www.bolandgazette.co.za bolandgazette.mobi Year 17 • Tuesday 3 September 2013 | Tel. 021 853 0211 Helderberg A resident trudges through the water with her dog at Kay’s Caravan Park. PHOTO: ASHRAF BOOLEY ASHRAF BOOLEY In the wake of last week’s hard-hit- ting rains, several homes across the Helderberg were severely damaged, leaving hundreds displaced. Even business premises such as the Mediclinic Vergelegen in Somerset West were reported to have experi- enced flooding. According to Rian Smit, senior fore- caster at the Cape Town Weather Of- fice, the Helderberg had 84,2 mm of rainfall last week up until 08:00 on Fri- day, measured at the Strand rainfall station. Hundreds of people had to evacuate their homes in Kay’s Caravan Park in Strand after the Lourens River burst its banks on Wednesday. Several homes were destroyed and residents had to take shelter in the local Scouts hall. According to Richard Bosman, exec- utive director of Safety and Security for the City of Cape Town, the water level at Kay’s Caravan Park rose to about one metre above ground level. Shocked residents were seen carry- ing their animals and trying to salvage the few possessions they could after water levels unexpectedly rose at a sig- nificant rate. “We knew that the rain was bad, but we didn’t expect that it would flood as much as it did. The water levels started rising after the river burst its banks and suddenly our homes were flooded and our possessions destroyed,” said resident Mary Kukarg in disbelief as she trudged through the water. Kukarg added that the lights also went out as water levels reached to the level of the wall sockets. Some people struggled to drive through the water while other vehicles were stuck. Residents also carried their possessions to higher levels in or- der to reduce water damage. Some residents had to be temporari- ly housed in the Scouts hall while oth- ers went to family and friends. “The Kay’s Caravan Park manage- ment, in collaboration with the City’s Disaster Risk Management Centre, ar- ranged that the local Scouts hall be used as an emergency shelter,” says Bosman. He added that hot meals were provid- ed by faith-based organisations in the area. Donavan West, from the organi- sation Arise Billionaires, also distrib- uted bread to residents last week Thursday. “As a result of damages sustained, re- pairs and maintenance must be under- taken by the registered owner of the property as this is a private matter,” says Bosman. Other areas in the Helderberg were also hit by heavy rain and several are- as were flooded. According to statistics by the City’s Disaster Risk Management, last week’s floods affected over 700 informal homes in Strand alone. Altogether 300 homes were flooded in Rastakamp in Sir Lowry’s Pass, while Sandvlei in Macassar, amongst other areas, was also affected. “Showers will persist until Tuesday (today) with sunny conditions for Wednesday (tomorrow) and Thurs- day,” says Smit. Flooding can be reported to the City’s Disaster Risk Management on 0860 103 089 and emergencies can be di- rected to the City’s 107 line. See more photos on page 3. Helderberg hard hit by heavy rains
A resident trudges through the water with her dog at Kay’sCaravan Park. PHOTO: ASHRAF BOOLEY
ASHRAF BOOLEY
In the wake of last week’s hard-hit-ting rains, several homes across theHelderbergwereseverelydamaged,leaving hundreds displaced.
Even business premises such as theMediclinic Vergelegen in SomersetWest were reported to have experi-enced flooding.
According to Rian Smit, senior fore-caster at the Cape Town Weather Of-fice, the Helderberg had 84,2 mm ofrainfall last week up until 08:00 on Fri-day, measured at the Strand rainfallstation.
Hundreds of people had to evacuatetheir homes in Kay’s Caravan Park inStrand after the Lourens River burstits banks on Wednesday. Severalhomes were destroyed and residentshad to take shelter in the local Scoutshall.
According to Richard Bosman, exec-utive director of Safety and Securityfor the City of Cape Town, the waterlevel at Kay’s Caravan Park rose toabout one metre above ground level.
Shocked residents were seen carry-ing their animals and trying to salvagethe few possessions they could afterwater levels unexpectedly rose at a sig-nificant rate.
