« October 18,2012
Rickeen Martins awarded Dr Alan Russell Scholarship with Trustee Lynne Brown.
The following article appeared in the Globe and Mail in Canada recently. It is Canada’s biggest newspaper and distributed throughout Canada.
Journalist, Paul Waldie, runs a Giving Back column every week to give various charities some exposure. He wrote the following:
“When Alan Russell’s daughter Anna headed to Durban, South Africa in the early 1980s to work on women’s rights issues, he decided to pay her a visit.
Dr. Russel knew little of the country and didn’t know what to expect. “I went out to visit her and I found it really fascinating and saddening,” he said from his office in Brampton, Ontario, where he specializes in pain management.
He was struck by the poverty, lack of educational opportunity, rampant AIDS and malnutrition. When he returned to Canada, Dr. Russell began writing about what he saw and the plight of people in South Africa.
Eventually his interest in the country led him to Lynne Brown, a former school teacher in Somerset East, a small city 180 kilometers north of Port Elizabeth. The community has high unemployment, hundreds of AIDS orphans and crushing poverty.
“Lynn said to me, ‘Instead of writing, why don’t you do something?’” Dr. Russell recalled. In 2008, he and his wife, Lucie, visited Ms. Brown and they began making plans to set up a charity to address local issues.
That led to the creation of the Siyakhulisa Abantwana Foundation, which means “We are nurturing the children.”
The charity works on a simple structure. Ms. Brown identifies a local need and Dr. Russel raises money in Canada to find a solution. Most of the financing involves scholarships and the contributions have been as little as $150 to help student finish the final year of a programme or $100 to cover a student’s transportation costs. The foundation has also funded school supplies and programmes at a foster home.
“Lynne can ring me and say, ‘We’ve got a problem, somebody can’t do this or that.’ and we can deal with it instantly,” said Dr. Russell, who has raised $30,000 so far with another $10,000 pledged.
“It’s psychotherapy from the world we live in,” he added. “It’s psychotherapy for me in the sense that we are doing a little bit of good.”
At the moment the Siyakhulisa Trust is committed to sponsoring 6 learners to attend Gill College from Grades 8 – 12. Of the four that started in Grade 8 this year one unfortunately dropped out. However three new learners will join the other three next year.
Veediefstal neem drasties toe
Veediefstal in die Cradock “Cluster” het sover vanjaar dramatiese afmetings aangeneem en daar word geraam dat daar sedert Januarie meer as R3,7 miljoen se kleinvee in die area gebuit is. In ‘n poging om skelms aan die pen te laat ry, is die polisie bereid om goeie belonings vir positiewe inligting te betaal.
Volgens inligting wat aan kapt. Stefanie Smith, polisiewoordvoerder, deurgegee is, is die grootste probleemareas tans by Gardinersdrift naby Adelaide en Kommadagga in die Kookhuis area waar onderskeidelik tussen 400 en 500 stuks klein-vee maandeliks gesteel word. Dit wissel glo tussen klompies van 10 tot 40 vee wat aangejaag word na kampies teen die pad en dan na bewering op voertuie gelaai word.
Smith het gesê boere in die gebied is baie bekommerd oor die geweldige negatiewe invloed wat hierdie tendens op boerdery en die ekonomie as geheel het.
Kapt. Jan Greyling, bevelvoerder van die Cradock Cluster het gevra dat boere weereens moet kennis neem dat vee gebrandmerk moèt word omdat dit die enigste manier is om eienaarskap van diere te bewys.
Greyling het die publiek versoek om enige inligting wat kan lei tot die inhegtenisname van veediewe by hom aan te meld. Hy sê hierdie inligting, wat enige tyd gedurende die dag of die nag na sy telefoon 0824422948 deurgegee kan word, sal as uiters konfidensieel beskou word en dat die informant, ingeval van arrestasie en skuldigbevinding in die hof, geregtig sal wees om ‘n beriggewerseis by die polisie in te dien.
“In geval van veediefstal is die bewyslas groot as die skelms op heterdaad betrap kan word,” het hy gesê.
Volgens Greyling is goeie suksesse al vanjaar met inhegtenisnames behaal en het sy span sedert Januarie vanjaar minstens 168 veediewe agter tralies laat beland. Die probleem hou volgens hom net nie op nie.
Die area wat deur Cradock “Cluster” bedien word strek van Olifantskop tot by Noupoort en sluit ook distrikte soos Adelaide, Bedford en Fort Beaufort in.
NEW VENUE FOR BEDFORD FESTIVAL
Nyarha Park (the eye-catching new Bedford precinct) will be a hive of activity on Saturday 27 October (during the Garden Festival).
All festival events during the day are free. They include a worm-farming workshop by the fundis from Stutterheim, a display of Envirofurn recycled furniture from Grahamstown, two repeats of an entertaining “green” performance, and info displays on waste recycling and greening in Bedford’s Nyarha townships.
