Photo: Courtesy People Post
l.t.r. Back row: Madiega Jacobs, Amaanah Business Consulting - Edward Beeka - Greg Louw, CEO HBBOF - Deon van Zyl, Snoekies - Stanley Meter, Finance HBBOF - Maria Ngetu, HBBOF - Timothy Jacobs, Advisory Board HBBOF
Rudolf Rieger, Advisory Board HBBOF
Front row: Lesley Africa, CEO WECBOF - Merle Frechas, HBBOF - Elizabeth Thabethe, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry - Jonathan Dreyer, Chair HBBOF
Nomsa Nkata, motto business consulting
Hout Bay Business Opportunities Forum
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry visits HBBOF
28 September 2007
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Elizabeth Thabethe, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry
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Hout Bay is no doubt a beautiful place, it is a place that brings back fond memories to me when I was a 'new arrival' in Cape Town in 1994. Whenever there was a moment to spare, which was not often, I took my grandson and daughter on a bus ride from the city centre to Hout Bay. My only goal to have some fresh grilled snoek here at the harbour. I wish there were more of those days but as the saying goes, duty calls and one has to answer.
The reality of Hout Bay though is that Hout Bay like many areas in our country is a perfect example of what our President calls, the dual economy. The one rich and well-resourced the other under-resourced and often survivalist in nature.
My responsibility as one of the two Deputy Ministers of Trade and Industry is therefore to ensure that I contribute and actively participate in ensuring that those of our communities, like Imizamo Yethu and the fishing community living in the flats on the hills," too enjoy the happiness that comes with a growing economy," the words of our President in his State of the Nation Address this year.
Robert Harrems, pum, Country Co-ordinator (The Netherlands)
Lesley Africa, CEO, WECBOF
Timothy Jacobs, Advisory Board, HBBOF, Elizabeth Thabethe, Deputy Minister Trade & Industry
Greg Louw, CEO, HBBOF
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Honoured guests, South Africa is enjoying economic growth like never before, more than 4% per year for the past few years but the growth is not shared. Too many of our people are on the margins of the economy. How do we ensure that more and more of our communities who have never had the opportunity to run their own businesses now are able to. The responsibility for this falls largely to the Department of Trade and Iindustry as the lead department in the Economic Cluster of government. Our task is to accelerate the growth by ensuring that more and more South Africans become part of the mainstream economy. This is our main strategy to fight poverty and create jobs.
The Department of Trade and Industry has 19 Council of Trade and Industry Institutions besides the various departments housed at the dti campus in Pretoria. Some of these agencies might be familiar, like the National Lotteries Board, I'm afraid that I can't give the winning numbers for the first draw tonight though.
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Farewell to Mark Visser
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Mark Visser
Media Liason Officer
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Photo: Mark Visser, CFC
Mark, Nonki and Madineyah
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Mark will be leaving the Cape Film Commission to swap countries, his last working day being Friday, 28 September 2007.
He has chosen the UK where he’s planning to spent most probably two years before returning to Cape Town (Mark says he’s hooked on Cape Town .. but who knows we’ll see that after the two years are over).
It was always with pleasure when talking to and corresponding with Mark, most of our News info on the CFC were edited by him. We, at On Set Images, wish him an exiting and challenging stay.
Mark will be one of those ambassadors to South Africa our country can be proud of.
Go well Mark!
Rudi
Cape Film Commission AGM reflects a rapidly growing industry
Numerous announcements were made and initiatives lid on the table on 25 September at the CFC’s Annual General Meeting. The AGM was held at the President Hotel in Bantry Bay and was also attended by the MEC for Economic and Environmental Development, Tasneem Essop.
A successful past year was reported back by CFC Commissioner, Laurence Mitchell, with highlights being the Impact Assessment report that was launched in March of this year. This study was undertaken due to the lack of statistics on the Western Cape industry which made it very difficult for any industry players to gauge success.
Photo: Mark Visser, CFC
MEC for Economic and Environmental Development,
Tasneem Essop
hidden beghind flowers handed over by
Bianca Mpahlaza,
Cape Film Commission
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The most exciting announcements were not from the past year’s report back though, but by Guest speaker MEC Tasneem Essop, who ensured the industry that film is now considered a priority industry for the Western Cape Government, showing great potential in the development of small business enterprises. Another significant announcement was the much anticipated start of development of the Dreamworld Studios, which has been held back by various political, ecological and legal issues. The Minister ensured attending members that lawyers have been given a deadline of Friday, 28 September 2007 to finalise the legalities and transfer the required funds to start development.
