the race where Walker said he wasn’t too sure what to expect everyone shares their war stories while enjoying a coming into the TransCape but described it as a bottle of wine in a relaxed environment. wonderful experience.

The Spar team of Catherine Williamson, from north He said the moment that stood out for him was the Yorkshire in Britain, and Cape Town’s Hannele Steyn fifth stage on Thursday when the pair, who had built up rode to first place on the podium after opting to a comfortable lead, rode with the peloton for the day. compete in the mixed category.

“As a professional, for me to ride with these guys The 34-year-old Williamson said the race had been and to see their determination and passion for cycling tougher than expected but it was “brilliant training for was an eye-opener. It showed just what spirit and the rest of the year”. camaraderie there is on the TransCape.”

The 51-year-old Steyn, from Durbanville, paid tribute The 30-year-old Seyffert from Helderkruin on the to the race organisers from ASG Events, whom she West Rand said there had been some challenging times described as “being from a different world”. up the Groenlandberg and Franschhoek Pass climbs.

“The Volvo involvement was incredible and the “It was a tough day because the climbs were loose drivers treated us like queens getting us from place to and rocky and you are not completely done after place. The food was great and the spirit fantastic. It’s conquering Groenlandberg,” he said. those sorts of things which make this race a must for “But Franschhoek is one of my favourite climbs, everyone to do.” being gradual and steady, and then there is the Defending champion Billy Stelling won his sixth stage awesome finish at La Couronne Wine Estate where in row to keep the solo men’s title, with Karl Dossche we were treated to champagne.” of Belgium taking second and Alan Tilling third.

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Cape Wine Auction raises record 22.3m

In a spectacular show of generosity bidders at the Cape Wine Auction, sponsored by Nedbank Private Wealth, helped the event’s organisers to raise a staggering R22.3 million. The event took place at Antonij Rupert Wyne Estate on Saturday, 11 February.

All proceeds from the auction, with no deduction, will be allocated to 22 beneficiary organisations, all of whom make a profound impact on education and the lives of children in the Cape Winelands.

Lots comprising exciting travel, luxury accommodation and limited edition wines went under the hammer. A bespoke experience in the Napa Valley, California, reached a bid of 3 million – the highest bid achieved since the auction’s inception in 2014.

The Lionel and Anton Smit collaborative sculpture, created especially for the auction and standing three meters tall reached an incredible R1.2 million. This lot included a wine and dine experience at Idiom Fine Dining Restaurant and Wine Estate.

Guests from across South Africa and as far as the USA, Germany and Sweden were treated with cuisine prepared by some of South Africa’s leading chefs,

FLTR: Cape Wine Auction Director Darielle Robertson with Mike Ratcliffe, Wendy Appelbaum, Raymond Ndlovu and Andi Norton

limited edition wines and performances by Zolani Mahola, Watershed’s Craig Hinds and George Town.

Cape Wine Auction Director, Darielle Robertson, says they are overwhelmed by the generosity of the bidders.

“We were aiming to raise R15 million this year but the final tally has left everyone speechless. The commitment to giving back, changing lives and sharing good fortune was certainly testament in the bids raised. With this money we can expand our programmes and assist beneficiaries to reach even greater heights than they’ve achieved so far.”.

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Cellar Chat

Mark Tanner Her name was Odile. She was petite, almost gamin like Leslie Caron in Gigi - utterly charming and bright as a new pin.

Close to my hotel in Paris was a small bar/café where I would go for a glass of wine each evening. So did Odile. Over some six days we met each evening.

Me with no French, she with no English, but we were in our 20s and somehow managed to communicate.

She knew about wine, I knew nothing. Our meetings were limited to about an hour during which she would endeavour to teach me at least something of the French approach to wine. After a farewell glass I left for Italy and that was that.

I often wondered if Odile started my partiality for wine. Probably not, but let's face it, all sorts of partialities have begun in Paris. Where better than in a country unique in culinary delights and where children are given watered wine with their lunch. La Douceur de Vivre, the sweet life indeed.

I quote from Pamela Vandyk Price, late doyenne of

the UK wine writers: "France is the most important wine-growing country in the world. French wines have set standards for the others, the French vintages always make headlines and French traditions seem to hold the most fascination. The great French estates, renowned for centuries, continue to attract visits from royalty, heads of state, the rich and famous, and from more ordinary travellers."

I too am fascinated by the French way of life, in particular their approach to food and drink. While breakfast is little more than coffee and a croissant, lunch is taken seriously. In most cases this is the main meal of the day – in fact, the whole country closes down for a couple of hours at midday, heavy vehicles pull off the highway for dèjeuner…

I am told that after breakfast the average French artisan will, in winter, have a "Cognac coffee" before braving the outdoors. As the day progresses they will collect to discuss lunch – with a beer or two to assist the decision process (beer is considered nonalcoholic). Lunch itself will, of course, include wine which is why one should try and have one's brick wall completed by noon. Midday is committed to gastronomy, with no hurry, while they take in half the day's calories, plus wine.

I also have a profound admiration for France's regional loyalties. Bordeaux restaurants will only

‘Homecoming’ finds a home at Leeu Estates

The Bokkie Garden at Leeu Estates is very close to the heart of Analjit Singh, the founder of the Leeu Collection hospitality portfolio. The Afrikaans word ‘bokkie’ is the diminutive of ‘bok’ and means small buck. It is also a term of endearment used by South Africans, comparable to ‘beloved’ or ‘sweetheart’. The Bokkie Garden aims to create a meditative and serene space where people can reconnect with nature and one another.

Historically Franschhoek was home to many wild animals, including buck that freely roamed the valley and mountain slopes. ‘Homecoming’, by sculptor Otto du Plessis, which comprises Diana, the goddess of the forest and animals, walking with a small family of springbok, pays tribute to them.

“The five springbok make the work truly South African. The swallows accompanying her are a symbol of coming and going and having more than

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offer Bordeaux wines, Burgundy restaurants only Burgundy, and so on. The reason is quite simple.

After having 'experimented' for countless generations they have managed to find the best possible pairings, they have got it right.

The French lifestyle just seems so complete, so right. I can think of nothing better than a simple lunch on the terrace of a country bistro, with wine from, 'That vineyard across the river, next to the monastery', together with Odile of course.

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Harvest time hurrahs

It’s that time of the year when wagons labouring under loads of grapes roll along the valley roads to deliver their crush-ready berries to the cellars. We speed dialled one or two wine makers before going to print, to find out how the harvest was doing. By all accounts it’s going to be a good year. Here’s what they said: DP Burger, manager and wine maker at GlenWood: “As a rule GlenWood usually starts with grapes sold to some of the prominent bubbly producers in Franschhoek. The initial feeling was that the 2017 crop will be a bit lighter than 2016, but this is definitely not the case here. To date, with all Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc grapes picked, we look to be on par with the 2017 yields.

“Starting approximately 1 week later than 2016, the vintage did catch up quickly and harvesting dates, especially on the whites, are now 3 days ahead of 2016.

“Quality is right up there with beautiful flavours and firm acidities throughout. Suddenly the light at the end of the harvesting tunnel is definitely a train on its way! Merlot, Shiraz, Cabernet etc etc are all there, ready to be picked!

There will be an interesting couple of weeks ahead.”

Craig McNaught wine maker at Stonybrook Vineyards: "With the weather leading up to the 2017 vintage, the vines have been pretty stressed, which means the grapes are getting to optimal ripeness before the sugars are too high. This is a really good thing for our style of wine, as we like ripe flavours without having super high levels of alcohol. I've been really happy with the quality of the grapes that have come in so far, particularly the Chardonnay. I think 2017 has the potential to be a great year, provided we don't get massive heat in the next few weeks."

Clayton Reabow, wine maker at Môreson Family Winery: “Thus far in Franschhoek the 2017 vintage looks promising and most certainly a better vintage than 2016. Although a water deficit as a result of the ongoing drought continues, we have been very fortunate not to have experienced a damaging heat wave such as December 2015 prior to the 2016 vintage.

“Overall, vineyards that have received sufficient rainfall have recovered well and we are experiencing a 25% increase in crop. Ripening patterns are also

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stabilising and are in some cases 7 to 9 days later than last year.

“The fruit is very healthy and packed with flavour.

We should see as good a vintage as 2015 if patterns continue, especially on Chardonnay.”

Wikus Pretorius, wine maker at La Petite Ferme: “The 2017 harvest started off a couple of days earlier for La Petite Ferme. We picked some of our earlier Sauvignon Blanc at lower sugars to retain the freshness.

I was really surprised at Precision picking in the vineyards of La Petite Ferme how good the acids were even through the drought. It’s been relatively cool from last year. and this definitely helped. Berries seem to be smaller For now it seems that the ripening is going nice and and yields per ton are down, but the quality so far is slow which is great for the reds. If the weather holds excellent. I anticipate being about 10% up in volume I expect 2017 to be a good one.”

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Sustainable winemaking the way of the future

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South African winemakers and viticulturists are increasingly committed to a holistic winegrowing approach: nurturing the soil, respecting the ecosystem and working with nature to reduce effects on the Cape Floral Kingdom, the smallest yet richest plant kingdom on earth which boasts an astounding biodiversity of plant and animal life.

According to Wines of South Africa (WOSA), producers are extremely conservation conscious. In just over a decade, they have set aside nearly 144 000 hectares as conservation land, and committed to restoring it back to its original pristine nature.

Guidelines on sustainability were introduced as early as 1998 with over 95% of the growers and cellars sticking to the guidelines. Since 1974, Boschendal is a WWF Conservation Champion the Wine of Origin scheme erosion and help with the control of pests,” adds guarantees the information on the label that states Stephan. “Computerised soil probes measure soil where the grapes came from, the vintage year and the moisture and vine stress, allowing us to apply selected variety or varieties. irrigation at minimal intervals using harvested rain Stephan Joubert, viticulturist at Boschendal says water when possible.” he believes that the making of award-winning wine The clearing of more than 500 hectares of alien begins with sustainable farming in the vineyards. “Our vegetation at Boschendal has had a significant and winemaking team applies a sustainable approach to each positive impact on the birdlife, the free movement aspect of the winemaking process, from the attentive of wildlife and most noticeably on the flow of the use of cover crops to protect the vineyards to increased small rivers that are fed by the mountains. “Four big energy efficiency in the cellar using solar power. These streams now flow all year round; before we cleared measures ensure that the unique influence of natural the alien vegetation they were dry for most of the terroir can be tasted in each glass of premium wine.” summer months,’’ says Andre Lambrechts who has Boschendal was recently awarded the WWF been the driving force behind the successful clearing Conservation Champion status, presented to South operations at Boschendal. Minimal integrated pest African wine farms that are committed to addressing management also encourages natural control. environmental concerns and meet a set of rigorous “We are committed to preserving South Africa’s conservation criteria. These include demonstration of diversity of soils, climate and geography which exceptional environmental commitment and leadership, creates a treasure trove of winemaking possibilities. It and a comprehensive eco-friendly management plan with is enlightening to see that there is an increasing trend detailed targets to encourage continuous improvement. among South African wine producers to preserve the “In the vineyards we are currently experimenting Cape Floral Kingdom and minimise the further loss with various cover crops which capture moisture from of this threatened natural habitat,” he concluded. the air, serving not only to increase organic material in the soil but also to inhibit weed growth, manage www.boschendalwines.co.za

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Leeu Estates on Travel + Leisure’s It List 2017

Leeu Estates features on Travel + Leisure's prestigious ‘It List 2017’. Leeu Estates and the other award-winning properties will appear in the March issue of Travel + Leisure and can also be found on TravelandLeisure.com.

Every year Travel + Leisure editors and contributors vet the most exciting debuts around the globe to create this highly selective list, which encompasses openings and major renovations from the previous year. This year, only 44 properties were included on the It List and Leeu Estates is thrilled to be one of the chosen few.

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Gardening in March

Plant of the Month

This drought surely makes writing a gardening column a daunting task. Not much you can do if you are restricted on the hours of the day that you’re allowed to water your garden with a bucket! By now I am sure you would have done everything you can to reuse grey water, rain water, pool backwash water and

Celery (Apium graveolens)

Natie Ferreira

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Is it a herb or a vegetable? Whichever way you view it, celery has been grown for its nutritional and medicinal properties for at least 3000 years. All you need is a row of plants, or some in containers, to have a constant supply of crunchy green stems for salads, juicing or adding to stir-fries, slow cooked stews and soups.

The secret of good celery is to produce ‘soft’ stems, which are more edible, with a milder taste and crunchier, yet juicy texture. If celery stems are tough and thin it could be the variety but is more likely to be the result of

garden plants are still alive and you have managed to grow some food. To make things easier on myself I am going to go long on rain this month. Here’s me betting on some good rain early to mid-March. If that happens, here’s how I am going to spend my time in the garden. of the season. If you had access to borehole water this should be a good rose year. Deadhead regularly and carry on feeding the bushes with a balanced fertiliser. You will also need to keep an eye on possible red spider mite infestations as well as spray preventatively against black spot and mildew. Top up the mulch around the bushes; you can also apply some well matured manure or compost. Note which roses perform best during the drought and use this knowledge in further planting or helping a friend.

All beds can be prepared for winter planting. Work in plenty of organic material and add some bone meal or super phosphate if necessary. It is also useful to have your soil pH tested every few years. Add lime if the soil is too acidic. Lime is also a good source of calcium - gypsum can be added for this purpose in neutral soils. The time and effort spend on proper preparation now will pay off next season. regularly. Camelias and Azaleas can do with some high potash feeding to ensure that they hang on to their can be lifted and divided now. This is a great way to increase your planting area and share with friends.

You can also take cuttings of most evergreen shrubs and trees. Start to plant your winter bulbs – the Western Cape has a wealth of indigenous bulbous plants – explore some new varieties to experiment with this year.

Autumn is harvest time and that should keep you busy enough. Most gardeners I know have a glut of tomatoes, eggplant, green peppers and green beans at the moment. Share, preserve and eat as much as you can. But do not leave them hanging on the bushes for too long. Rotting fruit lying around the garden is a sure

recipe for insect infestations that will only be apparent next season. If you have some chickens roaming the garden it is always good to allow them into the garden caterpillars and will even clean up most of the fallen fruit. Fruit trees and vines should be given around half of their yearly fertiliser requirements now. For the home gardener that means a few spadesful of manure and 2 or 3 handful of organic 3:1:5. Keep an eye on the weather forecasts and apply this as soon as some rain is on the cards. sowing of peas and broad beans towards the end of the month. Sweet pea trenches must be prepared now, with the sowing done early in April. Keep up with your successive sowings of year-round veggies.

