he people AUGUST 2018 FOR AND BY THEby tCOMMUNITY AUGUST 2018 INSIDE MLM Mandela Day P2 The SOMA P3 The virtual library P3 Glass hearts P4 Councillor's corner P5 Women’s Day march P5 The Henley WAM festival takes place on Saturday 25 August and Sunday 26 August, a weekend of Rotary news P6 great wine, quality music, and beautiful art. It is a charity weekend and all proceeds go to Lions and Rotary of Henley on Klip. Midvaal Local Municipality is sponsoring the event. Lions P7 WAM is an acronym for Wine, Arts, and Music and Henley will be rocking that weekend with more Letters P8 than wine, art and music. Wine tasting will be available at The Hound, Kliphouse, Montagues, The Makery, Bass Lake (Free Emergency numbers P8 entry if you are doing the wine tasting or viewing art), Merchant Business Class Hotel, Duck's Country HCPF P9 Lodge with different vineyards at each venue. Cost: R120 for tasting of 64 wines and a tasting glass. Wine tasting continues on Sunday from 11.00 to 15.00 so spread the wine tasting over two days. Who What Where? P10 Art: Various artists including potters, weavers, painters and sculptors will exhibit at different Kanguru P11 venues. Children's art will be on display at the O'Connor Hall on Saturday from 11.00 to 15.00. Art is also on view on Sunday. UIP Meeting P12 (Continued on Page 2) Page 2 The Henley Herald August2018 (Continued from Page 1) MLM marks Nelson Mandela Day Music: The AOG Hall is the venue for A Grand Concert on Saturday evening (17.30 for 18.00). The star billing is the Pretoria The Midvaal Local Municipality marked International Nelson Symphonic Orchestra with various soloists singing pop, rock and Mandela Day, celebrated globally on July 18, through various well known songs. The OWLAG choir and Marimba Band are also initiatives aimed at uplifting and supporting various communities on the programme. Canapes and a glass of wine on arrival are within the municipality. included in your ticket of R150. On July 18, Mayor Bongani Baloyi, along with members of the The Kliphouse will be offering two music programmes on Mayoral Committee, the Sedibeng District Municipality (SDM) Saturday. Medicinal music: Discovering the Universal Impact of and several other partners and volunteers dedicated their 67 Music is a compilation of DVDs and a talk by Johann Coetzee at minutes to assisting with refurbishments and upgrades at Rusoord 10.00 (R50), and Gooi – A popular music programme for music Intermediate School, outside Meyerton. lovers who like to move and shake, at 15.00 (Cost R30). Booking is The group spent the through the venue. All proceeds go to Lions and Rotary. d a y p a i n t i n g The Museum at the library is open from 9am to 12pm on Saturday. classrooms, installing Lunching and dining: Visitors can enjoy lunch and dinner at a eco-friendly toilets, number of restaurants and pubs in the village. Booking for restoring the school restaurants in the evening is essential. See restaurants for their kitchen, planting special menus for the festival. trees and cleaning the Accommodation is available at Village Guest House, Gloucester school grounds. The House, Merchant Hotel and Ducks Country Lodge. municipality also Sunday, 26 August kicks off with a classic car show and a charity presented the school fun walk for Cansa SA at Fraser Park, 9.00 to 1100. Please bring with a new water along your copper coins to donate to Cansa SA. Pay R10 for a lap supply system, which was unveiled by Mayor Baloyi and SDM around Fraser Park. (Dogs on leads are welcome). Coffee and Executive Mayor Busisiwe Modisakeng. muffins will be on sale. Use the rest of Sunday to view art, taste On July 19, Executive Mayor Bongani Baloyi joined more wines, lunch at leisure and wander the streets of Henley. Archbishop Stephen Zondo of Rivers of Living Water Ministries, Festival goers will purchase a branded wine glass with a booklet and visited Doulos Ministries in Glen Donald, a child and youth which contains all the information, a map and some history of the care centre housing nearly 40 orphaned and abandoned children, area. For more information on the Henley WAM festival, please go many of whom are living with HIV/AIDS. to our Facebook page or visit our website www.henley-wam.co.za The team dedicated their 67 minutes for Mandela Day by Please book your wine tasting and concert tickets online or on the spending time with the children and handed over food parcels, day and collect them at Annette Cloete in Henley Drive. sanitary packs and blankets to the centre's founder, Emma van der This is a weekend you do not want to miss! Merwe. (Continued on Page 3) SUZANNE VAN NIEKERK B.A. (Log) Pret. Registered Audiologist and Speech = Your turn key project specialist for industrial Therapist and commercial developments. HEARING TESTS = We will also undertake renovations and HEARING AIDS SUPPLIED extensions to warehouses and factories. 