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There are two days left for you to cast your vote so that Table Mountain can be chosen as one of the new seven wonders of nature.

One of 28 sites around the world up for the title, Table Mountain is in the third phase of a global public voting process initiated by the New7Wonders Foundation. It is competing against such sites as Kiliminjaro, the Black Forest in Germany, Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, the Dead Sea in Israel, the Grand Canyon and the Amazon, among others.Table Mountain had 840 000 visitors in its peak year in 2007, and last year had 775 000 visitors.“The panel of judges won’t tell us where we are ranked – or how many votes we’ve got, but we know we’re in the final 28. I think we’re in with a good chance,” said Table Mountain Cableway CEO, Sabine Lehman.“If we win, Table Mountain looks set to be one of seven sites on the bucket list for people around the world to visit and it will feature in conversations at schools and dinner parties. Can you imagine Cape Town being a World Design Capital at the foot of a natural wonder? No one in the world is going to be able to claim that. It’s going to be incredible,” said Lehman.But, she expressed concern that Capetonians may have left it too late to vote. She based this on the level of participation shown by locals at the start of the campaign two and a half years ago. “Then 97% of the votes for Table Mountain were those of international visitors. That was when Table Mountain was first up against 440 sites worldwide. “There had to be a concerted effort to get locals to understand that they needed to vote. We’ve since seen

the percentages even out and we’re getting South African support, but locals need to realize this is not a scientific vote, this is a people’s vote, and we need every South African involved to make this happen.” Lehman said.The announcement of whether Table Mountain has won its new ranking will be made at the V&A Waterfront Amphitheatre this Friday (November 11) at 7 o’ clock. It will be

followed by a great line-up of entertainment. At the time of going to press the itinerary and performances for the evening had not been released. Everyone is welcome to attend and entrance is free. Win or lose, Table Mountain will be celebrated not only on the night but its heritage will be respected through local support. Lehman encouraged Capetonians to take time to enjoy their

mountain and to take advantage of the cableway specials on offer from now until the end of February. “It’s half price after six in the evening and I think people should take advantage of that particularly in the first weeks of November and the last two weeks of January,” she said. “The sunset is the perfect time to visit the mountain. We’ve got a summit lounge which offers sunset drinks. I’ve worked

here for many years and that’s my favourite time to go up the mountain.” She said the IRT bus planned for Kloof Nek next year would make the mountain more accessible to locals. Already the Class and the Clowns’ programme offers schools significantly reduced rates to go up the mountain via cablecar. Complimentary tickets are also made available for more than 25 000 people a year from local NGOs.The New 7 Natural Wonders initiative was started by the Swiss-born Canadian Bernard Weber. He launched the New7Wonders Foundation in 2000 to honour our common global heritage as determined by public consensus. The Official New 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, as announced in random order at the Official Declaration Ceremony on 07.07.07, are: The Great Wall of China, Petra, Chichén Itzá , the Statue of Christ Redeemer, the Colosseum, Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal. More than 100 million votes were cast worldwide.Now on 11-11th 2011 the anticipation of

whether Table Mountain will be ranked as one of the seven natural wonders of the world will come to an end. Keep on voting until 11 past 11 on the 11th of the 11th. SMS ‘table’ to 34874. (R2 per SMS). You can vote on Facebook (New7Wonders of Nature) or on the website www.votefortablemountain.com. Visit Table Mountain’s web page www.tablemountain.net for more information on upcoming cablecar specials.

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This week we have so much reason to be proud of. Not only has Cape Town nabbed the right to host the World Design Capital 2014 but now our

UNESCO World Heritage site, Table Mountain, stands to be ranked as one of the top seven natural wonders of the world (see our cover story). Cape Town is certainly taking centre stage in the world’s eyes, particularly too as we last week hosted the World Judo Championships at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. But while our city’s natural beauty and architecture is turning heads, what stands heads and shoulders above the rest are our people – and if there’s one person who is able to showcase Cape Town’s myriad characters and personalities with aplomb, it’s David Kramer. His musical comedy “Some Like It Vrot” – which opened at the Baxter last week - was superb. Crafted with wit and down-to-earth Cape Town antics, the production was fit for a king

and a cast like Marc Lottering and Christo Davids who also plays Errol in 7de Laan. Thoroughly enjoying the show, I truly felt proud to be in a city layered and textured in personality and charm deftly portrayed by actors rich in talent. To David Kramer and the entire cast of “Some Like It Vrot” – Well Done! If you haven’t yet seen the show – do. You’ll be laughing so much you won’t want to get off this taxi ride. (Read our interview with Marc Lottering who plays the much-loved taxi gaaitjie – Smiley – on page 6).From all of us here at The Chronicle we wish you a fantastic week filled with laughter and love.Happy Reading!