Think of some interesting cover crops for winter – fava beans, lupins, winter wheat, rye and mustard are all good options. Also, keep the bees in mind when planning your cover crops – they love clover, mustard, when there is not much else available.

My time in the kitchen is limited now, so I am always looking for easy ways to preserve or store vegetables. Blanching and freezing is a great aid.

So is brining and lactic fermentation. Tomatoes are simply chucked into the freezer to be processed into pasta sauce later. Pumpkin should be left on the vine for as long as possible to ensure proper ripening of the skin for storing. Hopefully we have a wet Easter weekend next month so that I can get down to canning some things.

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Celery grows best in morning sun, in moist, fertile soil that has been well composted. It can also be grown in containers in well-enriched potting soil.

Water regularly and mulch; the soil should not dry out, especially in containers. Fertilise twice a month (or weekly at half strength) with a nitrogen rich liquid feed.

Sow seed into trays and cover until plants germinate, within 10 to 20 days. When seedlings show three true

leaves, transplant into individual pots or directly into beds. This severs the tap root which encourages the development of a better root system. Set plants out a little deeper than they were in the seedling tray, but don’t cover the growing point.

Grow celery with other edible plants that have the same water, light and nutrition requirements, such as cabbage, beans, leeks, lettuce, spring onions, spinach and tomatoes.

The easiest way to eat celery is to harvest the outer stems when you feel they are thick enough to eat. Alternatively, harvest the whole plant when it is mature by forking it out of the ground. www.lifeisagarden.co.za

Rainfall Figures Measured at La Cotte/Nerina Street for periods indicated mm/year 2005

884

2007

1153

2008

1217

2009

978

2011

740 830

2012

1079

2013

1471

2014

1033

Dam Levels

2016

916

2006

2010

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Accumulative

Month

Accumulative

January

27

27

28

28

February

9

36

March

57

93

April

55

May

28

As at 20 February 2017 Steenbras Upper

57.4%

Steenbras Lower

40.4%

148

Wemmershoek

36.3%

176

Voëlvlei

35.8%

June

198

374

Theewaterskloof

29.5%

July

209

583

August

73

656

Berg River Dam

43.5%

September

56

712

October

14

726

34.5%

732 754

Total Storage This Time Last Year

2015

661

November

6

2016

754

December

22

Total Storage

41.2%

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Breast and prostate cancer frequency growing Financial implications potentially severe It is never pleasant to think about illness or even to face the fact that as you get older the possibility of contracting a critical illness like cancer increases.

The good news is that more people than ever before are surviving cancer - including breast and prostate cancer, the two most common forms of the disease in women and men.

According to statistics more and more people around the world suffer from various forms of cancer. Although recent figures are not available in South Africa, the country is no exception to the international rule - especially when breast and prostate cancer is concerned according to CanSA the country’s leading authority on the disease.

Locally, at least one woman in nine is at risk of contracting breast cancer. For men, the danger of being diagnosed with prostate cancer is one in eight. There is also no doubt that the occurrence of both forms of the disease is increasing, says Tetiwe Jawuna, Head of Standard Bank Insurance Brokers.

“Various sources within the insurance industry say that the reported frequency of these two forms of cancer is growing at about 12% a year. From a positive point of view these higher reporting figures could indicate that more men and women are undergoing regular screening and that more cases are therefore being diagnosed early. Obviously, the earlier a cancer, particularly breast cancer, is diagnosed, the better the chances of successful treatment.”

Although news of advances in cancer treatment is welcome, being told that you have cancer is still

devastating for patients and their families. Besides the health implications and cost of treatment that they may have to face, sufferers also have to worry about the future, employment and their ability to stay financially afloat.

The alternative to doing nothing, says Ms Jawuna, is to take a practical approach towards the likelihood of contracting the disease and preparing for the possibility of cancer by taking out appropriate insurance and using a policy to counter the financial burdens that could occur.

It is not enough to rely on medical aid, believing that these benefits will absorb most of the financial costs caused through treatment.

The reason, says Ms Jawuna, is that unlike medical aid, which pays for medical expenses according to an agreed schedule but may not cover all day-today expenses or long-term expenses, insurance can help replace lost income and help the family in time of need. It can also be easily obtained as many institutions, like Standard Bank Insurance Brokers, offer the option of defined policies - which clearly set out premiums and fixed benefits over the phone.

But, like all contracts requiring a commitment, people buying policies should make sure that they read the conditions carefully. Benefits and the way that they are paid can vary. It is therefore advisable to think about what is required carefully before signing up for coverage.

“The Standard Bank Cancer Care plan covers the policyholder and spouse for cancer and is designed to assist by making a lump sum payment when

cancer is first diagnosed. This provides immediate financial relief to the patient. By removing this aspect of financial stress both the patient and his or her family can then to concentrate on treatment going forward.”

“A further lump sum is contributed to the costs of surgery required to remove the cancer or undertake reconstructive surgery - an option that many women afflicted with breast cancer are exploring.“ “Not being able to work while recovery takes place is a real worry for many people. To remove the anxiety associated with this stress, a monthly ‘recovery benefit’ is payable for six months after the completion of treatment. Payments are made directly to the insurance policyholder who then can decide where the money is spent.”

As cancer can strike the young as well as the more advanced in age, cover through the Cancer Care plan is available to people aged between 18 and 65 and cover ends when the insured reaches the age of 75.

“The flexibility of this plan lies in its ability to cover oneself with a single monthly payment. To families this means not having to feel vulnerable and worry about financial stability when money is most needed. Treatment can be undertaken in the knowledge that cash is available to help the family through a stressful period. Control, always important in difficult times, remains with the policy holder,” concludes Ms Jawuna. www.insurance.standardbank.co.za

Fires worsen allergies

Smoke and debris from the wave of fires across the Western Cape during the past few weeks could see a spike in nasal allergies, especially among those living in areas where blazes are the most prevalent.

Asthma and allergy sufferers are being warned to stay indoors and limit exercise to minimise the risk of their allergies being triggered by the high levels of particulate matter in the smoky air.

Nicole Jennings, spokesperson for Pharma Dynamics – a leading provider of allergy medication – says fires can intensify allergy symptoms by up to 11%.

“Even if you can’t see or smell the smoke from the fires, the body may still respond to particulate matter, which is made up of miniscule particles or droplets of pollution in the air that are inhaled.”

Jennings says fires also put more allergens in the air.

“Any exposure to any kind of smoke to those with underlying allergy conditions can cause problems and make them more susceptible to respiratory infections.”

“Smoke is an environmental allergen that contains particles which can irritate the lungs, throat and eyes, triggering symptoms like: difficulty breathing normally; wheezing; shortness of breath; runny nose; itching, nasal congestion and obstruction of breathing; coughing (with or without mucous) “The most commonly affected people are allergy sufferers, the very young – whose lungs are still developing – and the elderly – whose lungs may be compromised.”

Fortunately, says Jennings, there are many steps allergy sufferers can take to minimise the effects of the fires on their health. She recommends: • Taking your medications as prescribed, including antihistamines (ask your pharmacist for an antihistamine that doesn’t make you drowsy) • Staying indoors with your windows closed as much as possible (commercial paper masks do not offer significant protection) • Limiting exercise outdoors – school children who suffer from allergies may have to cut back on sports training when fires are ablaze and the high winds carry particulate matter far and wide • Do not smoke, light candles or vacuum as these activities will increase the particular matter count in your home • Wash your hair, clothes and pets after being outside for extended periods www.allergyexpert.co.za

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Kissing cousins

Mitsubishi’s Triton and the Fiat Fullback are not just the same but different, they’re also surprisingly well matched.

Indulge me for a moment in a game of trumps.

Your card is the brand new Mitsubishi Triton 2.4DID DC 4x4, mine is the Fiat Fullback2.5Di-D DC 4x4 LX. They look the same bar different badges and grilles, mouths and wheels, but that they share much, is pretty obvious. Same inside – these bakkies are cast from the same block, but hang on a second…

Taking a closer look, they’re rather different after all. Your card confirms Triton has a 2442cc inlinefour turbodiesel – mine says the Fiat is 35cc bigger.

How so? The 133kW Triton mill is the very latest from Mitsubishi – slightly more powerful than the Fiat’s 131kW and at 430Nm, a bit torquier than the Fiat’s 400, but the Triton has fatter, broader twist and power curves.

On the road Triton feels a touch creamier and brisker and our test equipment bore that out – it takes almost a second out of the Fiat to 100km/h. My Fiat however better matches your Mitsubishi cruising on the open road, but you seem to be ahead in our game.

Both share a five-speed gearbox; Triton has electronically selected four-wheel drive versus stick

Franschhoek Tatler shift in the Fiat. Moving on to efficiency, Triton is slightly more frugal – not much, but it’s still a win in trumps.

Looking a bit deeper, you’ll find several small differences, some cosmetic, some perhaps more significant – like the Triton’s keyless entry and ignition, but beyond that it’s a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other. If there’s any difference at all. Both carry similar payloads, their load box, cab and interior dimensions are identical and most competitive in an overall double-cab bakkie sense.

Both however lack real towing ability versus some rivals and then Mitsubishi has over 40 dealers in its body versus Fiat’s 20-odd, but they have similar warranties and service plans and at the end of the day, a good dealer is a good dealer whether he’s five, fifty or even 500km away.

So your Triton has a consistent advantage over my Fullback – the Mitsubishi is 2% more powerful and 8% torquier; pulls to 100km/h 12% quicker and reaches the quarter-mile 5% sooner at an 8% higher terminal speed. It accelerates from 80-120km/h 8% better; uses 5% less fuel, emits 5% more CO2 and travels 5% further on a tankful and on average beats the Fiat by a whole seven percent.

But the Fiat in my trump card costs R468K, while your Mitsubishi will set you back R539K - 15% more expensive for a bakkie we have just determined to be 7% better overall.

So even if the new Mitsubishi Triton may trump it on a number of levels, the Fiat Fullback packs a most powerful sting in the tail when it comes down to pricing.

All of which leaves me wondering who won this game of trumps – you tell me!

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Hospice News

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Maggi Marjoram We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ this month to all our supporters, vets, sponsors, volunteers and benefactors.

Members who joined our SPCA team and Committee on 7 February were provided an insightful presentation

by Collette Mang, Chairlady of Swartland SPCA for the past 8 years. It was interesting to learn about the history of the SPCA, to discuss the issues Swartland, Franschhoek and indeed all SPCAs share with regards to the challenges of over-population of domestic animals and to pick up on some of their initiatives, particularly with regards to sterilisation. Delicious wine was provided by Four Paws and Painted Wolf Winery. A sponsored, beautifully-prepared vegan buffet from Lisa at The Village Tart was enjoyed by all.

Sterilisation of local animals is a key priority for Franschhoek SPCA. With the assistance of Dr Ilse (Stellenbosch Animal Hospital) and Dr Adi (from DVC) we each month conduct at least one sterilisation programme (generally two) in our determination to reduce the suffering of future generations of local cats and dogs. It costs R375 to sterilise a cat or dog and makes such a difference to the life of the animal and its owner. Please support this worthwhile cause by donating to: Bank Details: Nedbank Franschhoek Name of Account: Franschhoek SPCA

A dog bed makes a world difference to pooches of all sizes.

Account Number: 1670019365 Branch Code: 198765 Deposit Reference: Your Name (e.g. B.A. Smith Sterilisation Lara, Blackie and Shyloe: SPCA dogs are all really enjoying the new comfy dog bed generously donated

by Sue Williams. Thanks to Aliki Starke for the cat litter donation and to Hillary and Malcolm Forbes who kindly supplied dog beds too. We appreciate Angela Frazer stepping in to give Jeannie Comrie a hugely deserved break from the vital task of emptying, counting and banking the SPCA tin money for over 4 years – thanks Jeannie! Welcome to vet Dr Suzanne Richcreek who joins the committee team from March.

Please watch this space for details of our May golf day coming up!

If you are interested in helping Franschhoek SPCA in any way at all, please call a committee member you know or check out our website at www.franschhoekspca.co.za.

We appreciate your support!

Our Hospice Hop was once again a huge success thanks to the music of the “Uncorked” band and vocals by Doug Gurr. The heat of the summer evening did not deter the one hundred party goers from dancing the night away. With plenty of liquid refreshment and delicious snacks for energy the revellers enjoyed a fun-filled evening.

Our thanks go to the members of the “Uncorked” as well as our sponsors: Porcupine Ridge, Three Streams – Jess and Dale, Bread and Wine, Lust Bistro and Bakery, Fairview, Jeanne Farley, Dalewood Fromage, Paintsmiths, The Good Food Company with special thanks to Joey for all her assistance in the kitchen.

To the NG Kerk for the venue and your staff, Shahieda and Babalo, a huge thank you.

To the following volunteers and staff, Adel our barman, Marelize, Rachel, Evelyn, Liz Atkins and Ann again, thank you.

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P.L.A.Y. – A toy story Chris Boonzaaier and Malvin Kulsen

Children and volunteers at the launch of the P.L.A.Y. project

Our P.L.A.Y. (Practical Learning Aiding Youth) project is a toy lending library, fully staffed by dedicated and passionate volunteers, situated at SCORE community sports centre in Groendal. P.L.A.Y. runs weekly workshops for local children (many from, but not limited to, Langrug informal settlement).

At the Friday afternoon P.L.A.Y. groups, there is a story, a craft or painting activity and an introduction to some age-and-developmentally-appropriate toys.

Each child takes home a toy to help him or her have fun, grow, learn and take responsibility. Our toy lending library and playgroup is access for these children (many without access to water or electricity) to a world of fantasy and joy with the intention of helping the children with their physical, social and cognitive growth.

While our goals and the management details of P.L.A.Y. are serious; our outcomes will definitely be fun – as play with toys should be. Our goal is for the children to learn, without noticing they are collecting

skills to help them each day as they grow into citizens in our community.

This entire initiative of volunteers, including teachers to complement the school curriculum, is local. We are utilizing local skills, local schools, a local community centre, local facilitators and many volunteer local children and families to complete this visionary, but necessary function.

We are appealing to local businesses and members of our community to join us in this opportunity. As we are based in Franschhoek and the Boland region, ideally we would like support to come from local area businesses. Our request, apart from financial aid, is in particular for new or good quality pre-owned toys – especially educational toys. With your generosity, we can grow and consequently serve, more children.

