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Scarborough now FireWiseDALEEN FOUCHÉ

SCARBOROUGH and MistyCliffs were officially recog-

nised as the first FireWise com-munities in the Cape Peninsuladuring an exhibition of its firefighting equipment on Sunday20 November.

The Cape Peninsula is notoriousfor veldfires in summer, with thehighest fire danger period betweenJanuary and February.

The two communities achievedthis internationally recognised sta-tus in only six months, when itcould take up to two years to meetthe stringent requirements.

To be recognised as a FireWizecommunity, a public meeting mustfirst be held, a committee must beformed and then the communitymust be assessed for fire risks.

A fire action plan must be devel-oped for a twelve month periodand, finally, an open day must be

held.Enviro Wildfire Services, an

NPO involved with fire preventionand fighting, and the Cape Penin-sula Fire Protection Association, acivic organisation, initiated andimplemented the FireWise conceptfor Scarborough and Misty Cliffs.

Scarborough and Ocean View ex-perienced a devastating veldfire in2008 (“Devastation,” People’s Post,29 January 2008), after which resi-dents became more aware of firerisks.

The Scarborough and MistyCliffs Fire Unit (SMCFU) was es-tablished two years ago to imple-ment preventative fire measuresand to empower the community toact in case of a veldfire.

The unit held several fund rais-ers to buy fire fighting equipmentsuch as pumps and hoses.

It has identified a need for an ex-ternal water source, due to the dropin water pressure during fire fight-ing efforts.

Rob Erasmus of Enviro WildfireServices says the Unit intends set-ting up water tanks on the peri-meter of Scarborough.

There are 25 volunteers in theunit, all of whom have received ba-sic fire fighting training. Erasmussays the focus of the unit is not tofight fires on the mountain side,but to protect the villages fromfires.

The volunteers will serve as afirst response to fire in and aroundtheir community and assist firefighters when they arrive on thescene.

SMCFU Chairman KevinO’Brien emphasised that initia-tives like this are necessary, espe-cially when there are several fires,and fire fighters can not respondimmediately.

He says the unit operates in con-junction with the City of CapeTown fire and Rescue Services andTable Mountain National Park.“Communities can do things for

themselves,” he says.Ian Schnetler, City of Cape

Town’s fire chief, encourages com-munities to become FireWise inconjunction with municipal fireservices and to operate within thestructures. “The emphasis is onpreventing fires.”

Thomas Mckenzie of FireWizeAfrica says the aim is for individu-al land and home owners to take re-sponsibility for their own safety.

FireWise was started in Americato enable communities to preventand mitigate the effects and dam-age of wild fires.

The concept was brought toSouth Africa by FFA, a group ofcompanies that specialise in Inte-grated Fire Management.

Several other Far South commu-nities with existing Fire VolunteerUnits, like Ocean View, Masi-phumelele and Red Hill, are beingassisted by Enviro Wildfire Servic-es and City of Cape Town’s DisasterManagement, to become FireWize.

FISH FOR AFRICA: An unexpected sardine run passed Noordhoek and Hout Bay over the weekend and drew eager crowds to the beaches. Readmore on page four. Photo: Edrea Du Toit

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They need any scrap of wool, but es-pecially thick wool, to continue theirgood work.

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Modern twist onChristmas storyFISH HOEK Full Gospel Churchpresents Change for Life, a contempo-rary version of the Christmas story.

Anyone is welcome to join them forhearty carol singing, followed by alively and funny, yet serious, produc-tion.

It will be staged on 2-4 Decemberat the Church, 30 Main Road, FishHoek, from 19:00 to 21:00.

The cast includes pupils from vari-ous schools in the Valley, musicians.Vocals are directed by Katja Coppola.

Entrance is free, but booking is es-sential.

This can be done online at www.ful-lies.eventbrite.com or you can callthe church office on (021) 782 2986 toreserve your tickets.

Gear up forGlen festivalIN an effort to boost community activ-ity on The Glen Strip and Glencairn,Gerald of The Collectables Café, as-sisted by Vee Bush, who works as barlady at The Glen Pub, are collaborat-ing with others to host a Festive Fami-ly Day of Fun. The first craft marketand street festival will be held on Sat-urday 10 December 2011.

Visitors will be treated to a varietyof entertainment and arts and crafts.The festival will provide a platformfor local artists to showcase theirworks. Market stalls will cost R30 per2m x 2m space and crafters must bringtheir own tables and gazebos. If theweather is inclement, a back-up planis in place. Trading will last from 09:00to sunset, followed by a night of enter-tainment on The Glen Strip.

Local businesses on The Glen Stripinclude The Glen Pub, The Bay Caféon Glen, The Collectables Café, TheViper Lounge and The Pizza Khaya.This is a non-profit event and en-trance is free to the public. Visit thefacebook page “The Glen Strip CraftMarket” and www.theglenlodgeand-pub.co.za. For more information andstall bookings call Vee on 076 142 1786

Thumbs up for baboon groupTHE Baboon Liaison Group(BLG) was one of a numberof biodiversity stakeholderswho received Certificates ofAcknowledgement from theCity of Cape Town at the re-cent Cape Biodiversity Net-working Forum.

The Forum was arrangedby Cape Action for Peopleand the Environment(CAPE), a partnership forsustaining life in the fynbosand adjacent shores.

The BLG is a partnershipbetween civil society andthe three authorities re-sponsible for baboon man-agement (City of CapeTown, CapeNature andSANParks).

“Volunteers working topreserve our biodiversitymust be taken seriously.

“We need to understandthe authorities’ legal re-quirements and processes,”said Doug Tunbridge,Chairperson of the BLG.

This emergedas akeyout-come of the forum – the needfor the authorities to com-municate the legal require-ments and processes, and torespect the work of volun-teers and provide the neces-sary resources and input toempower them.

The City’s acknowledge-ment of the role of volun-teers was welcomed, but allagreed that much more

must be done to improvecommunication betweenauthorities and the differ-ent volunteer groups.

The BLG called for aclear delineation of respon-sibilities within the part-nership, and commitmentand respect from the au-thorities.

“Without these we will beaccountable to our childrenand grandchildren who willonly hear stories about ourwonderful Peninsula ba-boons,” said Tunbridge.

For more information re-garding the BLG, contactDoug Tunbridge, Chairper-son of the BLG on083 250 3452

Buy local thisfestive seasonAS part of the 93 000 Jobs forMandela Day Campaign, Proud-ly South African (PDSA) haslaunched a Buy Local this Fes-tive Season Campaign.

Director of Mag-Mark, Toni Tick-on, speaks about being ProudlySouth African and keeping it local-ly-made. Mag-Mark® – a South Af-rican company producing magnetickeepsake products – was estab-lished in 1994. The company startedout with three staff members andnow employs two staff. “Our flag-shipproduct is theunique, patentedMag-Mark® bookmark, which hassmall magnets on the inside andclips over the page so it stays put,says Tickon. “This is ideal for smallgifts, greeting cards, gift tags, sou-venirs and giveaways. We place em-phasise quality, and carefully mag-netise our products by hand to sup-port local employment. TheseMag-Marks® can be customised

with your own designs. We also pro-duce a range of fridge magnets andbuttonbadges.”He says thenew, ex-panded, range includes beaded keyrings and beaded fridge magnets,Foto Mag-Marks® and portraitfridge magnets. The products aresold mainly at tourist and curiosshops, and bookshops such as Ex-clusive Books countrywide. Tickonsays challenges faced by the compa-ny has been “the reduced sales asa direct result of cheap Chinese im-ports and reduced inflows from thetourism market.”

“Wechose tobeProudlySouthAf-rican because our products arenearly 100% South African and weare really proud of that. We havefound that being Proudly South Af-rican is also becoming a real incen-tive to local customers.”

His inspirational words for SouthAfrican consumers and entrepre-neurs are: “Vasbyt, things will getbetter!”

A little can go such a long wayTAMMY PETERSEN

DO YOU have canned goodsstacked in the back of your cup-boards because the children don’tlike what’s inside? Or did you buymore groceries than you needed?Donate it to a worthy cause –there are people in your commu-nity who need it.

Living Hope, in conjunctionwith People’s Post and Fruit andVeg City, will be spreading thecheer with hampers of hope todisadvantaged communities andthey need your help to make it asuccess.

By donating dry food items orcanned goods, you can spread theChristmas cheer to those who arefacing trying times.

Living Hope has been offeringhelp for the past 10 years. The or-ganisation consists of four minis-tries – Living Grace, LivingRight, Living Way and LivingCare – each performing a vitalrole in the upliftment of commu-

nities in Ocean View,Masiphumelele, Fish Hoek, RedHill and Capricorn.

Living Grace is a ministry inMuizenberg, which acts as a safehaven for the homeless. It is nota shelter, as such, but a placewhere the needy can store theirbelongings in a locker, eat abreakfast and lunch, or just takea quick shower.

There is also a SubstanceAbuse Recovery Programme,which gives people a hand-up (on-to their feet) instead of a hand-out.

Living Right is divided intothree sections. The first consistsof health counsellors who comefrom the community they workin. They help with health-relatedinquiries and also educate peopleon chronic diseases and the im-portance of knowing their HIVstatus. The second section con-sists of support group facilitators,who meet people on a weekly ba-sis and help them work through

their life issues. The third sectioncomprises life skills educators,who teach children from a youngage.

The Living Right ministry is, inessence, all about prevention.

Not everybody has the time toget involved in charity work, buta simple donation will help youbring some sunlight to a family’sholiday season.

Interested in making a change?Drop your donation into anymarked box at a Fruit and VegCity store in the greater CapeTown area; at People’s Post’s of-fice in Tokai; or at Living Hope inCapri, and consider it your gooddeed for the month.

