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Muse editor Max Schutte, at the Upper Garden see page 8 African Spoonbill in flight Images: Steve Mills WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK (Rondevlei) These lines from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge are cruelly appropriate for . The speaker, a sailor on a becalmed ship, is surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink, much like our own threatened city. Although we may be tired of hearing it, “water” is a word we will all be saying a lot in the African Spoonbill coming months. Day Zero, when our household taps would have to be turned off, was seen as a remote possibilty a few months ago, but it now looks highly probable. As it stands, that The African Spoonbill is a long-legged day is now estimated to be sometime in April. wading bird, white with a red face and There is a chance that we can still avoid it, but only with some strict conditions: legs, and pale blue eyes which cannot be • ALL Capetonians must immediately bring their usage down to 50 litres or less per day. confused with any other heron-like bird At present, only 40% of us are using less than our current 87 litres per day ration; because of the unmistakeable pinkish grey • We need to have at least a ‘normal’ rainy season which needs to start earlier than usual, spoon-shaped bill. Even when flying it is something we have not had for the previous three rainy seasons. easily identified by its overall whiteness and How likely is this to happen? You decide for yourself... outstretched neck and legs. (Herons fly with I don’t want to be a scaremonger, and I don’t claim to be an expert in these matters. I am their necks tucked in.) just trying to understand what is happening and what I need to do about it. I am sure African Spoonbills are seen in ones and twos that no-one will die of thirst, but Day Zero or not, the serious water shortage will have a standing in shallow water on the banks of marked effect on our way of life. The effects on the local economy are also uncertain... how rivers, shallow pans or water bodies. Good will business, industry and agriculture cope without adequate water supply? We don’t yet places to see African Spoonbills are at the know. We will each have to do what we can to help and deal with whatever the situation is. Two Rivers Urban Park, and Strandfontein Water Works. It is serious but it’s not Armageddon. Be of good cheer and be prepared to apply some It is fascinating to watch an African Spoonbill African grit and determination and maak ‘n plan to get through this thing... it’s going to be hunting for fish, crustaceans, insects or sitting on our shoulders for quite a while. larvae. It walks through the shallow water I hope the year’s challenges bring us closer and make us a wiser and stronger society. We with its long spoon-shaped bill open, would also do well to take the lesson with us into the future that, as our population grows sweeping it from side to side in the water. and our climate becomes less predictable, we need to always #RespectOurWater and use Sensitive receptors inside the bill sense the it wisely and sparingly, not as an unlimited commodity to be bought at will. It's a blessing prey and the bill snaps shut, catching it. Text from nature on her own terms. supplied by Priscilla Beeton, of the Cape Bird Club. See www.capebirdclub.org.za. Max Schutte

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The Upper Liesbeek River Garden Parking in the cul-de-sac at the end of Alien vegetation has been removed and Upper Noreen Avenue we found the replaced with indigenous plants. There is entrance to this lovely peaceful garden on a wheelchair friendly boardwalk, and a few the banks of the Liesbeek River. The local wooden 'tables' and chairs, and benches Bishopscourt Residents Association, City where one can rest, enjoy the scenery or Council and estate agents teamed up to have a picnic. Dogs are allowed on leads provide a public area that can be enjoyed (Please take a poop bag!) Children will be by families and their dogs. able to discover the "bug hotel", a frog Coming off the eastern slopes of Table sculpture and the play train. Mountain the Liesbeek River runs a 9km What a wonderful initiative, where the course through the suburbs and into the residents have made it their responsibility sea at Paarden Eiland. Much of the river to uplift their area. Access to Upper Noreen has been canalised, but in Bishopscourt it Avenue is quite tricky because there is no can be enjoyed as a beautiful clear stream access from Edinburgh Drive. Turn right off gently flowing over stones - giving much Edinburgh Drive into Robinson Avenue, pleasure to children who wish to paddle or and right into Upper Noreen Avenue - look catch tadpoles. for the River Garden signage.

