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4 Tel: (045) 839-4040 Emergency: (A/H) 083-272-0955 ° Editorial: sonjar@timesmedia.co.za - advertising: charodinev@timesmedia.co.za THE REPRESENTATIVE 29 September 2017 LOCAL IS LEKKER Do you live in Dordrecht – or call Cacadu home? Is Cofimvaba your place of residence or does Stutterheim have a special place in your heart? Send us your news C O U N T RYWAT C H KOMANI NEWS SEND YOUR NEWS Our country correspondents are active in their respective areas and will gather your news. Contact sonjar@tisoblackstar.co.za for details of the correspondent in your area. Country news deadline: 10am on a Tuesday. DORDRECHT – C o n g r at u l at i o n s to the Fischers from Komani who have taken over the Dordrecht Cheese Factory. The community wishes them all of the best. COT TERRELL’S Const ruction has won the tender of Eastern Cape Roads and Public Works, outline maintenance of provincial paved and gravel roads in the Emalahleni Municipality. Maintenance work has started on the road between Dordrecht and Queenstown. About 25000km of roads will be maintained. THANK you to the farmers of Dordrecht who have assisted in giving grazing to farmers who were affected by fires in the Barkly East, Molteno, Cathcart and Jamestown areas. CHARLOTTE van der Berg is hosting the Cuppa for Cansa on October 14 at The Foundry at 11am. Tickets are available from Charlotte. Ingrid Takis will be the guest speaker. She is a qualified thermographist from Johannesburg. RUNNING FREE: Ostriches on Laurence Feuth's farm in the Dordrecht district. The ostriches have managed to successfully breed out their second batch of chicks Picture: SHARON SALMON STUTTERHEIM – On September 16, 52 athletes completed parkrun Event #151 in cool, overcast conditions. Compared with other parkruns in the EC coastal region they were lucky that the rain held off until they had finished packing up. Due to a large group in Stutt for a dental conference there were several visitors, many of them new to the parkrun experience. 49 athletes completed Event #152 in chilly conditions on Saturday. Congratulations to Nigel Whitecross who has improved his personal best time several times in the past few weeks and on Saturday achieved his goal of running 5km in sub-30 minutes. THE annual Amatola Haven bazaar takes place Tomorrow, at the NG Kerk Hall starting at 10am. Lunches, puddings, cakes, white elephant, plants and so on will all be available. SASSA in social o u t re a c h IVENATHI GOSA THE South African Security Agency (Sassa) introduced the Integrated Community Registration Outreach Program (ICROP) – a ministerial campaign aimed at intensifying the fight against poverty – in McBride last week. The Eastern Cape is the province with the second highest number of people living on social grants. Sassa, government departments and other stakeholders engaged with villagers and social grant beneficiaries on government plans and services for their areas and communities during the meeting. Regional communication official Sinoxolo Gqala, said ICROP provided a platform and opportunity for government and communities to discuss, educate and create awareness on issues that included money lenders, deductions, fraudulent social grant applications, enrolled and un-enrolled social grant recipients and Sassa cards. Chris Hani district manager Nomphelo Tata said Sassa had the responsibility of making sure that the beneficiaries were alert to current scams. “The majority of the beneficiaries live far from the offices so it is our duty to make sure that we go to the people, and show them how to use the Sassa cards. “During a month we pay out R75-million in the Enoch Mgijima and R16-million to Whittlesea – the bulk goes to child support grants.” The department of health, social development, education, Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were part of the outreach program. Ward 19 committee member Siphokazi Bless spoke on behalf of the community and said a lack of water, roads in a bad condition and schools which needed infrastructural attention were among the challenges. Unemployment and children without birth certificates were also problematic. Assistant director of the department of education, Madoda Ndembe, confirmed there were problems with school buildings. “We are working on that as we have identified schools such as Vuselela Primary. We will have to wait for the next financial year, so we appeal to community members to be patient with us, as we depend on the provincial departments.” Bursaries for unemployed young people were available as there were teacher shortages. He also encouraged young people to make use of internship opportunities. STERKSTROOM – A successful blood donation clinic was held at the NG Church hall last week. 14 units of blood were donated. The blood donors’ clinic is coordinated by Sandra Prins and anyone wanting more information can contact her. A CHEERFUL WAA meeting was held on Wednesday with guest speaker Anna van Niekerk telling about her visit to Canada where her daughter and son-in-law live. She also had an interesting power point presentation for members to view pictures of life in Canada. A large number of guests RIPE OLD AGE: Nojas Guga of Tarkastad celebrated his 100th birthday at The Story on Friday. The event was sponsored by The Story Picture: LOYISO GXOTHIWE TARKASTAD – Members of the garden club enjoyed an informative visit to Langside farm 12km from Komani, the home of Pieter and Marietha Prinsloo, where their son Koot gave a very interesting talk on the advantages of veld-reared beef and took them on a tour of their abattoir and butchery facilities. The members were able to taste the smoked and dried sausage and beef broth, all of which contained only natural products without preservatives or MSG in the spices used. The club is also gearing up for next year’s pumpkin festival on March 24. Earlier this year the first such festival was held and it was so successful that it was decided to from Dordrecht also enjoyed the afternoon in Sterkstroom. Each convenor decorated a table in red and white. Each person