In early December, the food willbe made into Hampers of Hopeand distributed to the communi-ties in need.

For more information, phoneKaren Peiser on 083 465 9594.

Start packing – you only haveuntil 2 December to change a fam-ily’s outlook on life.

A treat for the ears of music loversMILITARY music lovers take notethat the Army Band Cape Town willhold its annual year-end Gala Con-cert on Friday 2 December in the

Cape Town City Hall.The concert starts at 19:30 and

tickets cost R30.Tickets will be available at the

door.For more information and to pur-

chase tickets call Jerome Mecloenon 082 561 4539.

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At Living Hope, we change lives every day andhave a passion to see people get better. As with

any organization, we are needing help to continueproviding the health care needs of the people inour community. Without this help, we will struggle toprovide the love, dignity, hope and care to the peoplewho are suffering in our communities every day .

In order to raise funds for the Health Care Centre, we are givingpeople the opportunity to purchase a light that will represent the liveswe have changed and enable us to shine the light of hope a littlelonger. The money raised with the purchase of lights will be used tocontinue providing the very best care for our patients at the HealthCare Centre.

So, how can you switch on hope?

This fundraising campaign will run from October to December 2011and we will finish the campaign with a thanks giving service on11 December at the Chapel in Capri from 18h00 to 20h00. Anyone iswelcome to attend this special service.

For more information about this campaign, please phone021 784 2800 and speak to Olivia.

Living Hope is a registered Non-Profit Organization 012-587.

Changing lives, givinghope, one light at a time

Simply buy a light from Living Hope in Capri, at AP Jones in Fish Hoekor at the King of Kings baptist church in Sun Valley. You can also visitour website www.livinghope.co.za, follow the link on the home pageand switch on hope. For every light that is purchased, you will begiven a receipt with a reference number that will serve as proof ofyour purchase. Companies who purchase lights will be able toreceive a Section 18A certificate as confirmation of their purchaseand in this way receive something back.

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NEW COMMANDER:Captain JacquelineAlice Johnson wasappointed stationcommander at Si­mon’s Town SAPS on1 November. Johnsonjoined the South Afri­can police service on1988, was trained atbishop Lavis Collegeand worked at BishopLavis, Fish Hoek,Ocean Viewe andMuiznberg stations.Shehas been in­volved in variouscommunity projects.She was appointedcoordinator of Muizn­berg cluster.Photo: Supplied

Road closure for carnivalTHERE will be travel delays in Sun Val-ley on Saturday 3 December between10:00 and 12:00 due to the annual eMzant-si Carnival.

Kommetjie Road (M65) will be partiallyclosed between the Sunnyacres ShoppingCentre (next to Masiphumelele) and thefourway intersection with Ou KaapseWeg (M6), with a stop / go system in ef-fect.

Ou Kaapse Weg (M64) will have onelane closed from the M65/M6 intersec-tion to the Longbeach and Sun Valley

malls (Buller Louw Drive).Drivers wishing to travel to and from

Ocean View and Kommetjie are advisedto go via Scarborough and use Red Hill(M66).

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SAPS confiscate thousands of mandraxIN an ongoing effort to eradicatethe scourge of drugs, Muizen-berg police, under the commandof Warrant Officer Adrian An-dries, recently confiscated a sub-stantial quantity of narcotics.

On Saturday 12 November Mui-zenberg police received informa-tion about a white Ford XR6 trans-porting narcotics to the Vrygrondarea. It was spotted and followed in-to Frederick Street, Vrygrond.

At about 16:45 the vehicle was or-dered to a halt. The driver and soleoccupant, a 35 year-old male, wasapproached and searched.

A thorough search of the vehiclefollowed and 2430 mandrax tabletswere found under the right frontfender.

The suspect was arrested for deal-ing in narcotics and detained at Mu-izenberg police station. He ap-peared in the Muizenberg Magis-trates Court on Tuesday15 November.

Acting station commander Lieu-tenant Colonel Helena Mouton saidthat meaningful successes such asthese can only be achieved if thecommunity gets involved and pro-vides information.

She said that this recent successhas kept an untold number of peo-ple from falling prey to these poi-sons.

.Over the past weekend numer-ous arrests have been made duringcrime prevention operations in theMuizenberg Cluster.

A total of 60 persons were arrest-ed for offences ranging from at-tempted murder to outstandingwarrants.

One arrest was made for theft,one for outstanding warrants, onefor domestic violence, and 26 peoplewere arrested for driving under theinfluence of an intoxicating sub-stance.

Four people were arrested forpossession of narcotics, two werearrested for possession of stolen

property and three people were ar-rested for contravention of the roadtraffic act.

Three were arrested for posses-sion of crayfish, one person was ar-rested for rape and four people werearrested for assault and crimen in-juria.

One person was arrested for theftof a motor vehicle, two were arrest-ed for malicious damage to proper-ty, two were arrested for possessionof dangerous weapons, one personwas arrested for dealing in liquorwithout a license and one personwas arrested for attempted murder.

.Three people were robbed atknife point on Long Beach at theKakapo wreck, on Monday 14 No-vember.

Two British tourists and a localwere walking near the wreck whentwo men jumped out with knives.Jewellery, a camera and binocularswere stolen.

Fish Hoek police are investigat-ing the incident.

CONFISCATED: Bags containing 2430 mandrax tablets confiscated by theMuizenberg police. Photo: Supplied

Propertyrelatedcrime on theincreaseTHE Simon’s Town police announced thatcrimes like burglaries and theft out of motorvehicles have become a concern in the Si-mon’s Town area.

Residents in Gleincairn, GleincairnHeights, Simonskloof and Mudock Valleyare asked to be vigilant and report any sus-picious persons. The community is askednot to leave valuables like laptops, naviga-tors and cellphones in their cars.

Perpetrators are targeting houses andcars during the early hours of the morningand burglars access houses through openwindows.

.On Friday 18 November at about 20:30constable Adanaan Bloem and constableMichell Mentor noticed a red golf parked onRed Hill Road. The constables approachedthe driver and while speaking to him, theynoticed black bags in the vehicle. On furtherinvestigation, they found a plasma TV andDVD in the suspect’s possession, for whichno reasonable explanation could be given.He was arrested for the possession of pre-sumed stolen property. Later the goods werelinked to a housebreaking in Simon’s Town.Two more suspects, residing in the Gugu-lethu area, were arrested for housebreakingand theft. The suspects appeared in Simon’stown magistrate court on Monday 21 No-vember. Two suspects in housebreakingwill remain in custody for further investiga-tion.

Captain Jacqueline Alice Johnson, sta-tion commander of Simon’s Town police,says she is impressed with Simon’s Townpolice’s vigilance.

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A hint of nostalgia at theultimate garden partyIT might have been cold outside, but insidethe beautiful Touareg tent the atmospherewas filled with warmth and love. Once againFran Spencer Smith held her annual charitydrive garden tea for Anchors Away Village,in the beautiful grounds of Nova Constantia,surrounded by masses of roses and otherbeautiful flowers on Saturday 5 November.

Fran thanked the owners of Nova Con-stantia, Ric and Margie Garratt, for theirgenerosity in once again hosting the An-chors Away Village fundraiser in their pic-turesque surroundings. Spencer Smith in-troduced the guest speaker, Reverend KyleWoodrow, who gave a stirring message andencouraged the audience to dig deep. André

Smit mesmerised the ladies with his sing-ing. The raffle added to the fun. YvonneMiles choreographed a nostalgic fashionshow with clothes supplied by A P Jones,Mystic Rose, Mediterraneo, Kalidas, NewFashion, Freaky Feast and With Attitude.The morning was compèred by Nikki Green.Fran thanked the sponsors and all the help-ers and volunteers behind the scenes. Allfunds go towards Anchors Away Village forthe intellectually challenged, to be run bythe physically challenged. This charityevent is now firmly ensconced as a societyevent on the calendar. To ensure a tablebooking for next year’s event, contact Franon (021) 786 1321 or 083 357 5822.

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No loaves but plenty of fishTERESA FISCHER

“We don’t have beef or chicken, but we’llhave fish,” remarked someone at Noord-hoek Beach, where shoals of sardineswere driven close to shore by a team ofseals on Saturday 19 November.

As the word spread, hordes of people ar-rived at the beach, grabbing bucket loads offish.

Dr Carl van der Lingen, a scientist at theDepartment of Agriculture, Forestry andFisheries, says he thinks an extensive redtide bloom of gonyaulax polygramma – a typeof phytoplankton – was linked to the appear-ance of the sardines. The red tide extends be-tween Walker Bay and St Helena Bay.

He says this species is not toxic, but falling

oxygen levels when these micro-organismsdecay, has been linked to fish kills in otherparts of the world.

He explains that the sardines could havebeen trapped by the red tide, as they wouldn’twant to swim through it, and then they wereprobably driven further onshore by preda-tors such as seals.

The fish would probably be able to detectthe gonyaulax through smell, taste or by trap-ping them with their gill rakers.

Van der Lingen says there were similarblooms in False Bay in 1962 and 2007.

Sardines have also been reported in Kom-metjie and Hout Bay this week. He has re-ceived reports of sardines washing up deadnear Koeberg, Melkbostrand and Struisbaai,although these have not been confirmed.

“I wouldn’t recommend eating them,” he

says, although he adds that if there had beenany toxicity, this would have been apparentby now.

Van Der Lingen says the appearance of thesardines is different to the run, which hap-pens annually off the Kwa Zulu Natal Coastin winter, when a subpopulation of sardinesmove up the east coast to spawn. However,predators forcing fish shoals to the coast canhappen in both cases.