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SGGS-M2H-081.indd 1 2018/01/19 4:45 PM COMMUNITY NEWS LIONS HELP OUT WITH A MOTORISED WHEELCHAIR The Lions Club of Cape Town (Pinelands) handed over a motorised wheel chair to ex singer of Spinning Wheel and member of the motor cycle club Easy Riders, Cecil de Roubaix, who unfortunately lost his Leg through diabetes. Thanks goes to the manager of the Goodwood Sports club Norman King who made the club facilities available for the wheel chair hand over. Lions International is a voluntary organisation meeting the needs of the community. Their motto is "We serve" and where there is Your area Property Smiths a need, there you will find a Lion. The Pinelands branch of Lions meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:30pm at their [email protected] clubhouse at the soccer grounds at the Clyde Pinelands end of PO Box 727, Rondebosch 7701 Ringwood drive. President of the Lions Club of Cape town (Pinelands) Martin Kallis, invites those interested in knowing more about the Lions to contact him at [email protected] or call 082 457 5018. The Lions Club of Cape town has a facebook page posting the projects that they have supported.

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Smithstates-M2-081.indd 1 2018/01/19 3:00 PM beam PRINCIPAL'S ARTICLE February 2018 | the muse | 10 ARCHITECTURE

Design Consultation New Residential Design THE POWER OF Renovations Interior Design Energy Efficiency As-built Drawings MENTORSHIP Digitized Drawings Concept to Council This is just to say thank you so much for all the Maths

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me discipline," as well as mutual respect for everyone. And f Union Ave, Pinelands that ‘honesty policy for homework’ taught me to tell the 021 532 1455 | 061 546 2325 truth! [email protected] www.beamarchitecture.co.za by Dave Campbell Principal Pinelands eam-S5-08.indd 1 201/09/18 2:49 PM High School SCHULD INC ATTORNEYS ATTORNEYS • MEDIATORS COLLABORATIVE PRACTITIONERS

Family Law • Contracts This is an extract from a letter written by Curatorships & Trusts one of our 2017 matriculants to his teacher after he received his results in January. The Civil & Commercial Litigation young man did very well in the subject, Wills & Administration of Estates but his letter expressed so much more Property Law & Conveyancing than gratitude for good teaching. His thanks went to the heart of the teacher- student relationship: that of respect and mentorship. TEL: 021 531 0205 4 Howard Studios [email protected] Sheldon Way UPHOLDING MORAL STANDARDS In this age of 21st Century Schooling where www.schuldinc.co.za Pinelands technology in the classroom is enhancing delivery of the curriculum and giving OUR VISION teachers and students unprecedented Fairness, Humanity and Integrity in Law access to information, new ideas and creative problem solving, the teacher

Schuld-M5-08.indd 1 201/09/25 9:1 M Pinehurst Primary School invites you to our: Tuesday 6 March 2018 Open Day From 8:30am to 10am The morning includes an address from the Principals of Pinehurst and Meerendal, information on enrolment, a time for questions, a tour of Pinehurst, and a visit to the Grade 1 and 2 classrooms. This will be followed by an optional tour of the Meerendal Grade R campus. For more information and to RSVP please contact us on 021 531 2783 or [email protected] View our website at www.phps.org.za DISCEMUS UT SERVEMUS Achieving excellence in a values-based community We learn so that we may serve