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The needy children of Lavender Hill are hungry, threatened by violence and abused. Many have uncaring parents. This is according to Marlene Satarien who runs a feeding scheme called Abundant Life. Marlene is assisted by husband, Sedick Satarien and volunteers, Anthea Botha, Chantal Thompson, Nadine Daniels, Denise Crowster and Donalee.Marlene and her friends feel they ‘were called by God to serve our children’.“Every day we are faced with starving, angry and fearful kids in our community. Our children are surrounded by gang violence and live in fear all the time. Over the past six months we have lost many children in gun shootings. It just breaks our hearts to hear and see all these incidents and to do nothing,” said Marlene who works in Diep River.“We try and help, by keeping the kids off the streets and by positively occupying them with skills training, storytelling, game playing and sowing the word of God. But we still have so many kids who are broken, abused and suffering with health conditions.“At Abundant Life, we try and help, and have volunteers who are eager and willing to prove this to the world. Feeding a child is important, but teaching them values is the greatest gift. We teach them to value who they are, and just how special they are to us and to God. This is our main goal. We teach them: “I know I’m somebody, because God don’t make junk.”“So many children don’t get any love, care and attention at home. Most of them just get beaten up, sworn at and told they are stupid, lazy and ugly,” she said. “At Abundant Life we aim to help a child create a positive future. We want them to know they can come to us for a hug, a smile, help and a warm plate of food or a sandwich. Most of our children go to school without breakfast and can’t wait to come home to us for a nutritious meal. Some of the children go to school with broken shoes and clothes.”Marlene and her volunteers are desperate for help.”We feed the children just twice a week. When we watch the children eating their food so fast and grabbing the bowls to dig into the food, we wonder where or whether they get food on other days. We need sponsors to help us feed the children and uplift the children’s lives. It’s almost Christmas and we need food supplies, fruit, veggies, toys, clothing and financial help. Anyone who would like to help Marlene and her volunteers can contact her on 082 7993579 or 021 702 3501. Alternatively they can email [email protected].

WIN AN ORGANIC GARDENReaders who would like to sponsor Soil for Life’s workshops, can enter this draw.Tickets cost R100 each, and the prizes are:

First prize: 25m2 organic vegetable garden, a two-day “Grow To Live” workshop and two support visits. Second prize: A two-day “Grow to Live” workshop, a planter box and materials needed to set it up. Third prize: A choice of one Soil for Life morning workshops – these include jams and chutney workshops, and workshops in jewellery making and identifying and using herbs. Fourth prize: An autographed version of Pat Featherstone’s book. Fifth prize: A vegetable box full of delicious, organic seasonal vegetables from Soil for Life’s garden. The winning tickets will be selected on Friday, November 25 at the Soil for Life AGM.

Tickets can be purchased online on www.soilforlife.co.za or from the office behind Peddlars on the Bend (Brounger Road), which runs alongside Lane Stables. Contact 021 794 4982.

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Bursting with healthThe Gaia planted-based food market in The Alphen Hall, Constantia is a Sunday morning market (9am to 2pm) organised by a group of enthusiastic fresh-veggie folk. Seen here, traders: Khangelani Ncalu, Reinette Botha, Lisa Tsai, Mingwei Tsai and Gisele Ndelela. The next market takes place on November 20. Visit www.gaiafoodmarket.co.za.