He could not say if the prolific rare buoybarnacles, sighted at Noordhoek, Hout Bay,Muizenberg, Hermanus, False Bay andCamps Bay earlier this month, can be linkedto the red tide.

FULL BASKET: Diwonge Moyo with his haul.Photo: TeresaFischerFRENZY: Seals feast on the shoals of sardines while sea gulls swoop from above. Photo: Teresa Fischer

FULL UP: This baby seal takes a break from theaction. Photo: Teresa Fischer

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A SECOND hiker has broken a legtrying to escape muggers on themountain. The latest incident hap-pened on the Karbonkelberg inHout Bay on Saturday 19 Novem-ber and involved three suspects,one of whom was allegedly armedwith a knife.

Earlier this month, a 23-year-oldman from Rondebosch broke his legrunning away from two men betweenDevils’s Peak and the Rhodes Memo-rial (“Mountain muggers escape,”People’s Post, 8 November 2011).

It was reported that JJ Badenhorst(33) of Greenpoint and his friend,Thea Burger, fell 10-15m. Burger man-aged to land on her feet and ran abouttwo kilometres to fetch help.

Merle Collins, SanParks spokesper-son says police are still investigatingthe incident.

Meanwhile one of the victims of amugging, which occurred on Wednes-day 16 November, has praised the ex-cellent response he received fromSanParks.

This incident was widely reportedas having happened in Cecilia Forest,but Mike Heime insists it actuallyhappened in Kirstenbosch Gardens,in the nursery section of the gardens,where the plants are grown.

He says this is the route that peoplewith dogs would walk when accessingthe mountain through the gardens.

Collins confirms the incident hap-pened in Kirstenbosch Gardens, but

the relevant spokesperson from Kirst-enbosch could not be reached by thetime of going to press.

Heime says he was walking with agroup of five women when they werepounced on by two men, who ap-peared to be armed, at about 11:30. “Ilaid into them with my walkingstick,” says Heime. One of the womenalso prodded one of the muggers withher stick.

The muggers managed to rip a back-pack off one the women, but they werelater caught at Constantia Nek. He-ime, who is from Llandudno, phonedTMNP senior section ranger, HiltonBlumeris, on his cellphone.

“The Parks Board gets such adversepublicity, but their response was ex-cellent.” Heime says police, rangerswith dogs and Mountain Men Securi-ty all joined in the search.

The suspects were walking casuallydown from the car park when theywalked straight into the arms of theMountain Men Security.

The group had managed to give agood description of the pair.

Table Mountain Safety Forumchairperson, Marc Truss, extendedhis sympathies to the recent victims.He says the voluntary forum faces a“logistical nightmare” trying to facili-tate communication between all theroleplayers, but that they were not go-ing to give up and would continue toput preventative measures in place.

In July Claudio Massenz (26) frac-tured his skull after a fall aboveRhodes Memorial while trying toevade his attackers.

eMzantsi Carnival confirmedDALEEN FOUCHÉ

THE annual eMzantsi carnivalwill take place on 3 December asplanned, due to the generosity ofa local bank.

Last week, People’s Post re-ported that the carnival was injeopardy, due to delayed pay-ment from the National LotteryDistribution Trust Fund(NLDTF) (“Far South carnival injeopardy,” People’s Post, 15 No-vember 2011).

Sam Pearce, managing direc-tor of the Harlequin Founda-tion, the NPO that administersthe eMzantsi community-build-ing project, says Standard Bankin Fish Hoek approved an over-draft up to the level of the foun-dation’s assets, which accumu-lates to R250 000. Pearce says thebridging finance from StandardBank will cover the “most ur-gent costs” for the day. “Wewould like to thank them for

their faith and support.”The delay in approval of funds

was allegedly caused by a re-quest for deviation from theoriginal use of grant money, inthe most recent progress report.Pearce, however, says the devia-tion was requested in July 2010.

The NLDTF is yet to maketheir decision regarding fund-ing for the Harlquin Foundationand will decide during a meet-ing on 23 November.

Pearce says the eMzantsiteam is “relieved” that the car-nival will go ahead as planned.

She says the team is also find-ing innovative and creativeways to save money, like “recy-cling” last year’s posters.

The Harlequin FoundationBoard also paid tribute to theeMzantsi team of staff, facilita-tors and mapiko crew who havecommitted to working withoutpay this month. “They ensuredthat the hundreds of children

and youth on our pre-primary,primary, high school and inter-cultural music projects whohave been working together allyear get the opportunity toshowcase their achievementson the day,” Says Pearce.

She further thanked Touaregfor their “community spirit” inproviding tents at the post-Car-nival show.

“We appeal to the public tocome to the intersection of Kom-metjie Road and Ou Kaapse Wegat 10:00 on 3 December to sup-port the community-building ef-forts of our youth at the fabu-lous ‘eMzantsi Goes BOS!’ pa-rade and onstage at the finals ofthe ‘eMzantsi’s Got Talent’ com-petition, compèred by Rob vanVuuren at the Sun Valley greenafterwards.”

For more information, seewww.emzantsi.org.za orwww.facebook.com/emzantsior call (021) 785-1515.

CARNIVAL FUN: Great fun was had at last year’s eMzantsi carnival. Photo: Daleen Fouché

Knife­wieldingmuggers chasemountain hikers

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Meet the original twitcherTERESA FISCHER

IT was a surprise to discover thatworld-renowned birder, Ian Sin-clair, author of the Sasol bird fieldguides, lives in Pinelands.

“I keep it a secret...to avoid ‘budg-ie calls’,” he says, by which hemeans calls from strangers askinghim to help identify little brownbirds in their gardens.

“Sometimes it’s easy. Like, if it’san ostrich.”

Sinclair is not the earnest, scien-tific type one might expect. He saysjust what he thinks, prolific swearwords included, and often his opin-ions are unexpected.

For example,what sparkedhis in-terest in birds?

He makes a catapult gesture, andreplies, “From school... it’s calledhooliganism.”

He grew up in Ireland, and col-lectedbirds’ eggs as ahobby.To findthe nests, you had to have a lot ofknowledge about the creatures, heexplains, adding that the rule wasthat you only took one egg.

He used to clamber down 500-footcliffs looking for Puffins, once fall-ing into the sea in the process.

In adulthood he started a compa-ny offering expeditions through Af-

rica, “showing visitors all the dick-ie birds.” He was the first person tooffer commercial birding tours, butnow there are many companies do-ing the same.

He points out that the groupswould also see many mammals onhis tours. Lookingout forweebirds,one “is not going to miss thosegreat, big, hairy jobs,” he says.

Sinclair flies around the world al-most as much as the birds he hasspent his life studying. His upcom-ing jaunt is a three-week stint in SriLanka.

“I live frugally,” he says. “I onlydrive a Porsche.”

I assume he is joking, but he hasover 10 books on the market andhalf a million copies of the fieldguides have been sold. Sinclaireven used to edit material for DavidAttenborough.

“It’s the best-illustrated fieldguide in the world, nogal,” he addsmodestly. Sinclair drops Afrikaanswords into his speech, slightly in-congruous with his Irish accent. Hepicked up the taal during a year inAntarctica when he had only Afri-kaans men for company.

He says there are bird watchersall over the world, and it is the fast-est growing hobby, second only to

bowling – which he calls ‘old mansmarleys.’

He scoffs at the image of a bird-watcher as “an old biddy in a jacketwith patches on the elbows, in a fun-ny-looking hat.”

They are not silent types either...“Birders are the noisiest bunch of

[swearword] I have ever comeacross,” he says.

Sinclair is as funny as he is ob-servant. As I take his photograph,he chirps: “Ah, there’s a bird watch-ing me.”

A fat dove is peering over the gut-ter at him.

As I leave, he calls out: “Look,there’s the Porsche.”

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Art for a good causeSIMONSBAY FINE ART willhold their monthly exhibitionon 25-26 November from 10:00 to17:00 and on Sunday 27 Novem-ber from 10:00 to 15:00 at the Si-mon’s Town Library Hall oppo-site the Police Station.

They are starting their Christ-mas drive to collect goodies fortheir Baskets of Cheer for FishHoek Meals on Wheels, andwould appreciate any little treatyou would like to bring.

Works of art by local artists,bronze sculptures, handmade

glassware and jewellery, hand-painted ceramics and handmadecards and tags, which wouldmake excellent gifts, will beavailable.

Ray Potter will provide themusic. Refreshments will beavailable, also in aid of FishHoek Meals on Wheels.

You can also watch Art inProgress and chat with the art-ists.

For more information pleasecall Maureen on (021) 788 8897 orVenitia on (021) 786 2300.

Tee off of animal welfareTHE People’s Dispensary for SickAnimals (PDSA) will host a fund-raising golf day at Rondebosch GolfClub on Thursday 8 December from11:00.

They appeal to all players to jointhem after the game for a meal, achance to win great prizes, and theopportunity to socialise and ex-change business cards, while enjoy-ing the ambience of the conferenceroom.

It is also an opportunity to find

out more about the PDSA.Proceeds will be used to provide

welfare veterinary services.Participants will pay R1600 per

fourball.All fourball entry fees and spon-

sorships are payable by Friday 25November.

Phone, fax, or email your entry toMelanie Daniels on mdaniels@pd-sa.org.za or Sandy Okkers onsokkers@pdsa.org.za.

Phone (021) 638 5134.

A vision for Cape TownTHE SA-Ger-manChamberofCommerce, inconjunctionwith the French-SA chamber ofCommerce,hosted a mem-bers’ luncheonin honour of theMayor onThursday 13 Oc-tober.

It was held atthe WinchesterMansion Hotelin Sea Point.

At the eventthe Mayorshared her vi-sion for CapeTown.

