The Fish Eagle June 2022

Flame Lily Foundation
Cape Peninsula Branch
THE FISH EAGLE
Flame Lily Foundation — Cape Peninsula Update
This year, Flame Lily Foundation
— Cape Peninsula has changed
our regular Meetings on the second
Tuesday of every month at
10 AM at the Methodist
Church hall in Fish
Hoek to Fish Hoek
Bowling Club
on the second
Wednesday of
every month.
This is a more
friendly environment.
Members of
FLF-CP continue
to enjoy our monthly
teas. We enjoyed
a special Easter tea,
2022
13 April, with an Easter bonnet
competition. Last year we were
averaging 40 members attending
our monthly teas. Possibly
as a result of the changed
day and venue, so far
this year we have
averaged between
20 to 30 members
a meeting. Our
welfare committee
have phoned
members on our
data base. They
have also phoned
members on their
birthdays and this has
been appreciated.
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We had a tremendous response to our commemorative events and
delicious meals held at Rhodes Cottage where the Founder, Cecil
John Rhodes died 120 years ago, on 26 March 1902. We helped
arrange that a British South Africa Company flag flew from
the flagpole. The gardens were beautifully landscaped by
Gabriel Brown in preparation.
FLF-CP held a commemorative supper on
the Friday 25 th and visitors were invited
to a special lunch on the Sunday
27th March. Rhodes
cottage, Veranda,
Courtyard and
garden
w e r e
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filled with visitors and there was a tremendous
atmosphere of appreciation of
our heritage and the many improvements
recently made to the cottage and its environment.
The event was positively reported
on with prominent pictures in the community
newspaper, the Echo.
We also designed and produced a
Memorial Plaque for the Honourable Ian
Douglas Smith to be installed at Saint
James Retirement Hotel where Mr. Smith
passed away.
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DEVASTATION AND DEFORESTATION AFTER FIRES OF 18 APRIL 2021
“How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every
field be withered? Because those who live in it
are wicked, the animals and
birds have perished.”
Jeremiah 12:4
The 5 landscape photographs were taken on Saturday, 3 June 2022
Over a year after the devastation caused by the 18 April 2021 fires Rhodes Memorial Restaurant has still not been rebuilt.
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The 18 April 2021 wildfires in Cape Town which devastated the
Rhodes Memorial Tea Garden, Mostert’s Mill, the oldest windmill
in the Southern Hemisphere (which Cecil John Rhodes had purchased,
restored and donated to the people of the Cape) and the
Jaggers Library of the University of Cape Town was a particular
focus of our concern and investigative journalism. As members of
Friends of Rhodes Memorial, we produced articles and presentations
on the Wildfires in Cape Town which were also presented to the
Reformation Society and University of the Third Age (U3A) and led
to many radio and TV interviews internationally.
We have also been in regular consultation and negotiation with
SAN Parks to restore the Rhodes Memorial Tea Garden and regain
public access to Rhodes Memorial. We have also offered and mobilised
teams of volunteers to assist SAN Parks in the restoration of
the Rhodes Memorial area.
page is well supported: https://www.facebook.com/
Flame-Lily-Foundation-Cape-Peninsula-805198409856520/
We have initiated and maintain the Friends of Rhodes
Memorial Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/
Friends-of-Rhodes-Memorial-111929737319843/
We are also maintaining and updating the RASA FLF website:
https://flf-rasa.co.za
Yours for keeping the flame alive
Dr. Peter Hammond (Chairman)
Flame Lily Foundation
PO Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
peter@frontline.org.za
We continue to receive historic books, pictures, flags and other artifacts
for our Rhodesia Heritage Library at Livingstone House.
Our Rhodes and Founders Luncheon will be held on Wednesday,
20th July at 12 noon, Barracuda, Recreation Road, Fish Hoek.
We are planning our annual church Remembrance Service on
Sunday 1 PM, 6 November at Fish Hoek Methodist Church and
an End of Year Braai 6 PM Thursday15 December at Livingstone
House, Rondebosch.
Information and Communication
Our Fish Eagle Magazines and Rhosarians can be read online, or
downloaded and printed from the RASA website: https://flf-rasa.
co.za/rasa-cape-peninsula/
Our Flame Lily Foundation — Cape Peninsula Facebook
“So little done! So much to do!”
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THREE WONDERFUL FLAME LILIES
Lewis, Angela and Jean worked wonders for the Cape
Peninsula Branch of the Flame Lily Foundation in
their dedicated years of service over two decades; all three being
Founder Members of FLF-CP.
Lewis Walter, Angela Walker and Jean
Bowen-Davies met once a month for a
‘night out,’ normally at a local restaurant
where they enjoyed not only good food
but banter about any subject you can think
of, from Flame Lily to Rugby … but you can easily guess what the
main ingredient of the meals was … it starts with ‘R’ and ends with
the letter ‘A!’ That was their great, dedicated passion.
ANGELA was the first to so sadly leave us. She passed away, after
a protracted illness, at the Constantiaberg Medi Clinic. I was fortunate
to spend a little time with her the night before her untimely
passing; precious times I will always treasure, as do her daughter
Alice, granddaughter Marion and sister Val who remained with her
to the end.
