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12 July 2013
Ten year milestone for CEO The CEO of the Letaba FET College in Tzaneen celebrated ten years in the hot seat last week. This achievement came through hard work and a passion for education. Ms Martie Botha has been leading the Letaba FET College since 2003, but has been in education since 1982. She was born and bred in Tzaneen and matriculated at Ben Vorster High School. She studied to become a teacher in Pretoria and started her teaching career at Frans du Toit High School in Phalaborwa. Her family moved to Tzaneen after ten years in Phalaborwa
and Botha accepted a post at the Tzaneen Technical College as a lecturer. She moved up through the ranks to deputy principal until the merger of FET Colleges in 2002. Botha was appointed as the principal/CEO of Letaba FET College, where she now manages three campuses with around 5 000 full-time students! Botha also received Limpopo Colours as a Kickboxing Official from 1998-2003 and Protea Colours as the Deputy Manager for the SA Kickboxing team in 2002, 2003 and 2004. — Retha Nel retha@bulletin.us.com
Obituary for Gillian Stroeve Gillian Stroeve (79) passed away quietly at her daughter’s home in Tzaneen on 4 July 2013. She had a short but dignified battle with cancer. Gillian was born in Jamaica on 31 March 1934, the daughter of a British Army Officer and moved to England shortly after. She immigrated to the RSA in 1970 and lived in Johannesburg until 1994. She then moved to Macadamia Village where she resided until her death. Her husband, Warnar Stroeve, died in 2009, also in Tzaneen. She is survived by her three daughters, Sarah Helen Higgins (Dave De Bruin), Georgia Catherine Hirst (William Jones) and
Nina van Heerden (Guy van Heerden). She will be sadly missed by her seven grand children, Ryall and Drewe Higgins, Hannah, Elaina and Gina Barale and Alex and Devon van Heerden. Her dearest companion, her dog Rosie, was by her side until the very end. “Fly with the Angels Mom, it’s a Beautiful Day” Gillian’s memorial service was held on Wednesday at the Macadamia Community Hall. “A special word of thanks to Dr Ig van Rensburg for his professionalism and kindness as well as to all friends and community members for their love and support.”
Francois byna op die been
Twee weke nadat hy uit die Van Velden Hospitaal ontslaan is, het mnr Francois Pretorius Donderdag op die Market Café (waar hy gewerk het) se stoep heerlik aan ‘n pienk bruismelkdrankie geteug. Dit was die eerste keer sedert sy motorfietsongeluk in Maart dat hy sy kollegas en getroue klante by die Food Lover’s Market kon besoek. Ongeag die breinbesering wat hy opgedoen het (wat sy spraak en spiere aantas), is sy geheue goed en kon hy die personeel herken en groet. Hy het ook weer ‘n gesonde
eetlus en het byna ‘n hele pizza tydens die besoek verslind. Hy kan al self eet, drink en regop staan.
Kelners van die Market Café, TK Shikwambana, Mohammed Yacoob, Ntsako Shikwambana en Joubert Erasmus, was baie opgewonde om weer hul oud-kollega te sien. Foto: Amelia de Ridder
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To combat the shortage of trained nurses, Mediclinic Tzaneen is currently home to thirteen nurses from India. Mediclinic Southern Africa started with a pilot group of twelve nurses from India working in three Western Cape hospitals from September 2007. They now have 215 nurses working in nineteen hospitals across SA. The foreign nurses who were on duty at the Mediclinic Tzaneen when we visited, are (front) Srs Lima Jose, Anna Sebastian and Nima Jose, flanked by Ms Marlize Delport (Network Marketing Manager) and Sr Stephanie Hermann (Nursing Manager). At the back are Srs Sujith Scaria, Sunil George, Kalappa Anegundi and Bijoy Rajan. Bulletin will publish the full interesting story about the visitors in next week’s edition. Hopefully by then we would have had an opportunity to get to the other six for Photo: Retha Nel a photo.
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