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The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital Trust have partnered with

Mediclinic Southern Africa to fund the first ever ‘Saturday Surgeries’ initiative at the hospital to alleviate extensive waiting lists for life-changing surgical procedures. The Saturday Surgeries project will take place from now until December 10 this year and Mediclinic Southern Africa will fund this R265 000 project. “The idea is that once a big volume of these non-emergency cases are taken off the waiting list, there will be scope for more flexibility for theatre lists during the week. More complex cases which are also a priority will then be given some additional time created by the reduction in the waiting lists,” said Dr Anita Parbhoo, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital manager of medical services. “Such procedures are normally performed at a day surgery, with no overnight stay being needed for most patients. The waiting list for these patients currently extends well into 2012 – with an average eight-month wait. Long delays such as these result in many patients missing their dates. This means that theatre availability is wasted and the patient has to rebook, hence a cycle of prolonged waiting again.” Surgery is not usually conducted over weekends at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and this surgical waiting list initiative will provide an extra day of surgery for a period of eight weeks. The initiative will make use of existing recuperation space, theatres and consumables, ordinarily not used on Saturdays. Western Cape Minister of Health, Theuns Botha, says, “This partnership will result in life-changing surgeries which will bring physical comfort to a great many children and their families. The project will also reduce the general paediatric surgeries’ backlog significantly.” “We are grateful to Mediclinic for donating the funds to make this pilot project a reality and to the Trust, staff and clinical staff who will be making it a reality.” As the fundraiser for the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and paediatric healthcare in the Western Cape, the Children’s Hospital Trust undertook the hospital’s proposal to raise funds to decrease the surgical waiting list. Saturday Surgeries will be divided into three weeks for ENT surgery and five weeks for general surgery. This amounts to a total of 71 clinical cases being cleared from the hospital’s waiting list.

“Mediclinic Southern Africa has been a loyal donor of the Children’s Hospital Trust for the past seven years and we are so appreciative that they’ve come on board to fund this very special project. To have the world’s sixth largest private medical group giving so generously to a charitable organisation to benefit a government hospital is testimony to greater things to come in terms of corporates supporting non-profit organisations,” says Philippa Douglas, Fundraising Manager at the Children’s Hospital Trust. “Long waiting times not only mean that children have to live in discomfort for considerable periods of time, but can also lead to more serious medical complications. Alleviating the pressure on the Hospital for ENT and General Paediatric Surgery will result in starting 2012 without a long waiting list,” says Dr Sharon Cox, Paediatric Surgeon at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. “Mediclinic Southern Africa believes in a progressive approach to the delivery of improved healthcare in South Africa and as such the CSI programme is an important part of achieving that objective. This joint venture with a world-class paediatric facility dedicated to providing affordable treatment for children in need is part of our tier one CSI platform, which comprises partnering with public hospitals to provide access to quality healthcare to a broader section of our society,” adds Dr Mvula Yoyo, Transformation Executive: Mediclinic. The Children’s Hospital Trust’s intention is to continue the ‘Saturday Surgeries’ project, impacting on other surgical specialities such as spinal injuries, eye and plastic surgeries. Minister Botha said that this was exactly in line with the Western Cape Government’s health mandate. “We hope to expand this project to include Tygerberg Children’s Hospital and later, general surgeries across a variety of our facilities. I wish the team well and eagerly await the positive benefits to our young patients and their families.”

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NOVEMBER FLOWERS IN YOUR GARDENGrowing plants in November is not difficult, provided you meet a few basic requirements including good food, water, air circulation, sunlight and soil.

Fuchsias - There are over 800 cultivars and hybrids of fuchsias that have been developed for their graceful flowers which display continuously from summer to autumn. Place the plants in a position where they receive morning sun and afternoon shade. They will also do well in a shade house or in dappled shade. Plant fuchsias in fertile and well-drained soil. Protect the plants from cold, drying winds and mulch well. Do not allow the soil surrounding the plants to dry out; it should be damp to the touch but not soggy. As with watering, feeding should be done regularly with Nutrifeed.

Hydrangeas - These deciduous shrubs are generally known in South Africa as Christmas Flowers or Christmas Roses. They produce beautiful blooms in a variety of colours - a great ambassador for summer. Hydrangeas have a very long flowering period. The first buds appear in November and carry on into autumn, being rather showy around the festive season. They prefer to be positioned in shade or partial shade and do well against a south- or east-facing wall. Hydrangeas will also, however, grow in morning sun as long as, during the hottest part of the day, they are shaded. When it comes to feeding, hydrangeas have a good appetite. They prefer acidic soils and it is therefore helpful to add pine needles, chipped pine bark, Peatgro or well-rotten cow manure. A lot of water is lost through the shallow surface root system and by transpiration through the leaves. Regular and deep watering, preferably in the early morning, is essential. Keep the soil surrounding hydrangeas well mulched, cool and moist.

