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Professor plays the fool back at school Professor Jonathan Jansen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State, visited The Settlers High as their special guest on the school’s Founder's Day celebrations on 24 April. Here he is seen having fun with the matric drama class. PHOTO: CARINA ROUX
CRIME: THIEVES BREAK INTO IRIS HOUSE LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER OPENING
Kids’ hospice burgled MICHELLE LINNERT @linnertmb
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hieves ransacked a hospice for terminally ill children less than two weeks after it opened its doors in Stikland. Iris House, a mobile care and support organisation for children with a limited lifespan and their families, officially opened its new permanent hospice premises on 14 April on the Stikland Hospital grounds. The newly revamped building – a project founded with love and serious tenacity by Sue van der Linde – became a crime statistic last Wednesday. TygerBurger had just that morning visited the new premises to interview Sue on Iris
House’s plans for the structure she and her team had brought to reality. “We had a break in last night,” Sue informed TygerBurger on Thursday morning. She said the security company was very quick to react, but they suffered some losses. “We only lost the Mac (computer), petty cash tin and our brand new hard drive with all our video footage on – we are praying the company has a backup,” she said. “Who steals from a Children’s Hospice?” On TygerBurger’s visit, Sue provided a tour of the premises, showing off the newly functional spaces created during phase 1 of their huge clean-up operation. The centre opened to wide media interest on 14 April, with the Premier of the Western
Cape, Helen Zille, unveiling the plaque. During our visit, Sue mentioned they needed to build a wall – but for a different reason at the time than security. It appeared that some of the neighbours who work with fork-lift trucks, had taken to using the centre’s newly laid driveway for their own purposes. “The driveway isn’t made for that kind of heavy-duty wear and tear. It’s meant as a quick and easily accessible way for parents to roll up our children who are in wheelchairs,” she said. “But now one of the neighbours is using the drive way to turn his big trucks around.” The house, as it stands on the tranquil grounds of the hospital as a former employee
residence, was in a state of utter neglect when Sue first laid eyes on it. “We got lost on the hospital grounds and ended up at (this) property. I knew we had to have it, and we did. Eventually.” The end of phase 1 of the repairs to the house was a very long road filled with red tape, broken roof tiles, finger deep grime and filth and the accompanying cockroaches, a stolen geyser and piping, with the brass window latches also having been stolen.. But with the help of care staff and some of the parents and family members of the 155 children serviced by Iris House across the Western Cape, the home was rebuilt with love, care and lots of fresh paint and cement. V To page 2.
Va r k Skouer / Spare Rib 99
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R2399
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R4499
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R6999
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R33
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R44
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R149
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R5999 kg
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