Residential Estate April 2021
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Fourways Gardens RESIDENTIAL ESTATE April 2021 THE GENERAL STATE OF THE EstATE Join the Easter Egg Hunt FWG Movie Night Lightstone Property Forecast for 2021 James Clarke: The Power of One Published in close co-operation with the Fourways Gardens Home Owners Association Want to know how much your property is worth? Now, more than ever, you need a real estate agent who is committed to maximising the equity on your investment. Martina Forsyth and Mark McGowan are an outstanding team of real estate professionals, dedicated to guiding your property journey in beautiful Fourways Gardens. Their unique set of skills and experience are at your disposal to assist in realising your real estate goals. It is wise to keep up to date with values of your house should you ever want to sell in the future. Get in touch with Martina or Mark today for a complimentary, market- related evaluation. Martina Forsyth 083 260 1562 • Mark McGowan 083 358 5652 Fourways office: 011 467 4119 April 2021 02 The General State of the Estate 10 Security: Officer of the Month 12 Clubhouse Easter Menu 14 FWG Estate Activities 16 Turfnet: April in the Garden 20 Fourways Gardens’ Beautiful Renovations 26 Michelle Raymond: The Importance of Play for Adults 28 Toyota Hilux 2.8GD-6 Double Cab 4X4 Legend RS 20 29 Ford Ranger 2.2XL Sport Pack #Travelogue 30 Lightstone Property Forecast for 2021 32 The Power of One 34 Restaurant competition 37 Classifieds 39 Approved Estate Agents PHOTOGRAPH BY Sally-ANN JANSEN CONTENTS 40 James Clarke: The Need for Failure 2 16 Contact Numbers / Emergencies / Fault Reporting Estate Office 011 465 7731 Clubhouse 011 465 0937 Estate Security 24/7 Security Control Room 011 465 5465 Site Manager 071 224 6776 Assist Site Manager 071 222 7037 FWG Mobile Site Phone 076 200 5280 Important Numbers ER 24 Emergency 084 124 082 911 / 26 Netcare 911 010 209 8604 Life Fourways Hospital 011 875 1000 011 875 1000 / Ambulance Fourways Life Hospital 010 209 8604 Douglasdale Police Station 011 699 1300 Police/Flying Squad 10111 Metro Police 011 490 1600 Fire and Ambulance 10177 011 465 5792 / Lonehill Fire Department 011 028 1083 Sandton Fire Department 011 375 5911 Fault Reporting and Utilities Suppliers 32 Eskom 086 003 7566 011 375 5555 / City of Johannesburg Municipality 086 056 2874 Telkom 10210 Vumatel 086 100 8862 The Fourways Gardens Estate Magazine focuses on the Fourways Gardens Residential Estate. The magazine is co-ordinated and published by Estates in Africa (Pty) Ltd trading as EIA Publishing on behalf of the Fourways Gardens Homeowners Association. The opinions of advertisers, contributors, workers and personnel of Estates in Africa (Pty) Ltd do not necessarily reflect those of the HOA of the Fourways Gardens Residential Estate. PUBLISHER: Nico Maritz [email protected] SALES MANAGER: Martin Fourie 072 835 8405 [email protected] EDITOR: Nicole Hermanson [email protected] ADVERTISING SALES: Wesley Massyn [email protected] 082 453 6599 ()Pty Ltd PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR: Anna Sawa [email protected] DESIGN: Diane van Noort [email protected] JOHANNESBURG OFFICE: 32 Fricker Road, Illovo, Johannesburg. www.eiapublishing.co.za Fourways Gardens • 1 • April 2021 Estate News THE GENERAL STATE OF THE ESTATE Kevin Nicholson – General Manager Since I joined this wonderful community in October last year, I have had the privilege of meeting many of the Fourways Gardens residents. I’ve also been thrown in the deep end with some pretty substantial deliveries expected of the HOA. These included the new wave readers, a new length of road, flash flooding and numerous other intricacies that are somewhat unique to FWG – all while managing the chaos of COVID! We’re all looking stronger for it and I’m very proud to be here. Domestic and other staff trends Please feel free to make comments and suggestions and also to Total number of domestic staff registered: 731 on 650 properties give me feedback so that we can continue to uphold and improve Total gardening staff: 369 on 329 properties the value of the estate within which you live, work and play. Total domestic staff registered as live-in: 307 on 275 properties The Chairman, some of the Board members and I will be available Based on the high number of properties with no registered domestic every Friday between 16:00 and 17:00 at the Clubhouse. Please staff and the high number of visitor PINs allocated to staff on a Monday come along, have something to drink, ask your questions and morning in particular, we have assumed that not all staff are registered. bring your ideas and proposals. We will be monitoring the situation and contacting residents but ask that all