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cornwall viewIssue 4 2018 A BETTER WAY TO GIVE °éó¡{byóµ\¡µæé CONTENTS A Better Way to Give 6 Security Vehicles 12 The Big Picture 14 SA Extreme 16 Cornwall Hill College News 20 Service Providers 24 Smalls/Important Numbers 26 • Cover photograph by Ivan Muller Dear Residents Cornwall View focuses on the Cornwall These last few months were somewhat Hill Country Estate. The magazine is turbulent times on the estate. delivered to the gate of the Estate. The magazine is co-ordinated and published We experienced the first security issues in three by Estates in Africa (Pty) Ltd on behalf years when the fence was compromised, and of the Home Owners Association some robberies took place. of Cornwall Hill Country Estate. The opinions of co-workers and personnel The directors responded with several measures of Estates in Africa (Pty) Ltd do not regarding security. These include purchasing necessarily reflect those of the HOA of our own security bakkie as a replacement of the Cornwall Hill Country Estate. the bakkie we rent from Protea Coin as it makes financial sense, but we also added two quad PUBLISHER bikes to do more patrols and have a bigger Nico Maritz visual presence. E-mail: [email protected] We are also in serious discussions with service EDITOR for Estates in Africa (Pty) Ltd providers regarding fibre and thermal cameras Kathy Thersby on our perimeter. Residents will form part of final decision to be taken. E-mail: [email protected] From time to time someone shows me some We have also experienced, and is still reactions of residents on the Facebook page EDITOR for Cornwall Hill Country Estate experiencing, many issues with stray dogs. If that is simply not always true or show that the Ivan Muller - Cell: 082 454 8487 you are a dog owner, please take note that dogs author does not have access to the full picture. E-mail: [email protected] are not allowed outside your stand if it is not on It also sometimes looks like some residents a leash and accompanied by someone. intentionally want to undermine management SALES & MARKETING MANAGER on this page, which is a pity. Martin Fourie - Cell: 072 853 8405 It looks like many dogs run onto the road E-mail: [email protected] when someone enters or leaves a property. I simply fail to understand why some residents From the estate’s side we fine perpetrators and do not understand that all decisions taken by PRODUCTION communicate with owners when we know directors are aimed to manage – sometimes Chris Grant - 011 327 4062 who the owner is. We are also involving the difficult – issues to make the estate a better E-mail: [email protected] department of environmental health and the place for everyone living here. All available SPCA when needed, but it is the responsibility information is obtained, then discussed and DESIGN of every dog owner to make sure that his decisions are taken carefully. Directors are Leonardo Lupini animal/s do not leave his property and becomes owners who volunteer their time to manage the E-mail: [email protected] a problem for other residents and their visitors. estate. PRETORIA OFFICE Any resident is welcome to bring any issue The best way to communicate to me when Martin Fourie: 072 853 8405 under my attention, but please do not ask the you need to clarify something or if you have estate manager on the Facebook page for his a complaint is to send an email directly to JOHANNESBURG OFFICE reaction as I am not part of this group. Directors [email protected] or to Karina at Tel: 011 327 4062, Fax: 011 327 4094, take decisions and when I inform residents [email protected],.za. Please be very specific regarding stand numbers and dates and Now Media Centre, 32 Fricker Road • of these decisions I need to do so in a formal times. Illovo • Johannesburg manner. The proper manner to do so is per www.eiapublishing.co.za general email to all residents and tenants and not with a one-line answer on social media, Regards read by only a few residents. Dirk Heyns Estate Manger lifestyle 6 Cornwall View • Issue 4 2018 lifestyle BYA NASEEHA TAYOBBETTER WAY TO GIVE BY IVAN MULLER These photographs are for illustration purposes only and does not infer any substance abuse by the individuals portrayed here • Copyright: Ivan Muller Photography 082 454 8487 www.ivanmullerphotography.com Cornwall View • Issue 4 2018 7 lifestyle 8 Cornwall View • Issue 4 2017 lifestyle very day I drive past conditioned car, standing in the sun for numerous people begging on hours a day humiliating myself for a few the streets. This has been so cents from the public looked like very for