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Dear Museum Friends Issue 10 of 2010 October Brings About New October 2010 Phone 044-620-3338 Fax 044-620-3176 Email: [email protected] www.greatbrakriver.co.za Editor3B Rene’ de Kock Dear Museum Friends Issue 10 of 2010 October brings about new opening times. September has been a busy month ending with the museum celebrating Heritage Day and the theme Heritage of Agriculture. We would like to thank the many The Museum is businesses which assisted the museum with donations and a full list is seen below. open Monday, Having run out of space, lots of news will have to wait until next month. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday It becomes all too easy to believe what appears on ‘official’ websites. between 9 am and 4 pm and on Allen Duff corrects our last month’s write up on Laingsberg; see page 9: "It was Wednesdays from also here that the controversial Boer Commandant Gideon Scheepers was 9.00 to 12.30 pm. captured during the Anglo-Boer war." The Department of Water Affairs and Scheepers was actually captured about 80 kms east of Laingsburg on the farm Forestry reports that Koppieskraal on the banks of the Dwyka River. In 2001 Allan writes he attended a during the fourth centenary commemorative ceremony of the capture marked by the unveiling of a week in September monument adjacent to the site of the cottage (no longer in existence). 2010, our Interestingly Deneys Reitz & the other five in the Conradie group (who were Wolwedans dam separated from Smuts's commando) called at the same cottage 10 days later while water level is still trekking northwards. going down and is 15.90% full. Come and hear more on the TOPIC by ALLEN DUFF: “CHASING BOER The bottom 12.0% WAR GHOSTS” at the Mossel Bay Heritage Societies AGM on layer may not be th Thursday 7 October at 18.30 at the St. Peters Parish Hall. suitable for irrigation. Thinking about our World cup stadia and the problems with filling them, I saw very recently on Sky news that British county cricket is in the doldrums with low crowd attendance. Last year having introduced 20/20 county cricket some time previously, all was well with record crowds. This year there is hardly a spectator. It can't just be the grounds entry cost. It probably goes much deeper and I believe the full effects of the recession are really beginning to bite. The other dam of importance in the Having said this and considering the recent demise of our Choo-Tjoe, a quick Wolwedans catchment comment about the recession in England from a UK visitor. area is the very small He helps out on steam train specials Yorkshire e.g. York/Scarborough. Ernest Robertson dam Their summer loadings have been 450 - 500 per train at an average cost of £30. which is 97.8% full Years ago when we offered to help out the Knysna section for buckshee, we were Did you know we politely refused. The excuse being there was too much red tape. have been on water restrictions for more than a year? We have been honoured; if you would like earlier copies of this year’s newsletters please go to the Department of the Premier - Isebe leNkulumbuso yePhondo - Departement van die Premier, Provincial A year ago in Government of the Western Cape. September our Wolwedans dam http://www.capegateway.gov.za/eng/pubs/mags/202412/200975 water level stood at 44.50% full. GBR Museum News Letter October 2010 Page No. 1 In March 2006 Barrv Grewenstein wrote a letter in the Groot Brak Post, GREAT BRAK NEEDS TO WAKE UP. After many years it has finally been recognised that Hope de Kock Tourism is a greater asset to SA than Gold. The potential foreign and local income would like to from tourism is actually unrestricted. All we have to do is make our village, sincerely thank the following persons province and country exciting and enticing enough to visit and then provide the and organisations tourist with an experience that will bring them and their friend back time and who assisted the again. How difficult is it to understand this? museum with her Yet, when one looks at the condition of our roads, sidewalks and general aesthetic fund raising effort appeal of our village and its main streets, one cannot but wonder when our local on Heritage day. authorities will wake up and smell the money. We are sitting on a gold mine here Baruch’s Coffee in Great Brak River. Many predict this to be the next "bloom" region along the Garden Route. But we need to make our village more attractive and desirable to Fruit & Veg visitors. George We need an attractive "main" road, we need trees and gardens, we need Morningside businesses to be encouraged to make their buildings and offices appealing with Fresh Eggs window boxes, flowering plants etc .... take a look at what Bokkie Estate Agents Golden Harvest have done to their property and let's try to get that done all the way on Long George Street. It is possible. Tourism will attract huge amounts of revenue (read this as Van Rensberg’s expansion and job creation) to our region. VUKA guys and let's do something ‘Mr Meat’ about it before it's too late! The Museum and Crafts Workshop Well what are we waiting for? The municipality has since Committee macadamised Long Street, paved several of our pedestrian sidewalks Ladies and are regularly cleaning up pavements in and around the village. Du Bruyn Butchery On the 17th August this year, the municipality has approved the Buo Coffee “Formaplan” report which is the go ahead to zone Long Street into Great Brak River appropriate Heritage and Business areas. This is only the start to a ‘Spar’ complete overall and improvement to our village. In time for Christmas, Hopes If we get it right, the tourists will flock to the village. If not? fund raising “Hands On” crafts Untidy homeowner fined thousands workshop in October on ‘Iris Recently a woman has been ordered to pay more than R45,000.oo after failing to Folding’ Cards will comply with a notice ordering her to tidy up the outside of her house. be held at the Great Brak River Helen Mary Jayaraj was fined R27,500.oo and told to pay R17,500.oo in costs by Museum on magistrates in Dartford after her home in Wrotham Road, Gravesend, remained in Tuesday 18th. a poor condition two years on from the site notice being issued. Please call Hope de Magistrates said it was absolutely clear to the court that Mrs Jayaraj had "wilfully Kock on failed to comply with the notice" issued to her by Gravesham Borough Council 044 6205124 or back in November 2006. 083 378 1232 for full details. The notice which was served under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 stated a number of areas the defendant had to improve which included, removing rubbish and weeds from the property, fixing windows and doors, and repairing or demolishing outbuildings. Mrs Jayaraj must now pay monthly instalments to the court until the full R45,000.oo is paid. GBR Museum News Letter October 2010 Page No. 2 "Celebrating Heritage Day in Great Brak" Information by your editor The International Day for Monuments and Sites and informally known as the World Heritage Day was created in April 1982. This special day offers an opportunity to raise public’s awareness concerning the diversity of the world’s heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it, as well as to draw attention to its vulnerability. In South Africa it is a newly created public holiday and its significance rests in recognising aspects of South African culture which are both tangible and often difficult to pin down: creative expression, our historical inheritance, language, the food we eat as well as the land in which we live. The individual themes celebrated by local heritage and other organisations are therefore somewhat diverse. The Great Brak River Museum followed the International Heritage Day theme ‘Heritage of Agriculture’ as this is more applicable to what we are presently researching at the museum. Researching the history of the coloured people in Great Brak is extremely interesting and has brought to light many historic details which were thought to be lost. We have found many more details on the gravity operated irrigation furrows which in the times before electricity were the life blood of our community. Chapter eight on display in the museum of the book in progress, ‘Moving to Greener Pastures’ provides interesting highlights of the community gardens built before and after the turn of the century. The coloured kindergarten behind the museum undertook a bean growing project where forty four bean plants were cultivated from the bean seed which is packed in cotton wool allowing the children to experience the phenomena of germination and growth. This was on display on the 24th September at the museum. We could not keep it longer as the children are taking the growing beans home to show their parents. A fun day was organised at the museum and although it was a typical spring day, cold and windy, the rain stayed away and much fun was had by all. A real farm breakfast was provided for the hungry and for those who felt this was too much; Baruch’s coffee, tea and cake were available. Interesting farm products, cheeses, honey and eggs and spring vegetables were on sale. Olives were by father Ted, herb plants by Coralie and genuine hay bales for the kids to romp on.
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