Nyarha Park is on the R63 to Adelaide, just over the river from Eagle Hout.
The huge aloe leaf on the roof of the main structure is an unmistakeable landmark.
The complex is one of four parks with buildings created by EC Nxuba LM Greening and Beautification Project, funded by the Department of Environmental Affairs Extended Public Works Programme. The hard landscaping and buildings were designed by Frans Mulder and the green landscaping (propagation nursery and planting of indigenous and food plants) by Kim’s Green Gardens. There are two parks in Bedford and two in Adelaide.
Op die foto verskyn Graham Putter en Dakes Degenaar
‘n Mooi Karoo-storie
Dakes Degenaar se groot droom, om weer ‘n slag in die jagveld te kan wees, is die naweek bewaarheid danksy die welwillendheidsgebaar van ‘n paar plaaslike vriende. Dakes is sedert 2006 aan ‘n rolstoel gekluister na ‘n ernstige beroerte-aanval. Hy is aan sy totale regterkant verlam en het ook sy spraakvermoë verloor.
Hendrik en Noeleen Putter van die Plaas Arcadia, in die Waterford/ Somerset-distrik, het hul fasiliteite gratis beskikbaar gestel. Die hulp van hul seun, Graham (Bees) Putter, ‘n professionele jagter is ingeroep om Dakes behulpsaam te wees met die jag. Graham was onlangs in die nuus toe hy ‘n blinde persoon suksesvol ‘n koedoebul laat jag het met behulp van laserstraaltegnologie.
Dakes is met rolstoel-en-al op Hendrik se Land Cruiser bakkie gelaai en sy posisie met behulp van sterk bande gestabiliseer. Hy is eers na die rivierloop geneem vir ‘n oefenlopie, waartydens hy ‘n mooi groepering op ‘n teiken geskiet het. Daarna is hul veld toe vir die ware Jakob. Graham het ‘n mooi Rooibokram opgemerk op ‘n hoogte van sowat 230 meter. Groot stilte en afwagting het geheers totdat die skoot geklap het en die bok met ‘n enkele bladskoot platgetrek is. Die hele petalje is met ‘n DVD – kamera verfilm deur Buks Kleynhans en word tans geredigeer. Frank Gentry, eienaar van Karoo-Taxidermist, het aangebied om die trofee gratis te monteer, terwyl Klaas Zandberg, plaaslike slaghuiseienaar, ingewillig het om die vleis behoorlik te bewerk.
Dakes en sy vriende was, nodeloos om te sê, in ekstase oor die suksesvolle poging en het aangedring dat daar na die tyd ‘n behoorlike fotosessie en ‘n vonkelwyntjie geniet word. Die moontlikheid van ‘n koedoejag in 2013 is teenoor Dakes genoem, maar hy het dit verlopig met ‘n vriendelike gebaar van die hand gewys……hy wil die opwinding van die Rooibokjag eers behoorlik verwerk.
Middelburg Karoo Hartland Fees
ook gerat vir die Curriebeker Finaal
Vanaf 23-27 Oktober 2012 is dit feestyd in Middelburg. Soos voorheen word daar baie gekonsentreer op die skeppende kunste. Vanaf Dinsdag 23- 25 Oktober is verskeie klasse aangebied in kunsvorme soos skilder, mosaïek en piouter werk.
‘n Kunsuitstalling word die hele week in die stadsaal gehou. Die amptelike opening van die uitstalling het plaasgevind op Dinsdagaand. Verskeie kunstenaars stal hier uit, en dis beslis iets wat nie misgeloop moet word nie.
Die jaarlikse koorfees was ‘n geleentheid uit die boonste rakke en het Woensdagaand in die Karel Theron Primêre Skoolsaal plaasgevind. Altesaam nege kore het deelgeneem.
Daar is spesiaal aan die jeug gedink, en ‘n sanggroep genaamd Cortina tree Donderdagaand in die Feestent op. Kaartjies is baie billik en by die tent beskikbaar. Vertoning begin om 19h00.
Vrydag en Saterdag, 26-27 Oktober is die groot woeligheid op die Hoërskool Middelburg Skoolterrein. Daar is heelwat aktiwiteite en dinge vir elkeen in die gesin.
Kunstenaars wat optree is onder andere, Armand – Singing Cowboy, Anrika Bruinders, Akina, Hans Drommedaaris asook Ampie du Preez en Arno Jordaan.
Verskeie kosstalletjies en ander vlooimark stalletjies bied verskeidenheid vir almal.
Natuurlik is die Rugby vergeet nie.
Kom ondersteun jou span tydens die Curriebeker Finaal, wat om 17h00 in die Biertent by die Fees uitgesaai sal word. Biertent oop van vroeg tot baie laat!!
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