The future also looks very exciting for the CFC and the film industry. The CFC will be initiating its ‘Green’ Campaign that will build a stronger awareness around environmentally friendly production practices. This also marks the CFC as a pioneer amongst film commissions on an international level, being one of the first to address the issue.
CFC’s new board members were also voted on and announced and as such the CFC’s Board for 2007/2008 is as such:
| Corporate Representatives |
Gary Edwardes |
Waterfront Studios |
| Training and Development |
Karen Lightbody |
Nautilus Crew |
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Lizo Kalipa |
Community Video Education Trust |
| HDI |
Nezile Ntutha |
CVET |
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Shukri Toefy |
West Fort Productions |
| SMME Representatives |
Janette De Villiers |
Groundglass |
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Jacky Lourence |
Get the Picture |
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Marlow De Mardt |
Do Productions |
The CFC congratulates all these new Board Members and look forward to their valuable input and guidance in what looks to be another great year of growth for the Western Cape’s Film industry. To all the other nominees, the CFC appreciates the willingness and energy to drive this industry forward and look forward to working with these individuals in other ways in the future.
The CFC would also like to say a special thank you to Mike Smit of Condor Cape Town, who has successfully chaired the Board for three consecutive years. Your guidance, support and contribution to the CFC’s successes has been immeasurable.
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UBUBELE* Psychotherapy Resource and Training Centre
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Prof.
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A memo from the desk of: Denis Goldberg
Ububele’s therapeutic nursery school for fifty at-risk children is Ububele’s heart. Its pulse drives Ububele’s daily life. It provides a vital link to the community. It is a place for non-invasive observation and learning by lay counselors. Positive early childhood experiences are the most significant predictor of mental health in later life. Ububele therefore has an Early Childhood and Parents Division and Group Work and Training Divisions, each informing the work of the whole programme. Ububele is realizing in practice South Africa’s commitment to the Rights of Children, especially the rights to safety and security and health care which must include psycho-social support.
People with HIV and AIDS are also part of every group of people involved in Ububele’s mental health programmes. Many traumatized woman and children, often orphans in child-headed families, need support from trained counselors. This too is Ububele’s field of action. Ububele provides direct support to and training for lay and professional counselors working in such areas.
Keys to Ububele’s approach developed over six years are:
- Well trained lay counselors are highly effective in providing counseling and support within their own community provided that there is professional supervision and a referral facility such as Ububele
- Group work is more cost effective and equally therapeutically effective as individual work
- The use of local languages in group counseling and in therapy sessions is vitally important for the individual receiving therapy and for therapists to understand the knowledge systems and healing practices within specific cultures and language groups
Ububele Resource and Training Centre is based in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg. There is still a huge gap in the quantity and quality of counseling services in disadvantaged communities like ‘Alex.’ Ububele trains psychotherapists, lay counselors and community counselors working in disadvantaged areas. Ububele’s Community Liaison Officer is developing structural links with the Alex community with an estimated population of 328,579 people and 94,618 households.
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*) From isiKhosa, meaning: Kindness, Compession, Empathy
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UBUBELE
The African Psychotherapy Resource Centre and Educational Trust
Tel: +27 11-786-5085
Fax: +27 11-786-5985
 ububele@telkomsa.net
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Tracing The Footprints For Tourism Growth
It is by now rhetoric that South Africa has reached unprecedented growth levels, surpassing expectations of a variety of research predictions and with pride earning itself a place amongst the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa's (ASGISA's) priority sectors.
Writes: Edwin Sipho Rihlamvu
Dr Patrick Matlou, Deputy Director-General for Tourism at DEAT is arguably one of the most important contributors to this profile. Having joined DEAT in 2002, at a time when the tourism industry was grappling with issues of interpreting legislation, transformation, dislocated provincial coordination, low international profile, transport and airlift constraints. Understandably so and in an environment where there was inadequate human capital within the Tourism Branch, arresting these challenges seemed impossible to achieve.
Dr Patrick Matlou
at the DG Imbizo
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Adopting a cliché at the time that “Blood, Sweat and Tears” would see us through, Dr Matlou led a tiny team on a drive to recruit the most qualified historically disadvantaged individuals to join the tourism industry in an effort to creating a much more formidable human capital stable.
“We decided that if we were to drive transformation and equity within the broader tourism industry, it would then be fitting to walk the talk and effect such in our employment strategies” recalls Matlou.