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For further details contact Sal Hebert on Thanks again Henley@Heart 084 263 1784 /016 366 1583 August 2018 The Henley Herald Page 3 (Continued from Page 2) Midvaal Local Municipality, thereby incorporating its “Nelson Mandela's legacy was one of always paying it forward. administration and the delivery of services under the responsibility Doing what you can with what you have for those who need it most. of the Sedibeng District Municipality. It's about finding solutions to the problems and challenges we There has since been a decision to halt the demarcation processes encounter daily and being the solution ourselves, “said Baloyi. until our term ends in 2021. However, the district municipality – MLM press release (Sedibeng) has made another attempt at securing some of Midvaal's main competencies such as the provision of bulk Excerpts from the SOMA services. We continue to reject and oppose this proposal as the district Executive Mayor, Cllr Bongani Baloyi presented the SOMA at municipality has failed to provide reasonable evidence showing Walkerville Show Gounds on Wednesday 25 July. Below are some their ability to provide better quality services to our communities excerpts from his speech than what we have shown to be able todo. Re Service delivery protests It is for that reason that we believe that the attempt to capture Destroying public and private infrastructure and causing service some of Midvaal's main competencies is a mere ploy to render the delivery disruptions causes more damage than good as afterwards it DA- led municipality impotent. is the very same communities which bear the brunt of reduced Re Future projects service delivery as a result. Violence must never be a solution to our The most significant projects that we plan to implement in the problems. next three financial years include further work to be done on the Confucius put it aptly when he said “It is only when a mosquito bulk electrical supply to Sicelo at a cost of R54 million, the new lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve reservoir for Sicelo/Highbury at a cost of R40 million, roads problems without violence.” resurfacing for R24 million, aged bulk water pipe replacement at With respect to the Sicelo protests and closure of the R59, we R23 million, rebuilding of roads at a cost of R12 million and the continue to hold firmly to our position that the recurring violent Sicelo North outfall sewer at an estimated R10 million. protest in Sicelo is not about service delivery. These violent protests Over the period we will also provide R9 million to rehabilitate are purely criminal, opportunistic organised crime syndicate. To our landfill sites to ensure compliance with environmental date: More than 90 vehicles traveling along the R59 have been legislation. stoned. Three women were raped and brutally murdered during Our water losses will be limited through the implementation of these protests. Nine commodity moving trucks have been high- the pressure management infrastructure at a cost of R7.5 million, jacked, contents looted and five trucks burnt. What do any of these installation of bulk water meters to the value of R6 million, the acts have to do with service delivery? None of these disgraceful acts refurbishment and replacement of water supply valves for R4.5 are related to service delivery so one must than ask what the motive million as well as water meter replacement programme at a cost of behind these heinous acts could be. R3 million. Simply put, the agenda of the so-called leaders of these violent We will also invest R7 million in gravel to tar projects and a protest in Sicelo is to bring instability and undermine our agenda of further R6 million in the construction of new roads. redress which seeks to deliver service to our previously and Savanna City residents can look forward to new parks amounting currently disadvantage areas.