The Rep 1 March 2019

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THE REPRESENTATIVE 1 March 2019
THE Notice Board is intended to help people
advertise events and avoid clashes. The
date, event and venue may appear free of
charge for three months, but these details
must reach The Rep by noon on Mondays, to
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Thursday-Saturday February 14-16: QCJ
marimba band at Rhodes Stoepsitfees.
Friday February 15: QCJ foundation phase
fun day; Hangklip fun day.
Friday-Saturday February 15-16: D av e
Hodgson squash tournament, DSG,
G r a h a m st o w n .
Saturday February 16: Chris Hani mega
district athletics meeting, Cradock; QC
cricket vs Hudson Park.
Sunday February 17: Merrifield Mile,
Wriggleswade Dam, Stutterheim district.
Monday February 18: QC cricket vs
Hangklip (home); QC tennis Top 12 vs Aliwal
North (away).
Tuesday February 19: QC water polo vs Dale
(away), cricket vs Aliwal North (away).
ROUND&ABOUT
RIGHT BEHIND YOU MOM: Angi Wienekus in the new wheelchair she received last week
thanks to the public’s collection of bottle tops and bread tags. She is supported by her
children Hannah, 10, and Alex, 6
Picture: SUPPLIED
Wo m e n
will join in
prayer
Today is the Women’s World Day
of Prayer, a day when all women
worldwide, of every denomination,
join together in fellowship for
prayer with a specific theme.
Each year a different country is
tasked with organising this day
and choosing a theme.
This year it is the turn of
Slovenia and their chosen theme
is “Come, everything is ready”.
Traditionally women from
different denominations take part
in the service and this year there
will be participation by women
from the Presbyterian Church,
Familia Christi, the Baptist,
Methodist and NG churches and
Water of Life.
The service starts at 2.30pm
and will be followed by tea and
fellowship. Women of all walks of
life are most welcome.
ON THE NOTICE BOARD
Wednesday February 20: QC inter-house
gala, GHS pool, 2pm; Marlow tennis
tournament, Cradock; Hangklip squash vs
Cradock (away).
Thursday February 21: GHS inter-house
gala, 12 noon; QC Berry Dam relay; Marlow
tennis tournament, Cradock; QCJ SGB
meeting; Smaldeel Merinos sale, Haddon,
Adelaide, 12 noon.
Friday February 22: Southbourne athletics
meeting.
Friday-Saturday February 22-23: Merrifield
water polo tournament, East London.
Saturday February 23: QC cricket,
basketball vs Grey High School (home); QC
1st cricket XI vs Healdtown Academy (home);
QCJ cricket vs Sada; Love of Gardening
morning tea with Heather Wolmarans, Callie
Evens Lodge, Cathcart, 9am.
Tuesday February 26: QCJ inter-house
c r i c ke t .
Public’s throw-away
plastic works magic
Wheelchair initiative develops traction
CHUX FOURIE
So often we are asked to
help with this or
contribute to that, but we
seldom hear what the
result of our involvement was or
how the particular project is
progressing.
The Rep carried a story some
time ago about how the
Sweethearts Foundation,
situated in Johannesburg, who
was running a wheelchair
project. A wheelchair would be
donated to a needy recipient
once 450kg of plastic bottle tops
or 50kg of bread tags were
collected.
Arrangements were made with
Pick n Pay at The Mall to utilise
their cigarette counter as a
collection point and people were
asked to hand in their plastic
items there. And they did . . . in
addition to many individual
members of the public, schools
– Queen’s Junior in particular –
KIASHA
NAIDOO
Wednesday February 27: QC variety
concert; QCJ inter-house swimming.
Thursday February 28 to Tuesday March
12: Stepping Stone end of term tests.
Friday March 1: Wo m e n ’s World Day of
Prayer service, GHS St George’s Hall,
7.30am; Athlone Shield swimming gala, King
William’s Town; Stepping Stone Grade 3
class fundraiser.
Friday-Saturday March 1-2: Grens sports
festival, East London.
Saturday March 2: Dordrecht ladies’ golf
open; Eastern Cape athletics championships,
Port Elizabeth; QC basketball vs Kingswood
(home).
Sunday March 3: Queenstown ladies’ golf
open.
Tuesday March 5: Triangular athletics
meeting.
Thursday-Sunday March 7-10: Ryla camp.
handed in a spectacular number
of boxes full of plastic items.
As their contribution to the
drive, a courier company fetches
the items and transports them to
Johannesburg.