residents take the time to bring their staff through and have Visitor trends them registered on the system. The intention The intention of the visitor Suggestions: PIN model is to allow 1. All domestic staff travelling by foot/bicycle should be enrolled in the residents to invite private system and should be using the turnstiles as their primary method of guests into the estate. It entry into the estate and NOT be issued with PINs. would appear, however, 2. All medium and long stay (>5 days) contractors should be enrolled that the system is being on the system. used to pre-authorise domestic staff and long-term contractors, giving them access Understanding POPIA onto the site. This is creating unnecessary pedestrian and traffic One of the drivers for us changing delays as indicated by the figures below. our Estate Management System was to prepare for the implementation Visitors: 10 February to 7 March 2021 of POPIA (Protection of Personal 1. Total number of PINs created: 37 442 Information Act). 2. Total number of PINs used: 27 266 3. More than 50% of the PINs were created by: <20% of the POPIA is a far-reaching piece of legislation covering a number of areas properties which include: 4. Highest number of PINs used by a single property: 294 1. How the data is stored. 5. Highest repeat visits by a single visitor: 115 2. Is the data used in accordance with the reason for which it was 6. Number of properties with at least one visit per day: 293 collected? 3. Is there an audit log of people accessing the data? We will be contacting individual homeowners over the coming days to address possible confusion and any identified issues of The OneSpace access system is based on Microsoft Core and makes misuse. use of an encrypted database housed in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud data Fourways Gardens • 2 • April 2021 Estate News centres. In addition, user credentials are managed using the Microsoft Damian Booth – Office 365 credential management platform. All user access to the Security Director system is fully audited and is able to be reported on in granular detail. OpenSpace Access As this is a new act, the exact implementation of the requirements is It has now been one something that the Residential Estate industry is actively looking to month since we went fully understand. Fourways Gardens will ensure that we are ready and live with the new compliant when the Act comes into effect in July 2021. Estate Management solution. We The security and integrity of our residents’ data is central to our 3-year continue to learn Estate Management Plan and we will continue to make the necessary and make changes to better our security and efficiencies at the changes and upgrades to remain ahead of the needs outlined in the gate. I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of legislation. the early insights with you. Many will be obvious but it is helpful to put figures to topic and see the extent of the successes. Margot Fenner – Operations Maintenance To date, we have enrolled 4 883 people on the wave scanner Our dedicated six-man maintenance team, headed up by Oscar Ndou, access. We managed to clean up our database by 1 348 individuals has a diverse set of skills among them. Thankfully, they are able to who did not re-enrol as they no longer required access. The attend to just about any repair our estate needs. This means we can sensitivity and accuracy of the new wave readers have reduced keep costs down when there might usually have been a need to call in the number of access cards from 500 to 120 cards in circulation. industry-specific professionals. Both serve as a measured reminder of how we need to regularly review our most vulnerable points of entry. 2 207 individuals Regular cost comparisons allow us to find the most effective and have downloaded the new App and been given authority to value for money suppliers and contractors for the bigger jobs that do generate access PINs. occasionally need to be taken care of in the estate. After Security insisted that domestic workers and gardeners One such job recently undertaken has been the drains in some of the enrol with the wave scanner and contacted owners to stop paved areas in Phase 2. A specialist water jetting plumber assisted us sending access PINs, the number of ‘contractors’ that had to be in cleaning these pipes that have silted up with clay and other debris cleared decreased drastically. This can still be reduced further. over the years. Going forward, our team can now keep these lines clear. Random stats: 2021 • 3 000kg of Tar Fix was used to repair potholes. • 14 500 bricks laid to repair various boundary walls due to storm damage. • 18 x 12 m³ truckloads of garden refuse removed from the K56 greenbelt.