It does take a village to raise a child!

Should you have a donation, skill or service that you can offer P.L.A.Y. please email: info.playfh@yahoo.com Carol Lupini

Jeremy Davids

Franschhoek Youth Forum presents Jeff Siqwayi

“Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth and your heart for love.”

These were the words from a funder called Carol who helped Jeff run a soup kitchen on his birthday.

He was deeply inspired by her words and support.

Jeff Siqwayi represents The New Journey Arts Group on the Franschhoek Youth Forum.

Born in Franschhoek, Jeff matriculated in 2012 from Groendal Secondary. In 2009 while in Grade 9, Jeff was elected as a class representative at the school. It was really during that time that he was exposed to leadership. Jeff became the voice of the Xhosa-speaking learners at school and was the bridge between them and the teachers.

Many fellow learners would consult Jeff about their needs at school and would also then inform him about the many problems they have outside school.

This made him socially conscious. He became aware of the deep poverty many of his peers lived in and the many social problems they faced.

This all lead to Jeff becoming involved in community development during his school career and after school.

He started to work with Ron Whytock in 2011, when he assisted FRANCO with their sports programme.

He also took up a year-long contract as a field worker for Love Life in 2014 where he got the opportunity to do life skills training in the local schools.

As Jeff became more involved in the community he also became more aware of his surroundings and noticed that Franschhoek offers huge opportunity for people who want to enter the agricultural sector.

Jeff used to look after cattle as a child and grew up in a family with a culture of producing their own vegetables. This inspired him to enrol for a Diploma in Agricultural Management at the Boland College in 2015. He is currently busy with his final year whereafter he needs to do in service training.

Chris Boonzaaier, Principal of Wemmershoek Primary School, and Malvin Kulsen, Principal of Groendal Secondary School, received a Certificate in School Business Management from the UCT Graduate School of Business on 31 January.

Their achievement adds great value to education in the Franschhoek Valley. The two principals believe the skills they have acquired can be incorporated into the practice of their schools. They have been sharing their newly acquired skills with the other principals in the valley. Chris and Malvin are members of the Bhabhathane Programme Board. The Bhabhathane Programme creates the enabling environment where the seven principals of the schools in the valley and the chairperson of the Franschhoek Early Childhood Development Forum interact with each other. The principals meet monthly to discuss the transformation of education in the valley and how to continually improve their results.

This certificate is a significant achievement in the lives of the two principals. Their hard work paid off after a year of studying while also running their schools. Chris said: “This certificate course gave me a new outlook on certain things, especially how to work with people and time management.” Malvin added that it meant a lot for his personal growth

and the opportunity to engage with new ideas and concepts.

Both principals believe in life-long learning. Malvin said: "This certificate showed me once again how important life-long learning is for us in the education arena. We should stay in touch with new ideas and new developments. The school is not on an island, the school is part of society and if we don't know what's going on we will isolate ourselves." Chris added: “If you don't equip yourself with knowledge and keep up with current practices you will fall behind and it is no use you try to change people and their circumstances if you are not equipped to do it".

The principals are motivated by the change they are witnessing through education, the passion they have for their learners as well as wanting to create better opportunities for all the children in the valley.

The learners at their schools come from difficult circumstances, but the principals believe education can make them rise above their circumstances.

A final word from Chris to the youth of Franschhoek: “Don’t let your circumstances keep you down. If you dream, dream big. Nothing is impossible so take this opportunity (of education) and make the best out of it.”

Lyle Simons

Bridge House College scholarships for grade 8 in 2018

Bridge House College is offering a number of scholarships for pupils outside of its Prep School, for Grade 8 in 2018, for academic, cultural and sporting excellence.

Students who are presently in Grade 7, are invited to write the scholarship tests which will take place on Saturday 11 March 2017 at Bridge House. Please note

that, to be considered for a Scholarship or a Bursary in Grade 8, a pupil must have attempted the scholarship tests. No special preparation is needed for the tests.

For details about the tests and to request an application form, please contact Gill Malcolm gilmal@bridgehouse.org.za or 021 874 8100.

Jeff is also part of The New Journey Arts Group in Groendal.

This group aims to create performing platforms for the many talented black artists in the Langrug and Mooiwater areas. He wants to provide them with a place where they can express themselves and tell their stories. This is very important for them as so many of these young people never get the opportunity to be listened to and therefore get involved in drugs and crime and drop out of school.

Jeff joined the Franschhoek Youth Forum as it gives him the opportunity to be around like-minded youth leaders with a common goal. He can share his views and ideas in a safe space and learn from the other members.

This helped to build Jeff ’s self-confidence as he realized that he is not alone and what he is doing is special. Jeff ’s dream for the Youth Forum is that it becomes a group that offers hope to young people. It should be a group that offers young people an example that young leaders from different backgrounds can work together.

Developing Supporting Youth Leaders in the Valley Contact Jeremy Davids (Director) 082 472 5156 jdavids@thecharter.org.za

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Letters

info@franschhoektatler.co.za Honesty pays Dear Editor My husband and I spent a few days in Franschhoek during January. The last day of our visit started badly.

We had planned a meander around the village ending with a special lunch. Our accommodation was out of town on a wretched road and the day began with a flat tyre. We couldn’t undo the wheel nuts until a kind man from Eco Systems lent us a heavy duty pipe which my husband had to jump on to loosen the nuts! Hot, a bit bothered, we cleaned up and had the wheel repaired for the princely sum of R35! We continued with plan A but the heat radiating from the pavement got us into an air- conditioned tavern for a beer! My husband discovered that his wallet was missing. We re-traced our steps to no avail and spent the next while cancelling cards at the bank. We abandoned plan A and returned to the cottage. It was with heavy hearts we left the next day. Halfway up the pass we received a call from FNB to say they had our wallet. It had been handed in at Taki’s where we had had our beer! We returned, collected the wallet and went to Taki’s and thanked the owner and gave the waitron responsible a reward. We just want to say thank you for the honesty and kindness that we encountered in your lovely village.

Kind regards, Mike and Margie Smith, Stilbaai

A whine about woofing An increasing scourge in our village is the number of canines hanging around the gardens yapping, barking and often snarling at passers-by, unchecked by their owners – or if the owners are away, sometimes for hours.

These agitated canines are the living embodiment of a deep-rooted South African faith in dogs as guardians of the homestead: a pooch patrol in every yard.

Security experts say this is a fallacy because dogs are vulnerable to poisoned meat, teargas and squirts of Spray ’n Cook. A good yapper is far more effective at giving an alarm inside the house than out.

Try telling this to doting owners who believe that Fido or Fifi are not only a defence against intruders, but more adorable and sensitive than merely human neighbours. For some reason that escapes me, devoted dog-fanciers often have no sense of proportion when defending their canine chums.

Before I moved to Franschhoek, my polite request for relief from the incessant barking of a neighbour’s disagreeable sausages on legs was answered by a typed, single-space, two-page diatribe – a piece of choice Africana.

Here are some extracts: ‘As you know, we have two dachshunds who, by the nature of their breeding, have barks out of proportion to their size, are extremely brave, fiercely protective and have particularly acute hearing.’

What about my sensitive hearing, let alone mental suffering? Nada. The letter continued: ‘I have been monitoring the causes of our dogs’ barking … They bark at other dogs in the street…

They bark at all the unsolicited visitors who come to our gate.’

Clearly I am too stupid a human to have any idea why dogs bark. The offended owner went on: ‘They bark at cats. We don’t own a cat, but several of our neighbours do and there are a couple of cats that frequent our garden and torment our dogs by sitting on the roof or on the branch of a tree just out of their reach.’

I loved this bit. Picture those cats just sitting there, tormenting away.

The next extract encapsulates the South African myth: ‘Our dogs are our security… That is one of the reasons we have dogs – for company, for protection and to alert us to who is in the street and who may be trying to enter our property illegally.’

I hate to disabuse anyone with such faith in their plucky little tykes, but constant yapping at the gate or through the night is like crying wolf: how do you tell potential intruders from innocent passers-by?

Towards the end of the letter came the nub: as a rank newcomer to a suburb teeming with valiant dogs, how dare I challenge their long-established and virtuously tolerant owners?

‘In over 30 years of living in [our street] we have until now always lived in harmony with our neighbours with never a complaint between us. In the spirit of good-neighbourliness we tolerate the annoyances that inevitably arise from suburban living… With this history, we find your attitude most regrettable.’

And all I asked was that she keep her little sausages away from her front gate so they wouldn’t bark all day.

Call me a monumental egotist, but I’ve always believed that humans – for all our faults and failings – are on a higher evolutionary rung than animals.

My extended family has had long relationships with a number of delightful and lovable pooches, but we’ve never confused them with our children.

The fact is that properly exercised and cared-for dogs don’t need to while away their time by incessant barking.

And nobody has the right to inflict their pets’

Franschhoek Tatler irritating habits on their neighbours. Faeces on our paths and pavements and repeated woofing and whining are an outrage. During the week when people are out at work, at weekends and over long holidays, bored dogs hang around barking night and day, often for hours on end. Some specialise in forlorn whimpering or bay their loneliness at the moon.

The cacophony is unheard by their absent owners, of course, who are apt if you complain to say, ‘But our dogs never do that!’

Wanna bet? Ask your neighbours.

Jericho

High fences Dear Editor, It is so sad when the saying “high fences make good neighbours” comes true.

The guesthouse next to our private residence was recently (+- past 6 months) sold to a new owner.

Normally this would not have much of an impact on us as the previous owners were indeed friendly, open and approachable.

The new manageress, however, was a particular nasty kettle of fish. (I have never met the owners, nor am I able to get their contact no.) First, they requested permission to remove a branch that was apparently over their roof. As understanding neighbours we agreed and told them it would be acceptable for them to remove the branch. When I arrived home they were in the process of removing a branch that was definitely not over their roof and on our side of the property boundary!! I was so distraught I objected verbally and loudly too – but alas the deed was done. The manageress’s reaction – phone your lawyer! This has set the scene for the relationship to follow.

The guesthouse has an air conditioner that hangs over our property boundary. After inspection by municipal officials this unit has been classified as “illegal” by the municipality. The municipality sent the guesthouse a notice to remove the unit which they have completely ignored. A second notice has now been prepared. Why is this necessary?

This unit cause water to drip constantly onto our carport roof. It is also not possible to get to the unit without walking on our carport roof. They have been servicing the illegal air conditioner repeatedly without even as much as a phone call to request our permission to access our property and also to walk on our carport. Any damage will of course require legal intervention – again what does this say for a neighbourly relationship? The municipality is following due process and legal action will be the next step – as we are sure the manageress has no intention of adhering to the notices served. When we asked them when they were going to remove the unit the manageress told us to phone the municipality!

The guesthouse also has a second storey room which they rent out. I have not been able to see any approved building plans for said room (given that it was purchased with the room). The problem is that this room and its occupants, as well as cleaners, look directly into my property to where we have an entertainment room. I also use this area for my washing and do not feel comfortable with my undies in full view of guests. The invasion of my privacy is unbearable. Again this has been reported to the municipality and we are waiting for the necessary action / notices to be served.

The guesthouse also has more rooms than the approved number (which is linked to parking provisions). They now have their guests parking in the road right to the intersection, which is very dangerous to drivers who cannot see oncoming cars.

How is it that residents have to put up with such absolute disrespect from a neighbour – business or not? There should be stronger action possible to address such dreadful neighbours who clearly have no sense of neighbourly care nor consideration.

Maybe one should inform guests of such an establishment that they are supporting a business that ignores laws and by-laws and do not have any respect for neighbours…. A little flyer with the relevant information might just encourage the establishment to do the right thing…

Regards

Editor’s Letter

Siegfried Schäfer

Dear Readers I have, for some time now, been telling everybody within earshot that I can’t believe that we are not in a collective state of panic regarding the water crisis – and it truly is a crisis.

On 14 February Die Burger ran a headline that put it in stark terms. ‘Cape has 110 days’ water left’, it said. Ever since water restrictions were imposed in Cape Town the 800 million litres per day usage target has been missed. A new target of 700 million litres per day has now been set. If this is achieved the available water supply will last 135 days.

You may not know it, but 60% of Stellenbosch Municipality’s water supply comes from the City of Cape Town. The figure for Franschhoek on its own is even higher as by far the greater share of Franschhoek’s water comes from the City of Cape Town’s Wemmershoek Dam. In mid-February the average level of Cape Town’s dams was 36.2%. Taking into account that the last 10% cannot be used because of silting, effectively the dams were at 26.2%.

It would take heavy and early rain to turn this dire picture around. Given the current drought it is said that it would require rainfall of at least 100 mm to have any significant impact on dam levels, as most of it will simply be absorbed by the parched soil and there, consequently, will be very little run-off.

In 2016 we had to wait until June for the monthly rainfall to crack the 100mm level. Ditto in 2015. In 2014 it happened in May, but that was the only time in the past 20 years that so much rain had fallen in May. 110 days from mid-February takes us to the end of May. If the past 20 years are anything to go by the chances are that it will not have rained sufficiently by then to replenish our dams. Are you panicked yet? I believe you should be…

FEDHASA, the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa, has shared some water-saving initiatives by its members that can

15 be put to equally good use in private homes as in hospitality establishments.

Tsogo Sun Hotels, for example, place notices in bathrooms that educate guests on water restrictions as well as their water-saving linen and towel replacement schedule. Under this programme bed linen is only changed on every third day of each guest’s stay – unless a change is requested. Similarly towels that are hung up are not changed each day, unless upon request. In addition, Tsogo Sun Hotels have installed ‘restricted flow’ shower heads.

The Townhouse Hotel has successfully motivated its guests to participate in their emergency grey water system. The hotel educates guests about the current drought conditions and inspires responsible tourism by providing buckets in bathrooms. Guests are encouraged to take short showers with buckets placed in the stalls. These are routinely collected by staff and used to water the hotel gardens and trees.

On a more positive note… Two weeks ago I got home after dark. I could see that the furrows at the side of the street were wet. As it hadn’t rained I assumed a water pipe had burst in the vicinity. It turned out to be at the end of my street. Much to my delight a municipal team had already set to work under generator-powered lighting to fix the pipe. When I got up the next morning all was back to normal.

In an ingenious and typically South African twist I later learned that my neighbours made full use of the water running down the furrow in front of their house by grabbing buckets and using the ‘free’ water to water their garden. Definitely a case of making the best of a bad situation!