DINE: Anja Tambusso and Thomas Kallenbach had a blast at theluncheon. Photos: Michael Kirner

Dirk Conradie and Brigitte Letelliertake a quick break for a picture.

Guests Layo Sereki and André Cromhout smile for thecamera.

Katja Haslinger and Claus Lauter enjoyed the day’s festivi­ties.

Mike van Eyssen, Diedre O’Niell, Allison Kraemer and Craig Wynne take time out to pose.

Doctor Peter Sutter, Yumiko Fijiwara from the consul of Japan andIrene Flueckiger, the Consul General of Switzerland.

Konstantinos Soulios (Consul of Greece) and ThierryLeclair (French­SA chamber of Commerce and Industry).

Klaus Stross from the Consul of Germany, Alderman Patricia de Lilleand Antoine Michon from the Consul of France.

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Fish Hoek CPF AGMTHE Fish Hoek Community Police Forum(CPF) will hold their AGM on 30 November2011 in the Minor Hall Fish Hoek Civic Cen-tre at 19:30.

Individuals as well as persons represent-ing businesses, churches, associations andneighbourhood watches are invited to at-tend. Only those organisations, associationsand community businesses that have regis-

tered with the CPF are eligible to vote. Nomi-nations are invited for electionof office bear-ers at the AGM. The election of a chairmanfor the Sector One Crime Forum will also beon the agenda.

It is therefore in the best interest of all en-tities to attend and ensure representation oftheir interests. For more ifnormation or tomake nominations or suggestions, contactthe chairman, Andre Blom, on cell082 622 8180 or email pablom@xsinet.co.za.

Xmas shopping at craft marketTHE Dutch Reformed Church, Fish Hoek, willhold their annual craft market on its premisesin Kommetjie Road, from Thursday 24 Novem-ber to Saturday 26 November.

The market will be open from 09:00 to 17:00on Thursday and Friday and 09:00 to 12:00 onSaturday. For more information, phone SarieNaudé on (021) 785 5535.

DE NOORDHOEK HOTEL is offer-ing a free night in the plush hotel,valid from 5 January to 30 Septem-ber 2012, for the most enthusiasticcommunity flagbearer in this year’seMzantsi Carnival on Saturday 3December.

Every year the Carnival flies theflags of all south peninsula commu-nities in the parade, but sometimesthey end up being carried by peoplefrom other areas.If you are proud of your community,come along with family and friendsand fly the flag for your neighbour-hood! To register, call the eMzantsioffice on (021) 785 1515.

The flagbearer who mobilises theloudest-and-proudest group, whobest personifies the eMzantsi spiritof “making unity fun” will win theprize.

And don’t forget eMzantsi is goingBOS, so wear green!

Fly the flag for eMzantsi and win!

CATCH THE BREEZE: Jenni Bovim flew the Scar­borough flag at last year’s carnival.

Mr Lonely driven to deathTHE Cart Horse Protection Associationin Epping is calling for the maximumsentence to be imposed on three menfrom Freedom Farm, following whatthey say is one of the worst cases of abusethey have encountered in many years.

On Saturday 23 July, a Patrol Inspector re-ceived an urgent call from a resident onFreedom Farm, near Belhar, informing herthat a horse was lying down in the field be-hind his property.

On arrival, she was totally unprepared forthe shocking scene she witnessed. Mr Lone-ly (ID No. 916) was lying prostrate on theground, partially covered by a blanket, histesticles badly swollen and with open welts.The inspector immediately injected himwith a strong painkiller. As the horse wasunable to stand, she requested help fromthree bystanders to carry him to the horse-box. En-route to the Epping Clinic Associa-tion’s consultant veterinarian was called toassist and treat Mr Lonely.

The Association’s Megan White says: “Af-ter examining Mr Lonely and inserting adrip, the vet informed us that the horse wassuffering severe shock and trauma, was de-hydrated due to fatigue, and had extensivewounds and swelling on both sides of thegroin area.

His hindquarters giving way, the horsewas unable to stand. The vet said this waslikely caused by human cruelty and abuse,and that the prognosis was poor. Sadly, Mr

Lonely died at 16:00, and it is safe to say thathe was driven to exhaustion.”

Witnesses have come forward stating thatthey had seen Mr Lonely pulling a cart driv-en by the owner and two youths over a peri-od of three days. They had allegedly beendriving recklessly around the farm for longperiods, beating the horse with a stick anda rubber hose.

White says that given the extreme natureof the abuse, and the torment that Mr Lonelyendured, the Management and Committee ofthe Cart Horse Protection Association unan-imously agreed that charges be laid againstthe owner and two drivers involved in thisincident.

On Wednesday 26 October, the owner ofMr Lonely was arrested and charged withcontravening the Animal Protection Act. Heappeared briefly in the Bellville Magis-trate’s Court and because he has a fixed ad-dress, was granted bail of R3 000. The twodrivers were arrested on Tuesday 8 Novem-ber, and have been charged with the sameoffence.

“We need the court to send a strong mes-sage that as a decent and civilised society wewill not tolerate animal abuse,” says White.

If you see cart horses on the road, pleaseprovide the Association with feedback byquoting their ID number and posting yourcomment on facebook or the website:www.carthorse.org.za Phone (021) 535 3435,Fax (021) 535 3434 or Email: info@cart-horse.org.za

SURF’S UP: Surfers play on the waves at Kommetjie Phtos: Mykel­Trent Atterbury

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Thursday 24 NovemberFishHoek:TheFishHoekRatepay-ers and Residents Association (FH-VRRA) is holding its QuarterlyGeneral Meeting at the Fish HoekCivic Centre Main Hall at 19:30. Thespeaker will be local architect An-dré Rademeyer on “Fish Hoek: Dis-aster or Delight? Architectural andUrban Errors: can they be reme-died?”

All are welcome and refresh-ments will be provided. For infor-mation phone 072 290 2416.

Fish Hoek: An illustrated lectureon “The Power of the Unexpected”will be given at the Minor Hall ofthe Fish Hoek Civic Centre at 19:30.

The speaker is Brian Warner, Pro-fessor Emeritus at UCT. The eventishostedby theSouthernPeninsulaAstronomy Club. Tickets, R30 forthe public and R10 for members, areavailable at the door only. For moreinformation phone (021) 785 3713.

Fish Hoek: South PeninsulaHandicraft Centre will have anopen day at the Civic Centre from09:00 to 12:00.

Various crafts will be demosn-trated. There will be Christmas ta-bles, and tea and refreshments onsale. Entrance is free.

Friday 25 NovemberFish Hoek: Two of South Africa’smost popular singers, Beverley Chi-

at (Soprano) and Violina Anguelov(Mezzo-soprano) will present a scin-tillating variety of favourite songs,ranging from the fun in Mozart’sCosi Fan Tutti to the dynamics of WestSide Story.

Accompanied by Victor Tichart,these top professional musicianswill provide an exciting finale tothis year’s concerts for Fish HoekFriends of Music.

The venue is Fish Hoek CivicCentre at 19:30.

Tickets cost R50 (children R10)from Valyland Boutique, BiltongBars (Main Road and LongbeachMall), or at thedoor. Formore infor-mation, phone George at(021) 788 5542 or Carole on(021) 782 2282.

Fish Hoek: Goods like books,rummage, bric a brac and cd’s willbe on sale at the Fish Hoek CivicCentre form 08:00 to 10:00.

Saturday 26 NovemberSun Valley: The Car Boot Sale andMorning Market will be held at St

Brendan’s Church, on the corner ofCorvette and Longboat streets. Thisis the Grande Finale Bumper sale ofthe year. It will be held from 07:00to 13:00.Bookyour lane early atR25.Contact Maggi-Mae on (021) 782 9263or 082 892 4502 or mvi-das@mweb.co.za

Sunday 27 NovemberScarborough: Scarborough’s ownguitar maestro Derek Gripper willbe performing at the Scarboroughcommunity hall at 18:00. This is afundraising concert for JoshuaWright to represent South Africa inKSISA Karate champs in New Yorknext year.

For tickets and enquiries contactElaine on (021) 780 1558 or083 364 6237. Tickets will also beavailable at the door.

Wednesday 30 NovemberSimon’s Town: Change of Pro-gramme - Audrey Read will presenta talk and slides on her visit to Pro-vence at the Simon’s Town Muse-

um, Court Road at 17:30 for 18:00.Entrance is R15 and includes a glassof wine or fruit juice. For further in-formation, phone Yvonne Mawhin-ney on (021) 786 4404.

Saturday 3 DecemberSimon’s Town: The ChristmasHomemade Shoppe morning mar-ket will be held in the old libraryhall, opposite the Simon’s Town po-lice station, from 09:00 to 12:00.Cakes, food and crafts will be onsale. Contact Susan 073 213 8887 or(021) 783 2244.

Sun Valley: Sun Valley Group ofschools ar hosting a Family FunDay at the Sun Valley Sportsgrounds. Primary school pupils payR60, High school students pay R55and parents pay R20. For more in-formation, phone (021)

Sunday 4 DecemberFish Hoek: A garage sale will beheld at 12 Oriole Road, Peers Hillfrom 09:00 to 13:00. For more infor-mation phone (021) 785 3349.

Local police reach outMEMBERS of the Ocean Viewand Muizenberg police, led byCaptain Patricia Raphael, visit-ed the Oncology unit of the RedCross Children’s Hospital onWednesday 26 October.

The Women’s Network aims toreach out to various sectors ofthe community, with a morecaring and nurturing ap-proach, showing another sideof police work.

Captain Raphael and 23 mem-bers from twopolice stations, do-nated and handed out partypacks to the excited young re-cipients.

Members of the police weremoved by the experience, someeven to tears, but the positive at-titude of the patients encour-aged them to interact with thechildren through reading andplaying. The staff and patientsexpressed their gratitude for thedonations and the words of anunknown songwriter rang true:“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.”