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continues to remain at the centre of the A TEACHER'S INFLUENCE process. It is the teacher’s value system We all need mentor figures in our lives. which is subconsciously absorbed by the We all need a person or people to look student. It is the teacher who carries the up to, who can provide guidance and power to influence for good, or to uphold who can help to set a path for us. It falls a moral standard. naturally to teachers to fulfil this role with DEVELOPING VALUE SYSTEMS their students. And at the heart of this Good teachers have a natural bent towards relationship is respect. Mentorship can Dr Louise Wigens mentorship. They see their role as so much only happen when the teacher respects more than curriculum delivery. They see the student and others around him, and MEDICAL AID RATES the classroom and beyond as opportunities when, in return, the student respects the to influence young lives positively so that teacher. Phone for an their students can leave their care stronger, Despite the wizardry of the information age appointment 021 531 4111 more resilient, with deep values and beliefs and the power that social media exerts over Mutual Park, Pinelands HOURS and with their academic potential having people (young and old!) it is remarkable to been reached. discover, again and again, that the teacher West End Medical Suite Mon - Fri continues to wield significant influence First Floor - in the mall 08:30 - 17:00 over young people. Many teachers will [email protected] tell of meeting a student years later www.westendmedicalsuite.co.za and how that student will talk about incidents, teachings and behaviours which influenced her; often the teacher is quite surprised to discover that what he thought was a normal teacher-student relationship was in fact so much more meaningfulrigens-M5-0.indd to 1 201/0/23 10:59 M the young person. THE POWER OF MENTORSHIP Teachers hold enormous power in their hands. They need always to be the adult OPEN 8 Protea Close in the relationship and to appreciate the MORNING Pinelands influence that they have over young minds. Friday 23 February RSVP to 021 532 1816 The power of mentorship is simultaneously 9:30am - 11am [email protected] the most exciting and daunting role which teachers have, and they need to accept the Join us at our Open Morning on Friday 23 February responsibility, and to use this power wisely. to meet the team, see this remarkable school in Our young Maths student who now is action, and hear more about the ‘living education’ beginning to make his way in the post- we offer primary school children. school world had a wonderful role model We are a growing independent Christian school and mentor in his teacher. He ends his in Pinelands with small classes, offering a rich

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Crue--081.indd 1 2018/01/1 12:08 PM PINELANDERS RENIER COETZEE Pinelander Renier Coetzee was honoured as the LeadSA Hero for 2017, for the work he is doing to uplift the community through his NGO Trinity Children's Centre in Mitchell's Plain. Renier describes his journey from a path leading to actuarial science to one of education, and striving to develop the potential in children who live in difficult circumstances.

TRINITY CHILDREN'S CENTRE community centre. "Every year we add a where, with good nutrition and love, they This year Trinity Children's Centre opens class, and therefore need all the supplies could free themselves to learn. As well as the with 90 children in six classes from Grade and educational equipment for that class. normal school curriculum Trinity Children's RR to Grade 4. Many of the children in Funding is a constant struggle, and we are Centre offers extramural activities such as Grade 4 have been at the school since its very grateful to those who sponsor a child music, dance and chess - and with the new inception in 2012. Renier and co-founder through their education." community centre property that we have of the school Alexa van Wyk believe in the YOUR PERSONAL JOURNEY managed to buy, we hope to establish a potential of the children on the . "I came to Cape Town from Johannesburg 5-a-side soccer field. Last year we began Now registered as a primary school with an to study for a business degree at UCT, integrating technology and brought tablets integrated Early Childhood Development intending to do actuarial science. My into grades 2 and 3. Centre, the school aims for an holistic honours degree project researched AIDS ADVICE FOR RUNNING AN NGO approach to education, providing meals orphans and the lack of facilities for these Establishing and running an NGO is not for the children, counselling to parents, children. It made me rethink my life values easy. Funding is an ongoing challenge, and grandparents and children, extramural and question how I could give back to the this kind of work often requires personal activities and health checks. From one community. Part way through my Masters sacrifices. Research your field and study classroom with 15 children and one teacher, degree I decided to take a break and do what others have done before you. Alexa the school now has six qualified teachers for some work with my local church. Between a and I were lucky in that, between us, we the six classes, five teaching assistants, two friend that I met at UCT, Alexa van Wyk, who had the training of a social worker who cooks, a grounds keeper, PA to Renier and had studied social work, we came up with could work with the community and with a part time fund raiser. Parents who cannot the idea to start a school. We felt the need the authorities for grants and health care; afford the school fees are invited to work to invest in children who lived in an area whereas I had the financial training to make at the school in return for their children's where the odds were stacked against the sure the funds came in and covered the education. This had led to a couple of the them. Alexa and I travelled to various NGO's necessary expenses. I now have a Masters parents getting further education and locally and nationally to gather information degree in Education, so I am able to ensure qualifying as ECD teachers. Two thirds of on how best to achieve our goals. the educational integrity of the school. the staff compliment now comes from the PERSEVERANCE AND HARD WORK HOME LIFE local area and only one third commute into From our first class in a church in Beacon In 2013 I married Helen, who works at Old Mitchell’s Plain. Valley, we bought a house in Mitchell's Mutual. We live in Pinelands and have a LEAD SA HERO AWARD Plain in 2012. The advice was to start small beautiful six month old daughter called Renier appreciates the LeadSA recognition and develop our idea from there. We raised Zoe. We love Pinelands for its convenient of the work done by Trinity Children's funds from friends, family and our church for location. My hope is that the school will Centre, and was especially happy with the the basics. We experienced 20 burglaries in continue to serve the Mitchell's Plain monetary donation to the school, from our first year, not surprising in a community Community, encouraging children to MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet, which where ordinary people are often forced to develop their potential and become the came at a perfect time when the school live next door to gang members and drug super heroes they can be. was outgrowing its home in two residential dealers. It was essential that our school To know more or to sponsor a child's