Roses - Very few soils are naturally good for growing roses and it is therefore necessary to transform the bed into their preferred environment. Compost, manure and other rotten organic matter will improve almost any soil type. Roses do best in a heavier soil such as loam, but not clay. It is essential that the soil is well drained. Position roses in an open and sunny spot that has sufficient air movement but that is protected from hot summer winds. Make sure there are no competitors such as larger or vigorous trees and shrubs in the rose area. Feed with a 3:1:5 plant food and water regularly.

Visit www.starkeayresgc.co.za for more information on fuchsias, hydrangeas, roses and general gardening information.

Fuchsias, hydrangeas and roses are this season’s flowering beauties. With a bit of care these plants should reward you with a garden full of colour.

Michael Oak Waldorf School in Kenilworth held a Roma-Sinti (Gypsy) fair recently. Despite the pouring rain, the large crowd, many dressed in bright gypsy clothes, enjoyed a display of belly dancing, lively gypsy music and colourful stalls selling everything from knitted gnomes to gingerbread houses, books and vegetables. There was also a games hall for the young people. Seen here are Nerina von Mayer (flute) and Gabor Jeney (violin) from the Hungarian Trio, playing some soulful music.

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NEWS

A green oasis of vegetables and herbs flourishes in the middle of Constantia. This is the demo garden of ‘Soil

for Life’ (SFL) and living proof of the paradise we could be enjoying without the concrete that is rapidly eroding our natural landscapes.Banana trees sway overhead, loaded with fruit, bees buzz excitedly around herbs, and vegetables lurch voluptuously out of the soil. This edible paradise has blossomed under the tender loving care of Pat Featherstone and a team of dedicated green people in Brounger Way, behind Peddlars on the Bend.Pat was recently interviewed by Nancy Richards on SABC’s “Otherwise” and was voted ‘Inspirational Woman of the month’ by the SA Professional and Businesswomen’s Network (Inspiringwomen.co.za) on Facebook.Her vision is to create food gardens on every patch of unused land to create ‘a little patch of salvation’. “Just imagine the impact this would have on poverty and malnutrition and on the effects that the current recession is having on people’s lives,” says Pat.In fact, growing our own food is becoming a must, as is the need for recycling and conserving dwindling resources as the world’s population hits the 7 billion mark.Pat sowed the seeds of her green empowerment movement many years ago. Originally from Zimbabwe, Pat has 20 years’ teaching and lecturing experience backed by a BSc Honours degree in biology, biochemistry and animal diversity. She won the Peace Gardens Award in 1998 while working with Food Gardens Foundation. Soil for Life received the Cape Times Vodacom Environmental Award for Urban Agriculture in 2007. Pat also received the Climate Change Leaderships award in 2010.Pat’s green team works on computers in quaint wooden huts in the shrubbery, while peaceful men beaver away in the lush gardens weeding, planting and picking veggies and herbs. It’s an idyllic workplace with Pat’s collection of rescue dogs milling around, and a black cat sitting on the office desk. Life seems beautiful.