as long as I can remember. hard work to me… The public’s reaction to this has been quite varied, from PERCEPTION VERSUS THE FACTS, AND ‘theyE are just too lazy to get a job’ to A REALITY CHECK displaying great sympathy for people But of course it turns out that the facts that find themselves in a situation are completely different from our beyond their control, because even Jesus perceptions. In the Tshwane area alone said that ‘the poor you will always have there are about 6000 street beggars and with you’. they earn between R300 to R3000 each per day and for more than 80% of them A few years ago I got to photograph all of it goes to support a drug or alcohol a few of these street beggars in my dependency…. This can total up to an studio. Talking to these people I came average of R 4 million per day! Many of to the conclusion that they all had some these street beggars are also pushers, ‘problem’ that they could not manage, which makes the problem even worse. that a normal life was just too difficult There is a vast network of drug dealing for them and, that in a way they had on almost every street corner in Tshwane. given up and eventually landed up on Where does this money ultimately go to? the streets. That they were just ‘too lazy Lining the pockets of the drug dealers of to work’ did not ring true because from course. This is quite a statement to make where I was sitting in the luxury of my air and you may well ask where do I get this Cornwall View • Issue 4 2018 9 lifestyle 10 Cornwall View • Issue 4 2018 lifestyle info from and how accurate is it? Raslouw) which endeavours to help people break free of drugs and poverty. Even if there is a relapse ’N BOER MAAK ’N PLAN Moeggesukkel has a special programme that Solidarity’s Helpende Hand initiative has done caters for this. the research and has been involved with our city beggar problem for a number of years. He knows Right from the start of the rehabilitation the facts, the scope of the problem and most programme the individual is placed in a work importantly they know how to effectively deal team to maintain the facilities and afterwards with it. Anton Smit, the chairman of the Centurion is placed with specific companies that support branch of Solidarity’s Helpende Hand, tells me Moeggesukkel and understand how to handle that these people land up on the street because of these ex-drug addicts. their drug and alcohol addiction and the public are keeping them there by our irresponsible cash and Since 2015 more than 160 beggars have been other donations. rehabilitated and placed with companies where they now earn money, are off the streets and have WE ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! a much greater measure of self-respect. To educate the public into giving correctly Solidarity’s Helpende Hand launched an initiative WHERE CAN I BUY A VOUCHER? called #geeREG. The aim of this initiative is for the 1. Image Profile: 21 Estcourt Street, Wierda Park public to give money to the organizations that 2. Moeggesukkel: 114 Erasmus Ave, Centurion are there to help and have the experience in how 3. Eldoraigne Slaghuis - 57 Mulders Mile, to help effectively, rather than putting money, Eldoraigne clothing or food in the hands of the street beggars 4. Charity shop van Helpende Hand: 86 Bothalaan, that they will sell for drugs and alcohol. Lyttelton How do we give correctly? 5. Maretha Skooluitrusters in Clubview 6. Fish2Go in Lyttelton winkelsentrum By buying a meal voucher. Each voucher can be 7. NG Kerk Wierda Park exchanged for a meal and this gives Helpende 8. Kerksondermure Hand the chance to interact with the individual, 9 &10. The Reformed Churches in Centurion and build up trust and eventually cultivate them for Rooihuiskraal rehabilitation. Most of the people helping at the food stations are ex drug addicts that have been So there you have it. Give money to the street rehabilitated through the efforts of this initiative. beggars and the chances are 80% that it will keep them on the streets as drug addicts or give REHABILITATION correctly and we can start to become part of the Once these lost souls are ready for rehabilitation solution. Helpende Hand and Moeggesukkel have they start a tough rehab programme at more worthwhile initiatives and I will be featuring Moeggesukel (a non-profit organization in them in future issues of our magazine. Website: https://geereg.co.za/ tel: 012 644 4390 e-mail: [email protected] Moeggesukkel Rehabcenter 073 329 5174 Cornwall View • Issue 4 2018 11 estate living he Cornwall Hill estate directors recently as to act as a deterrent for possible perpetrators.