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You can now study First paraplegic canoeist to represent SA New Testament People in and around Tzaneen will have a unique opportunity to get insight in the New Testament during the next three months. The study will concentrate on the basic rules of understanding the Bible correctly, the kingdom of God, why there are four Gospels in the Bible, why Jesus was expected, but rejected, the different parties and sects during Jesus’ time, the geography of Israel and the synoptic problem. The study is part of the Mukhanyo Distance diploma course in theology. Mukhanyo is accredited at the relative authorities. It is an institute that has been running with great success for more than twenty years. During the past few years Mukhanyo has spread its wings by presenting distance education under the guidance of qualified tutors. New students are invited to enroll for this module only, or for Mukhanyo’s Diploma course in Theology. Since Mukhanyo Tzaneen kicked off two years ago quite a number of students have benefited from the modules that have been presented. The local Mukhanyo distance centre is one of the 37 Mukhanyo Distance centres in southern Africa. Mukhanyo Distance enables students to receive relevant, high quality, holistic, affordable in-service distance training in theology. It provides biblically based training opportunities to church leaders for church and community development in Africa. Mukhanyo Tzaneen invite all people interested in the New Testament to visit the first class free and without any obligation. The new module will start on Friday 7 August. Classes are presented every Friday afternoon at 14:00 at the Gereformeerde Kerk Laeveld in Claude Wheatley Street, Tzaneen (Reformed Church opposite HiQ and the FET College). Please contact dr Edmund de Beer (083 3911 065) for more information. The cost per module is only R200. Bursaries are available that will reduce the cost by 50%.
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Graham Paull when he played rugby.
The world was about to become one young man’s oyster, when disaster struck. Graham Paull (now 28) had been selected to play for the Limpopo Blue Bulls in the 2013 Vodacom Rugby Cup, his Haenertsburg rainbow trout grow out business venture was going big and he had fallen in love with a pretty local, Ms Nicky Morgan, a Pilates instructress who had matriculated at Stanford Lake College. Paull says, “My life changed on the 20th January 2013. Suddenly I couldn’t urinate. I thought there was something wrong with my bladder. Then I had pain down the back of my legs. Over the next two weeks my bladder went paralysed and paralysis set in from my feet up towards the waist.” He was diagnosed with a spinal infection called transverse myelitis. He is paralysed, confined to a wheelchair, and doctors cannot give a prognosis. He was moved between MediClinic Tzaneen and Pretoria East Hospital and ultimately to Muelmed in Pretoria for 12 weeks of rehabilitation. He says, “I had to relearn everything that one takes for granted. Today I can do eve-
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info@smitadvisors.co.za Vandag ontmoet lesers die Smit Garrun-groep se mediesefonds-spesialis. Me Mariette van der Westhuizen is al veertien jaar lank besig in dié sektor, die afgelope drie jaar by Koos en Riekie Smit Makelaars. Sy het soos volg op tien belangrike vrae oor haar werksaamhede geantwoord:
Graham Paull’s para-canoe gold medal.
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As ‘n kliënt besluit om jou as finansiële adviseur te gebruik, sal jy die enigste persoon wees wat met die klient werk? 4) Al is Koos en Riekie Smit Makelaars ‘n groot makelary, glo ons aan persoonlike omgeediens en sal ek en my assisstent so ver moontlik poog om vir die kliënt die beste diens moontlik te gee.