Despite the tranquil atmosphere, this is a place of work, where earth-saving business is being conducted. Soil for Life is dedicated to the task of reducing the green footprint and uplifting the lives of many disadvantaged women and their families.Years ago, Pat started out with a demo garden featuring door-size veggie patches on a corner of the Constantia Waldorf school grounds. She moved further down the grounds and today there are four full-time workers, financed by sponsors.This grassroots’ NPO promotes environmentally sound technologies for growing food, using soil, building and water-conservation methods. At the Soil for Life workshops, the township gardeners are encouraged to use every scrap of waste in their environment. This reduces the amount of waste going to landfill sites. Everything from paper, to tin, is recycled.Using the skills that Pat and SFL fieldworkers teach them, the gardeners are able to produce nutritious food and change their barren surroundings into green oases which uplift the community.The Soil for Life skills’ programme has empowered hundreds of unemployed women, who are now able to feed and support their families, by selling veggies and seedlings. They are also contributing to the food security of their communities. A team of field workers go out to the townships and teach the people how to create sustainable, organic gardens. They attract mostly older women– the gogos – who maintain the gardens, and produce enough veggies to feed their families and friends. SFL sells seeds, seedlings and compost and offers ongoing training. Some of the gardeners produce enough veggies to sell to customers at the Soil for Life headquarters in Constantia. Customers are welcome to visit SFL to purchase fresh veggies in season, and homemade jams and chutneys.SFL also pays these gardeners to produce seedlings and provide compost and mulch for new gardeners who sign up on the home-gardening programme.Pat’s jam and chutney-making workshops – have provided many women with an extra income. Some of the women have been very successful and have completely changed their lives thanks to SFL.Pat said: “A couple of women have gone from home gardeners

to running a small food-gardening enterprise. Des Horn and Evona Solomons, who started Levana Growers, are an example. They have a fair-sized vegetable garden in the grounds of Levana Primary School, Lavendar Hill where they also make compost and grow seedlings. “This gave Des a sense of purpose. Her skills at growing seedlings were awesome and she soon outgrew the small garden around her house. She got together with three other home gardeners and formed Levana Growers.“Evona Solomons’ story is similar. She has recently completed a learnership programme with SFL, a business skills’ course for which she has submitted her business plan for scrutiny. She is completely fired up with what she is doing and where she sees herself going. Here is a woman who has woken to life with a vision. You can see it in her eyes and her animated conversations.” Pat quoted Ben Zander’s saying: “Human beings, in the presence of possibility, have shining eyes. That’s a physiological fact.”“Des and Evona also attended courses to learn to make jams and chutneys, how to propagate herbs for sale, make origami and hot boxes, create costume jewellery from plastic bottles and make herbal lotions and potions. They have also been part of the art and music therapy workshops where they released stress,” said Pat.However, all this wonderful work comes at a price as the programme costs around R2000 a year per person.Pat said she has 50 women who can pay a small fee, for three months’ practical, hands-on training, (one morning a week), after which they attend other lifeskills’ training workshops. “But they also need constant support and follow-up for two years, plus seeds, seedlings and compost. So we are looking for sponsors who can contribute an amount monthly – however small. Everything helps.”

Returning to an edible Garden of Eden

A team-building workshop was recently held at Soil for Life in Constantia.

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Almost every day a rhino gets slaughtered, and rhinos will soon be extinct at this rate.

More than 282 animals have been killed this year, compared to 333 last year, 122 in 2009 and 83 in 2008. In a bid to help, the Miss Summer Heat winners put their foot down, donned high heels and organised walks called “High Heels for Horns” all over the country.Chanel Hurlin of Claremont, who was crowned Miss Summer Heat at the beginning of this year, has staged a local walk for the rhinos at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on Saturday, November 12, from 9am to 3pm.Everyone is welcome to join the 15km walk and have a picnic afterwards. Chanel who is also a presenter on SABC2’s “Roughing It Out” said: “The reason why the money is going towards Rights for Rhinos is because these indigenous creatures are an

endangered species. We are hoping that Cape Town will turn out in full force to support me and my friend and co-organiser Melissa Malan, on this wonderful afternoon in beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens.”Chanel chose the charity ‘Rights for Rhinos’ when she met Paul Jennings and Sboniso Phakath after they did a three-month walk on the N2 from Musina to Cape Town to create awareness about rhino poaching.Walking in stilettos isn’t compulsory said Chanel. “But, it would be great if the walkers wore heels just to start the walk, to add to the fun of the event.” The price for walkers under 17 is R30, students R40 and adults R55.

Visit www.rightsforrhinos.co.za,Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for further information, or just rock up at Kirstenbosch to join the walk.There are plenty of other ways to raise funds for rhinos – for instance, holding a dinner party and donating the money guests pay towards Rights for Rhinos, or holding a children’s party with a ‘Rhino’ theme. Kids can dress up as rhinos and donate a R10 note to the charity. Then send a picture of the party to the website and put it on Facebook, to spread the word.Save the Rhino T-shirts are available for R200 each from the website www rightsforrhinos.co.za

MISS SUMMER HEAT – digs in her heels to save rhinos

The walk takes place on Sunday, November 12 at Kirstenbosch.