In conclusion, and on a very different note, it gives me great pleasure to officially welcome a former employer of mine to the Franschhoek Tatler team. Penny Gordon will be contributing occasional reports on matters of village interest.

Penny has worked on several of the country’s major newspapers and was an investigative journalist for the Rand Daily Mail for several years. She left to launch her own communications company and since ‘retiring’ to Franschhoek has owned several hospitality-orientated businesses. The Tatler is honoured to have such a formidable and experienced journalist join the team.

Until next month Deadlines - April 2017 Issue: Ad Bookings: 15 March 2017 Artwork: 15 March 2017 Editorial: 15 March 2017

Owl welcome

Elsa Post 26 Van Wijk Street

A ticket too far On 13 January around 19h00 a couple from the UK were travelling down Reservoir Street to the junction with Dirkie Uys Street. They had a 365 degree view of the junction, they slowed significantly but did not come to a complete halt. The driver in question was a UK police inspector so certainly was aware of safety standards.

They were halted by a law enforcement officer. He told them that they had committed an offence and it was a bookable fine of R1500. They were asked what they wanted to do! A rather ambiguous remark which could be interpreted in different ways. In the interest of tourist PR it would have been better if they were warned of their misdemeanour.

When one sees the flouting of so many safety standards around the village – worn tyres, smoky exhausts, overcrowding and standing in bakkies etc. why is it the easy prey that are approached?

Up to you

Tatler reader Joanna Ulph sent in the accompanying photos. She says: “We have a holiday home in beautiful Franschhoek and following a few days in the Kruger Park we returned home to find these two beauties guarding our front door! I believe they are mother and young, as we saw two large adult Cape Eagle Owls in Ficus trees outside our home last February. They seem very content and safe. We feel so very lucky!”

Probus Club Julie Mitchell Our next meeting is our AGM at Franschhoek Cellars, on Monday 6 March.

WHAT IS PROBUS ALL ABOUT? In South Africa there is a rapidly growing number of Probus Clubs, which offer retirees the facility to manage successfully the transition from high pressure executive, professional and other vocational activity to a calmer way of life.

This is achieved through these features of membership: • Opportunities to extend compatible social contacts and

maintain an interest in the topical issues of the day.

• Nurturing positive attitudes to ageing through group recreation and the sharing of information on issues of concern to Senior Citizens.

• Support in grief and illness.

• Speakers at monthly luncheons who provide a fresh mental challenge and stimulation.

• We are a-political and non-sectarian • We are mindful of the fact that costs are an important consideration. Membership fees, therefore, are kept to a minimum; while monthly luncheon costs vary.

• Probus is not a Service/Fund Raising organization.

If you are interested in joining or just wish to come along to any meeting please contact me on 083 303 3335.

Franschhoek Tatler

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PSG Winelands Market View

Eight digital banking scams to look out for

Dawid Botha

Continental AG

Continental AG was founded in 1871 and forms part of the German Dax Index with a market capitalisation of €38.8 billion. Through the years it has developed from a supplier of rubber products and tyres to one of the top five suppliers to the global automotive industry. Continental is known as a large tyre supplier in the world, with brands like Michelin, Bridgestone and Goodyear. This division provides 26% of the company’s total revenue (€39 billion). The balance of the revenue comes from the chassis and safety division (21%), the drivetrain division (18%), the interior division (21%) and the ContiTech division (14%).

Approximately 72% of Continental’s revenue is generated from original equipment manufacturers of passenger and commercial vehicles. Geographically Continental earns 49% of its revenue in Europe (21% in Germany), 26% in North America and 20% in Asia. Continental is well diversified and has strongly established supply relationships in the automotive industry. Continental’s core business is in a healthy environment, with 88.1 million cars and light motor vehicles that were sold globally in 2016 (as per Macquarie Research) and volumes increased by 3.7% per annum over the last ten years.

There are two specific trends in the automotive industry that Continental is well placed to benefit from. Firstly, with more than 1.2 million deaths and more than 20 million road injuries globally, there is an increased drive towards greater road and vehicle safety. Continental develops driver assistance systems that help people drive safer. The most advanced application in this area is fully autonomous driving systems. Continental is one of the three largest

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suppliers in this space. Most car manufacturers do not develop these systems and rather buy them from suppliers.

Continental is also well positioned to benefit from stricter targets relating to CO2 emissions and fuel efficiency and the subsequent shift to electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. It is estimated that Continental will provide three times more parts for the drivetrains of fully electrical vehicles compared to traditional internal combustion engines. This division is not profitable yet, but with China, being one of the drivers of this trend, this is expected to change dramatically in the next couple of years.

Continental is reasonably priced from an intrinsic point of view. Continental shares are trading at a price to earnings ratio of 14.6 and a price to cash flow ratio of 8.3. Continental shares provide a dividend yield of 1.9% and shareholders earned a return on equity of 21% in 2016. The shares are also currently not in a price bubble.

Continental has good growth expectations in its traditional business supported by an economic upswing that is expected globally. It is well positioned to take advantage of technological developments and trends. Continental is financially sound and with a reasonable market price it offers a good investment opportunity for long term investors.

Continental AG share price for the past 5 years

As access to banking services through digital channels continues to grow, so does the need to protect consumers against the prevalence of online banking fraud.

Yolande Steyn, Head of Innovation at FNB says “Security is as an integral part of a seamless online banking experience. Therefore, due to the prevalence of banking scams, we urge consumers to be more vigilant and familiarise themselves with the different types of online banking fraud.”

“FNB proactively closes down fraudulent phishing websites used by criminals to try and access customers’ confidential banking details,” adds Steyn, as she unpacks the latest online banking scams that consumers should be wary of.

Flight purchase debit scams - you will receive an SMS informing you of a flight purchase debited to your account. Fraudsters will request you to select a link in the SMS to revise the transaction.

When you select the link, you will be redirected to a fake FNB website. You are then redirected to an 'Update and Confirm Details' screen requesting more information to be verified. The fraudsters will now be in a position to access your banking profile.

Social media scams - beware of fraudsters pretending to represent FNB or RB Jacobs on social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or any other social media platform. We will never ask for your credit or cheque card, account number, online banking login details or password or One Time PIN (OTP) on social media platforms.

FNB’s official social media accounts are @FNBSA and @RBJacobs on Twitter and FNBSA on Facebook.

The official accounts also display a blue tick indicating that they are verified.

Change of banking details scam - you will receive an email that pretends to come from one of your suppliers asking you to update your banking details.

Beware of this even if it is on the supplier's letterhead.

Contact your supplier on the number that you already have for them and not the one on the fraudulent letter. Speak to someone you know at the supplier to confirm the change in banking details.

Copy of payment notification scam - you will receive an email requesting you to open a copy of your payment notification. Fraudsters will prompt you to login via the email attachment.

When you open the attachment in the email, you will be redirected to a fake FNB website. In an attempt to steal your banking details you will be requested to login. As soon as you enter your login details on

the screen, you are redirected to a successfully logged out screen. The fraudsters will now be in a position to access your banking profile.

Yolande Steyn, FNB: 419 scams - this is Head of Innovation communication by e-mail to a recipient making an offer that would result in a large pay off for the recipient. The details vary and large amounts of money are usually involved.

Invariably, the victims’ banking details as well as sums of money are said to be required in advance in order to facilitate the payment of the funds. Essentially, the promised money transfer never happens and in addition the fraudsters may use the victims’ banking details to withdraw money for themselves.

Vishing and smishing scams – this is phishing, but instead of being lured to a fake website via email, you receive a call or SMS, where the individual pretends to be from the bank or other companies and gets you to disclose personal information such as your ID number, address, account number, username, login details, password and PIN. This information can also be used to gain unauthorised access to your banking account online.

OTP Email Fraud – using various methods of phishing, criminals also try to get access to your email accounts, commonly Gmail, Yahoo, etc. They produce fake login sites that look like Gmail or Yahoo.

Once they have your email username and password, they have access to your emails (statements, personal communications) and this helps a criminal to build a social profile of you. Criminals can also intercept One Time Pins (OTPs) that are sent to emails once they have access to your email account.

OTP SIM Swop Fraud – once criminals are in possession of your username and password, they can easily access your accounts on Online Banking. They can also contact your service provider to do a Sim Swop which basically means that they hijack your sim and have access to your SMS. This also gives them access to your One Time Pin (OTP).

“Remember, the bank will never ask for your username, password or PIN in an email, SMS, social media or phone call. Never select a link to our website that was sent via email. Always type in FNB's web address,” concludes Steyn. www.fnb.co.za

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Business Leadership Tony Frost

Make time to think

Years ago I had the pleasure and privilege of spending some time chatting with Professor Charles Handy – one of the most prominent management and organisational philosophers of all time.

Prof Handy is famous for many important ideas that now permeate the organisational dialogue as though it has always been there.

One that resonates particularly strongly at this time is his idea that “a company ought to be a community, a community that you belong to, like a village. Nobody owns a village. You are a member and you have rights.” This is a powerful idea and one buried deeply in the DNA of all of us. People have lived in villages for millennia while companies have only been around for a couple of centuries. Some villages have grown into cities while others have disappeared off the landscape. There are, of course, many contributing factors but the concept of the village and the villagers taking care of their own is a powerful one – one that many organisations today would do well to pay attention to.

One of the biggest dangers for people at all levels, but particularly those at executive level is the trap of busy-ness. The intense focus on ‘working’ hours; the virtual requirement to work beyond normal working hours; the expectation that you should take calls and respond to emails at any hour of the day or week is just that – it is a trap. Expecting people to work harder and harder is self-defeating. It forces people to abandon rational behaviour and put themselves, their colleagues and the company at risk. Exhausted, over-worked, burnt-out, busy people begin to make mistakes and take short cuts and these are all the start of the steady downhill spiral.

Of course there are times when long hours and intense focus and concentration are required, but these should not be the norm. If it is the norm then the organisation is increasingly deprived of its most powerful resource – the thinking power, innovativeness and resourcefulness of its people.

Tired people cannot perform at the top of their game for a sustained period. Just watch any sportsman or -woman and you will see this to be true.

Tim Cohen wrote an article in Financial Mail of 9 March 2016. He was commenting on the demise

Franschhoek Tatler of Anglo American and quoted an Anglo insider as saying: “It’s so odd. Trahar worked hugely hard, but didn’t take enough time to just think. Nicky Oppenheimer really didn’t expend much effort, but did find time to think. In the end, the difference was immense”.

In conversations that I had with Handy he made similar comments indicating that executives in whatever business who consciously did not put time aside for thinking inevitably would be left behind and their businesses, or parts of a business, would suffer.

As a consultant I see this often. There is such a focus on delivery now that sight is lost of the future coming at us like tsunamis and at an ever-increasing speed. Often it would be much wiser to stop the train, consider the future and context and to make longterm decisions that have at least the possibility of avoiding the tsunami, and maybe even the chance of harnessing its energy. Just battening down the hatches and waiting for it to pass could well leave you worse off than before its arrival!

It is all very well to just think you may well say.

Random thinking is also not going to be very productive. If you add to this mix that very few of us have actually been taught to think and to use tried and tested thinking skills it becomes a little like shutting the individual in a light-tight room and switching off the lights. You can see nothing and do not have any idea of which direction to walk in.

The starting point of thinking time is to focus on an issue and to imagine the perfect end result of whatever that issue is. Once you have that perfect and ideal picture in your mind work back from there, imagining again all the steps that you would have to take to get back from the future to where you are now.

Do that a few times and it is highly likely that new doors of opportunity will begin to open.

So thinking time is not just random thoughts floating in your head, it is the intense use of dedicated time to think about the future and how to get there.

You can do this with your team. It makes for a wonderful team-building experience.

Imagine your company as the world leader?! What does it look like? How do we get there if we plan back from the future?

It definitely cannot happen unless you make time to think.

As Einstein said: “The height of insanity is to expect anything to be different if you repeat the things you do today again tomorrow and the day after that, again and again. If you want something to be different tomorrow you have to change what you are doing today”! tony@siroccostrategy.com

The devil is in the detail: National Minimum Wage

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa recently announced that representatives of government, business, the community sector and two of the three labour federations represented at The National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) have concluded an agreement on the introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW).

The emphasis of the agreement was that the level of the NMW will be R20.00 per hour. However, a number of other important factors have also been dealt with in the agreement and require further consideration. When implementing the NMW, these factors must be taken into account: Firstly, the NMW is subject to annual adjustment.

The following factors will be taken into account when determining the amount by which the NMW must be increased – the cost of living and minimum living levels, the alleviation of poverty, wage differentials and inequality, conditions of employment, the health, safety and welfare of workers, employment levels, inflation, GDP growth, productivity, collective bargaining, the aspirational target and the impact of a NMW adjustment on employment.

It is, therefore, important that employers consider making the requisite representations to the NMW Commission on an annual basis, regarding any proposed adjustments to the NMW. Secondly, Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and start-up business are not exempt from the implementation of the NMW. However, they will be able to apply for an exemption under certain circumstances.

Thirdly, when the NMW is introduced, domestic workers will be paid 75% of the NMW and agricultural workers will be paid 90% of the NMW. It is envisaged that these sectors will be brought up to 100% of The NMW level within two years, pending research by the NMW Committee on this timeframe.

Finally, sectoral determinations, collective agreements, bargaining council agreements and individual contracts of employment must comply with the NMW Act, still to be promulgated.

Having regard to the above, it is imperative that the cost of the NMW is taken into account when employers are planning their staffing requirements.

Aadil Patel and Kirsten Caddy, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

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Leeu Collection acquires second European property

Expanding its international hospitality portfolio further, Leeu Collection has acquired its second European property, the former Collegio Alla Querce in Florence, Italy.

Located in Via della Piazzuola, just 2km north-east of the city's historic heart and 9km from Florence's international airport, the former school complex covers an area of 13 400m2 plus 15 500m2 of park, which will be transformed into a 70 bedroom luxury hotel and gardens, set to open in 2021. The historic complex boasts its own chapel and theatre.

This latest acquisition echoes the vision of Leeu Collection's founder, Analjit Singh, of creating unrivalled escapes and offering visitors extraordinary experiences.

For Analjit, giving this project the ‘Leeu touch’ through redevelopment and renovation is of utmost importance. “We will remain true to the pillars of our brand: inspiring art collections, distinct architecture and design; manicured and detailed landscaping that

reflects respect for the environment; superlative service with attention to the smallest detail; spectacular views and an outstanding food and wine experience.

