April 2016
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Q&A: Ashley Bauer Page 19
Red fruit, spices and … pizza?
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Residential property transactions climbing
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Charity funding for sports centre
Hope Through Action (HTA), the originators of the Franschhoek Valley Community Sports Centre, was one of the two beneficiaries of the annual Nederburg charity auction. Along with the other beneficiary, the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington, HTA received R136 802 at the recent annual handover event at Nederburg in Paarl. Charity auctioneer Roland Peens knocked down 15 rare wine items at last year’s annual charity sale, raising close to R274 000 that will now be invested in various outreach programmes run by the two organisations, which aim to invest in the future of the local young people. Beneficiary representatives Theo Kemp, executive manager for the Breytenbach Centre and Nkosana Mguni, manager of the HTA centre in Franschhoek, were each presented with a cheque for the proceeds by Nederburg Auction representative Inger Truter. The Breytenbach Centre is a multidisciplinary cultural centre that provides a platform for the youth to gain access to the arts and Life skills, helping them to make responsible choices, while the Hope Through Action project reaches out to young people through the medium of sport. “The funding we’ve received will be used to support our programmes for young women and men from the Mbekweni and Franschhoek Valley communities where our sports centres are based,” said Sandra Randall, project co-ordinator for Hope Through Action. “We run separate life skills and personal development programmes for boys (Brothers in Action) and girls
Charity auction beneficiaries, back row from left: Nkosana Mguni (Hope Through Action) and Theo Kemp (Breytenbach Centre), with Sonja Morkel (Distell Foundation) on the left and Inger Truter (Nederburg Auction) on the right.
(WGILS – Women and Girls in Leadership through Sport) at each centre. The programmes provide vulnerable young people with the opportunity to meet in a safe environment to interact with their peers, and gain knowledge about social issues that impact their lives, together with the necessary skills to address these issues.”
Ward changes for local government elections
to the roll for their new voting station, however past experience has shown that it’s best to verify this before voting day. If voters do not verify where they are registered they may arrive at one voting station, only to be told that they have to go another one. Likely impact The impact of the boundary changes in ward 1 will probably not be great. Ward 1, a DA-held ward, loses strongly DA areas and gains an area with substantial ANC support. Based on previous election results, the nett effect will however probably not be anywhere near enough to swing the ward to the ANC. In ANC-held ward 2 the situation is more interesting. The number of votes that separated the victorious ANC from the DA in this ward during the 2014 national government elections wasn’t very much. The subtraction of part of ANC-leaning Mooiwater and the addition of significantly sized DA-leaning areas means that a high turnout by DA voters could swing this ward from ANC to DA control. Additionally the ANC must also be worried about losing votes to the EFF, while the impact of the new kid on the block, United Franschhoek Valley, also remains to be seen.
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With local government elections due later this year the weekend of 5&6 March was a voter registration weekend. Not only did new voters have the chance to register for the first time, existing voters could also verify their particulars and voters who had moved since the last elections could re-register in their new home towns and/or wards. The next voter registration weekend is on 9&10 April. Ward boundary changes In Franschhoek things are a bit more complex this time around than during the 2014 national and provincial government elections as the boundaries of wards 1 (previously Franschhoek South, Groendal and farms to the south) and ward 2 (previously informal settlements and Mooiwater) have changed. The most important changes are that La Ferme Chantelle, Domaine des Anges and La Petite Provence are now part of ward 2. This means that residents of these estates now have to cast their votes at the Groendal Community Hall and no longer at the Franschhoek Town Hall. Part of Mooiwater has also been included in ward 1. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) should automatically transfer affected voters’ particulars