“We knew that the rain was bad, butwe didn’t expect that it would flood asmuch as it did. The water levels startedrising after the river burst its banksand suddenly our homes were floodedand our possessions destroyed,” saidresident Mary Kukarg in disbelief asshe trudged through the water.
Kukarg added that the lights alsowent out as water levels reached to thelevel of the wall sockets.
Some people struggled to drivethrough the water while other vehicleswere stuck. Residents also carriedtheir possessions to higher levels in or-der to reduce water damage.
Some residents had to be temporari-ly housed in the Scouts hall while oth-ers went to family and friends.
“The Kay’s Caravan Park manage-ment, in collaboration with the City’sDisaster Risk Management Centre, ar-ranged that the local Scouts hall beused as an emergency shelter,” saysBosman.
He added that hot meals were provid-ed by faith-based organisations in thearea. Donavan West, from the organi-sation Arise Billionaires, also distrib-uted bread to residents last weekThursday.
“Asaresultofdamagessustained,re-pairs and maintenance must be under-taken by the registered owner of theproperty as this is a private matter,”says Bosman.
Other areas in the Helderberg werealso hit by heavy rain and several are-as were flooded.
According to statistics by the City’sDisasterRiskManagement, lastweek’sfloodsaffectedover700informalhomesin Strand alone.
Altogether300homeswerefloodedinRastakamp in Sir Lowry’s Pass, whileSandvlei in Macassar, amongst otherareas, was also affected.
“Showers will persist until Tuesday(today) with sunny conditions forWednesday (tomorrow) and Thurs-day,” says Smit.
FloodingcanbereportedtotheCity’sDisaster Risk Management on0860 103 089 and emergencies can be di-rected to the City’s 107 line.See more photos on page 3.
Helderberg hardhit by heavy rains
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Last week Friday Helderberg residents were enchanted as Helderberg mountains got hit with snow like manyresidents have never seen before. Residents across the region said that it’s the first time they have seenso much snow on the mountains. PHOTO: MARK STUART
Heavy rains causedmajor inconvenience inKay’sCaravnPark lastWednes-day. While some managed to get out, other vehicles were stuck andunable to move. PHOTO: ASHRAF BOOLEY
Mary Kukarg at her home in Kay’sCaravan Park, which was left flood-ed. PHOTO: ASHRAF BOOLEY
Residents of Kay’s Caravan Park had to make their way through a seaof water after the downpours. PHOTO: ASHRAF BOOLEY
According to the South African Weather Service Friday’s snowfall was thelowest snowfall in 20 years in the Helderberg. PHOTO: CHRISTINE VAN DYK
To help people recover from the effects of last week’s flooding, theorganisation Arise Billionaires donated building material and foodto residents of Nomzamo. Here Jethro Ceyster drops off some buildingmaterial for one of the residents.
Helderberg braves rain and snow
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Violence reportedduring NUM protestASHRAF BOOLEY
A group of dissatisfied construc-tion workers have been angrilyprotesting since last week Mon-day over wage disputes with theSouth African Federation of CivilEngineering Contractors(SAFCEC).
This has prevented several work-ers from going to work and has eventurned violent in some cases.
Builders, engineers, constructioncompanies and handymen were pre-vented from entering the Lwandletownship,orevengettingclose tocol-lect their workers.
Last week Wednesday the group,whoaremembersofCosatu’sNation-al Union of Mine Workers (NUM),protested on the N2 en route to Vander Stel train station where theymade their way to Bellville to handover a memorandum listing their de-mands to SAFCEC.
Edward Phibantwe, coordinator oftheprotestandmemberofNUM,says
their protest is legal and that he isnot aware of any violent actions thathave occurred during their protest.
But others disagree, with one per-son saying that he even had to be hos-pitalised after being beaten with aknopkierie over the head.
Gift Mnelpmva claims he waswalking near Van der Stel stationwhen he was attacked by protestersand hit with aknopkierieon Monday.
“I work at a construction site inBlackheath and a lot of other work-ers who were not part of the protestwere also attacked for going towork,” he says.