“Given the Florence hospitality and tourism boom and the improving economic backdrop rejuvenating the European hotel sector, this new development is well timed and complements our existing portfolio.

The Leeu Collection team will create an unforgettable experience in a superb setting.”

“The acquisition of this formidable historic property will complement Leeu Collection’s ethos of extraordinary offerings around the globe,” says Carrie Wicks, CEO of Leeu Collection. “The project foresees the creation of a 5-star luxury hotel and a wide range of additional facilities, such as meeting and event spaces, a spa and restaurants.”

Leeu Collection own Le Quartier Français, Tuk Tuk Microbrewery, Heritage Square, Leeu House and Leeu Estates in Franschhoek. Analjit Singh is also a partner in Mullineux and Leeu Family Wines.

Agriculture drives Western Cape jobs gains

“In total, jobs grew by 70 000 Jobs in the Western Cape’s in the fourth quarter and by 6 agriculture sector have increased by 000 year-on-year, bringing our 17%, according to the latest figures broad unemployment rate down from Statistics South Africa. to 23,6%, the lowest in the Alan Winde, Western country. We know this is still not Cape Minister of Economic good enough. It is important to Opportunities, said Stats note that employment numbers SA’s Quarterly Labour Force between quarters can vary greatly Survey, which was released on and are influenced by a range of 14 February 2017, showed that factors, and annual comparisons 250 000 people were employed do offer a more balanced view on in the province’s agriculture jobs growth. Over the past year, sector. The numbers were for jobs in primary agriculture have the fourth quarter, namely grown from 214 000 to 250 000.

October to December 2016.

“In the Western Cape we’ve Minister Winde said the Project had a good harvest and the Khulisa focus areas played unemployment rate in the nona key role in the 70 000 jobs metro areas dropped to 14%, added overall to the Western despite the ongoing drought. We Cape’s economy in the last Minister Alan Winde prioritise conservation agriculture, quarter of 2016. According to which has limited the impact of the drought in some the report, the Western Cape’s unemployment rate of our agricultural regions. We also reported on the is 20.5%, compared to the national rate of 26.5%. gains in tourism as visitor arrivals increased across the The province’s Labour Force Participation Rate, an province, and the progress we’re making is evident in indicator of how many people are working or actively the numbers.” looking for work, is at 68%.

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Cape Epic visits Franschhoek for final leg

Book Review

Meerendal to Val de Vie,19 to 26 March 2017

Charlotte van Zyl

It’s funny that way

The Franschhoek Culture Vultures started their 2017 outings in comedy mood with a trip to the Baxter Theatre to see Hashtag Lottering. It was a lighthearted group who boarded the Davids Transport bus on a lovely summer evening. The mood was sustained by glasses of Leopard’s Leap MCC and the smooth bus ride to Rondebosch.

Marc Lottering walked onto the stage beset by mirth and irony. He walked up and down the stage spouting comedy, sat down at the piano to accompany himself in song and continued talking, acting and laughing for an hour and a half. Although Marc incorporated ‘ugly’ words in his banter he never was offensive. The audience loved him.

Eventually the Franschhoekers emerged from the theatre, composed their laughing faces and found the bus; thankful that Patrick was there to drive them home. Leopard’s Leap wines and eats from the Good Food Co were on hand to still the munchies and sustain the good mood which lasted until everyone was safely back home.

Operation opera

February was a serious month for the Franschhoek Culture Vultures. Verdi’s Rigoletto was on the

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Artscape Opera House for four performances only and they were not going to miss it. Seats were booked in row Z, Leopard’s Leap MCC and award winning Chenin Blanc was chilled, red wine was slightly cooled, a bus was booked, snacks were ordered and good clothes were aired and ironed.

The group had been warned that Marthinus Basson’s production was contemporary and bawdy scenes could be expected. Well, so it was with projected scenes at the beginning, but the group averted their eyes for a few moments while focusing their hearing.

What a production it was and what a joy to again hear Noluvuyiso Mpofu and Lukhanyo Moyake. The group is probably still talking about Fikile Mvinjelwa, wondering whether he always uses a crutch and whether he was wearing make-up. The singing was simply splendid; richly rewarding the audience with especially Gilda’s performance and La Donna e Mobile and the quartet towards the end. Sadly the ending was the same it always is in Rigoletto.

Patrick was waiting for the group by the time the applause ended and he drove everybody safely home in the comfortable Davids Transport bus.

If you would like to receive information on future outings, please send your name, email address and cell phone number to news@franschhoektatler.co.za

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Conclave

Image: Emma Hill

The 14th edition of the Absa Cape Epic will take place from 19 to 26 March 2017 and will be as challenging as ever. Local and international mountain bikers will tackle the demanding eight-day adventure through the Western Cape region in South Africa.

The Absa Cape Epic must be completed by both members of a two-person team with only 650 teams and 1300 entrants allowed to ride the race. The route changes every year, leading aspiring amateur and professional mountain bikers from around the world through roughly 700km of unspoilt scenery and 15 000m of accumulated climbing, over some of the most magnificent mountain passes in South Africa.

The Absa Cape Epic is the most Spectator points along the route provide plenty of excitement televised mountain bike stage race in begins with a neutral start through Grabouw, takes the world and the only eight-day mountain bike stage riders round the Eikenhof dam and then down race classed as hors catégorie by the Union Cycliste Viljoen’s Pass. They will also cut through through Internationale (UCI). This official UCI status makes pristine fynbos past Theewaterskloof Dam, where it a highlight on the professional racer's calendar. The they might want to keep an eye out for the herds of Absa Cape Epic also attracts aspiring amateur riders eland crossing the plains. wanting to test themselves against the best. It is a fullThen it is over the Franschhoek Pass, through some service race, meaning that everything is taken care of twists and turns around Franschhoek and some small from the start - all riders need to think about is riding. climbs that take rides past Drakenstein Correctional After a prologue at Meerendal Wine Estate in Services and the iconic statue of Nelson Mandela Durbanville the race village will move to Hermanus, taking his first steps to freedom. And finally, 691kms Greyton and Elgin for the remaining seven stages. after starting in Meerendal and after 15 400m of The final stage – the Grand Finale – finishes Val vertical gain, the finish line awaits at Val de Vie. de Vie estate between Franschhoek and Paarl for the For those just wanting to watch the incredible drama first time. The 2017 route covers 691km of untamed of the race – from the thrilling racing at the front to Western Cape countryside over which riders will gain the struggles of the backmarkers as they bid to get an accumulated 15 400m in altitude – nearly twice the home inside the daily cut off – there are 14 spectator height of Mount Everest. points along the route. The final spectator point is La The stages are aptly and cheekily named. The Couronne Wine Estate in Franschhoek. prologue is For Starters and is followed by Whale Besides wine tasting in beautiful scenery La Trails, A Ridge Too Far, UFO Sighting, Ups and Couronne will offer tuk-tuk rides from the parking Downs, On The Trails, The Queen Stage and Don’t area to the spectator point. This will be the last Spare The Horses. spectator point of the race and there is bound to be This final stage takes riders 85km, with an altitude a great vibe. gain of 1 350m, from Elgin to Val de Vie. The day

Culture Vultures

March 2017

By Robert Harris.

Publ: Hutchinson 287 pages.

Who doesn’t like power? Who doesn’t enjoy its trappings, its influence and its symbols – perhaps even more than the wealth that usually accompanies it? Most people do, even the really high-minded and righteous ones.

Robert Harris likes to explore the acquisition and exercise of power by great men. The politicians of ancient Rome in “Imperium” and “Lustrum” and “Dictator” are a good example of the shenanigans that occurred in and behind the Roman forum. Under the robes that are the trappings of power the base motives of self-interest and the virtuous motives of civic duty battle it out.

I started reading “Conclave” with those themes in mind. The choosing of a new pope is of some consequence in the real world. After all, there are 1.2 billion Catholics scattered over the globe. Serving them are tens of thousands of bishops, hundreds of cardinals and a concentration of exactly one hundred specially selected holy men (nope, no women) who have to elect a new pope on the death of the Holy Father. Quite a powerful network.

Harris has done his homework on the intricate workings of the religious bureaucracy concentrated in the Vatican City. After a while the reader’s mind reels as figures like the Prefect of the Papal Household, the Master of Papal Liturgical Services, the Camerlengo, and the Cardinal Major Penitentiary roll across the stage. Each has a name and each has a specialized function. The details of sacramental clothing are dizzying. The thick red chasuble worn by the Dean, topped by a tall mitre of white watered silk, neatly finished by a crozier, is relatively simple.

By the end of the book I could swing a thurible or two with great aplomb, and I could find my way quite easily round the Vatican, say, from the residence of Casa Santa Marta to the Sistine Chapel by way of the Via delle

Fondamente.

That is, if you are walking rather than taking the Popemobile.

Apart from all this, I found the story itself completely spellbinding, and all the Holy Office apparatus is there to help solve the mystery of who will be the next pope.

The power play is in the devious hands of such dealers as the worldly Canadian Cardinal Tremblay, the homophobe African prelate Cardinal Adeyemi, the ambitious Italian Cardinal Tedesco plus a few other dubious characters. The only recognizably good guy is the important figure of Dean Lomeli, the chief of staff of the Vatican, through whose eyes we see the action unfurling.

Like any good detective, Lomeli keeps his eyes open.

He spies some suspicious entries in the dead pope’s diary, he sees a woman sneaking out of Adeyemi’s room at midnight, he calculates the importance of the unconventional, democratic bishop of Bagdad who could be the first Third World pope.

By now the astute reader has guessed that in spite of the wealth of liturgical window-dressing, this is a classic Agatha Christie English mystery about a bunch of suspects locked in a room over the weekend. Old rivalries and resentments bubble below the surface as Lomeli orchestrates ballot after ballot. As revelations of sexual indiscretions and corruption surface the contenders change, and Lomeli finds himself an unwilling but popular candidate. The increasingly chaotic voting is extended to the ultimate ballot and I found myself usefully instructed in the protocol of the whole process.

Eventually, a pope is elected and white smoke issues from the chimney. “We have a pope!” “Conclave” is a slim mystery wrapped in a fat book, but that does not stop it from being a page-turner. It also helps that Harris is no Dan Brown. There is no sensationalism in this Papal story and Harris writes extremely well.

Bridge House Mile without a hitch

Sunday, 12 February 2017, marked the 4th annual Bridge House Mile Open Water event. Traditionally held at the Berg River Dam in Franschhoek, the 2017 event was hosted at the prestigious Val de Vie Estate after three postponements of severe water shortages.

The event was sold out and could not have been more successful with approximately 500 swimmers taking to the water including event ambassador Amy KleinhansCurd and Olympic Gold Medallist Swimmer, Ryk Neethling. The 2017 event was sponsored by Standard Bank and continues to be supported by the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation and WWF in association with technical partner Speedo and New Balance (through cricketer Dale Steyn’s charitable contributions). This year the event welcomed HEART FM as official media partner. The Bridge House Mile collaborated with the Val de Vie Market Day so swimmers and spectators alike could enjoy a day of live music, food stalls and great company!

The 2017 event hosted the “Development Splash” (The YEA -Youth Empowerment Action and Haute Cabrière Development Swimmers under

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the guidance of Bridge House School swim coach Colleen De Villiers) as well as Stefan Buchholz, who swam multiple one-mile batches in support of the Heartlands Baby Sanctuary in Somerset West.

The venue for the 2018 Bridge House Mile Open Water Swim is yet to be announced however organizers are already predicting another successful event.

For race results (winners and times) please visit http://www.bridgehousemile.co.za/2017-results.

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March 2017

Franschhoek Tatler

Music Alchemy James Stewart

Let the music be your pilot and your heart the compass

I had a visit from Dan Heymann a month ago.

He had come home from his adopted New York for a family gathering in the Boland and needed to borrow a keyboard. Despite his pressing schedule we gravitated first towards the fridge for a beer and then as our conversation swung to music we edged toward the living room piano. What followed was a masterclass on some of the ingredients which give South African music its flavour. Dan is a very special musician and songwriter who penned the ‘unoffical South African anthem’.

If you’ve heard ‘Weeping’ performed by his band Bright Blue what follows will make sense. If not, give it a Google.

Our story begins at an End Conscription Campaign music festival in the late 80s.

My band had played the early slot. It was time for the big guns. Brenda Fassie, Chico, Stimela, The Sweatband, eVoid… a never-been-seen-since crosssection of South African artists bound by music and defiance during the dark and difficult days of the Apartheid government’s state of emergency.

I vividly recall the wash of light as Bright Blue took the stage - sweeping and arcing at first like a police searchlight before settling into a moody glow. The

19 cannon-like bass drum, insistent shaker and aching Gospel chords soliciting a spine-chilling roar from the crowd.

“I knew a man who lived in fear. It was huge, it was angry, it was drawing near….”

This song, written by a white middle-class army conscript while standing guard duty captured the mournful and menacing, yet somehow hopeful, zeitgeist. The failure of the SABC censorship board to pick up the “Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika” refrain was a musical masterstroke, a satisfactory flipping of the bird to PW Botha’s regime and also the first many had heard of this banned pan-African struggle hymn that is now incorporated into our national anthem.

This was my awakening from ‘musician’ to a ‘South African musician’. This was MY music. My first digging through the soil discovering its ochre, smell and texture. Rooted to the spot, there and then, I decided that this was the benchmark to reach for as a budding songwriter.

This is an element of our soundtrack of history synthesized from rhythms, flavours and sounds from far off places brought to our shores so often in the slave ships of sadness. These melodies and tales weave the fabric of tragedy, imbued with a hopefulness of redemption.

That night more than thirty years ago I saw a reflection of the ache of our collective past in a song written by a fellow white South African. Perhaps diving deeper into this could allow us all to find our future as a nation in these beautiful dark pools. A place where we can truly reflect on ourselves as ‘South Africans’ and what that truly means to us. We are all from somewhere else anyway, arriving in different circumstances which determined our disparate futures here on this soil we call home.

‘Life of Pi’ under the stars at Anthonij Rupert Wyne

What is the main function of a chief whip?

The main function of the chief whip is to consult with other party whips and to keep order in council.

How and when did your political ambitions start?