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David Kramer’s “Some Like it Vrot” was launched at The Baxter last week. Katja Hamilton catches up with Marc Lottering on the return of his much-loved character Smiley - the taxi gaatjie with a lot of soul.

Can you elaborate on your longtime association with David Kramer? Can you give me a brief timeline into your work association with him? David has directed me in several projects, over the last 10 years. These include four one-man shows. He understands the funny business, so we completely “get” each other.What events led to you working with David Kramer in Some Like It Vrot? David and I both love musicals. We eventually started talking about taking one of my characters (which I created some years back), and placing that character within a new comedy musical. Soon after, David started writing the new comedy musical, Some Like it Vrot. It’s a great opportunity, which allows me to be funny in a musical.What are your comments on his writing and producing of Some Like it Vrot? David is a phenomenal writer, and I’ve always been in awe of his work. This project is no different.What elements in the comedy are quintessentially David Kramer’s trademark? The work is local in flavour. David has always been unapologetic about being South African.What are your comments on David’s crossover to comedy? It’s not really a crossover. When one looks back at David’s work over the decades, the flair for comedy is very strong.What is it like working with Christo Davids for the first

time? How would you describe his work? Is he anything like his character in 7de Laan? Christo is something else. His commitment to a project is always 200%. I’m over the moon to be working with him. I could not ask for a better partner in the show. He is charismatic, both on and off stage.What do you most like about playing the role of Smiley in this play? I always enjoy playing Smiley. I know the character well, and he allows me to comment on the world through very interesting eyes.How is his character challenged in his role in Some Like It Vrot? In this show, Smiley once again finds himself in hot water. This time, along with his brother Fuad (played by Christo), Smiley has witnessed a crime and needs to go into hiding. High (camp) drama ensues.How does the plot of Some Like It Vrot speak to South Africans? What will they be able to identify with in Smiley’s character and what will they be able to identify with in Christo David’s character? It’s a comedy musical that has been keeping audiences in stitches night after night. I don’t think that we really set out for audience members to identify with Smiley or Fuad. Rather, we want people to escape for two hours or so, and have the most enjoyable night out ever!What did you find most enjoyable about acting this role? I’m always thrilled to be working with other people on a nightly basis. Usually it’s just me and a microphone.Can you give me a sneak preview into one of your favourite scenes? There’s one scene involving fishnets and a gold stiletto.To say more would be silly.

Lottering in the spotlight

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The newly elected leaders of Groote Schuur High School for 2011/2012 are from left:Head Boy Gerswin Marthinus, Head Girl Zara-Lynn Lewis, Deputy Head Girl Tosca Mbeeli, and Deputy Head Boy Jobayden Nel. Gerswin is a former Head Boy of Groote Schuur Primary School. Zara- Lynn is a St. Mary’s old girl. Tosca hails from Oranjemund Private School in Namibia and Jobayden is a former Grove pupil.

Amy Hare of Springfield Convent came in first in the Sunglass Hut Surfski Summer 3rd Series race in the

single-ski junior U-18 Ladies division.She finished amazingly in the Elite Ladies “Top 10”. The event was held on Sunday, October 30 at the New Balance Challenge which was raced off Simonstown, Glencairn and Fish Hoek beaches. “The race takes place from Fish Hoek beach around Seaforth’s Ark Rock which is past the lighthouse then past the wreck in Glencairn and back to the beach,” said Amy.Her time was 76:18.“It was a good experience, but it was quite windy on the day and the race was pretty hard. There were runs to add to the 14kays and the wind was coming side on which made it hard, but it was fun,” she said.Hot on her heels was Kirstin Flanagan, also of Springfield

Convent, with a time of 85:22.The Junior Men’s title was taken by Dominique Notten, Wynberg Boys HS, in 65:07 minutes from Bergvliet HS’s Kenny Rice in 2nd position in 65:20minutes and SACS’s Craig Flanagan coming 3rd in 69:00 minutes.Fish Hoek Surf Lifesaving Club’s four surfski racing kingpins, Sean Rice, Tom Schilperoort, and siblings Jasper and Dawid Mockè, raced for the coveted first place.Varsity College student Sean Rice proved to be the strongest man on the day by beating the former week’s series-race winner Dawid Mockè on the Fish Hoek beach run-up and winning in 60:18 minutes, barely 4 seconds ahead of clubmate Tom Schilperoort, and 1st series race-winner Jasper Mockè sprinting across the line into 4th spot in 60:38

