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DAINFERN SECURE LUXURY LIVING issue7 2015 Quan Juries, our PGA Wine Tasting Graduate at the Dainfern Clubhouse The all-new Volvo XC90 – put yourself in the driving seat Dainfern_DPS_2015-07-27_12h17.pdf 1 2015/07/27 12:17 PM SOLD78 4 SOLD 38 5 39 SOLD 53 SOLD 37 6 52 36 51 50 SOLD SOLD 35 49 SOLD 40 48 41 42 47 34 SOLD 43 54 SOLD 69 44 55 7 45 66 33 SOLD SOLD 46 67 68 32 SOLD 70 8 68 67 SOLD 69 66 SOLD 77 60 65 71 12 76 SOLD SOLD 64 81 61 75 80 63 72 SOLD 11 62 31 9 73 SOLD 20 74 30 10 SOLD 29 13 19 28 SOLD 18 26 27 SOLD 17 24 25 SOLD 79 SOLD 21 22 23 SOLD 14 16 82 SOLD 15 SOLD *39 of the 73 stands sold Industrial stands for sale. C Selling. Sold. M Y Looking to grow your business? CM MY Cosmo Business Park is a secure and competitively priced precinct made up of prime industrial stands. It is conveniently located on Malibongwe Drive and is serviced by a variety of road networks. CY Cosmo Business Park is: CMY • Centrally located in one of the fastest growing development K corridors in Johannesburg • Easily accessible via the N1 and N14 highways • A safe environment with 24-hour access control and a dedicated security patrol vehicle • Offering stands sized from 2 000m2 • Competitively priced from R680m2* • Well serviced by public transport • Closely located to Lanseria Airport • Within 20km of Sandton CBD Contact Mike Brown on 083 251 3570 *Excluding VAT 1193886B INV_Property Cosmo Bus A4.indd 1 2015/06/18 11:28 AM Dainfern_DPS_2015-07-27_12h17.pdf 2 2015/07/27 12:18 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K CONTENTS 8 36 DAINFERN ESTATE NEWS HOME FRONT Message from the Dainfern Functionality and Innovation from Homeowners Association 4 Fabri at Design Quarter 36 SQUARE All Decked Out with Forest Flooring 39 ESTATE LIVING GRAND From the Golf Pro 6 LIFESTYLE FOR KIDS Dainfern Golf Club News 8 Servant Leaders in Society 47 Dainfern Running Club 11 OPENING Dainfern Country Club Wine Tasting 14 LIFESTYLE Dainfern College 16 Momentum Cricket Sixes Dainfern Residents enjoy at the Wanderers 42 OUR NEW OFFICES ARE OPEN. Jenda’s Wine Tasting 19 Q&A with Mike Brown: The long wait is over and we are finally in our new boutique store at the Dainfern Square. Perfectly Palazzo High Tea Winners 20 Cosmo Business Park 44 positioned to attend your every property need. Sue, Brenda and Jean are available to help you with Fitness with Marlaina: all rentals and sales in Dainfern, Dainfern Valley, Dainfern Ridge, Fernridge & Helderfontein. MOTORING Thermodynamics 49 Volvo’s XC90 25 Rachel Lynch: Colour Me Right 51 Book Reviews 54 TRAVEL Back Page: James Clarke Witsieshoek and the Lammergeyer 28 and the Alien Invasion 56 Holiday utopia in the Maldives 33 Let us assist you with your property needs. 25 42 Feel free to contact your area specialists; we know what’s going on: Dainfern Magazine is published by EIA Publishing (Pty) Ltd on behalf of Dainfern Estate and in association with the Dainfern Sue Ralph 082 892 8772, [email protected] (Sales) Homeowners Association.The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Dainfern Homeowners Association, the Brenda Gilbert 083 251 4452, [email protected] (Sales) Estate, the publisher, nor of the companies themselves EIA Publishing Offi ce: 011 327 4062 www.eiapublishing.co.za Publisher: Nico Maritz [email protected] Editor: Bev Hermanson 071 205 9502 [email protected] Jean Markham 083 265 3621, [email protected] (Rentals) Marketing Manager: Martin Fourie 072 835 8405 [email protected] Advertising sales: Jeff Malan 079 369 9121; Production co-ordinator: Anna Sawa [email protected] Design: Diane van Noort [email protected] Office 011 469 4691 | [email protected] 2 www.pamgolding.co.za/dainfern DAINFERN JOB#92-DainfernMagazine-April2014.indd 3 7/23/15 10:07 AM DAINFERN SQUARE GRAND OPENING OUR NEW OFFICES ARE OPEN. The long wait is over and we are