houses - and planning a move to a larger provided a place of safety for the children education see www.trinitychildren.org.za.  Glynnis Schutte. Text: www.pinelandsdirectory.co.za February 2018 | the muse | 14 PINELANDERS February 2018 | the muse | 15 ALEXA VAN WYK Teaming up with Renier Coetzee in 2012 to start the Trinity Children's Centre, Pinelander Alexa is happy today that the growth and progress of the school was acknowledged at the 3rd Annual Changemakers Conference in Johannesburg last year when Renier received the LeadSA Hero of the year award. Alexa shares her experience with this project and her dreams for the future. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK Families cope with drug and gang violence to try and help many people over a short After getting advice and our first school on a daily basis - sometimes we could hear term. We also took the view that prevention room through Andrew Barnes in Beacon gunfire from the classroom. Our school is better than cure, and so we strived to Valley, we established the criteria for provided a safe learning environment for instil in the young minds that each and enrolling children at the school. It is the children, plus nutrition to supplement every one of us has value in society and a important that the children live close by the their diet. potential to do good. school, and we hope for as much contact MY ROLE AT THE SCHOOL DREAMS FOR THE FUTURE with parents and siblings as possible. Our Initially I coped with vast amounts of I have been a stay at home mum since my aim is to empower the parents - not take administration required to get registration son John was born three and half years over their roles; and we are not exclusive as an Early Childhood Development ago. I also have a lovely daughter, Lisa. My in any way. Paying school fees is important Centre with the Department of Social husband and I moved to Pinelands in 2014 and gives parents ownership in their Development. If there was any intervention - we had been looking for a place with a children's education. other than schooling needed on the big garden and we are very happy here. I UNDERSTANDING MITCHELL'S PLAIN children's home-front I would see to enjoy reading or walking and then relaxing Our first 'school house' was bought in counselling for parents, their children and with a good cup of coffee. I hope one day Mitchell's Plain. We spoke to key people siblings; grant applications and healthcare to rejoin Renier at the Trinity Children's in the community including people at issues, including arranging glasses for Centre. My dream for the school is that churches, police community forums and children from an optometrist. there would be an intervention team that schools, in an attempt to understand the IN IT FOR THE LONG TERM could work alongside the family, as well as people we would be working with and to We had decided early on that it was better with the children - a team that could also

get a feeling for their needs. to help a few people for a longer term than offer services to the wider community.  Glynnis and text: Image Schutte. TRAVELLERS TRAVELLERS CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE Christmas in Europe

Main image left: Christmas market in Luxembourg. Inset from left: Pam By Helene Steenfeldt-Kristensen and Helene Steenfeldt-Kristensen (sisters in law).