CARING BUNCH: Members of the Muizenberg and Ocean View police visitthe oncology unit at Red Cross Children’s Hospital Photo: Supplied

NUMBERS GAME: The 11­year­old pupils of Paul Greyling Primary school celerated this special date on 11November. The photo was taken at 11:11. Photo: Supplied

A TRIBUTE: At the Fish Hoek Chamber of Commerce and Industry AGM onThursday 3 November, tribute was paid to Frank Johnstone, manager of theFish Hoek City Improvement District, for his many years of dedication. John­stone and his wife are moving to Johannesburg in January. From left are FritzBing, Frank Johnstone, Pat Lawson and Doug Wakeford. Photo: Annelien Dean

Big walk for little babiesA WALKATHON to raise fundsfor abandoned and vulernable ba-bies will be held on Saturday 3 De-cember. The walk will start fromthe lighthouse in Mouille Pointat 09:00. “Big Walk for Little

Feet” will raise funds for Watoto.Their first project in Cape Townis to open a home for vulnerableand abandoned babies. The walk-athon consists of a 10km and 5kmroute. Registration, is R30 per

adult, R10 per child of 6-18 yearsand free for children under 5. Reg-ister for the walkathon by con-tacting Glenda at Watoto on (021)439 4721 or glenda.mo-nayong@watoto.com. For moreinformation on Watoto visit theirwebsite on: www.watoto.com

Look out for eclipseGET OUT your space suits andspecial glasses because on Fri-day 25 November, a solar eclipsewill sweep across the southernpart of the world, with the mooncovering about 80% of the Sun atthe south pole. We, here in CapeTown, are lucky to be closeenough to Antarctica to see theeclipse.

Because the sun is too brightto look at safely, special solar fil-ters or projection methodsshould always be used to protectthe eyes.

You shouldnever lookdirectlyat the sun, even if only only partof it is visible. Special solar fil-

ters are cheap. Otherwise youcan use dense welders’ glass.

Another method of seeing theeclipse is to punch a hole, a fewmillimeters across, in a piece ofcardboard. Hold it up to the Sunand watch the Sun’s image pro-jected on the ground or onto an-other piece of cardboard. Thismethod is called projection witha pinhole camera.

A zoomable Google map, onwhich a click shows you localtimes of the eclipse, is ateclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

For more information contactthe South African AstronomicalObservatory on (021) 460 9319.

You can make a changeCHRISTIAN Community Actionwill launch a pilot project on theweekend of 25-26 November atAldersgate Methodist Church inSteenberg.

CCA is a faith-based non-de-nominational, non-profit volun-tary organisation that strivesfor a compassionate, God-lovingcommunity, free of violence,crime and abuse.

In pursuit of this ideal, Chris-tian Community Action willlaunch a number of Youth En-gagement Projects in Retreat,

Steenberg and surrounding are-as. The purpose of the YouthEngagement Projects (YEPs)is to address issues such ascrime, alcohol and substanceabuse, gangsterism, HIV/ AIDS,concern and respect for eldersand civic responsibility.

There will be games, enter-tainment and refreshments.

Anyone who supports the vi-sion of Christian CommunityAction and would like to becomeinvolved can contact Peter Mar-tin on 084 697 8619.

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Page 10 People’s Post False Bay LEADER Tuesday 22 November 2011

Turn the tideWITH less than five weeks to Christmas, onewould imagine that the prevailing mood isone of lightness, joy and the anticipation ofa carefree, well-earned summer holiday.

On one side of the spectrum, this is a reali-ty, with many excitedly planning their year-end getaways and time with friends and fami-ly.

Sadly, on the opposite end, the “season tobe jolly” has been marred by the loss of lovedones and fear of an increase in violence andcriminal activity.

In areas characterised by poverty, crime isrampant this time of year; literally harvestseason for criminals.

In fulfilling our obligation to report newsthe public ought to know, this week’sPeople’sPost carries reports about serious crimes, in-cluding that of a teenager reportedly attackedby other teens. Bryce Van Gee was attackedby two boys; one allegedly hit him over thehead with nunchucks. Bryce, 14, died of hisinjuries. His mother and two younger broth-ers will never see their Boeta again.

The front page of our Lansdowne editionhas a story about the rape of two minors justdays before the 16 Days of Activism cam-paign, and our Athlone edition has a storyabout a brutal fight between high school pu-pils that ended with both being stabbed.

How does one end the cycle of violence?Among other considerations, the solution

could lie in communities taking a firm standand reclaiming their streets, as the residentsof Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain, had done dur-ing a Take Back Your Streets campaign. Ledby local police, they expressed their discon-tent at yet another spate of gang-relatedshootings.

Though not instantly measurable, the suc-cess of such initiatives depends on consistentaction and partnerships with police and othercrime-fighting bodies.

Never stop voicing your protest againstthose who turn your neighbourhoods intobattlefields.

New approach is neededNOSKETI, an adult male baboon of the DaGama Park troop was shot by a Fish Hoekresident on Friday 11 November, 2011.

Ironically, Nosketi was shot the day TableMountain was announced provisionally asone of the seven wonders of nature. Chacmababoons roamed the lower slopes of TableMountain before the Cape was settled. Likethe mountain they have also been considereda natural heritage.

NCC staff witnessed the baboon exit thehouse. He was allegedly followed by the eld-erly man who shot him, reportedly claimingself-defense. Nosketi was later put down.

Nosketi survived being shot with a .22 in2009. He was known as a gentle baboon whoavoided confrontation.

According to an earlier description on theKEAGwebsite “Nosketi is a real gentle giant.He was badly attacked by residents of Wel-come Glen and suffered a nasty cut across hisback as well as a bad traumatic hernia overhis lung. Despite these injuries, Nosketi re-mains gentle and incredibly tolerant of hu-mans — he is often found on his own awayfrom the troop as he hates fighting with theother males.”

Nosketi is the second death of a Da GamaParkadultmale in less thanamonth.Formeralpha male George was killed by two dogs,one of which was a pitbull, in Da Gama Parkon 17 October 2011.

Aggressive forms of chasing the baboonssuch as bearbangers and bullwhips, cen-sured by the NSPCA, have been implement-

ed as “tools” in some troops despite resi-dents’ objections.

More recently paintballs have been offi-cially experimented with in at least onetroop, yet many residents believe the moni-tors are in need of training in assertive rath-er than aggressive methods and using ag-gressive methods sends the wrong messageto some residents.

Residents are very concerned about the fu-ture of the Peninsula baboons given that apolicy of total removal from urban areas us-ing “tools” is being promoted, a suggestionfirst made known at the baboon expert work-shop in 2009 and implemented in the Simons-townarea inJune 2009under the supervisionof BRU.

Such a policy is at variance with the previ-ous policy of using well trained monitorsherding the baboons away from urban areasto natural foraging and an emphasis on ba-boon-proofing and waste management.

Residents are growing increasingly con-cerned about the promotion of experimentaland aggressive handling of the baboonswhen humane methods work, culling proto-cols fornatural behaviour suchasdispersingfrom the troop or eating available food, aswell as the lack of information from officialsources regarding the baboons or decisionsmade about them.

Current treatment and policies lead toquestions about the future of the baboons.LORNA THOMASSimon’s Town

Hang your head in shameI AM absolutely appalled that in a residentialarea, a man can get his rifle out and shoot ababoon.

What gives him the right to get his gun andshoot a baboon as he is leaving his property?

The man is 77 years old, does he not realiseat that age that he lives on a mountainsidewhere baboons live too.

Does he not understand that they are harm-less and hungry?

But yet again “humans” think they are enti-tled to do as they please with animals.

I have had many encounters with baboonsand none of them were aggressive.

All they want is food.The baboon was shot in his back, the bullet

fragmenting on the impact on his spine.Clearly the baboon was running away as thebaboon monitors were called in immediatelyas well as the neighbourhood watch warningeveryone that baboons were in the area.

I hope that Baboon Matters, SPCA Wildlifemanager and SAPS do something about hisreckless behaviour.

The fact that he had time to get his rifleclearly indicates premeditation. The baboonshave been here longer than his 77 years, heshould respect that and not be allowed to mur-der.

Obviously he is ignorant and violent.He should hang his head in shame for this

tragedy.I am sick to my stomach that I share Fish

Hoek with such a man.Imagine if one of those bullets injured or

killed a human.He would go straight to jail but im afraid

that this will be looked over because peopleare fickle and think they have the right to doas they want.ANONYMOUSFish Hoek

The real spirit of ChristmasI AM writing this letter to voice my opinionon an issue that bothers me more and more.

As early as October Long Beach Pick n Paytook out the Christmas trees and decorationsto start the ‘hurryup and buy before Christ-mas’ propaganda.

I have watched for the last six years howthe date for the beginning of their consumercampaign gets earlier and earlier in order tomake sure that they get the sales they wantout of the event.

I find this disgraceful, and an insult to theactual festivities and what they are supposedto mean.

I would like to remind the owners of theseestablishments about the real spirit of Christ-mas, it is about family, about giving, aboutsharing, and about remembering an impor-tant event in the religious history of humans.

Those who do not follow these beliefs (asmyself) should at least respect this, just as werespect the Jewish and Muslim celebrations,

which are normally not converted into theselling charade.

For the past six years, the dates for bringingout the decorations have gone from end of Oc-tober to what is now the beginning of it.

Quite honestly, I have decided for the lastthree years to stop supporting the Pick n Paycrazy campaign.

I wish people would think about this and re-alize that they are being robbed of the rightto celebrate this time in the right way and notspend hours on buying gifts and presents justbecause the media and their supermarketsare telling them that they should.