received an embroidered towel with a Canadian image on. The meeting also served as the AGM. The following members were elected to the committee: Marieta van der Walt, agriculture convenor, Mingi Moorcroft, arts and culture convenor. The rest of the committee consists of Amanda Oelofse, Megan Moorcroft, Adele Richardson, Annemarie Moorcroft and Marlene Neser. THE GRADUATES: Orange Grove graduates with principal Jakes du Toit make it an annual event. Contestants buy special Atlantic Giant pumpkin seeds from the club and have some months to grow and pamper them in any way they choose before the big weigh-in, when the grower of the heaviest pumpkin is declared the winner. These seeds can produce pumpkins of up to 350kg. There are all sorts of other festivities to make the day a real family event. The seeds are available from BKB in Tarkastad (contact person Lallie Killian 083-994 6796 or 045-846-0035 during working hours) or from KwaMajuba from Monday at R50 for a packet of three and the club will also be selling germinated plants at R50 each as an alternative. This is a charity event and the club FIRES have plagued the farming community since last Tuesday. A fire started at De Doorns but fortunately farmers acted quickly and the fire was put out along the main road. On Thursday night lightning was the cause of several fires on the Penhoek and at Jordaans Kraal. Two fires were also reported near Molteno. On Friday morning farmers woke up to a fire that burnt a large portion of grazing between Waltervreden and Karnek. This fire was put out, but flared up several times and farmers had to be on standby until late in the afternoon. On Monday morning, is hoping for a bumper entry. October is the time to plant, so don’t waste one growing day. ORANGE Grove Schools celebrated their graduation dinner on September 15 at the school. The hall was beautifully decorated by Cathy Hood and Janine Peters. This year, a record number of students are graduating: Michelle Ledoux, Siya Siyo, Jonny du Toit, Daniel Johnson, Elsheva van Dyk, Marcello van Jaarsveld, with Kaitlin Ledoux graduating early next year. Best wishes to the graduates. DESPITE some challenges, the Tarka Development Group had a successful first Spring Festival with children from the community and visitors from Pearston. The festival was mountains between Molteno boundary and Thala Game Reserve were on fire, again caused by lightning, as well as a fire near Bailey. One spark from lightning, in these dry times, can cause huge damage, with livestock and lives being at risk. Very little rain has fa l l e n . STERKSTROOM was without water for most of the weekend due to a damaged pipe. Workers worked around the clock to remedy the situation and water was restored on Monday afternoon. generally sponsored by long-term supporter, Ikhala Trust, who has a particular focus on Asset-Based Community-driven Development. Two highlights of the day were a dance-off competition between local children and the group from Pearston, where unknown talents were exposed, as well as paintball target shooting with Dave Hood and Asisipho Mabuto from Orange Grove Adventures. Thanks go to Ikhala Trust in Port Elizabeth who sponsored the event, Sophakama Community Partnership in Pearston which lent support, Vuyokazi Msizi from Tarka Development Group who organised the event and Vuyo Solani who assisted during the day.
THE REPRESENTATIVE 29 September 2017 Tel: (045) 839-4040 Emergency: (A/H) 083-272-0955 ° Editorial: sonjar@timesmedia.co.za - advertising: charodinev@timesmedia.co.za 5 FOR THE LOVE OF ART: Sixishe Junior Secondary School pupils, from left, Adedume Balfour and Uzoma Yeko celebrate being provincial champions with arts and culture teacher Nompumelelo Konkwane at the Guild Theatre in East London at the Provincial Creative Arts Festival CUTE: Phiwe Tshweza of Playways looking her best in traditional wear in celebration of Heritage Day ON THE SCHOOLB E AT WELL DONE! Girls’ High School is proud of Grade 11 pupils Sazikazi Mbalo, left, and Mihle Mabhengu who ranked first in the Eastern Cape in the provincial oral round of the National Schools Moot Court Competition. They will be flying to Pretoria during October to compete in the national round of the competition which will be held at the Constitutional Court WE HAD FUN: Interact members from Hangklip, Bulelani and KwaKomani recently joined together to learn some skills from Circus Leemak Sixishe pupils make Komani proud SIMTEMBILE MGIDI SIXISHE Junior Secondary School pupils Uzoma Yeko and Adedume Balfour has made Komani proud by winning the Provincial Creative Arts Festival at the Guild Theatre in East London. Adedume said his journey in art started when he started drawing cartoons until his family recognised his talent and started supporting him in Grade 4. “When I was young I used to love drawing cars and cartoons, but when I am old I want to be an architect and draw houses.” Fellow scholar Uzoma said he was drawn into the world of art by boredom and when his family and friends saw his work they encouraged him. “Our peers are proud of us. My family is proud of me, they always ask me from where I got this talent?” The duo said they kept cool heads and decided that they would compete in the competition. Sixishe Arts and Culture teacher Nompumelelo Konkwane said the school drew on past experience in the competition and was thrilled to win the gold. “The theme for the competition was OR Tambo the legend. We found out he played soccer and cricket, loved maths, was the secretary-general of the ANC, and that there was an airport and district municipality named after him – and so we decided to use this to tell his story.” She thanked teacher Nokuzola Fini and Babini Ndodana and principal Kunjulwana Matangwana for their assistance. M at a n g wa n a said she was proud of the duo and hoped the other pupils would follow suit in exploring their talents. LOWEST PRICES ON QUALITY BUILDING MATERIALS, TOOLS, PAINT & HARDWARE Queenstown Central Cnr Komanie & Victoria Roads, Queenstown (next to Big Daddy Wholesalers). 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