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Deze unieke tafellamp is gemaakt van metaal en hout in een witte kleur gecombineerd met naturel kleur. De kap is gemaakt van katoen en heeft een frisse witte kleur. De lamp heeft een hoogte van 60 cm.
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30 August 2012, written by Sarel van Baalen
‘Living Legends’ – Mentor via Sport-afrigting
As jy enige plek in die hele wêreld kan besoek – waarheen sal jy graag gaan? ‘n Menigte klein, handjies vlieg op en gretig kom die antwoorde, want almal wil graag iets sê. En die begeerde bestemmings? Klapmuts, Macassar …
So begin ‘n nuwe jaar van die Living Legends– projek waarin studente die geleentheid kry om vir ‘n jaar lank as mentors in sport en lewensvaardighede op te tree vir Graad 4 en 5 leerders van Cloetesville, Idasvallei, Kylemore en Pniel.
Leerders word deur tegnieke soos spel, storievertelling, en refleksie blootgestel aan onderwerpe wat insluit finansiële geletterdheid, kreatiwiteit, kultuur, respek, positiewe denke en kommunikasie. Verder word hulle deurentyd aangemoedig om hul passies te ontdek en sonder perke te droom. In die woorde van Jeff Coetzee, professionele tennisspeler en beskermheer van die projek: “My ma het vir my geleer ‘Jeff, laat jou rakket die praatwerk doen – dis jou talent’. Nou moet jy as ‘n Living Legends deelnemer uitwerk wat is jou talent – wat doen jou praatwerk!”
Tennis bied gelyke deelname-opsies vir seuns en dogters en word daarom ingespan vir die aanleer van verskeie bewegings, vaardighede en dissipline. Onlangs by ‘n byeenkoms waar ouers die vordering van hul kinders kon dophou staan ‘n ouer oopmond-geskok en staar na die gebeure voor haar op die tennisbaan: “Ek kan nie glo dat my kind al daardie goed kan doen en so gehoorsaam is nie”.
Die studente-mentors wat weekliks aan die realiteite van diverse Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskappe blootgestel word deur die mentorsessies wat hul aanbied, stem saam: “Dis amazing om die kinders se vordering te sien – aan die einde van die jaar droom hulle nie van besoeke aan Klapmuts nie, maar dan kan ons ‘n wêreldkaart voor hulle neersit en hulle wys jou waar is die land wat lyk soos ‘n skoen waar mense pasta eet en die plekke waar die Olimpiese Spele en die Rugby Wêreldbeker was … Die onderwysers sê ook hulle skoolprestasie en gedrag in die klasse verbeter. Ek self leer so baie by die Living Legends kinders … Hulle is besig en partykeer is dit maar moeilik, maar dis elke oomblik die moeite werd as jy sien hoe baie die program vir hulle en hulle ouers beteken!”
03 August 2012, written by Sarel van Baalen
“It’s never too late to talk” – Aggrey Klaaste
On Monday, 30 July we filled the Neelsie Cinema to watch a film about one of the unsung heroes of our country and our university. Listen, Live and Learn students. Participants of the FVZS Leadership Institute short course “Growing Citizens through Multiculturalism”, Pulp Film Society members, Goldfields residents and alumni as well as international visitors to Stellenbosch from the United States, Finland, Sweden.
Prof. Willie Esterhuyse was there himself for the screening of Endgame. The film tells the story of how prof. Willie was approached in the 1980s to enter in secret peace talks with the ANC in England. The heart of the film is about the friendship that developed between prof. Willie and Thabo Mbeki. They started out on opposite sides of the table: black terrorist versus white oppressor. They became friends because of a shared love for Russian music, Yeats and because they both had children suffering under the struggle.
These extras we got from prof. Willie himself. He told us up front: this film is faction. His wife and daughter are by no means the timid figures the film portrays them to be. “Have you met my wife? She runs my life.” While prof. Willie was away in England, his wife dr. Annemarie was lecturing in mathematics while fulfilling the position of resident head of Goldfields. At this stage the Esterhuyses were the ony white people living at Goldfields, a residence built for non-white students and therefore situated on the other side of Hammandshand Road according to the Group Settlement Act.
No one at the university was allowed to know about the peace talks. The security police was already keeping a strict eye on prof. Willie, knowing about the talks but wanting to make sure he toed the line. “I had to somehow get past my department head, so I went to talk to Mike, Mike de Vries [ rector at the time].”
But prof. Willie also took students into his trust. “You can’t do anything without trust. Those talks would have been useless without trust.” The students prof. Willie trusted were the HK (House Committee) of Goldfields. “They wanted to know why I was away so much. So I told them. There was risk in that. But that is how trust works. You build trust when you share risk. That is what Thabo and I also did. We shared risk, so we trusted each other.” The Goldfields HK proved worthy of prof. Willie’s trust. Their only condition was that Thabo Mbeki would come visit Goldfields when the ANC has been unbanned, which he did in 1991.
The discussion lasted for at least an hour after the film ended, after which prof. Willie still signed copies of his newly released book and got invited to a LLL house.
Why did prof. Willie choose to put his own life and the life of his family at risk 25 years ago? Why did he come to talk to a bunch of students until 11pm on a Monday night? Because of the words of his friend, the late dr. Aggrey Klaaste, past editor of the Sowetan: “It’s never too late to talk.” It rang true in the 80′s. It still rings true today in his heart and also in ours.
This blog article was written by Elzet Kirsten. Elzet is coordinating the FVZS course “Growing Citizens through Multiculturalism” with dr. Greg Ricks. She is also a guide of the LLL Cluster House and finishing up an MPhil in Translation.