My political ambition started when I squatted on Erf 412. I then became aware of policies and decisions made by council. I was motivated to become a councillor so that I could become part of a decision making team. I am also aware of the fact that not everyone can express themselves well in conversation and that is why it is important for me to serve on the council. The community is not always well-informed on municipal matters and I believe community participation is important.

You are ward councillor for the Groendal area. It is said there are big problems in this community. What are they?

Ward Two is quite extensive. My area of operation includes Bosbou, La Motte, the old Groendal, or Leroux Dorp as it used to be called, and Langrug. It also includes Dennegeur and the Vlei. The need for housing, and by extension land for housing, is one of the biggest challenges. In Langrug we are trying to keep the area clean. Grey water is a big concern and a health hazard. Job creation is not a primary function of the Municipality but the lack of income contributes to considerable social decline. The houses in Bosbou, old foreman houses and the Berg River Dam houses are also one of my concerns and I hope to finalise everything shortly. The sidewalks in Groendal definitely need to be upgraded.

What is the solution?

My solution would be to expand site and services to the informal areas. In this way everyone will be able to enjoy services for which they pay. Health risks will be reduced. Land must be made available for housing.

Too many people wait too long for houses. Proper oversight should be in place when houses are allocated.

Franschhoek is seen as a place of opportunity which results in influx. Development must be sped up to cope with the influx. Clean attractive streets and sidewalks with plants and flowers will bring about positive change in the attitudes of residents. A neighbourhood watch needs to be established in each area to assist the municipality in enforcing by-laws. The municipality has Expanded Public Works Programmes and residents are encouraged to add their names to the unemployment database. The requisite forms are available from my office. The transfer of title deeds is enjoying considerable attention.

What would you still like to achieve in life, perhaps higher political office – or something else?

I would like to make a success of my career as councillor.

I want to be a proud resident of Ward Two and a proud councillor. Should my ward and I agree, I would like to be a member of parliament. I am so thankful the community has chosen me as councillor and I want to assure them of my open door policy.

Who are the members of your family?

Adam and I have been married for 25 years. Ricardo and Chevon are my children; Nazley is my grandchild.

My great grandchildren are Shervann and Calib. Tamsin is my proud foster child. I have also taken two dogs into foster care.

Wat is ‘n hoofsweep se vernaamste funksie?

Die belangrikste funksie van die hoofsweep is om met die ander partye se swepe te konsulteer en orde in die raad te handhaaf.

Hoe en waar het jou politieke ambisies begin?

My politieke ambisies het begin toe ek op Erf 412 geplak het. Daar het ek bewus geword van die feit dat die raad ‘n beleid het en besluite neem. Dit het my motiveer om ‘n raadslid te word sodat ek deel kon wees van ‘n besluitnemingspan. Ek is ook bewus dat nie almal hul goed kan uitdruk in gesprekvoering nie en daarom is dit belangrik vir my om op die raad te dien. Die gemeenskap is ook nie altyd ingelig oor munisipale verwikkelinge nie daarom glo ek dat gemeenskapsdeelname belangrik is.

Jy is raadslid vir die wyk waaronder Groendal val.

Daar is blykbaar groot probleme in die gemeenskap.

Wat is die probleme?

Wyk Twee is taamlik breed, Bosbou Lamotte, ou Groendal, of Lerouxdorp soos dit in die ou dae genoem is, en Langrug is tans my werksarea. Dit sluit ook Dennegeur in en die Vlei.

Die behuisingsnood en grond vir behuising is een van die grootste uitdagings. In Langrug poog ons om die gebied skoon te hou. Die grys water is ‘n groot bekommernis en ‘n gesondheidsrisiko. Werkskepping is nie ‘n primêre funksie van die munisipaliteit nie, maar die gebrek aan ‘n inkomste dra by tot groot maatskaplike verval. Die munisipaliteit het tans Uitgebreide Openbare Werke Program projekte en die publiek word aangemoedig om hul name op die werkloosheids databasis te plaas.

My wykskantoor beskik oor die nodige vorms. Die oordrag van titelaktes geniet tans aansienlike aandag. Die sypaadjies in Groendal kort defnitief opgegradering. Die huise in Bosbou, ou voorman huise en die Bergrivierdam huise is ook een van my bekommernisse en ek hoop om dit spoedig af te handel.

Wat is die oplossing?

My oplossing sal wees dat site and service in die informele gebiede toegepas word. Sodoende sal almal dienste kan geniet waarvoor hulle ook sal betaal. Gesondheidsrisiko sal verminder. Daar moet grond vir behuising voorsien word. Te veel mense wag te lank vir huise. Daar moet ook behoorlike oorsig gehou word wanneer mense huise ontvang. Franschhoek word gesien as ‘n plek van geleenthede en daarom die instroming. Ontwikkeling moet bespoedig word sodat dit tred hou met die instroming. Mooi skoon strate en sypaadjies met blomme en ander plante sal ook die gesindheid van die inwoners positief verander. In elke gebied moet ‘n buurtwag gestig word om met munisipale wetstoepassing te help.

Wat wil jy nog raag in die lewe bereik, moontlik ‘n hoër politieke amp – of iets anders?

Ek sal graag ‘n sukses van my loopbaan as raadslid wil maak .Ek wil ‘n trotse inwoner van Wyk Twee wees sowel as ‘n trotse raadslid . Indien my wyk tevrede is, en ekself, sou ek ‘n lid van die parlement wou wees.

Ek is regtig dankbaar teenoor die gemeenskap vir hul keuse van my as raadslid en wil hul verseker van my ope deur beleid.

Wie is die lede van jou gesin?

Ek en Adam is 25 jaar getroud. Ricardo en Chevon is my twee kinders. Nazley is my kleinkind. My twee agterkleinkinders is Shervann en Calib. Tamsin is my trotse pleegkind. Ek het ook twee honde in pleegsorg geneem.

The Galileo Open Air Cinema returns to the Anthonij Rupert Wyne estate on 1 April for a special screening of the box office hit Life of Pi. Directed by the highly acclaimed Ang Lee, Life of Pi is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery, inspired by the international best-selling book of the same title. The storyline revolves around an Indian man, Pi, telling a novelist about his life story. At age 16, he survives a shipwreck in which his family perishes, and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger and other animals. The jaw dropping cinematography of Pi and this majestic tiger, and the story which unfolds, captivated audiences across the globe.

The sprawling lawn of the Anthonij Rupert Tasting Room is the venue for the larger-than-life movie screen, providing ample room to enjoy a picnic with the Drakenstein Mountains as a backdrop. Secure parking is provided, within walking distance of the movie area.

A marquee will create a marketplace feel, allowing

visitors the opportunity to shop for a fine selection of picnic ingredients. These include pre-packed cheese and charcuterie platters with artisanal breads, freshly baked chicken and exotic mushroom pies, Prego rolls with sweet balsamic and tomato relish, and a selection of freshly-prepared salad tubs. For those with a sweet tooth, best you make space in your basket for the gourmet cupcakes. Special pre-packed picnic boxes will be available to purchase for the young ones.

What would a picnic be without wine or MCC? A selection of estate wines, as well as the popular L’Ormarins range of Methode Cap Classique, will be available to purchase. Soft drinks, mineral water, locally roasted coffees and popcorn will also be for sale during the evening.

Gates open at 17h00, allowing ample time to shop, mingle and take in the beauty of the surroundings before the movie begins at 19h45. Tickets range in price from R79 to R159 per person and can be booked directly at http://thegalileo.co.za/buy-tickets/.

March at the Moór Gallery

March sees the Moór Gallery staging a solo exhibition by Mathew Brittan entitled ‘It’s not all that meets the i.’ The exhibition runs from 18 March until 15 April.

Brittan states: “Given what has come to be the state of affairs in the arts over the last number of decades, firstly the confusion of originality with novelty where anything goes, here too, there being a confusion of the outer freedom to do as one pleases, with the much more critical inner freedom of knowing why one does or does not make a choice, which is born of that human ideal of self-knowledge, and secondly, the aggressive inroads of intellectuality into all sorts of domains of human endeavour (and which is often part of the aforementioned novelty in the arts), is it not perhaps incumbent upon us to try and gain some clarity in all this obfuscation by remembering what Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925) the initiator of Anthroposophy, points out in his lectures "Truth, Beauty and Goodness" and "The Aesthetics of Goethe's Worldview".

“In these lectures the issue is raised of where art belongs in those enduring, sublime, extra-human realms of truth, beauty and goodness, realms which in fact, respectively give rise and meaning to those three great human ideals of science, art and religion?

And further, which aspect of our humanity – we are after all also threefold, that is thinking, feeling and willing beings – should art essentially engage? Just as we legitimately locate scientific endeavour which is intimately associated with our capacity to think in the realm of truth and just as we associate religion which ultimately focuses on human volition or willing (actions) with the realm of goodness, should not human artistic pursuit then primarily engage the third aspect of our soul life, that is our capacity to feel, and thence bear us up to the beautiful – a beauty which in terms of painting, one tries essentially to express through colour, colour being the true medium of the painter? (Perhaps we can remind ourselves of how Goethe characterized beauty, as that quality which arises when one transfuses the perishable, the ephemeral with the light of the eternal, the imperishable.)”

Running concurrently with Brittan’s exhibition is a group exhibition – ‘Sublime’– featuring a wide selection of artworks of high technical standard by some of South Africa’s leading contemporary artists.

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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason.

Artists featured in ‘Sublime’ include: Henk Serfontein, Marinda Combrinck, Greta McMahon, Willem Pretorius, Stephen Rosin, Diane Mclean, Cedric Vanderlinden, Corlie de Kock, Cobus van Bosch, Marinda du Toit, Peter van Straten, Anthony Harris, Anton Brink, Madelein Marincowitz, Lori Schappe-Youens, Tracy Payne, Aidon Westcott, Judy Bumstead. Eugenie Marais, Diana Hyslop, Estelle Marais, Jenny Ord, Janna Kruger, Peter Mammes, Marike Kruger, Hubert Barichievy, Pascual Tarazona, Jacobus Kloppers, Alet Swarts, Jaco Benade, Brett Williams, Weyers du Toit, Anton Karstel and Jonathan Silverman.

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home-sitting/child care/pet-sitting/ general assistance. Contact Wilma 078 475 2710 wilmabotha1962@gmail.com PRIVATE TUTORING: Scholastic help grades 1 – 9. I completed NILD, American qualification for assessment/ addressing of learning difficulties, in SA known as Brain Dynamics. Did home schooling for 11 years. Prior experience. Contact Wilma 078 475 2710 wilmabotha1962@gmail.com

DO YOU STILL HAVE THAT POOL LEAK? Loosing water all the time? Let us quote and take care of the problem! Call RiaPools: 072 347 5355

APPLE TECH SUPPORT: Need help with your iPhone, iPad or Mac? For Set up, training and support services call John 081 3617 228

TRUSTWORTHY, friendly, mature lady offering home-sitting / child care / petsitting/ general assistance. Contact Wilma 078 475 2710 wilmabotha1962@gmail.com

EMPLOYMENT WANTED: Leah, Malawian lady of 37 seeks work as a housekeeper for 5 days per week. Contact 074 4418 801

RE-FIBRE GLASS YOUR POOL in any colour you like. Call RiaPools for a quote: 072 347 5355

QUALITY CASHMERE KNITWEAR: Half original price.

Ladies and men’s at Indian Summer and Peacock Blue sale shops behind French Connection. 021 876 3992

STANDBY DRIVER: Tourism industry.

Car supplied. Pay daily. PDP, references, papers, own transport to and from work needed. Call 073 1250 188.

APPLE TECH SUPPORT: For iPhone, iPad or Mac setup, training or support services call John on 081 361 7228.

LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL BOOK and can’t find it? Call John at the Armchair Explorer, we will source it for you.

Contact John Hicks 021 876 4129 GENERAL ASSISTANCE: Trustworthy, friendly, mature lady offering

TRUSTWORTHY AUPAIR/ HOUSESITTER: My name is Rory; I am a 24 year old male living in Paarl. I am in my final year of my BBA. Marketing Management degree, my current interests are cycling, fishing, and training as fitness and a healthy lifestyle are an integral part of my everyday life. I am very responsible, adore all pets and have had previous experience in dealing with younger kids. I can provide you with very good references.

I have my own car and am available 5 days a week. Cell: 076 278 0611(phone or sms).

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Call RiaPools: 072 347 5355 PRIVATE TUTORING: Scholastic help Grades 1 – 9. I completed NILD, American qualification for assessment / addressing of learning difficulties, in SA known as Brain Dynamics. Did home schooling for 11 years. Prior experience. Contact Wilma 078 475 2710 wilmabotha1962@gmail.com JOB WANTED: Driver - Code 10/ Restaurant / Hotel / Pool Servicing / General Business. I am a 27-yearold church-going Malawian living in Franschhoek. I am a hard-working, reliable, intelligent honest man. I speak and write excellent English. References available.

Contact 076 484 9294 or 078 816 6613.

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March Calendar 1 March

Historic Walk Venue: La Motte. Time: 10h00 to 11h00. Cost: R50 pp. Booking: museum@la –motte.co.za or 021 876 8850

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Sculpture Walk Venue: La Motte. Time: 10h00 to 11h00. Cost: R50 pp. Booking: museum@la –motte.co.za or 021 876 8850

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Sunday Summer Music Picnic with Slow Jack Venue: Boschendal. Time: 12h00 music at 13h00. Cost: R495 for a picnic basket for 2, R260 for a picnic basket for 1, R980 for a picnic basket for 4. Booking: reservations@boschendal.co.za or 021 870-4274.

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The Woods: A dark twisted comical version of Red Riding Hood you don’t know!

Performed by actors from Delia Sainsbury’s Waterfront Theatre Company. Venue: NG Church Hall. Time: 15h00. Cost: R100 p.p. (Pay at the door). Enquiries: Rob Ducret 0732260496

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Time: 18h00 for 18h30 Cost: R300 p.p. Cheese & wine after the event.

Bookings: Derek Auret: 082 557 6566 or derek@auret.co.za, Ruth Allen tel 021 794 2435 or rutha@telkomsa.net

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Time: 19h00. Info: Graeme Oliver - graeme @ poachedrhino.org or 072 815 8209

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at Franschhoek Rugby Klub, Groendal. Ps Theuns Pauw 021 876 3348. All welcome!

Roman Catholic Church: Mass every 2nd Saturday of the month at the Methodist Church, Bagatelle Rd, Fhk. 073 488 6816 Trinity Church: Anglican Communion Service Sundays 10h00. Weekday Communion with Prayers Wednesdays 10h00.