Amongst their list of demands,Phibantwe says they want a 13% in-crease in their salaries but are onlybeing offered 6, 5%. “We’ve been innegotiations with SAFCEC for fouryears already and we’ve always hadto compromise. We are still preparedto negotiate and our demands arereasonable,” says Phibantwe.
Other demands on their list in-clude more annual leave, fourmonths paid maternity leave, work-
SAFCEC, who represents employ-ers in the civil engineering contract-ing industry in the current wage ne-gotiations, underwent the bargain-ing process under the auspices of theBargaining Council for the Civil En-gineering Industry (BCCEI) says An-nemie Cowley, communicationsmanager at SAFCEC.
“In an effort to resolve ongoingstrikeactionandadjustwages for thelowest paid workers, SAFCEC tableda 10% wage increase for categoriesTask Grade 1 to 4 and 8% wage in-crease for categories Task Grade 5 to9. In addition, severance benefits forthe industry were also improved.
“The trade unions, the NationalUnion of Mine Workers (NUM) andthe Building Construction and Al-lied Workers Union (BCAWU), arenot formally responding to the bold
offer tabled by employers of increas-es across the board which were guar-anteed for three years,” says Cowley.
Norman Milne, president ofSAFCEC, says they are extremelydisappointed that the unions havenot formally reacted to this offerfrom employers “since it is consider-ably above both CPI and other indus-try settlements and would have alsoprovided certainty to both employ-ers and employees for the next threeyears.”
Members of Cosatu’s National Union of Mine Workers making their way to Van der Stel train station. PHOTO: ASHRAF BOOLEY
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New names for civic centresASHRAF BOOLEY
The City of Cape Town has proposed tochange the names of the Old Civic andNewCivic Centres in Macassar to HerandienCivicCentreandKuhnCivicCentrerespec-tively.
Anoticewaspublished in theHelderbergGa-zette last Tuesday, informing readers of theCity’s intention, and to invite comments frominterested and affected parties.Ward 109 councillor JohnHeuvel nominated
CecilHerandien andSidneyKuhn, councillorswhowere both builders ofMacassar, to be hon-oured in this way.“The subcouncil was involved in sourcing
the information on the background of thenames chosen.“Both Herandien and Kuhn were the first
councillors in the area. They were nominatedbecause they were known to have greatly con-tributed to the development of the Macassarcommunity,” says councillor Brett Herron,chairperson of the naming committee, City ofCape Town.However, Herron says this is still subject to
a public consultation process which will runduring September and which will include adoor-to-door campaign.
Advertisements will be placed in the localnewspapers. The public and interested partiescan lodge their objections or support from 1 to30 September.
Help to find child’sbiological parentsThe Department of Social De-velopment in Somerset West isrequesting anyone with infor-mation regarding the family ofa child on their files, to contactits office.The childwas born on 30May
1999 to biological mother Fik-iswaMathoba Tyhaliti and bio-logical father Lundi Zondani.
The last known address of thebiological parents was in Idu-tywa, Eastern Cape.The child is in the care of the
maternal aunt residing inLwandle.Anyone can contact social
Lesers sê hul sêSentrum vir hawelosesDit is skokkenddat ’n sentrumwat
vir 12 jaar al bestaan en hawelosesvoed die gevaar loop om gesluit teword, terwyl miljoene rande ver-dwyn weens korrupsie, en politicisoos konings met hul buitensporigesalarisse leef! Hulle word vetter elkedag!P. Steyn, StrandVerlenging van drankwinkel-
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speelparkEk is baie bly en dankbaar om te
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OklahomastraatPrimêrinMacassaren ons skool het net so ’n groot groepminderbevoorregte kinders.