Angela, in her role as Treasurer / Secretary / Fish Eagle Editor and
‘Everything Flame Lily,’ she handled with aplomb, patience and a
sense of English humour we all deeply appreciated — she was a pillar
of strength in assisting me those difficult days in the Chair, including
her role as co-editor of the B.S.A. Police Magazine, the ‘Outpost.’
She was a wonderful hostess, and the luncheons and dinners we
shared at her cosy ‘English garden’ home in Welcome Glen (that’s
exactly what it was [and still is] amongst friends and colleagues who
always sat down to a magnificent Sunday Roast, or enjoyed a pukka
Rhodesian braai.
Angela’s ashes have given rise to an emerging tree planted in a small
‘garden of eden’ on the grounds of the Monkey Valley Resort in
Noordhoek, a place she dearly loved and shared with us all.
R.I.P. Angela.
LEWIS Walter, a Gentleman and a Scholar from Internal Affairs in
Rhodesia, was a man among men.
He kick-started the Cape Peninsula Flame Lily with four people
and built it up with a dedicated team (Jean and Angela) of ‘Rhodies’
who drew in many supportive members over a twenty year period.
Lewis and I, along with Skatie Fourie, also got the Friday mornings
‘FunnygaLore’ Club off the ground and what a success this proved to
be! A relaunch is very much on the cards.
Lewis’ passing was most unfortunate — he died alone in his bedroom
after an unexpected and sudden heart attack and was only
found to be ‘missing’ when he failed to answer his door to attend
our Friday meeting — what a shock to lose a real Rhodesian Buddy
we all so admired and respected.
As in the case of Angela, we all sorely miss his hearty laughter and
wonderful dry sense of humour, including his clipped British cum
Rhodesian accent, his ‘Matabeleland’ shorts and socks and his many
‘rescue’ cats and guinea fowl inhabiting his home and grounds.
R.I.P. Lewis
Last, but not least is mention of the departure to greener pastures of
JEAN Bowen-Davies who has served the Cape Peninsula Flame Lily
for 14 years. Jean is shortly closing the doors of her rambling, rustic
Noordhoek cottage to join her daughter Cherry and son-in-law,
Douglas, in the Bredasdorp farming district of the Western Cape,
leaving her free to remain a Western Province rugby fan!
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Over the many years Jean — in her role as our Welfare Officer,
has cared for and supported our elderly members by gracing their
homes with gifts of ‘all sorts’ to brighten their day and care for them
in times of sickness and ill health — she knew our Flame Lily community
so well: their likes and dislikes, their best kept secrets, their
families, even their pets, by name.
Jean’s raffles will remain legendary for many years to come — she
tirelessly sold ticket by Flame Lily ticket in every conceivable place
you may care to name, particularly the Fish Hoek Library where
she was almost part of the furniture. Jean was not amused when it
was suggested she peddle her raffle tickets in the bar at the Western
Province Rugby ground! Whatever Jean raffled, mainly sponsored,
was always in great demand, despite it taking an hour to find the
winning number, year in and year out!
Boot sales were always Jeans pride and joy — donations covered all
the tables she could muster in various localities, and, as a ‘Saleslady
Supreme,’ she amassed very sizable takings to endlessly fill the FLF
coffers — donations crowded many rooms in her home en route to
the marketplace, yet unbeknown to her we secretly christened her
cottage the ‘S.S. Rhodesia [Container Line Ltd!]’
We are losing an exceptionally talented and dedicated once committee
member aka ‘Florence Nightingale’ (Jean is a qualified Rhodesian
Nursing Sister) to a new home not too far from the slopes of Table
Mountain, and we wish her all of the very best for the future in her
ninetieth year with the sincere hope of an invite to her ‘100’ which
is not really that far off! Good Luck and God Bless, Jean.
Tony Rozemeyer
BIRTHDAYS
FLAME LILY FOUNDATION — CAPE PENINSULA
June
3 Mary Morgan
5 Michele de Gersigny
6 Pat Graham
18 David Anderson
21 Stephanie De Haas
22 Jane McClean
28 Gael Baldwin
July
1 Guy Geddes
1 Lynette Stockil
2 Phillipina Bekker
3 Joan Bosch (Turning 96)
5 Albert Massyn-Cruywagen
9 Shirley Begley
15 Skatie Fourie
17 Eve Anderson
19 Rob Micklesfield
30 Hugh Capon
31 John Fold
August
1 Steve Bardwell
1 Frances Truswell
4 Helen Granville
5 Dr John Taylor
6 Sue De la Rosa
7 Margie Richards
7 Michelle Van der Walt
13 Tricia Elvin-Jensen
17 Ruth Ashton
17 Marjorie Bentley
17 Geoff Southey
24 Eleanor Des Fountain
24 Brenda Murrell
30 Vivian Bezuidenhout
30 Eric Lawrence
September
1 Norman Ely
8 Hazel Shaul
9 Joan Fry
12 Liselotte Jucker
14 George Stuart
17 Jenny Rivett
18 Dave Swanson
20 Chris Smith
20 Bill Phillips
20 Kathy Curnick
22 Nigel Lea-Cox
23 Larry Bowen-Davies
25 Stanley Browne
28 Philomena Ward
29 Maureen Fivas
29 Maureen Mason
30 Alec Murray
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“Greater love has
no one than this: to
lay down one’s life
for one’s friends.”
John 15:13
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“We will remember them!”