All services at L’Ermitage Chapel.

Fr Gavin Mitchell (083 799 0726) St George’s Anglican Church Groot Drakenstein.

Sunday Services: Holy Communion and Sunday School 10h00. Rector Fr Joe Humbles – 073 560 3566 Franschhoek Methodist Church: Sunday service 09h00 Easter services: Thursday 13 April: Tenebrae Service also known as A service of Shadows 7.00pm. Friday 14 April: Good Friday Service 9.30 am. Sunday 16 April: Easter Sunday 9.00am. All welcome. Rev Nuno Vergueiro 021 872 3580 or 082 662 4509. Contact person: 021 876 2510 or 083 287 5756.

New Apostolic Church: Le Roux Weg, Franschhoek.Sundays 09h00, Wednesdays 19h30.

Rector: Charles Leibrandt

Sport

Fhk Cycling Club Outrides Regular road rides on Saturday mornings from BP garage to Stellenbosch/Jonkers and back (75 kms) followed by coffees.

Meet at 08h00 winter months, 07h00 in summer. To check timings during shoulder seasons contact Paul Barkley 083 302 9096 Franschhoek Tennis Club Social tennis is played at the Franschhoek Tennis Club on Fridays from 08h30 and on Sundays and Public Holidays from 09h00. During June, July and August starting times are 30 mins later. For more information contact 021 876 4184.

Jyotish Vedic Astrology Robert Rittel

Aries, 21 March – 19 April: On his way into the constellation of Taurus, Mars will have an impact on relationships and desires. Venus in Aries creates temptation for indulgence and easy spending.

Devotion without wisdom is like salt water. Wisdom is the way in which to express life as one has understood it oneself.

Taurus, 20 April – 20 May: The planetary combination of Mars and Venus exchanging energies in Aries and Taurus brings the issues of what’s yours and what is mine to the table. Righteousness is nothing but a natural outcome of right thinking.

Jealously is the refuse of the heart.

Gemini, 21 May – 20 June: Mercury, the swift planet, has moved into Pisces and is debilitated, it establishes more intuitive thinking and idealistic ideas. Mutable planets in mutable constellations deliver changes of mind. Put your theories in practice before you expound them.

Cancer, 21 June – 22 July: Faith reaches what reason fails to touch. If by accident you step into the mud, it is not therefore necessary to keep on walking in the muddy path. The moon is the reflector of the sunlight and the shadow of the earth. The sunlight is pure and so should be your mind.

Leo, 23 July – 22 August: In the month of Pisces, Leos feel somehow lost in pursuit of attention to some projects and plans. Modesty is the veil over the face of the great, for the divine order is most modest and is seen by none except those intimate with her. All beauty is veiled by nature, and the greater the beauty the more it is covered.

Virgo, 23 August – 22 September: With Mercury in Pisces, it creates a troubled disposition for the logical and rational thinkers. The more you make out of your gifts, the less becomes the value of something which is priceless. He who realizes the

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Libra, 23 September – 22 October: Venus, the planet of relationships, took position in Aries and fuels the fire of temptations and dissatisfactions. The moment a person becomes straight-forward a straight path opens before him. It is no use saying you know the truth; if you knew the truth, you would keep silent.

Scorpio, 23 October – 21 November: There is nothing we take in this bazaar of life that we shall not sooner or later have to pay for. Life can be full of blessings when one knows how to receive them.

Where the body goes the shadow goes also; so is the truth followed by falsehood.

Sagittarius, 22 November – 21 December: Jupiter, the largest planet, is retrograding in Libra and emphasizes entanglements of ignorance and many stories, which are changing every time.

Whichever path you choose, the right or the wrong, know that there is at the back always a powerful hand to help you along it.

Capricorn, 22 December – 19 January: The earth sign is a signification of practicality, reliability, commitment and enduring tasks, but also brings the notion of being overly attached to material goods, which is unimaginative and leads to resistance toany change. It is belief which in its perfection becomes faith.

Aquarius, 20 January – 18 February: Individuals with this sign influence are often very negative about themselves. The art of this limitation is the capacity to surrender the ego to the divine. On this higher level the will to sacrifice themselves for the good of all is strongly humanitarian. In the spirit of duty there is the soul of religion.

Pisces, 19 February - 20 March: The month of mutable water, emotions, intuitivists and imaginations. Sentimental feelings and compassionate ideas waving between sympathy and pity. Having boundaries and creating clarity helps and reflects the influence of the moment to develop discrimination. A responsible person is worth more than a thousand labours.

For a consultation contact Robert at 073 312 1265 or robert.vedicastrology@gmail.com

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Uniting Reformed Church: Sunday service: 09h30. Minister: Dr Shaun Burrows, 021 876 2632. All visitors most welcome . Shofar Christian Church: Sunday Services: 09h00 English at 7 Lambrechts St 18h00 Afrikaans

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Time: 10h00 to 11h00. Cost: R130 pp. Bookings: tasting@lamotte.co.za or 021 876 8820

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Huguenot Memorial Museum Post Office Welfare (ACVV) SPCA

021 876 2532 021 876 2342 021 876 2670 021 876 4808

Bridge House School Franschhoek High School Groendal Primary School Groendal Secondary School Wes-Eind Primary School Dalubuhle Primary School

021 874 8100 021 876 2079 021 876 2448 021 876 2211 021 876 2360 021 876 3957

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Info Office Winelands Experience

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Gerald Fourie VETERINARY

021 876 2940/082 821 5234

Huguenot Animal Clinic Surgery (pm only) Emergency

021 876 4278 021 876 2504 082 577 9900

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Stellenbosch Fire Dept. (Buildings on fire) 021 808 8888 Cape Winelands Distr.Muni. (Bush & veld fires) 021 887 4446

021 886 9244 Police 10111/021 876 8061 Eskom 086 003 7566 Neighbourhood Watch 083 493 7778 Omnipage Farm Watch 021 852 3318 Plaaswag 021 876 2346 N1, N2 & R300 Emergency number: 021 946 1646 DENTISTS

Dr Schalk du Plessis Dr Rob Hammer

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Dr Karin Eksteen Dr Shelley Hellig Dr Alexander Heywood Dr Hannes Van der Merwe

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New sectional title development meets growing demand

The Franschhoek valley is widely regarded as the culinary epicentre of South Africa, home of many of the country’s best vineyards and an exclusive enclave where property ownership is a privilege only to be enjoyed by the affluent.

Property in this area has frequently been perceived to be above all but a few budgets. A new sectional title development that is breaking ground in March 2017, however, is helping to dispel that myth.

For sale off plan, La Bourgette, is an accessiblypriced, secure complex of 34 contemporary Cape Georgian-styled two bedroom, two bathroom units of 104m², each with its own patio or balcony and dedicated covered carport.

Bev Malan, principal of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty in Franschhoek, says: “In a town where apartments account for less than five percent of all properties with the most recent development being 12 years old, these exceptional units present a rare investment opportunity.

“La Bourgette is also conveniently situated only a stone’s throw from the village and its skilful positioning affords all the units views of the mountains against which the historical town is nestled.

“Priced competitively at R2 352 081 including VAT, these apartments offer exceptional value, as apartments of this standard usually range between R2.5m and R4.5m depending on size and location.”

Malan adds: “Franschhoek is renowned for being home to many well-known personalities and captains of industry as well as a plethora of internationally acclaimed attractions including restaurants, galleries, markets and hotels, but what people forget is that behind each of these thriving concerns is a considerable number of employees who also need accommodation.”

It is with this niche market in mind that developers, Lewis Manhattan, conceptualised La Bourgette.

However, CEO Richard Lewis admits that they have been taken aback by the overwhelming response they have seen since the project’s launch.

“Our extensive research confirmed our belief that there is a strong need for accessibly-priced upmarket accommodation in the village and we anticipated that the development would receive considerable interest but, with 12 confirmed sales during the first month alone, it has definitely exceeded our expectations.”

On the back end of numerous successful developments in the area, including the awardwinning Pearl Valley Golf Estate and Val de Vie, Lewis Manhattan are making considerable further investments both in land and construction over the next five years.

Lewis adds: “We are delighted at the great relationship that we have developed with Sotheby’ International Realty in Franschhoek and look forward to working together on our future projects.”

James Penlington, Area Specialist for Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International, says that there are few comparable sectional title properties in Franschhoek and these apartments very rarely come onto the market.

“The extent of the demand for secure, affordable property in close proximity to the village has been clearly evidenced by the steady stream of enquiries our office continues to field as well as the fact that we were able to conclude 10 of the initial 12 sales within a month.”

Lew Geffen, Chairman of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty adds: “Franschhoek has always been a popular lifestyle destination with viniculture and tourism as its main economic drivers and the town boasts a full festival calendar dominated by popular wine and food-related events. It also hosts the acclaimed Franschhoek Literary Festival which also positions it as an intellectual hub.

“While these events have always attracted much interest, the bulk of the attendees have been from out of town and the permanent population has remained stable. This has started to change in recent years as more and more city-dwellers are opting for a slowerpaced country lifestyle.”

Franschhoek has become a magnet for lovers of culture and outdoor enthusiasts who are seeking the peace and quiet of a small town, but with access to top class amenities of which Franschhoek has an abundance including a recently opened Woolworths store down the road from La Bourgette.

A major drawcard attracting families to the area is the progressive independent school, Bridge House, which was established on land donated by several prominent families and caters for students through to Grade 12.

Burgemeester waarsku oor water Verwag patrollies en boetes Die Burgemeester, Adv Gesie van Deventer, het haar ernstige kommer oor die watersituasie binne die munisipale gebied uitgespreek. Sy het gesê: “Die voortslepende droogte wat ons streek teister, is nog lank nie verby nie. Klimaatsverandering het ‘n geweldige impak op ons reënpatrone die afgelope paar jaar gehad en dit het tot gevolg dat ons damvlakke kommerwekkend laag is. Die moontlikheid bestaan dat van ons damme gaan opdroog oor die volgende paar maande tensy ons buitengewone goeie reënval kry.”

Tans kry Stellenbosch Munisipaliteit ongeveer 60% van sy water vanaf die Stad Kaapstad.

Kaapstad het onlangs aangekondig dat hulle vlak 3B waterbeperkings ingestel het vanaf 1 Februarie 2017.

Die Stad se verskerpte beperkings sluit hoër boetes, die natmaak van tuine met ‘n emmer of gieter net vir ‘n uur op twee dae en die aanspreek van die stad se top 20 000 waterverbruikers in. Adv van Deventer het ‘n ernstige beroep op alle inwoners gedoen om waterverbruik in te perk anders sal die munisipaliteit verplig word om strenger op te tree teen oortreders.

Die munisipaliteit pas reeds ‘n geruime tyd waterbeperkings toe. Die beperkings is in Desember verder opgeskerp. Daar word egter steeds nie genoeg water gespaar nie. Volgens die munisipaliteit is die

grootste aantal waarskuwings uitgereik in die Onder Papegaaiberg, Stellenbosch en Franschhoek-areas.

Alhoewel tariewe reeds aangepas is om onverskillige gebruik te verhoed, gee baie inwoners steeds nie gehoor gee aan oproepe om water te bespaar nie.

Burgemeester van Deventer het onlangs met al die betrokke amptenare en die munisipale bestuurder vergader oor hoe om die huidige waterbeperkings af te dwing en seker te maak inwoners gee gehoor daaraan. Inwoners sal voortaan meer wetstoepassingsbeamptes gewaar wat watermisbruik in woonbuurte patrolleer. Daar gaan ook gekyk word na ‘n boetestelsel. Sy sê ook dat meer aandag gegee gaan word aan watervermorsing in informele areas. Bewusmakingsveldtogte sal ook opgeskerp word. “Die Munisipaliteit spits hom daarop toe om seker te maak dat elke inwoner ingelig sal wees oor waterbeperkings en die gevolge van nie-nakoming.

Indien inwoners nie hul waterverbruik ernstig inkort nie, sal die munisipaliteit ongelukkig nog meer drastiese stappe moet implementeer.”

Inwoners word aangemoedig om watervermorsing aan te meld by die munisipaliteit. Skakel asseblief 021 808 8215/8953/8261 of stuur ‘n e-pos na water. restrictions@stellenbosch.gov.za. Alle inligting word vertroulik hanteer.

La Bourgette offers two bedroom apartments set in a secure complex within walking distance of Franschhoek village. Priced at R2 352 081 including VAT, each unit offers mountain views and includes a covered carport.

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Pearl Valley

This Pearl Valley property is the epitome of sophisticated elegance. This stylish North facing home located on the acclaimed Pearl Valley Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, has upmarket finishes throughout. It is beautifully presented and well-proportioned with open plan living areas and central double volume space bringing light into all spaces. Contact our on-site agents located at Pearl Valley today to secure your home in the valley of life.

Contact: Leigh Robertson 082 882 8243 or Annelize ReinmĂźller 076 788 9918

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Pearl Valley

Spacious, lodge includes furnishings, VAT and Golf Joining Fee included. Always so sought after, this beautiful lodge is being offered fully furnished and equipped. Currently utilized for the short term rental market, this extremely spacious, multi-storey lodge is completely renovated to a very high standard. Situated on prestigious Pearl Valley at Val de Vie, this property will be an exceptional investment for the clever buyer who sees how property prices on this world class estate are increasing year by year.

Contact: Lindie Gaigher 082 718 7042 or Jacques Nortje 082 084 0860

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Boschenmeer Golf Estate

Perfectly designed home in the tranquil and secure Boschenmeer Golf Estate. This magnificent home is designed with entertainment in mind creating the perfect combination of indoor/outdoor living. The entrance hall leads into the open plan living spaces which flow into the entertainers covered patio and out into the magnificent garden. A home of this distinction does not come around often, to arrange your private viewing contact our on-site Boschenmeer agents located in the Boschenmeer Clubhouse today.

Contact: Marinda de Jongh 082 573 2204 or Marilize Brown 083 241 1580

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Pearl Valley

Make the Valley of Life your home. Very few remaining opportunities available in this unique position on the 12th Fairway. Pearl Valley now part of the Val de Vie Estate offers the ideal lifestyle with the best security and an abundance of leisure activities available. Various Plot & Plan options available. Contact our On Site agents today to view the last available stands on the number one ranked Residential Security Estate in South Africa.