Ek sal dit waardeer as u ons skoolook kan ondersteun, asseblief. Baiedankie.Hulle het wel ’n speelpark regoor
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werkloosheid, bedelaars, oorvol sko-le, verwaarloosde, mishandelde kin-ders, misdaad, vigs en protesoptogtesal nooit ophou voordat mense nieopgevoed word om nie stringe kin-ders te kry waarvoor hulle nie kansorg nie en ons ons grense nie vir on-wettige immigrante van buurlandesluit nie.W Jordaan, Strand
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BREI VIR BABAS: Strand-inwoner, Johanna van Rooyenbrei en hekel reeds sedert 2009 kombersies vir diekraamafdeling van die Helderberg-hospitaal. ’n Vriendinvan haar het kort hierna ook begin handbysit, en frokkiesen mussies vir prematuur babas gebrei. Die vroue beno-dig egter wol om die pasgebore babas se lyfies warmte hou. Mense wat kan help met donasies van nuweof oorskietwol kan Van Rooyen by 021 853 3745 of082 482 6777 bel.
Bag R10 000 inlocal idols contestThisyearwill see the inauguralinstalment of Local got Idols –an exciting new talent searchbrought in association withHuis van Niekerk-Benadehof.Local got Idolswelcomes any-
one with musical talent in theHelderberg or surrounds toboast their musical magic onstage.Taking place loud and proud
ontheeveningofSaturday5Oc-tober in the StrandCommunityHall, ten hand-picked finalistswill go head-to-head live onstage.And the winner will walk
away R10 000 richer!Judges include household
names, celebrities and person-alities from the likes of police-woman Madeleine (Maddie)Abrahams, runner-up of SA’sgot Talent 2010 Shireen Blatt,up-and-coming country-west-ern star Anton le Roux, pas-sionate singer and songwriterfrom the Helderberg LeonardLang, a newand foremost coun-
try-western artist Hugo Nie-woudt, Zeldine Carr, dynamitecomes in small packages –“Koekie” of Vetkoek Paleis andmany more.In addition, each entry on the
night will receive a live record-ingof their efforts, tomakesurethat everyone is a winner.Local got Idolswas started by
Huis van Niekerk-Benadehof,and is a benefit gig that aims tohelpHuis vanNiekerk-Benade-hof’s frail-care unit.With your assistance, Local
got Idols can become a success-ful annual event on the Helder-berg calendar.The event will start at 18:00;
tickets cost R80.Tickets are available at the
following places: the BiltongShop, Dorpsmeent, Strand; andHuis van Niekerk-Benadehof,30 Neethling Street, Strand andwillalsobeavailableat thedoorof the city hall on the day.For more information, feel
free to call Leoni Prinsloo on021 853 1040.
Free massage workshopsHelderbergers interested in theart of massaging, can now betrained in this art.Beauty therapist Natasha
Abels will host a series of freemassageworkshopsanddemon-strations.Abels, who has been in the
beauty industry since 2006, saysthe purpose of workshops are toeducatepeople on thebenefits ofmassages.Last year she teamed up with
Leon van Niekerk, who has a
treatment room in Malibu, andthe pair have been doingmobilemassages and treatments underthe name Le’Tash Beauty Spa.Van Niekerk says aspects of thetreatment they want to bring tothe community is stress reliefand personal upliftment.The workshops, which are
free of charge, will be held on 7September.For more information or to
ONDERSTEUN LOSLITDAG: Binneland-ster Philicity Reeken (voor middel in die foto) wyshoe om groot te gaan! Loslitdag vind op Vrydag 6 September plaas en dié aktriseen radio-omroeper moedig alle Suid-Afrikaners aan om hul Loslitdag-plakkers te drawant elkeen se bydrae van R10 per plakker maak ‘n groot verskil in die lewens vanmense met gestremdhede. Loslitdag is ’n projek van die Nasionale Raad vir Personemet Liggaamlike Gestremdheid, ’n niewinsgewende nasionale organisasie wat hom be-ywer om die behoeftes van persone met gestremdhede aan te spreek. Loslitdag vindjaarliks, vir die afgelope 18 jaar, op die eerste Vrydag van September plaas. Kry jouplakker by Edgards, Jet, JetMart, Boardmans, CNA, Red Square, Legit, Absa, Game,DionWired, Checkers, Checkers Hyper of enige organisasie wat aan Loslitdag deelneem.Vir meer inligting gaan na www.casualday.co.za.