Remember that all you need for a wonderfulChristmas, is your families, your love andyour compassion for someone in need; that isall.

Shame on you Pick n Pay owners and man-agers.MARCOS SOLIS-PERALTAWelcome Glen

Tuesday 22 November 2011 LETTERS People’s Post False Bay Page 11

YourSMSesBaboon shot in Fish Hoek

. The trigger-happy ba-boon killer could have used apepper spray. It’s harmlessand good for vicious dogs aswell. MB

. To the big brave (stupid)man with a gun who shot thepoor baboon, I hope you aremet with the same fate oneday. Before that day comes Ihope the full might of the lawengulfs your miserable lifefor what you did. Pat H

. Once again an innocentcreature had to die due to thestupidity of a so-called intelli-gent being. How can this“man” live with himself? HH

. Dit maak my siek om tesien hoe mense so oor diebobejane aangaan. Daai ouman is seker 60 jaar ouer asdaai dier. Skiet hom. Enweer. Kom naby my huis,bombastie diere en ek doendit ook. Peter Booysen

. I hope the 77-year-oldman that shot the baboon inthe back (coward) is going tobe prosecuted to the fullest sothat other Neanderthals takenote that it is not a person’sright toharmthese creatures.I hope he gets a massive fineand community service. Idi-ot! Michael, Lakeside

Mountains of praise. I have to agree whole-

heartedly with Anon in Lake-side about the MountainMen. I wish more peoplewould make use of their serv-ices. They are the most effi-cient security company in thearea!

. A big thank you to theMountain Men for retrievingmy car battery which was sto-len in Lakeside. The twothugs were found in posses-sion of three batteries whichwere obviously removedfrom other vehicles. Keep upthe good work.

Local thoughts. I find it a coincidence

that the same Corsa policevan with people in the backcomes rushing pastMasiphumelele from theOcean View side with itslights and sirens on, dodgingcars every Monday morningat 08:00. Fred

. Dit is waarom OceanView so onder gaan: Mense isjaloers op mekaar. Ons salnooit êrens kom nie want onsstaan mekaar af in plek vanby. S

. As a past chairman of theFish Hoek Chamber, I findthese remarks insulting. Iwas, in fact, vice-chair to a fe-

male chairperson for two con-secutive years.

Insofar as colour, we havealways invited all local busi-nesses to join, irrespective ofcolour or creed. Get real! FredFautley

. Barend is right, it’s likegraffiti. Someone else’s markwas put there. Imagine anoth-er place changed. Will yousay “Oh, it’s my opinion, Iwill do this and that.” Andsand castles are an extremeexample.

In response. Sheikh MA Jardien is

correct that certain business-es make huge profits andcould do more to alleviatepoverty. However, taxingwhites who benefited fromapartheid won’t help to alle-viate poverty. What is neededis not more money, but theability to use what they al-ready have. Government hasadmitted it doesn’t haveenough suitably qualifiedpeople to implement its strat-egies. And it refuses to ap-point whites.

. Many years ago our eggsizes were reclassified. Smallbecame medium and mediumbecame large. I do not knowwhy.

Just a thought. I can’t understand why

Crime Stop numbers must beso long. When you are in apanic, traumatised and shak-ing like a leaf, you can’t eventhink properly. Why all theselong numbers? Only threesimple digits please!

. Were the kids, who threwa fireworks “bomb” at mylounge door, meaning to blowme and my dogs up? Youcould not have known thedoor was closed. Had the doorbeen open this would haveput your parents in jail andyou in juvenile detention.

. Why is it that when youbuy stuff that has, say, a one-year guarantee, you get an in-voice and you are told to keepthe slip as proof.

But after five months youfind that the ink on the in-voice has completely fadedaway. Can someone please ex-plain that? Y Hartley, Wetton

. I am very disappointedwith the Telkom service. Ithas been over a week now andI am still waiting for the lineto be put up in Ottery, Wyn-berg and who knows whereelse.

All Telkom can say is thatit’s due to cable theft! This isnot good enough. There wasno follow up with users whowere left in the dark, as usual.Can’t they fix it? It will beChristmas soon. I hope it willbe sorted out soon. This isvery bad service! Roy Smilt-neek, Ottery

Please help

. Can anyone who knowsEugene Cupido, whose lastaddress was in Westridge,please contact Charmaine Ja-son (née Murphy) on 084 3201963 or Shafiek Kenny on 074722 8711? We attended Ath-wood Primary in the 1970sand we need to contact himurgently. Thank you!

. I’m a pensioner and mon-ey is very tight. I would liketo knit children’s jerseys tosell. I would be so grateful forknitting patterns especiallythose with cables for 4 to 10years. I have a fax at home ifanyone would like to send acopy. Please forward it to(021) 705 4040. Thank you inanticipation. Jean Guriah

. Bid asseblief vir my man.Hy is op ’n waglys vir ‘n ni-eroorplanting. Hy is tans opdialise.

Sport talk. Ag man, Piri Weepu het

so sleg geskop, het Franceoorgeskop het die manne inswart weer gechoke. Suid Af-rika was gerob deur daaiBryce Lawrance, anders hethulle die Webb Ellis Cupweereens saamgebring. 8-7?Die All Blacks skate op dunys.

. Regarding the SMS fromDG Thompson, I second that- well done Golden Lions. Butdon’t forget to add who wasthe coach: yep, a Kiwi. Voila!The joke’s on you.

I love the All Blacks be-cause they know how to playa game. Asa

By the way. How to spoil your day:

phone SARS. How to use upyour air time: phone SARS.

. What is up with Colgate?It used to be 100ml, now thetube is longer but it’s 75ml,and you still pay more for it.Give less plastic and morepaste please. The same goesfor the soap bars. They were100g, now they are 90g andyou also pay more for lessproduct. Going unnoticed?

. A man was walking hisdog past our house this morn-ing. His dog was not on aleash. As my husband re-versed out through the opengate, I hoped the dog didn’tnotice my cats sitting in thegarden enjoying the sun-shine. Please keep your dogson a leash!

. We no longer can playwith God. His grace and mer-cy is running out. His comingis at hand. We no longer canserve Him on a 50/50 scale –it’s either all or nothing. Wecan’t serve God and Satan.There is no in-between. It’stime we make a choice to be-come sold out to Christ - my-self included.

Today may be our onlychance to find true repent-ance. Carmen Joseph

Threatening baboon behaviourON Friday afternoon, 11 November, baboonswere spotted on the ridge of the mountain onthe Risiview side of Fish Hoek. We came outto watch and a small family of baboons thathad been separated from the main troop onthe mountain came walking slowly down ourstreet.

Residents came out and watched them.They seemed docile and passed within threemetres of my son and me. None of the onlook-ers seemed in the least alarmed (the maleseemed quite elderly). The group consistedof a male, two females with babies on theirbacks, and one of the females was partiallydisabled (she had only three legs). Several of-ficials whom we understood to be responsi-ble for baboon control had turned up and allseemed to be well, although they seemed tobe rather casual about their responsibilities(my impression).

They walked on and we went shopping.But before we left we heard what soundedlike a shot. I thought it was a baboon clapperand we left.

When we returned, we saw police and on-lookers further down the road. I enquiredand was told that a home owner had shot themale. An onlooker told me that he had heardit was “in self defence” and I walked homefeeling extremely upset, knowing that two fe-males with their babies would now be with-out protection. My son was just as upset asIwasandwalkedup to enquirewhathadhap-pened. When he did not return, I walked upagain. There were three police officers stand-ing in the road in a desultory fashion, andan official of the SPCA. My son was in theprocess of giving a statement to two policeofficers. He stated that he had gone down tothe entrance gate of the property (the policewere standing in the road and could have ob-served this).

The person who had allegedly shot themale came up to the gate followed by his wife.When my son, who did not attempt to enterthe gate, asked him why he had shot the ba-boon, he became extremely aggressive andtold my son that he was trespassing.

My son pointed out that he was standingoutside the gate and merely wanted to askhim a question. Some words were ex-changed, but my son made no effort to openthe gate and enter. However, the owner thenpushed the gate open, came out and with con-siderable violence grabbed my son by thethroat (there are marks on his skin) and said“I can go in and fetch my gun now and shootyou,” probably not a serious threat, but dis-turbing nonetheless because he seemed tothink that even casual trespassing entitledhim to shoot people (to say nothing of ba-boons).

My son then went up to a police officer toreport the assault, but he laughed it off.

The two other officers then started takingdown his statement, but then left withoutcompleting it, saying that it was a waste oftime.

A proper statement will be made at the po-lice in due course with a properly drawn-upand sworn affidavit.

I spoke to the officer and the SPCA officialand asked them what was going on. The po-liceman seemed to find the alleged assaultamusing. I closely questioned him and theSPCA official and it emerged that the manwas being charged with firing a gun in abuilt-up area and the SPCA official con-firmed that the shooting of an endangeredspecies would be investigated, but I did notget the impression that they were seriousabout it (just my impression -- the SPCA offi-cial might have been embarrassed to speakopenly in front of the jolly policeman).

What emerged from my close questioningof the police officer and the SPCA official wasthat the baboon had been shot outside theman’s house, but had entered it three times.I mentioned that this gave him three oppor-tunities to simply shut the door, but he ap-parently chose to use the time to (a) unlockhis gun safe, (b) remove the gun and arm it,and then come out to shoot the baboon out-side rather than simply shutting the door. Imust emphasise that, not having been ableto view the exact location and consider thecircumstances, I must concede that the situa-tion could have been more complicated thanthat. However, since baboon clappers are ef-fective, the noise of a warning shot wouldprobably have been just as effective.

