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C O N N E C T Issue 9 • 2018 Heritage James Clarke Day visits the Tankwa Karoo Strelitzia- Free Coding Bird of Apps for Kids Paradise • w h e r e p e o p l e c o n n e c t • CONTENTS 10 Estate News Message from the Editor 1 KEHOA Registered Estate Agents 2 Motoring Lamborghini enters the ‘SUV’ segment 16 Subaru XV 18 Travel EDITOR'S MESSAGE James Clarke visits the Tankwa Karoo 10 Top 10 Travel Deals 15 ROLL ON SPRING Home Front eptember is always such an interesting Bathroom advice from Sanitaryware Centre 20 month. Officially regarded as the start of SSpring, it’s also a time when we collectively Personalised service from Wimpole Street Interiors 20 hold our breath here on the Highveld, wondering when the rains will come, to change our gardens Kyalami Estates Classifieds 39 from dry dust bowls to lush, verdant oases. We are spoilt for choice when it comes to activities this month, as our Heritage Day on the Today's Child 24th is conveniently sandwiched between the The Baby Show & #MeetUp 24 DStv Delicious International Food and Music Festival taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of Counteracting Gossiping 28 September and The Baby Show & #MeetUp Free Coding Apps for Kids 32 taking place from the 28th to the 30th of September. Food, wine, music, culture, history and positive parenting - what more could one ask for? (See the articles about these exciting events Lifestyle in this issue). There's more to our heritage than meets the eye 4 If you’re not yet ready to brave the outdoors at these events, now is also an excellent time to get Recipe: Fish Braai 6 stuck into some Spring Cleaning – head space, Gardening: Strelitzia – Bird of Paradise 8 computer, wardrobes and cupboards! DStv Delicious International Food and Music Festival 22 To our Hindu, Muslim and Jewish readers – best Twisted Whiskers: Losing a Pet 34 wishes to you and your family as you celebrate your holy days and festivals this month. Restaurant Competition 38 Book Review: Mitch Reardon’s Wild Karoo 40 Kind regards, Bev Hermanson EDITOR The Kyalami Estates Connect Magazine is published by Estates in Africa (Pty) Ltd on behalf of Kyalami Estates Homeowners Association. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of KEHOA, the Estate, the publisher, nor of the companies themselves. 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Situated at the corner of Yale and Enoch Sontonga Roads, on the Wits University campus, the Origins Centre traces an 80 000 year path that showcases a vast array of palaeoanthropological, archaeological and genetic materials charting the origins, evolution and development of humankind. The Museum provides visitors with a unique experience of Africa’s rich, complex heritage and boasts an extensive collection of rock art from the Wits Rock Art Research Institute. During the month of September, the centre is also running a Heritage Month Education Series, offering lectures on topics in the CAPS Curriculum. R60 per person will give you a one hour lecture, followed by a tour of the Origins Museum. Book online at Webtickets. Enquiries: [email protected], or call 011 717 4700/13. For more information, visit: www.wits.ac.za/origins Opening times: Mondays to Saturdays 10:00am – 5:00pm; Public holidays 10:00am – 5:00pm; Closed on Sundays. OUR POLITICAL EVOLUTION to a two hour Full Tour and numerous CONSTITUTIONAL HILL is one of the special tours that include a Night Tour, museums that tell the story of South Time Travel Tour, Walk with Madiba Tour, LILIESLEAF FARM Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a Art and Justice Tour and a Tour of the former prison and military fort that bears Constitutional Court. These tours can be testament to South Africa’s turbulent booked on Webtickets or by contacting past and, today, is home to the country’s the museum directly on 011 381 3100/ Constitutional Court, which endorses email: [email protected]. the rights of all citizens. Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joe Slovo, Albertina Self-guided Tour using the app - adults: Sisulu, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Fatima R60, children: R30, pensioners over 60: Meer and many other prominent and R40, and students: R35. 5% discount for ordinary men and women of all races, online booking. Various other tour prices creeds, ages and political agendas served available on the website: time in the prisons. www.constitutionhill.org.za/pages/ opening-hours-and-admission later, Arthur Goldreich and his family Constitution Hill offers a range of guided Open: 9:00am to 5:00pm daily. moved onto the smallholding to provide tours, from a one hour Highlights Tour an acceptable white middle-class family LILIESLEAF FARM can be found in George façade while the thatched cottage and Avenue, Rivonia. One of South Africa’s outbuildings concealed covert liberation leading heritage sites, Liliesleaf opened to the activities. public in June 2008 and has since attracted thousands of visitors eager to absorb and The liberation underground movement understand one of the most pivotal periods in operated from Liliesleaf for almost two South Africa’s liberation struggle. years before the security police raid on 11 July 1963 brought the activities to an Purchased by the South African abrupt end. Communist Party (SACP) through a front company, Liliesleaf was, at the time, Tour durations vary from 45 minutes to located in a secluded, peri-rural area, 1 or 2 hours. making it ideal as a meeting place where Adults: R110, pensioners: *R40, children the underground leadership could meet. under 7 years: Free, 8 – 17 years: ** R50, The purchase of Liliesleaf also coincided students: ***R60. with the ANC’s decision to move from * On presentation of a passport or ID. non-violent resistance to armed struggle **A tour guide or adult must accompany in the protest against apartheid. In late children at all times. October 1961, Nelson Mandela, who had *** On presentation of a valid student card. been operating below the security forces’ Open: Mondays to Fridays: 8:30am – CONSTITUTION HILL radar, moved to Liliesleaf and, 6 weeks 5:00pm; Saturdays, Sundays and Public 4 Kyalami Estates • CONNECT • Issue 9 • 2018 Heritage – the history, traditions and HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS NEWTOWN qualities that a country or society Newtown, adjacent to Johannesburg’s CBD, offers visitors a theatre, art has experienced for many years and galleries, restaurants, museums, craft markets, buskers, dance venues that are considered an important and clubs.