Cardiac seminar at ErinvaleThe Helderberg CardiacSupport Group will beholding their fifth annualcardiac seminar onSatur-day 28 September from08:30until 13:00. The semi-nar will take place at theErinvale Golf CourseClub House in SomersetWest. Admission is R20per person and includes a
mid-morning brunch.Seats are limited so
book yours now by send-ing an email to [email protected] orcall Hermann Steyn on079 508 3519. Bookings be-fore Friday 20 September.Formore informationvis-it the website at www.hel-derbergcardiac.co.za.
PLAASLIKE BOEK VIR TIENERS: Plaaslike skrywer Hermien van den Bergh het die bekendstelling van haar boek TheAdventures of the Unstoppable Trackeroo and the Crew – The Land of Honestasia, op Saterdag 24 Augustus by Wordsworthin Somerset Mall gemaak. Hier met Van den Bergh van links is Callum Finlayson (graad 3) en Daniella Finlayson (graad6) altwee by Somerset College. Haar boek is daarop gemik om tieners bewus te maak van hul keuses en morele waardesdeur middel van vermaak van wêreldgehalte.
Lentemark gehouDieNGMoederkerk,Strandhouvanaf Donderdag 5 Septembertot Saterdag 7September ’nLen-temark in die kerksaal, op diehoekvanFagan- enBirkenhead-straat.Gaste kan gesellig in die res-
taurantkuierterwyldiekindersin die speelarea kan baljaar.Heerlike wegneemetes sal tekoop wees. Daar sal ook ’n ver-skeidenheid kuns- en hand-
werkstalletjies wees asook de-monstrasies en handwerkses-sies, onder meer oor hoe om ’nKerskrans te maak, die versie-ring van Kerstafels en ’n werk-sessie vir kinders.Marktye is Donderdag 12:00 –
More toilets forinformal settlementsTheCityofCapeTownhashanded out toilets andstandpipes in Lwandleand Nomzamo over thelast few weeks. Nkaninitownship received 11flush toilets and fourstandpipes while Solly’sTown received 38 fullflush toilets and eightstandpipes, according toarecent press release bythe City. “This provisionis over and above existing
provisions of various san-itation types in these are-as. Through this addition-al provision of full flushtoilets, the City will en-sure a fundamental im-provement to the resi-dents lives.” The Cityplans to construct anoth-er 1 300 full-flush toilets inthis financial year in are-as that will include Pholi-le Park, Rastakamp andMacassar Village.
Care giver networklaunched in StrandThe Oasis Training Centre inStrandhasrecentlylauncheditsnew business unit – the OasisCaring Network.This business idea was born
out of the need for their traineegraduates to be employed.After obtaining their certifi-
cates in home-based care, grad-uates struggled to find employ-ment within the care industryenvironment in theHelderberg.Through this care-giver agen-
cy, theyemploygraduatesthem-selves. Care givers are then de-ployed to the retirement centresand villages and to private indi-viduals who are in need of careat home, whether the person isdisabled, in need of frail care orin need of hospitalisation care.
“We have already found em-ployment formorethan20ofourgraduates. Through this busi-nessventurewehope to findem-ployment for as many of ourcare givers aswe can,” saysLes-lieAugust, executive director ofOasis. Through this new busi-ness venture, Oasis TrainingCentre aims to empower theirgraduates with employment sothat they can in turnprovide fortheir families,whichgives themback their dignity and at thesametimegivesbackto thecom-munity through their care andsupport services.For more information on the
care giver network, call Oasison 021 845 8860 or visit www.oa-sistraining.co.za.
The 12-year-old drummajorette Ashlin Adamsfrom Strand, who wasawarded DistrictMail’sLet’s Play Sports Star ofthe Month for Augustlast year, has returnedfrom Texas where shecompeted in an interna-tional drum majorettecompetition, along withher fellow South Africanteam. The South Africanteam brought home 36out of 38 medals, saysAdams. This comes af-ter she was selected forthe South African drummajorette team, whereshe also competed inthe South African DrumMajorette Champion-ships in Pietermaritz-burg last year. She is apupil at Dr GJ JoubertPrimary and was re-warded for her out-standing individual per-formances when she re-ceived her WesternProvince colours and South African colours in 2011. Adams says herexperience in Texas was amazing as it was her first time going abroad.“I would love to go back again, but it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.It was great performing on an international level,” says Adams.