For my 60th birthday my son Regan and nearby high school’s music department and GERMANY daughter-in-law Alison generously gave choir. A teacher told me that they were to I set off by train from Luxembourg to Trier me a return airfare ticket to England and perform both English and German hymns in in Germany where I changed trains to go booked a comfortable home in Bremm, the cathedral on the following evening. On to the village of Neef (a station nearest a village in Germany for the Christmas my last day in Vienna I visited the beautiful Bremm). No station there, just a siding week for us all. The plan was to visit the Schönbrunn Palace, a Baroque complex really, and the entire village - every coffee famed German Christmas markets. Prior that had been in the Habsburg family shop, restaurant, wine bar had closed for to meeting my family in Germany, I flew to from 1569. They were the monarchs who the winter, so no taxis. Luckily a friendly Vienna for a few days with Austrian Airlines - reigned over much of Europe until 1918. Speech Therapist gave me a lift to Bremm the cabin was spotless, the coffee excellent The state rooms are gloriously sumptuous on the other side of the Mosel River where and we listened to Strauss waltzes. but slightly overwhelming. I particularly I arrived just before my family did. Not VIENNA liked the Mirror Room where the young wanting to miss out on the Christmas From my Airbnb in Hernals, it was an easy Mozart aged 6, played for the Empress markets that were still open we set out commute by tram to the city. I started off Maria Theresa. The story goes that he ran early the next day for Bernkastel-Kues with a visit to a Christmas Market outside up to her after the performance, climbed a picturesque town on the Mosel River. the elegant town hall – the Rathaus. Here onto her lap and gave her a kiss! After an The Mosel Valley is well known for its fine I sampled delicious white gluhwein with interesting tour I went to the Residentz, the Rieslings and many of the vineyards are mandarin segments in it and bought some palace coffee shop for the most delicious planted on the steep slopes. chocolate-coated handmade marzipan. apfelstrudel and “milk coffee” (cappuccino). After Bernkastel-Kues we visited the Traben European marzipan is simply the best. LUXEMBOURG Trarbach Christmas markets that are held in The stalls at most Christmas markets sell My ex brother and sister-in-law Niels and the town’s underground wine cellars along traditional “street-food”, hot chocolate, Pam Steenfeldt-Kristensen have lived in the river. Wonderful fare on sale: cheese, pastries, candies and beautiful Christmas Luxembourg for 10 happy years. They meats (lots of German sausage), waffles, ornaments, also scarves and hats – much kindly showed me around the city. After pancakes, smoked salmon on rolls, and lots needed in the bitter cold. On one of my starting off our tour at the Mudam Museum to drink. Cochem is another charming town days there it was -4 oC. of Modern Art, we spent some time at the on the river and well worth a visit, as is the I then visited the Kunsthistoriches Museum Christmas markets partaking of the goods beautiful medieval town of Trier. housing a large collection of antiquities on offer - potato cakes, flammkuchen , a Over the New Year weekend, once my and an extensive exhibition of the works of thin based pizza of sorts and absolutely family had returned to England, I travelled Flemish painter Peter Rubens. The marbled moreish, and of course the Luxembourgish to Cologne (the home of 4711 Eau-de- entrance hall is breath-taking. My next version of gluhwein. We walked past the Cologne) by train. Nearly everything outing was to the Belvedere museum, a Grand Duke’s residence (Luxembourg is was closed over the Public Holidays but summer palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy the world’s only Grand Duchy), after which I managed to see a wonderful modern (1663–1736), where I saw works by Gustav we went into the Notre Dame Cathedral jazz concert at the Philharmonie and a Klimt (including The Kiss), Egon Schiele, to light a candle for the loved ones who special exhibition of the Pop artist James Albrecht Dürer and Pieter Bruegel – all are no longer with us. Luxembourg City is Rosenquist’s work at the Museum Ludwig a feast for the art-lover’s eyes and heart. a financial and business hub. The working which also houses the largest collection On my way home I went to St Stephens population increases by approx 200,000 of Picassos in Europe. Near both these Cathedral in the Centre of Vienna where people per day when commuters arrive super modern buildings and dominating I was fortunate to hear a rehearsal by a from Belgium, France or Germany. the entire city is the Cologne Cathedral. It www.pinelandsdirectory.co.za February 2018 | the muse | 16 DIRECTORY

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