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Sedgefield Knysna Wilderness George P O BOX 1424 SEDGEFIELD 6573 The Edge Building, 63 Main Road TEL: 044 343 2415 FAX: 086 695 8936 CELL: 072 516 4701 Email: [email protected] THE Issue 602 4 November 2020 dominant and highly focused Samuel Hartzenberg, Bulelani team,” says Sam Hartzenberg, Happyboy Mbanya, Moses Secretary of the team’s very Salters, Joseph Ruiters, Jethro active management committee, Van rooyen and Freddie van “The number of goals scored and Rooyen. the match results were fruits of Sam says the team will need Sedgefield’s Smuts United the hard work and dedication of even more support, as they head Football Club has been the entire team.” into the SAB league play-offs in crowned Knysna Local He says the whole Smuts United mid-November 2020. They are Football Association (KLFA) crew are very proud of the role hoping to find a benefactor to champions for the 2019/2020 that management, players and assist them financially regarding season. supporters played in achieving these matches as they will This after the association’s this. probably all be held in Executive Committee decided Oudtshoorn. “We would not have made it this on 31 October that the team at the far without the involvement of “Smuts United has to be top of the log before games were all parties and the magnificent fanatically fit too,” he says, stopped due to the COVID-19 support we received from “Accommodation, food, and crisis would be declared the Smutsville and the Smuts United transportation has to be covered, winners. football club family,” he told us. so any support will be most Competition is stiff in this appreciated, thank you.” domestic league, which sees 16 Smuts United FC is under the teams from Knysna, Sedgefield leadership of Peter Hartnick For more details please contact and Rheenendal competing. (Coach) Adam Hartnick Bulelani Happyboy Mbanya 078 (Assistant Coach) and 254 6354 or Samuel Hartzenberg With 57 points, Smuts United FC committee members, Johannes 062 365 7830 was two points ahead of the Red Laurens, Denwill Hartnick, Eagles squad. Prior to the March President Ben, Winston Carolus, lock down our local lads had been enjoying a very successful The winning team (from top left ) Corne Melite, Ashley Melite, Jason Keswart, Joswine Rondganger, Alex season - winning 19 of the 21 Grootboom, Deayane Speelman, Gladwill Hartnick, Gladlinn Hartnick, Jeswin Wintwaai, Clinton April, games they had played, and Reginald Geland, Andre Plaatjies, Christiaan Arries, Aswille Van Rooyen, and Nigel Williams scoring an admirable 93 goals (Absent:- Substitutes Nathan Hartnick, and Francois Hartnick.) with only 21 conceded. “They started this season as a Chas 18 - 22 April 2019 to ‘just quickly’ (ha!) ‘fetch my phone.... I know it’s here /check /move /make /look up/ somewhere.... here it is, right? freeze/ defrost/ change/reset/turn Oh. Five messages from my think I am getting off/ turn on /unpack /unpick mom. She wants that sourdough “Steve, it’s almost time for Grandma’s heatstroke. /stitch /fix’ something or other. recipe. I wonder where that cookbook is? I wish you weren’t I Something that cannot wait, surprise party! apparently. hurrying me so much because When Grandma I am not surprised, to tell you the then I could quickly find it. truth, because I have been sitting And this happens over, and over, Anyway, let’s go.... oh, hang on comes in, throw confetti and here under this ‘magnifying and over again. We can never that cushion isn’t right, it should glass’ for what seems like a ever just go. Spontaneously be on the other couch.... with the then hand her the cake and century and three quarters, and I depart on time, for an errand, or a other throw, the purple one, to trip, or a visit.....NEVER. think I can hear steam hissing hide the hole. It’s in this we’ll all out my ears…. AND my c u p b o a r d , I t h i n k , shout ‘Surprise!’ bladder.... because I’m desperate Oh, how I envy those families some…where…in… here... no... for a.... who simply get into their cars or maybe the one in the room onto their bicycles or even into upstairs ... let me check.... Oh! I You see, Mrs Ed and I are often Oh! Why? I’m in the car. Parked their best walking shoes and .... found it. No, not the throw – the late. Ok, not often, more like outside my house. just.... leave. , cookbook. Don’t you listen? ALWAYS, and whilst I know that Right – we can leave now, just as Waiting for Mrs Ed, of course. it is ALWAYS her fault, she is not Because with Mrs Ed involved, soon as I have sent the recipe…. convinced. Indeed she thinks it is that simple act is downright If you would just stop pacing and If I had a dime for every minute I actually ALWAYS my fault. impossible. have spent sitting behind the show me how to take one of those steering wheel, waiting for Mrs Which of course it isn’t. Indeed, if my wife was ever due scream shotty things I WOULD Ed. I’d have .... well, a whole lot to leave on that Midnight Train to be able to go a bit faster. Ok, so of dimes... which wouldn’t be of I’ll explain why. Georgia, chances are it would that’s sorted and we are out of much use in South Africa... only depart at 3:45 am, and even h.... oh my goodness the Mrs.Ed has a serious GOTH then she’d have the engineer stop WASHING! If I have to put it on If I am sounding confused it’s problem. No, I don’t mean that before he got to the front gate so the rinse cycle one more time it because I think I just saw part of she has been set upon by a horde she could rather get her comfy will fall apart! You go and get in my nose drip off, it was of bloodthirsty, axe-wielding shoes, and perhaps the green the car whilst I quickly hang it, “If only you would think in dissolved in sweat. And the mere barbarians (they wouldn’t dare!) sweater because it goes so much OOH! Mom’s answered, she advance,” she grumbles as we sight of running water (read: Nor, come to think of it, is our better with the handbag she’s wants me to TYPE the recipe in reverse out, “We wouldn’t be running sweat) makes the home full of sullen teenagers also, incidentally, left on the an email…. Is the computer on?” late all the time. It’s so bladder problem even more with pasty white faces, charcoal washing machine, so she may as embarrassing, REALLY!” urgent… mascara, heavy black clothing well put another load of darks in One and a half litres of sweat and questionable taste in muzak. whilst she’s there, and just (mine) later she opens the car Do you see what I mean? Why? I have to ask myself, is it quickly hang it up, and water the door and gets in, heaving a The GOTH I am referring to is an So now you will understand why here, in this oven of a car, that I veggies whilst it dries.... sigh… am always left to ‘bake until acronym (which I am inclined to I am sitting, writing this entire golden brown, then turn up to use every once in a while, you So, dear reader(s?), on hearing “Right,” she says, glowering at missive in a car hotter than 230 and grill’? If I didn’t know may have noticed) for Getting all this indisputable evidence me in her famous ‘just you dare’ Trump’s sunbed, and with a better, I would think Mrs Ed does Out The House. against her, you would probably look that has been known to stop bladder so full I may have to She'd be mad if she didn't! it on purpose, just to torture me. a wounded buffalo mid charge, undertake an Environmental Yes. Mrs Ed is, to put it mildly, be thinking that when Mrs Ed does finally GOTH (that’s Get “Let’s go. Have you got the Impact Assessment to empty Because she could, if she were a totally rubbish at the simple act wine?” it…. of Getting Out The House. Out The House... please nicer sort of person, leave me concentrate), she would spend Rubbish, with a heavy dose of “Grndgeehhhhhhggdd no,” I Because, UNDER PAIN OF waiting in the shade.... perhaps the entire trip profusely pathetic, and liberally garnished reply, opening my door, DEATH, I am NOT GOING in my hammock (where I do a lot apologising to me for her the car.... AND I WILL WIN! with diabolically inadequate. unlocking the gate and rushing BACK INTO THE HOUSE. of my best ‘deep thinking’), or on tardiness, whilst I attempt to get Indeed, if there was an O’level back into the house, returning And any second/minute/ the WMCC (World’s Most t o t h e a f o r e m e n t i o n e d exam for Getting Out The House with the said bottle in less than hour/day now, Mrs Ed will get in Comfortable Couch), perhaps appointment on time, an with a fan gently blowing and – she would fail the practical, and 7.5 milliseconds. probably be banned from ever impossibility, considering we Fawlty Towers playing in the have departed half an hour after background? retaking it.