The police didn’t seem much interested inthis and the laughingpolice officer thenmen-tioned that the house owner was actually oneof his “customers” (friends?) since he han-dled the gun licence applications.

I do not feel comfortable living near a gun-owner with what seems to be poor judgementand an uncontrolled anger problem. I am al-so extremelyunhappyabout the fact that thisunnecessary action may lead to the death offour members of an endangered species -- thetwo females, one partially disabled, and twoyoung have now been left without a male toprotect them.

Although I have been the victim of crimeon many occasions, also where I live now, thethought of owning a gun in an urban areanever crossed my mind. In my view, in theFish Hoek area, it makes no sense at all andthe possibility of declaring Fish Hoek a gun-free zone should be seriously considered.ANONYMOUSFish Hoek

Hands off our fruit standON the morning of 14 November, I went tothe Muizenberg Fruit Stand. I bought somefruit and now I wish to say the following: ifyou are one of those consumers who believethat because it’s your right to moan aboutbad product and service, you make a pointmoan about said product and service. To youand your type: stay away from Muizenburg

Fruit Stand, because there is nothing to com-plain about. To Adrian Oliver and his staff:thank you for a very pleasant experience. Itwas not my first visit and it certainly will notbe my last. Good luck for the busy seasonahead and keep it up!PETER THOMSONMarina Da Gama

The shark issues continueI WAS impressed by M Schilperoort’s stepsto shark-proof tiny Fish Hoek bay (People’sPost, 8 November). However, there were twodepressingly stupid letters from J de Wildeand S Borchert in the People’s Post of 15 No-vember.

Great Whites are top predators with bil-lions in the vast oceans, and need no helpfrom humans. Of course those that trawl tinyFish Hoek bay should be shot, because hu-mans haven’t yet found a cheap shark repel-lent that doesn’t hurt other inhabitants of thebay.

Praise to T Robinson for writing the truth(11 November) which has stung the sharkhuggers. (I’d like to read his article, but alasI’ve been away and have missed your news-paper for some months.)

S Borchert’s statistics are, like most statis-tics, meaningless, though she unwittinglycontradicts the “sharks are endangered” sta-tistic by stating correctly that “we don’tknow very much about white shark num-bers.”

As for silly J de Wilde, she doesn’t evenknow the difference between a top predator(shark) and a helpless dog or toad. I assumeshe wants us human animals to bring backleopards to Fish Hoek, which was their natu-ral territory until killed by earth’s (as op-posed to the sea’s) top predator?

And I wish shark huggers would stop call-ing them animals instead of fish - and mon-strous fish at that.GILLIAN VIGNEFish Hoek

Good advice on caring for birdsALTHOUGH many homeowners place a con-crete birdbath in their garden, it can be tooornate or bulky for some of us.

Others suspend a plastic seed dispenserfrom a tree branch.

The problem with this is that birds tip itup, and much of the seed fall to the ground.

A good plan is to fit a circular pot-plant trayonto a 50mm rigid white plastic tube, of thekind that plumbers use.

You can fit another tray above it, to serveas a birdbath.

All you need to fit the two trays are standard50mm threaded couplings.

An off-cut of tubing can serve as a spacerbetween the trays.

At least 40cm of the vertical tubular supportfor the trays should be buried in compactedsoil, to leave about 80cm above ground level.

Because feeding birds are messy and dropseed, it is a good idea to fix a larger tray below

the one containing seed to catch spillage.lt can be the same size as the lipped and

tapered birdbath, but with small holes aroundthe circumference to drain rainwater.

Fit two stainless steel machine, or self-tap-ping, screws side by side to prevent the stop-end trays from swivelling independently ofthe couplings.

It is important that the distance between thebirdbath and the seed tray should not exceed6cm, to bar access to greedy pigeons.

For the same reason, the distance betweenthe seed and spillage trays should not be lessthan 25cm.

These adjustments can be made with thetubing used as spacers.

The only problem with this beautiful struc-ture is that the birds are eating me out ofhouse and home!BEVAN PANKGlencairn

Page 12 People’s Post False Bay ENTERTAINMENT Tuesday 22 November 2011

People's Post Page 12 Phone: 021 713 9440 | Fax: 021 713 9481 Tuesday 22 November 2011

THE CAPE TOWN Male Voice Choirwill be hosting a Summer CelebrationConcert in fundrasing for the RedCross War Memorial Chil-dren’s Hospital and PediatricHealthcare in the WesternCape at the Cape Town CityHall on Saturday 26 Novem-ber at 15:00 and 19:30.CapeTown Male Voice Choir musi-cal director Margaret Barlow, Sho-prite Jonge Studendte Koor musicaldirector Antoinette Blyth and other’swill be there to wow the audience.

Tickets cost R100 and R120. For moreinformation contact Elizabeth on 082468 7504 or email to ae-

con.e@mweb.co.za..People’s Post and Sum-

mer Celebration Music con-certs is giving away one setof double tickets to the af-ternoon show and two setsof double tickets to the

evening show at the weekend. Toenter simply SMS the word “Con-cert” to 34586 (R1.50) by Thursdayat noon.

FUTURE SOUNDS: For the first time in South Africa, the Cellosphere was unveiled thisweek at Cape Town’s trendy hot spot, 15 on Orange. This enthralling concept, consist­ing of a classical performer in a three meter high bubble, has become a sensationat events worldwide and has now been brought to South Africa by Carol Thorns (pic­tured). “Being an entertainer, one is constantly having to evolve and bring a freshapproach to audiences and fans, particularly with regards to the latest trends on theinternational stage,” says Thorns, “and I feel extremely fortunate to have launchedthis magical experience in Cape Town after recently seeing it ‘wow’ crowds in Dubai.”For more information on Cellosphere, visit www.redcello.co.za and call Thorns on 082480 3964. Photo: Supplied

Mentalist magic in GardensMAGICIAN and mentalist Larry Sof-fer will be hosted by the Fine and Dec-orative Art Society on Wednesday23 November at the SA Museum inQueen Victoria Street, Gardens, at

19:00. The performance will be fol-lowed by a light supper. Members payR120 and non-members R160. RSVPby 18 November to secure a seat byphoning Jill on (021) 434 4579.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT: A Christmas Concert,entitled Music for the Birth of the Word, willbe presented by the Cape’s Early Music En­semble, in collaboration with the South Afri­can Early Music Trust. In this programme ofearly Italian and German Baroque music, anunusual genre of Christmas theatre musicfrom Naples is contrasted with three differentcomposers’ versions of the Magnificat andfurther combined with selected settings ofthe Mass Ordinary. The programme will in­clude the first­ever South African performanc­es of works by Neopolitan composers, promi­nent in their time, Cristofaro Caresana and Gi­acomo Carissimi. The concert will take placeon Friday, 9 December, at 19:00 in St AndrewsPresbyterian Church, on the corner of Buiten­gracht and Somerset roads. For more informa­tion contact Andrew on 082 494 1398 orLente on 084 277 5070. Tickets are R60 andavailable at the door. Photo: Supplied

Ending year on high noteTHE Cape Town Male Voice Choir’s endof the year concert will be held on Satur-day 26 November at the Cape Town CityHall.There will be two shows: a matineeperformance at 15:00 for which tickets

are R100, and a second performance at19:30 for R120 per person. Tickets can bebooked through aecon.e@mweb.co.za or082 468 7504.

Phone (021) 683-5522 after hours.

Star-studded line-up at the westGRANDWEST CSI presents astellar line-up of reggae, popand comic entertainment atthe Grand Arena on Thursday15 December, starting at 20:00.

The show featuresDrVictorand the Rasta Rebels, the topthree 2011 Idols winners Dave,Mark and Crushandra, andcomedian Kurt Schoonraad.

Legendary pop-afro-reggaeroup Dr Victor and the RastaRebels need little introduc-tion.

The five-man band previ-ously shared the stage withmusical luminaries such asJanet Jackson, Tina Turner,Paul Simon, Gloria Estefanand, closer to home, Yvonne

Chaka Chaka and LuckyDube.They first gained wide-spread recognition with theirrendition of the Eddie Grantclassic Give me hope Jo’anna.While their music offering islargely reggae, they includepopular mainstream coverversions of artists such asGeorge Benson and Santana.

The top three 2011 Idols con-testants form part of theevening’s entertainment.

Winner Dave van Vuuren,runner-up Mark Haze andthird-placed CrushandraForbes will perform togetherin Cape Town for the first timesince the finals of the contest.

During the course of the

evening the delightfully man-ic Kurt Schoonraad will enter-tain the audience with hisearthy humour and nutty takeon life.Schoonraad also playsthe lead role in the newly re-leased local film Skeem, whichscooped the Audience ChoiceAward at the recent AbuDhabi Film Festival.

The film competed againstlegendary directors such asMartin Scorsese and GeorgeClooney, and Kurt receivedcritical acclaim for his por-trayal of the main characterRichie Rich.

Tickets are available fromComputicket for betweenR150 and R200.

Top SA singers in SamsonST ANDREW’s Presbyterian Church, onthe corner of Buitengracht and Somersetroads, will host a performance of Han-del’s Samson on Thursday 15 Decemberand Friday 16 December at 19:30. Someof South Africa’s most distinguished

singers will be the soloists. The StGeorge’s Singers and the Camerata Tin-ta Barocca, led by Quentin Crida, will beconducted by Barry Smith. Tickets, fromR80 to R200, are available through Com-puticket.

A red card for not laughingTHE hit one-man show Rooikaartwill be staged at the Winners ac-tion bar, Golden Valley Casinofor one night only on Saturday3 December.

Frank Opperman’s Rooikaart isabout Wally Koekemoer, presi-dent of a rugby club somewherein the sticks, presiding over theclub’s annual prize-giving cere-mony.