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Deventer assists with the vital mental realm.A nucleus of skilled student cricketers is now boosted by provincial “imports” such as SA Engelbrecht (Cape Cobras) and Tendai Chitonga (Zimbabwe U/19). A sense of fun and camaraderie permeates club practices, but underlying this is a deep competitive drive to restore UCT Cricket Club back to the upper echelon of club leagues and to act again as a reliable feeder to Provincial and even National squads.The start of the season has brought a mixture of results for the first XI with a comprehensive one-day win, a draw in the two-day format of the league and losses in the 20/20 competition. The most noteworthy achievement, however, has been the renewed spirit in the club with all four teams fielding competitive outfits and playing the game in a great spirit.First-year students keen to develop their cricketing experiences are encouraged to contact Graeme Beghin and join the cricket club, where good sporting vibes are ensured together with loads of coaching and logistical support for fulfilling their cricketing ambitions. Along with this support, Gunn & Moore and SAB have generously contributed to upgrading facilities, branding and clothing.

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Seen here The UCT Cricket Team, Oct 2011. Ryan Maron, former Western Province cricketer and founder of Ryan Maron’s Cricket School of Excellence is now in charge and provides technical and strategic coaching.

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Kirsten Flanagan and Jodi Cleworth of Springfield Convent scored an excellent sixth placing in the Women’s U18 K2 event of the World Canoe Marathon Championships in Singapore.

Competing against 40 countries, they were selected to represent South Africa after winning the SA Canoe Marathon Championships. Only 15 years of age, they are the SA Women’s U18 K2 champions.The championship was held from Thursday, October 20 to Sunday, October 23 and they raced on the fourth day.Battling hot and humid conditions at the marina in Singapore harbour, Kirsten and Jodi raced in the Women’s U18 division.“It was really hot and the climate had a big effect on us,” said KirstenFor most of the 17km marathon, Kirsten and Jodi battled the older Italian team for fifth spot placing, falling behind on the portages after every 4.3km lap and catching up on the water.“Each time we’d portage we would have to catch up to Italy and we just lost them at the end-sprint,” said Kirsten.They beat the other SA Women’s (U18) K2 crew of Emma Horner/Catherine Atkinson into 7th, in a time of 1:31:09 for sixth spot.

“I feel very happy because we weren’t expecting to come in sixth place,” said Kirsten.Day 4 was also the day when SA’s Men (U18) K2 teams did battle. Craig Flanagan and Dominic Notten placed fourth. Luke Stowman and Jordan Zeelie placed seventh.In the Women’s U23 K1 event, Jenna Dundas-Starr came in seventh, and coming back from a three-year break Alex Cole claimed a hard fought fifth position in the Senior Women’s K1 race.Overall SA’s Hank McGregor was crowned the world canoe marathon champion after totally dominating the 35km Senior Men’s race from start to finish. Shaun Rubenstein (RSA) came in fourth in that race. Looking ahead, Kirsten and Jodi are training for the 20th edition of the 2012 World Canoe Marathon Championship which will be held in Rome, as well as the 2012 World Lifesaving Championships (Rescue 2012) which will be held in Adelaide, South Australia. Rescue 2012 is the largest international lifesaving sport competition in the world and is likely to attract more than 4000 competitors and officials plus thousands of spectators.

UP AND COMING CRICKET STARS AT CONSTANTIA PRIMARY

Constantia Primary School pupils enjoyed a sports coaching clinic with Ryan Maron’s Cricket School of Excellence (RMCSE) recently. The coaches said it was a pleasure to coach these keen young sportsmen and ladies, especially as many of them come from very tough backgrounds. RMCSE has committed to supply one or two coaches to Constantia Primary School as part of the grassroots’ programme in the Western Cape.

Kirsten Flanagan and Jodi Cleworth of Springfield Convent

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