Contact: Lindie Gaigher 082 718 7042 or Jacques Nortje 082 084 0860

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Boschenmeer Golf Estate

Architect, designed and set beautifully over two levels, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms.

The Open plan living, kitchen and dining area has glass sliding doors which open onto a full width terrace. The modern gas kitchen and European appliances flows to dining ensuring entertaining is effortless. Three on-suite bedrooms are found upstairs maximising the spectacular Boschenmeer Golf Estate views. We recommend this property as your next holiday or permanent home.

Contact: Marinda de Jongh 082 573 2204 or Marilize Brown 083 241 1580

R 13 995 000

Pearl Valley

Lovely family home in a coveted position on the prestigious Pearl Valley at Val De Vie. This beautiful property has been designed and finished with much thought and this is very evident when walking through the house. A warm welcoming feel - a true home. The 4 bedrooms are all on the one wing of the house with the kitchen, bar and living areas on the other. Wonderful entertainment spaces that open to a lush garden and pool that are private from any neighbours. Contact our on-site Pearl Valley Property Specialists located in the entrance of the Pearl Valley Clubhouse to arrange a private viewing.

Contact: Leigh Robertson 082 882 8243 or Annelize ReinmĂźller 076 788 9918

www.sothebysrealty.co.za

Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

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FRANSCHHOEK Office: 021 876 2100 • winelandsint@pamgolding.co.za

SOLE MANDATE

Ref# FWI1305138

Franschhoek / R8.5 million Bedrooms 5 / Bathrooms 4 / Parking 2 / Garage 1 / A French Affair. A masterpiece of elegance and style. The master bedroom en-suite is situated upstairs with a private balcony enclosed by fold-back American Shutters to frame some of the most spectacular mountain views in the village.

Doug Gurr 072 610 7208 / Jeanine Allen 082 410 6837 SOLE MANDATE

Ref# FWI1301604

SOLE MANDATE

Ref# FWI1125234

Franschhoek / R9.9 million

Franschhoek / R8.9 million

Bedrooms 3 / Bathrooms 3 / Garages 2 / A magnificent home in Le Ferme Chantelle Security Estate. Privately situated. Complimented with rock pool and mountain views.

Bedrooms 3 / Bathrooms 3 / Garages 2 / Classic gem. Charming village home with deep veranda and pretty mountain views. Lovingly renovated. Beautiful manicured garden.

Doug Gurr 072 610 7208 / Jeanine Allen 082 410 6837

Doug Gurr 072 610 7208 / Jeanine Allen 082 410 6837 /PamGoldingProperties

pamgolding.co.za

@PamGoldingGroup

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R7 350 000 incl VAT

Light contemporary new home This stunning Contemporary home is situated on the delightful Fransche Hoek Estate and has the most magnificent unobstructed views over the valley. Comprising 4 beds 4, the main bedroom ensuite has a walk in dressing room and full bathroom with double showers and “non-misting” mirrors as a super added feature. The second bedroom has a full ensuite bathroom while the other 2 bedrooms have shower basin & toilet ensuite. The gourmet Kitchen is finished in two tone neutral colours and has top of the range finishes which complement the open plan living areas. The open plan living area has stunning views out of the numerous windows and balconies on either side of the sitting room, which has a slow burning wood fireplace. There is a feature wine cellar enclosed with double glass doors. There is underfloor heating on the entire top floor together with climate control air conditioners throughout. There is a double garage and a very private pool with outside cloakroom/storeroom.

ERF SIZE : 450sqmsHOUSE SIZE : 410 sqms LEVY : R3950.00

Rates : 2000.00

Janice Hicks 072 991 6272 • janice.hicks@rawson.co.za

R6 850 000

Brand new barn style home This newly-built Barn Style home is situated in a prime position on the exclusive FranscheHoek Fynbos Estate overlooking the valley. Every window offers breath taking views.Comprising high volume ceilings with loft windows the open plan kitchen dining and living area is the main feature of the home. The house has been strategically positioned to get the maximum benefit of the views as well as the protection from the prevailing winds.

There are feature shutters on some windowswhich offer both privacy and protection from the elements. The pool is on the North side of the property and is totally private. The house comprises 3 bed 2 bath all ensuite, with up market finishes. The Feature deck entertainment area leads off the living room and has a built in braai. The low maintenance garden is landscapes and there are 2 garages which lead into the house.

Levies – R3950.00 Rates & Taxes – R2000.00

Janice Hicks 072 991 6272 • janice.hicks@rawson.co.za

R7 950 000

Beautiful thatch home in upmarket wine estate This beautiful that home is being offered for sale in one of Franschhoek’ s most sought after Wine and Olive estate set amongst olive trees and vines, it is still totally private yet still has beautiful views from every aspect of the surrounding mountains.The home comprises:4 bedrooms 1 upstairs with own entrance 3 bathrooms 2 ensuite. Entrance hall. Fully fitted kitchen with upmarket finishes. Separate scullery. Open plan lounge / dining room. Double volume over living areasUpstairs study. Two covered verandas / entertainment areas. Pool with large landscaped gardens. Double garage. This property will be snapped up soon so don’t hesitate to appoint to view.

Levies R 5000.00p/m Rates: 2300 +-p/m

Janice Hicks 072 991 6272 • janice.hicks@rawson.co.za

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FRANSCHHOEK

R14 850 000 3

2

Garages 2

203318

FABULOUS OPPORTUNITY.Surrounded by world famous wine estates and a mere 2 kilometres from the village this 9.8ha property is the perfect purchase for those who are looking for something special in the Franschhoek Valley. The property commands superb mountain views and is within a 10 minute drive of the outstanding Bridge House private school. Currently under vines and olives and with an old manor house and barn plus four workers cottages it offers the discerning buyer a spectrum of opportunities ASKING PRICE EXCLUDES VAT

R5 700 000

BOSCHENMEER

5

4

Garages 2

415931

ELEGANCE AND TRANQUILITY AT ITS BEST. This large family home is centrally situated in the sought after Boschenmeer Golf Estate. The ground floor offers a double volume entrance hall, TV room, casual lounge, two bedrooms, a full family bathroom and a kitchenette. Upstairs there is a lovely open plan lounge, dining room, kitchen with modern finishes and large balcony with built in braai and stunning mountain views together with a beautiful landscaped garden. In addition there is a self-contained flatlet with kitchenette and full bathroom. Boschenmeer Golf Estate is close to all amenities including shopping malls, excellent schooling and medical facilities.

PEARL VALLEY

3

R 4 200 000

3.5

Garages 2

397 090

AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED. This modern family home overlooks the 11th fairway and is beautifully positioned with spectacular views of the Simonsberg Mountains. This lodge feel home offers open plan living with built in fireplace which allows for comfortable living and entertaining. There are 3 en-suite bedrooms, both bedrooms upstairs have their own balcony and the main bedroom leads onto the patio. The home has air-conditioning throughout and is the perfect 'On the Go' type of home. Pearl Valley distinguishes itself as the epitome of golf and country living with a variety of facilities that allows for a unique and unforgettable experience. ASKING PRICE IS EXCLUSIVE OF VAT

PEARL VALLEY

4

R 7 250 000

3

Garages 2

400365

MAGNIFICENT TRENDY SECURE FAMILY LIFESTYLE. Extremely well designed home with space, privacy and open plan living, offering flowing reception rooms with fireplace and sliding doors to enclosed entertainers patio with magnificent views of golf course and mountains. Separate downstairs TV/Study area leads to patio/pool area, wine cellar and beautiful kitchen with separate scullery. Good finishes throughout. Upstairs: 4 bedrooms - 2 en suite and 2 with shared bathroom. Magnificent main bedroom with fireplace and balcony overlooking pool and Juliet balcony overlooking lake. Centred TV room/lounge with a balcony with majestic views. This unique family home is a must see.

VAL DE VIE

2

R 4 100 000

2

Garages 1

WEB REF: 373132

LOCK UP AND GO ON THE VAL DE VIE POLO ESTATE. An exceptional opportunity to buy this charming 2 bedroom home situated in the main estate of Val De Vie. The home offers double volume open plan lounge with log burning fireplace, dining room with double doors leading to rear patio and garden and kitchen with separate scullery. The downstairs bedroom has a family bathroom and the gabled upstairs bedroom has a full en-suite. Outside there is a single garage and easy to maintain landscaped garden.

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FRANSCHHOEK

R 995 000 3

1

Garages 1

412456

POTENTIAL, POTENTIAL, POTENTIAL A spacious property well located on La Provence Street in Groendal. This house benefits from a large stand and flexible accommodation. There is undercover parking on the property.

The property is currently used as an office, but has all the amenities that would be needed for a family home. The property is currently zoned residential, but an application has been submitted to rezone to commercial.

FRANSCHHOEK

2

R1 650 000

1

Garages 1

417915

CONVENIENTLY LOCATED VILLAGE APARTMENT WITH GARAGE AND TERRACE. Brand new to the market is this excellent apartment in Artisan Village. This lovely flat is bright and airy and has been renovated to offer 2 bedrooms with built in cupboards, 1 shower room and an open plan kitchen and lounge opening onto a terrace with uninterrupted views. The flat is airconditioned throughout, and has a single lock up garage and a parking space under the terrace. Artisan Village is conveniently located close to the village and offers an interesting mix of residential spaces and businesses along with good security. A flat not to be missed!

R8 900 000

FRANSCHHOEK

4

4

Garages 1

373170

THATCHED HOME IN SOUGHT- AFTER LIFESTYLE ESTATE. This lovely thatch home has just come onto the market and offers the discerning buyer a main house with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and then within the home a separate adjoining 1 bedroom studio/apartment style dwelling.The large open plan living and dining room share a double sided feature fireplace and flows easily into a well-appointed and fitted kitchen with separate large scullery and laundry and the garage is accessed via a private outside entrance.

FRANSCHHOEK

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R6 950 000

3

Garages 1

360841

WELL SITUATED FAMILY HOME IN SOUGHT AFTER WINELANDS EQUESTRIAN ESTATE. The property is surrounded by the Solms Delta farm and takes advantage of the expansive mountain views in this area. A Cape Vernacular build, one enters the home into a lovely double volume family living room with open plan kitchen, lounge and dining room leading onto a patio and swimming pool area. Separate scullery/laundry with direct access to a single garage. 3 family bedrooms are located downstairs, Main bedroom has a dressing room and en suite bathroom, and the 2 additional bedrooms share a family bathroom.

FRANSCHHOEK

3

R6 850 000

3

Garages 2

WEB REF: 392624

MANHATTAN STYLE HOME ON WINE & FYNBOS ESTATE. This stunning Contemporary style home offers the discerning buyer a fabulous lock up and go or lifestyle property. It is well positioned with phenomenal views. The home has a volumous open plan kitchen, living and lounge area.The study/library area set slightly apart gives one a break away from the buzz of the living areas. The floors are solid wood throughout and the living areas lead out onto a north facing veranda and barbecue area.There are 3 bedrooms, 2 en suite, a double garage with storage space and quality finishes throughout. Lovely splash pool.

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FRANSCHHOEK

R21 000 000 VAT EXCL

March 2017

FRANSCHHOEK

R6 500 000

STUNNING 2.4HA LIFESTYLE SMALL-HOLDING INTHE HEART OF FRANSCHHOEK.Renovated country style farmhouse with upmarket finishes and contemporary styling. 3 bedrooms en-suite, spacious living room, dining room, country-style kitchen and an underground wine cellar. Upstairs includes large open plan study and 2nd living room. A large stoep and upstairs terrace provide awesome views.The grounds include mature trees, 2 income producing cottages separate to main house, 1.2 ha of grapes, olive, plum and other fruit trees. Also includes a large temperature controlled wine storage room and two staff cottages with separate access.

TRUE VILLAGE HOME WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE HIGH STREET. Open plan living areas create a seamless flow through the interiors and out into the garden beyond. A kitchen with separate scullery, a formal lounge, informal TV room and central dining area are ideal for family living. A wrap-around veranda ideal for outside entertaining overlooking garden and pool area.There are three, well proportioned, upstairs bedrooms and an en-suite guest bedroom downstairs.Two en-suite bathrooms (main & guest room) and a shared family bathroom complete this ideal family home.

Tom Clode +27 (0)79 955 3114 | Terry-Lee George +27 (0)82 650 9194

Tom Clode +27 (0)79 955 3114 | Terry-Lee George +27 (0)82 650 9194 WEB: 134653

WEB: 136410

FRANSCHHOEK

R19 500 000

5 BEDROOM HOME ON PRESTIGIOUS DOMAINE DES ANGES ESTATE. In the style of a grand chateau, this private residence offers a sense of old world opulence. Designed as the original La Residence Boutique Hotel, this home offers gracious living areas including a lounge, library, sunken tv room and an inspiring Provencal kitchen open plan to an opulent dining room leading out to the garden and dam. There are 5 bedrooms en-suite, a separate two bedroom apartment, double garage, and underground wine cellar. The Domaine des Anges estate is surrounded by private vineyards and includes a clubhouse gym, tennis court and communal swimming pool.

Tom Clode +27 (0)79 955 3114 | Terry-Lee George +27 (0)82 650 9194

WEB: 145458

FRANSCHHOEK

R6 995 000

FRANSCHHOEK

POA

GEORGIAN STYLE IN PRIME POSITION WITH STUNNING VIEWS. This property offers style and charm in a quiet avenue on Franschhoek’s urban edge. Double doors welcome you into an elegant open-plan space incorporating living, dining room and country kitchen.This leads to a covered verandah with glass stacking doors and views across the garden, pool, mountains and vineyards. Also on the ground floor is a large second bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Master bedroom suite upstairs has a private lounge/study and 2nd covered patio with gorgeous views.

DE OUDE ZILVERMIJN - BOSCHENDAL FOUNDERS ESTATE. Entertaining is integral to the design of this family focused home which incorporates enormous kitchen with scullery, dining, living room and library within a large double-volume space leading to a veranda and poolside bar lounge with views towards Franschhoek. Includes 6 -bedrooms, kids TV lounge, a private courtyard patio with outdoor fireplace, an underground wine cellar and a mezzanine homework study area.A separate cottage with a home office and upstairs studio compliments the main house. Includes 6 garages, games room, 2 staff quarters, utility room and 3 outside storage rooms.

Tom Clode +27 (0)79 955 3114 | Terry-Lee George +27 (0)82 650 9194 WEB: 137275

Tom Clode +27 (0)79 955 3114 | Terry-Lee George +27 (0)82 650 9194

WEB: 169892