All this is still ongoing and it
was very gratifying to hear that
one of our own, Angi Wienekus,
who grew up in Komani, and
who was educated at Balmoral
and GHS and later taught there,
became the beneficiary of a
wheelchair in East London last
week.
The hand-over function was
championed by PNA Stationers
at their admin centre and they
provided the refreshments for
the function and a wonderful,
thoughtful goodie bag each for
Wienekus’s children, Hannah, 10,
and Alex, 6.
Her parents, Bennie and Etti
Wienekus, her uncle and aunt,
Peter and Julie Bolze from
Komani and some of her friends,
many of whom are also cancer
Japan trip in the
offing for Kiasha
A Komani woman, Kiasha
Naidoo, has been shortlisted to
attend a social development
bootcamp in Japan next month –
a very prestigious achievement
as this is a worldwide event to
which only the cream-of-the-crop
is invited.
Kiasha, is a social
entrepreneur and deputy director
of training and evaluation at
Khululeka in our town who has a
passion for empowering people
and is determined to bring
quality to early childhood
education programmes and
ser vices.
She has spent many years
working in early childhood
development and is determined
to provide access to
disadvantaged children in rural
communities. She was invited
and agreed to apply and did
herself and Khululeka proud by
Friday March 8: Kudu Calves dress-up day.
Friday-Saturday March 8-9: Eastern Cape
athletics championships, Port Elizabeth.
Friday-Sunday March 8-10: Tony Godding
hockey festival, East London; Dale Junior
squash festival, King William’s Town.
Friday March 8: Science festival,
G r a h a m st o w n .
Saturday March 9: QC winter sports day;
Eastern Cape basketball championships,
G r a h a m st o w n .
Monday March 11: Inter-districts gala, East
London; QCJ and Balmoral music concert,
Balmoral.
Tuesday March 12: Hangklip rugby, netball
vs Cathcart (home).
Sunday March 10: City Lodges three
beaches swim event, Port Elizabeth.
Wednesday March 13: Stepping Stone
Grade 7 cake sale.
patients, were present.
This is no ordinary wheelchair
– it is custom-designed
especially for Wienekus by the
people at the oncology unit at
Frere Hospital according to her
height, weight and needs and is
made to be as comfortable as
possible, so that even the
backrest can be made at just the
right angle to suit her.
To date, 13 wheelchairs have
been donated in the East London
region and they try to give one
away every month.
Wienekus’ father, Bennie, told
The Rep, “We will never know
how to adequately thank
everyone. Words can’t express
our gratitude.”
In spite of her illness,
Wienekus has a scheme to help
hospice and appeals to anyone
who might have second-hand
books, clothing or household
items in good condition to
donate them so that funds may
be raised to help worthy causes.
going through to the final round
of the application process, but
now she has to raise the funds
for her flights, accommodation in
Tokyo and so on. This is seen as
preparation for the challenges
the candidates will experience.
The total cost required is
R155,000, but with the support of
her family, friends and the
community, Kiasha is convinced
her dream will come true.
Those who wish to support her
by contributing R100 or more
should do so before March 18 by
contacting her on
k i a s h a n a i d o o @ ya h o o . c o m or
079-523 6646 for banking
details.
A spokesperson for Khululeka
said, “We believe Kiasha is the
perfect candidate to take on this
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
and she has our full backing and
suppor t.”
Thursday March 14: QC big walk fundraiser,
Longhill; QCJ SGB meeting, 5.30pm.
Friday March 15: GHS quiz day, from
7.30am; Schools close.
Friday-Sunday March 15-17: Rob Taylor
hockey festival, East London.
Friday-Monday March 15-18: York hockey
festival, George.
Thursday March 21: Public holiday –
Human Rights Day.
Thursday-Saturday March 21-23: Grey High
School rugby festival, Port Elizabeth; SA
Schools national athletics championships,
Port Elizabeth.
Sunday-Wednesday March 24-27: Hangklip
rugby/netball tour to Mossel Bay.
Thursday-Saturday March 28-30: SA
Squash open tournament.
Sunday April 7: Town vs Country golf,
Queenstown Golf Club.
Thursday May 9: Opening of Love of Art
charity art exhibition, Queens Hotel.
Friday-Saturday May 10-11: Love of Art
charity art exhibition open all day, Queens
H ot e l .