Wat is jou kwalifikasies en Westhuizen ondervinding? 1) Ek het ‘n NQF 5-kwalifikasie in wel- Hoe betaal die klient vir jou dienste? vaartbestuur. Wat ondervinding betref is ek 5) Ons werk op ‘n kommissiebasis wat al veertien jaar in die bedryf, waarvan die deur die versekeringsmaatskappye aan ons laaste drie by Koos en Riekie Smit Make- betaal word. Daar kan egter bykomende laars. Ek spesialiseer in ‘n uitgewerkte fi- kostes wees, maar dit sal voor die tyd aan nansiële plan om jou by te staan in al die die kliënt verklaar word. fases/gebeurtenisse van jou lewe en medieHoe bly jy op datum met verandering wat sefondse. jou kliënte kan raak? Hoe benader jy finansiële beplanning? 6) Daar is ‘n kundige persoon in ons kan2) Dit is altyd lekker om ‘n kliënt met ‘n toor wat seker maak dat ons op hoogte bly uitgewerkte finansiële beplanning te help van alle veranderings, veral ook in weten na gelang van die behoefte die kliënt gewing. Verder sien ons ook deskundiges te adviseur om sy/haar finansiële behoefte op elke produk van elke maatskappy op ‘n aan te spreek. Mediesefonds is altyd vir gereelde basis, wat seker maak dat ons te my belangrik en sal altyd as ‘n basiese be- alle tye van alle produkte en veranderings hoefte gesien word. Maar ongelukkig is ‘n op datum bly. mediesefonds nie genoeg om kliënte en hul gesinne se welvaart te verseker nie, veral Hoe word jy gereguleer? nie in die geval van ‘n ernstige siekte of 7) Deur die FSB- en FAIS-Voldoeningswet, en by Koos en Riekie Smit Makelaars het ongeskiktheid nie. ons ook baie sterk riglyne wat nagekom Watter tipe kliënt sien jy meesal en wat moet word. probeer die meeste van jou kliënte bereik. 3) Ek sien meesal jong gesinne wat besef dat Hoe gereeld hersien jy jou kliënte se situhul addisionele voorsiening sal moet maak in asie? geval van dood of ongeskiktheid. Dit is egter 8) In ‘n neutedop: Ek help graag kliënte om ook so dat almal tog maar ‘n behoefte het aan hulle en hul gesinne se finansiële welvaart te verseker. ‘n mediesefonds of ‘n boedelontleding.
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ryday things quicker but it still takes more than an hour to do my daily ablutions.” Paull went to Pretoria Boys High and then spent two years at the Sharks Academy in Durban KwaZulu-Natal. He took up a position in forestry in Louis Trichardt and studied aquaculture by correspondence through the University of Stellenbosch. Paull moved to the Haenertsburg area, the home of his maternal grandfather Mr Patrick McGaffin. In his rainbow trout grow out business, he would bring trout in as fingerlings and sell them at 1,1 kg to a Lydenburg company that supplied retail stores nationwide. Mr James Godden from Johannesburg approached Paull, whilst at the physiotherapist, and discussed the possibility of paracanoeing. Paull found a job in Johannesburg, settled in North Riding, and began canoeing at the Dabulamanzi Canoe Club at Emmarentia Dam. Nine months after starting to train at the Dam, Paull competed in the Gauteng Canoe Spring Championships at Roodeplaat Dam. He won the gold medal in the para-canoe event for coming first in the 200 and 500 m para-canoe races. This qualified him to take part in the International Canoe Federation Spring World Cup in Duisburg in Germany earlier this year. The SA team manager, Mr Craig Mustard, said that Paull’s
first race was not his best because of nerves but he was strong in the semi-final. His semifinal sixth place at 57,705 seconds wasn’t enough to see him through to the final but he gained valuable experience. Paull flies to Milan in Italy on 14 August to take part in the para-canoeing championships on 19 August. He will be the first paraplegic to represent SA. He hopes that this will qualify him to take part in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. All these tours are self funded. Canoeing is one of the least funded sports in South Africa. Many have been instrumental in helping Paull. Lannie Motors in Tzaneen paid for his first wheelchair. Particular thanks go to Mr Paul du Toit for his help with services on the car. Paull also appreciates the help that businessman Mr Paul Smit gave him and the Haenertsburg community, in particular Ms Tammy van Emmenis from Stevens Lumber Mills, who helped with fundraising. With his upbeat disposition Paull concluded, “Whatever life throws at you, it doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. You have to pick yourself up and keep on going.”
— Sue Ettmayr
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Para-canoeing championships.
day The Tzaneen Community Forum will be hosting a Golf day tomorrow (Saturday) at Fairview Golf Course. The competition will be played on a better ball (on scramble) format, which means that even the more average golfer has a chance to win some of the fantastic prizes. Tee off, is at 09:30 and will be a “shotgun start”. The main sponsors for the day will be Pam Golding and Discovery Life and many other sponsors have confirmed their attendance with spot and fun prizes up for grabs. Food and drinks will be available the whole morning and the organizers have confirmed that they will be finished by 13:00, well in time to watch the rugby. No entrance fee for spectators! If you want to play in the competition, call Daan Roelvert on 083 393 2517. All funds raised will be used to sustain and support several welfare organizations, including funding for the Safe House for abused persons, which will be built at Lushof very soon.