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