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THANK YOU: Khayalethemba Special Care Centre received a donation from the St Andrew’s
Parish Mothers’ Union
Picture: ZINTLE BOBELO
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Goodies for care centre
ZINTLE BOBELO
The St Andrew’s Parish
M ot h e r s ’ Union visited
Khayalethemba Special
Care Centre for the disabled to
make a generous donation of
groceries and clothing items.
Parish leader Nobuzwe
Lubobo said this was a
programme adopted by the
M ot h e r s ’ Union and is
facilitated once a term.
“We have five unit
committees focusing on action
and outreach, prayer and
spirituality, marketing and
human resources and our main
priorities include gender-based
violence programmes, mental
health and education. We host
three activities a year, including
family stability programmes in
church and in 2018, we visited
an old age home where we
assisted with donations.”
The donation included
sanitary towels and stationery
and Lubobo indicated they had
identified the facility after
hearing they were not receiving
any funding.
“We want to promote
favourable conditions in
society, stability and the
protection of children. As a
m ot h e r s ’ union we each
contribute whatever we have
with the help of some local
businesses. The centre is
struggling. They have to take
from their own pockets to
sustain the place. Most of the
children there come from
disadvantaged backgrounds
and the mission is to not only
pray in church buildings, but to
go out there and assist in
whatever way we can. We want
to show these children that we
are here and we care. We also
invited parents to show they
were not alone and that we are
here as churches to lend a
helping hand because a church
is a place of healing.
Lubobo said the next
programme would be on
education when they are hoping
to invite different departments
for an information-sharing
session.
BIG FISH: The Kraaines
Fishing Club held a
competition at the Xonxa
Dam on Sunday when
participants who caught
some of the biggest fish
won prizes. The fun-filled
event was disrupted by
local residents who
demanded they be given
the fish after the weigh-in.
Organiser of the event
Christopher Kay who
conducted the weigh-in put
the bigger fish back in the
water, and gave the smaller
ones to the residents but
they demanded the big fish
which Kay indicated should
go back to the water so
that they could breed. Kay
said the next time they
hosted the event they
would have to move further
away from the residential
area to avoid unpleasant
disruptions Picture: ANDISA
BONANI
Political prisoners’ stories
and histories documented
ABONGILE SOLUNDWANA
Kgethi Images has been
commissioned to conduct and
produce life histories from oral
interviews with 100 ex-political
prisoners (EPP) of Robben
Island from the 1960s who
originate from the Chris Hani
District Municipality areas,
Kgethi Images multi media
production director and founder
Lekgetho Makola said.
“In instances where an
individual EPP has passed on,
interviews are conducted with
their immediate family members
on their memories of the
individual EPP. The project will
last for five months ending in
May 2019.
“This activity is part of a
national project of the Robben
Island museum in collecting and
preserving the stories of Robben
Island political prisoners for our
heritage and prosperity.”
Cinematographer Jonga
Dedezane said he and seven of
his team had been given a list of
people with whom to document
inter views.
“We have documented more
than 25 ex-prisoners so far. We
have been to places like
Ezibeleni, Ilinge, Cala,
Cofimvaba and Cacadu and it
has been great the way people
have been willing to share their
stories with us.”
Another team member, Thasky
Fatyi, said, “The interviews have
been exciting, touching and
painful at the same time. Some
of the things the former
prisoners said were quite
UNTOLD STORIES: Twelve Silimeni is one of the ex-Robben Island prisoners whose story was
documented, along with his wife, Noluvuyo, in Bengu Village at Cacadu Picture: SUPPLIED
shocking and traumatising.”
This, he said, made the
prisoners enjoy travelling this
j o u r n e y.
“We came to revive the notion
of unsung heroes who need to
be remembered, known and
archived so that the upcoming
generations and their families
should know that their
forefathers were a part of those
who fought in the struggle.”
Fatyi said the Robben Island
stories which are told
repetitively were based on who
was in the political forefront.
“There are a number of people
who spent many years on
Robben Island like Mpolose
Mangqangwana who spent 20
years in the prison but you will
not find people like him in the
history books of our country,
which is quite unfair.”
EPP Lennox Mhuthuzeli
Gudlundlu from Madeira Park
who was part of the Poqo (PAC)
underground movement, said, “I
spent eight years on Robben
Island after I was charged with
an alleged sabotage in 1962.
“I am happy about this
initiative because these st o r i e s
are not known in societ y.
“Pivotal events often die
before we are able to capture
and archive them. This is why I
was willing to share the journey
I experienced during the
struggle while fighting for
freedom.
“Most people did not take our
struggle seriously at that time.
They did not foresee the
democratic SA it would bring
about.’’