But all is not well and attend-

ance is poor. Not even the prize-winners turned up. With his fa-vourite tipple as moral support,Wally soldiers on because theshow must go on. As his drink-ing continues, Wally reveals theunderbelly of the club.

The skeletons in Wally Koeke-moer’s own closet also begin toappear, one after the other.

Wally reminds you of some-body you have met in real life,

and some of his utterances ringall too true. Doors open at 20:00and the show starts at 21:00.

Tickets cost R50.For more information phone

the Golden Valley Casino on(023) 348 7200 or go to their web-site at:

www.suninternational.com.

Win with People’s Postand Summer Concerts

PHANTOM PHENOMENON: Broadway’s longest running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phan­tom of the Opera, with its unforgettable score, jaw­dropping scenery, exquisite costumes and breath­taking special effects, will be staged at Artscape from 22 November to 15 January 2012. Performanc­es are Tuesdays to Fridays at 20:00, on Saturdays at 15:00 and 20:00 and on Sundays at 13:30and 18:30. Tickets cost from R125 via Computicket or 021 421 7695. Photo: Supplied

Tuesday 22 November 2011 GENERAL People’s Post False Bay Page 13

Wagglers wiggle all the wayTERESA FISCHER

HUNDREDS of dogs and their own-ers streamed to the start of the 2011SPCA Royal Canin Wiggle

Waggle Walkathon on Sunday 20November. The air was filled withexcited barks, but the dogs soon set-tled into a rhythm as the packwound its way through the streetsof Tokai. Special water points wereset up for the dogs, who seemed to

enjoy their outing thoroughly.Final numbers stand at 2530 peo-

ple and 1746 dogs. Last year therewere 2300 people and just over 1700dogs.

“The 2011 event was our biggestWiggle Waggle to date,” saysLamees Martin, Cape of Good HopeSPCA spokesperson. Even the rainheld off llong enough for all to crossthe finish.

FAMILY AF­FAIR: An­nikenTrefelt(Tokai)with MayaBo and Vic­tor.Photos:Teresa Fischer

FUNTIMES:LiezelWenn andVal Deel­man ofParow Val­ley withPeachesand Milly.

COOL OFF: Sean Rennies with Adja and Tashuunkafrom Fish Hoek.

REFRESHMENT TIME: David Albeldas (Milnerton) pre­pares a drink for Scotch.

GENTLE BEASTS: Warren Hoffe of Southfield with Roxy andRockie.

SAY BONES: Dexter and Carol Wise(Marina da Gama) with Maddy andBear.

CUTE: Dom­inque Rossouwand Duke arefrom the north­ern suburbs.

CATS ANDDOGS: DenisCosta (Atlan­tic Seaboard)with Figo andLinda take inthe atmos­phere.

Masterpiece in the makingOBSERVATORY-BASED visual theatrecompany FTH:K premiered the first ver-sion of their new work Office-BLOCK….business as usual at the Inti-mate Theatre in Gardens, Cape Town,from 15 to 19 November.

Member os the audience were encour-aged to give feedback, since this multiple-award-winning company will be develop-ing the piece further when they travel tothe USA in March next year to collaboratewith Wings Theatre Company in Wash-ington DC. The reworked version willthen be performed at the American festi-

val QuestFest, before returning to the Na-tional Arts Festival in Grahamstown anda tour of South Africa.

FTH:K works with Deaf and hearingperformers. The work forms part of theArtsbridge International Exchange initi-ative, a pilot two-year skills and culturalexchange project between Deaf and hear-ing communities in Cape Town and Wash-ington DC.

It comprises workshops, discussion fo-rums, sharing of performance techniquesand the creation of visual theatre piecesand an education programme.

Enjoying the opening night of Office­BLOCK…business as usual, were Ana (left)and Marietha Lemmer.

From the left,back, areAndile Vellum,FTH:K perform­er Marlon Sny­ders with com­pany educationcoordinator Ga­li Kumwimba,Rita and AneshMagan. In frontfrom left areFTH:K perform­ers ChristopherBeukes and Si­nethemba Mge­bisa

Yazeed Kamaldien and FTH:K actress Liezl de Kock.From the left are Lee­Ann Odendaal, Maryke Nel, FTH:K assistant company director AnaLemmer and Anja Boonzaaier.

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This will be the fourth timethat Cape Town will host theprestigious race, and gives theCity another opportunityto ward using the sea as anas-set to promote the Mother City.

“The Volvo Ocean Race holdsenormous benefits for the city.When they last visited us in 2008,the direct economic impact wasclose on R308 million, throughvisitor and organiser spend.

Add to that the destination me-dia exposure secured worldwidevalued at R77 million,” saysCouncillor Grant Pascoe, May-oral Committee Member forTourism, Events and Market-ing.

The total budget for the CapeTown stop over is R16.2 million,of which the City will contributeR1.5 million.

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events, funding volunteers forthe event, branding and othermarketing costs.

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Doing it for the love of the gameLYNN PRINS

THE saying goes “age is nothingbut a number,” and this wasproven by a softballer who hasbeen playing for 43 years. Cher-yl Raatz, a stalwart of St An-drews Dodgers Softball Club,started playing at the age ofnine.

She was introduced to the gameby her late father Willie Dixon.

Raatz started her softball careerat Ridgeville Softball Club, basedin Athlone, hardly played and wasknown as the “bat girl” because allshe seemed to do was pick up andcarry bats for her team mates.

“Back then there were no juniorteams and I had to be part of a sen-ior team.

The only way you could learnthe game was to sit on the benchand watch,” she said.

Raatz was eager to start playingandmoved toStAndrewsDodgers,established in 1948, and of whichshe is still a proud member.

Asked how the game haschanged over the years, she said:“The game is now more incentive-than commitment-driven.

Facilities have improved tre-mendously and therefore weshould be grateful and acceptchange.”

Raatz told People’s Post how excit-ed she was about the Junior Wom-en’s World Championship takingplace in two weeks’ time.

“I never thought it would hap-pen. Softball is, and has alwaysbeen, regarded as a minnow sport.But now, with us hosting theevent, maybe interest in the sportwill grow.” People’s Post is the me-dia sponsor for the JWWC on 7-17 December.

Three players who were part ofthe JWWC team in Holland 2007,Lisa Erasmus, Lara Erasmus andMegan Cable, told People’s Postabout the experience.

“Seeing softball on a whole newlevel gave me the urge to play likethem,” said Lisa.

Lara said:

“I expected it to be tough and Iknew we would have to play ourhearts out in every game, but Inever expected such a high level ofsoftball and amazing talent.”

Asked about the strengths of ournational softball team, Cable said:“The players have an advantagewe never had, where training isconcerned. They train together as

a team, which is good. Also, the la-dies are not afraid of swinging thebat. Having Lester Smith on theirside is great, as he is an excellentbatting coach.”

They wished the team well, andadded that while performing attheir highest competitive level,they should also enjoy the experi-ence and have fun.

BALLERS: From left to right are Megan Cable (pitcher for Westridge Yankees), Lisa Erasmus (outfielder for Glenthorn A’s), Lara Erasmus (shortstop for Westridge Yankees), and Cheryl Raatz (catcher for St Andrews Dodgers). Photo: Sheana Abrahams

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Santos’ stubborn defenceSantos’ stubborn defenceLYNN PRINS

ATOUGH league clash between En-gen Santos and Kaizer Chiefs on

Saturday at the Peter Mokaba Stadi-um resulted in the teams sharing thespoils at full time. The match ended ina 0-0 draw.

Santos, whose defence was outstand-ing, hit back during the sec-ond half, nearly sealing vic-tory against the home team.Eleazar Rodgers nearlyscored in the last ten min-utes when a powerful head-er hit the crossbar.

He had a tremendousgame, and his aerial pres-ence offered a solid defencefor Chiefs.

The People’s team couldhave won the game, butmissed chances cost them awin. With that said, onlyconfidence can be taken in-to Sunday’s Telkom Knock-out Cup semi-final againstBidvest Wits University.

The Lansdowne-basedside, Santos, founded in1982 in Heideveld, last won silverware in2003 in the ABSA Cup against neighboursAjax Cape Town at Athlone Stadium.

The People’s Team, as they are knownto their fans, has come a long way.

This season Goolam Allie, CEO of theclub, aims to win one cup with the sidethat he has.

“There is no way that I would have play-ers in our squad that I think are not goodenough to win a cup.”

When People’s Post asked Allie what it

would mean to Santos if they reached thefinal and won the cup, he said: “It wouldbe Déjà vu for us, because we are a clubthat always wins cups.”

Ederies Burton, Chief Operating Offic-er for Santos, said: “It’s always a goodfeeling when the club reaches this stageof such an important knockout competi-tion. With the current squad, I sense thesame desire as with the squad that won

the Cup in 2003.“In terms of advice to the

younger players, it’s allabout application on matchday. The team that appliesthemselves properly on theday will ultimately be suc-cessful. It’s about whowants it more,” Burton add-ed.

On Sunday Santos will beplaying against BidvestWits.

They are known as TheClever Boys because of theclub’s close affiliation withthe University of the Wit-watersrand.

Their key player, and theman to watch, is formerSantos player Ryan Chap-

man. Chapman, who scored six goals ineight starts, seems to be in top form.

Wits coach Rodger De Sa, known as theDrawing King, has made his team into anattacking force this season.

They have been playing more enter-taining soccer this season, and theirmatch on Sunday, is sure to be a toughone.

The battle between the teams takesplace on Sunday at 15:00 at the BidvestStadium.

GOLDEN YEARS: From left are Tyren Arendse (current captain), Ederies Burton (current Chief OperatingOfficer), and Musa Otieno (current Assistant Coach.) Photo: Supplied

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