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Celebrating womenon a mountainWomen on top of the world. Thiswas the theme for the SomersetWest Asian Chinese Martial ArtsWellness Centre’s women’smonth celebration which sawover 200 people gather for Tai Chion top of Signal Hill to celebratewomen and their achievementsrecently.
Thiswas in partnershipwithMas-ter Cari Shurma from Tai Chi forKids, SAPS Men for Change as wellasMetropolice’sMenforChangeandSAPS andMetro policewomen’s net-work.The program brought together
women from across the spectrum –from law enforcement to womenworking in service delivery.“All men are born out of women
and this is thevery reasonwhywom-en must be celebrated,” says MasterNiklaas Thysen.Thysen says the idea of the event
was for“mentoputandmakewomen
feel like theyareon topof theworld.”The women on top of the world
eventwas“tocelebratewomen, toad-mire our beautiful city, to takewom-en where they can feel relaxed andbetotallystress-freeandtointroducewomen to a healthy form of exerciselike Tai Chi,” according to Thysen.The facilitatorandpresenterof the
event was Master Cari Shurmanfrom the United States and MasterSgt Thysen from the Somerset Westpolice.Tai Chi forKidswill be introduced
within pre-primary, primary andhigh schools across the WesternCape during their road show fromSeptember until October.According to Thysen, he has al-
ready secured partnerships withprovincial government, education,social development, communitysafety as well as sports and recrea-tionfortaichiasamassdevelopmentprogramme within schools in theWestern Cape.
Life skills through sportThe Helderberg Academy, a non-profit organisation based in Som-erset West, teaches several chil-dren around the Helderberg lifeskills through sports.Beth Rudge, founder of the
academy, says that after seeing alack of physical education insome communities in South Afri-ca when compared to Englandwhere she is from, she decided tostart an academy to teach young-sters valuable life skills. “Wewant to create stability and havealready seen big changes in someof the children. We especially en-courage them to set their goals.
We hope to leave this with thecommunities so that they will beabletorunit themselvesoneday,”she says.The academy trains children
from Macassar and Lwandleweekly and during school holi-days.On Thursdays they coach soc-
cer in Lwandle at the sportsfield,with a steady number of morethan 20 children that regularly at-tend.In Macassar they have rugby
coaching for up to 30 children be-tween the ages of 11 and 18 yearsat Macassar High.
Locals to compete atpool championshipsThe following local playersand referees have been select-ed to represent the WesternProvince Country Region(WPCR) at the SA 8-ball poolopen championships at Klein-plasie in Worcester from 29September until 5 October:Fernando Rudolph (Macas-
sar); David Afrika; WayneWoest; Junaid Smit (all fromStrand); Elias Nomakha-khayi; RenetseMokhele (bothfrom Lwandle). The refereesare Jason Onke (Strand) andEdward Visagie (Macassar).The junior u. 18 and u. 23
players selected for the SA 8-ball pool open championshipsareall fromLwandleandZola.
The players that will be com-peting from22 to28Septemberalso at Kleinplasie in Worces-ter are the following:Tshepo Jama; Thobani Kili-
mani; Ishmael Mtehetwha;Chumani Meteni; MomeleziDuka;LungeliYolisa;SongezoMxabanisi;TukuluhoTlhatsi;Thabang Tlhatsi; SivemathiMtsi; Ayabonga Mgobaza;Buhle Msongelwa; AthenkosiStemelo; Lephallo Ramotsa-mai; Sandi Nyathela;Siphamamdla Bulaiya; Mp-melelo Gqola; TsepalangLeohla. The manager is EliasNomakhakhayi and the refe-rees are RenetseMokhele andBusisiwe Keyiki.
WILNA TO REPRESENT WP: Wilna Ey-bers from the Strand Athletic Club wasselected to represent the WesternProvince in the South African CrossCountry Championship on Saturday14 September.