finally in our new boutique store at the Dainfern Square. Perfectly positioned to attend your every property need. Sue, Brenda and Jean are available to help you with all rentals and sales in Dainfern, Dainfern Valley, Dainfern Ridge, Fernridge & Helderfontein. Let us assist you with your property needs. Feel free to contact your area specialists; we know what’s going on: Sue Ralph 082 892 8772, [email protected] (Sales) Brenda Gilbert 083 251 4452, [email protected] (Sales) Jean Markham 083 265 3621, [email protected] (Rentals) Office 011 469 4691 | [email protected] 2 www.pamgolding.co.za/dainfern DAINFERN JOB#92-DainfernMagazine-April2014.indd 3 7/23/15 10:07 AM LIFESTYLEESTATE NEWS FROM THE DAINFERN HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION LOAD LIMITING – WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? City Power’s sub-contractors, Technofi x (sub-contractors to the Edison Power Group), have advised that it plans on replacing a large number of meters on the Estate with new ‘smart meters’ which allow City Power to ‘load limit’ individual residents’ power consumption. ity Power recently began to roll out an initiative termed the event of non-compliance, households that don’t comply will ‘load limiting’ in its areas of supply in Johannesburg, with be remotely disconnected, thus sparing conforming customers the aim of assisting consumers keep the lights on during from load-shedding. Eskom’s load-shedding. Load limiting will only apply to Cconsumers with smart meters, of which there are currently 65 000 The Impact of load limiting: already in circulation within South Africa. • The smart meter will monitor the electricity load in the dwelling. • The smart meter will disconnect the main electricity supply in Load limiting will enable City Power to accurately match the event that the household fails to switch off high electricity available supply with demand and alert households that consumption appliances when signalled to do so as detailed are above the required consumption threshold to reduce above. consumption. The City of Johannesburg, in partnership with City • In the period when the power has been disconnected by City Power, has advised that when fully implemented, this innovative Power, residents are required to switch off high consumption solution will allow for areas under its jurisdiction to avert Stage appliances and geysers. 1, 2 and partial Stage 3 load-shedding. • The meter will then automatically reconnect the mains to the house, whereafter it will monitor the then reduced in-house During a load limiting session, power will be interrupted for load. approximately 30 seconds and will then be restored for an • If the in-house load is below the load limit threshold, the additional 30 seconds before switching off again. This is to electricity supply will remain connected. indicate that the area in question has entered a load limiting • If the in-house load is over the load limit threshold, the stage. City Power customers are required to immediately switch electricity supply will be disconnected once again. off appliances, including geysers, underfl oor heating and pool pumps, in order to reduce the load “to an acceptable limit”. This Ripple Control will reportedly assist City Power to avoid full scale load-shedding. In addition to load limiting, City Power has advised that it is also Load limiting reportedly is to take place between 7pm and 9pm implementing a concept called ‘ripple control’. Ripple control when City Power experiences its peak demand. enables the power utility to remotely switch off geysers during periods of high electricity demand. Through the implementation City Power will advise households of their daily consumption of Ripple Control, City Power is estimating that it will reduce rate and consumers are expected to adhere to this threshold. 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