Affirms Mr Benny Boshielo, Chief Executive Officer of Limpopo Tourism and Parks: “My first impression on interacting with Dr Matlou was, "wow, this man is a tourism institution."
His grasp on tourism issues, his passion on the industry, his people management skills, his resilience in the most difficult and challenging times, his love for his people, and above all his parenthood and custodianship for those of us new in the industry, qualified him to this title of an institution. Dr Matlou has endeared himself as one of the architects of tourism growth in our country”.
Tourism Legislation
... doing it the African way!
Photo: Courtasy of
International Tourism Relations |
One of the challenges that beset the Branch was to entrench proper understanding of legislation in the tourism industry by all players. This because past pieces of legislation were skewed and biased towards a minority few, hence aggressive resistance to the new order. As a consequence efforts were made by others to discredit tourism legislation as anti-growth, and retired it as doomed to deplete arrivals to South Africa’s shores.
Hence the challenge was to be unrepentant about driving strict adherence to policy stipulations, no matter how unpopular they would be with others. Again the “Blood, Sweat and Tears” approach became handy as Dr Matlou and his charges fought battles akin to that of “David and Goliath” in order to navigate resilience amidst this resistance and at times hostile media. Indeed this determination has delivered handsome fruit!
“Dr Matlou's contribution to the tourism industry is incalculable. He is a living legend of all the milestones of post-apartheid policy formulation, rooted in the wisdom of responsible and sustainable tourism development,” comments Advocate Cawe Mahlati, Chief Executive Officer of Gauteng Tourism Authority.
Transformation
The tourism tapestry in South Africa ..... Read the full article
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What A Manner To Celebrate
Siamese to conventional thinking, there is ample evidence to attest to the fact that tourism to our shores is astronomically alive and well! The real anticipation would be the barometer to size and quantify the fact that travel to South Africa ranks amongst the world’s best phenomenon! Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s eye the launch of Tourism Month, which was in August 2007 with bated breath!
Writes: Edwin Sipho Rihlamvu
Zebras at a Waterhole
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Prevailing upon a somber South African mood as the country ushers in another and yet welcome milestone which is guaranteed to rattle furthers with envy competitors internationally, Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk declared on Tuesday, 21 August 2007 at the launch of Tourism Month that, “South Africa is following the global trend with a rise in travel and tourism to our country. Overall foreign arrivals grew by 10 percent from January to May 2007. Domestic travel increased by 2, 7 percent in 2006 as 37 million domestic trips were undertaken”.
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Cape Town
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It is indeed not surprising that as we celebrate the dawn of the much awaited spring and grapple with headaches such as seasonality and accompanied economic anxiety, there is cause for jubilation for we bask in the know that there is a documented 10 percent growth amongst others due to air travel of tourists from the United States of America, Canada, Brazil and France. Needless to mention that this increase in growth, has surprisingly permeated most international barriers.
Perhaps what sets apart this an historic national salutation of our pride and dignity is to be found in the fact this year’s launch was formidably carpeted at the Nelson Mandela Museum at Qunu in the Eastern Cape where one of our most distinguished leader, councilor, guide, parent and icon hails from, notwithstanding the palatable reality that the people of the world are celebrating his birthday yearlong.
“This gigantic icon is arguably attributable to the fact that the increase to our country comes from arrivals from all the regions of the world in particular air markets, which in fact aptly confirms that there is a growing awareness of South Africa as a tourist destination”, said Dimakatso Tsutsubi of Tourism Branch, who was at hand to indelibly witness this an historic occasion.
Between Kommetjie and Scarborough
Western Cape
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As always, Minister Van Schalkwyk did not mince his words when he pronounced that “although foreign tourists were important, local tourists were just as important. One of the challenges in growing the domestic market is making it a lifestyle choice so that it is not just driven by the purpose of visiting friends or family".
“As we look towards an economically enriching World Tourism Day on 27 September 2007, perhaps we should apportion time to reflect on the fact that tourism's contribution to job creation in 2006 amounted to 947,530 jobs, which was an increase of 9.6 percent over 2005.Our challenge would therefore be to appropriate the percentage of women that benefit from these receipts", said Loraine Ncube, an accomplished Deater woman’s rights activist.
“In not taking advantage of the fact that travel in South Africa is ranked among the world’s best", the worried Minister said, "The limited availability of qualified and experienced black management and to a lesser extent, the ability of South Africans to deal with non-African language speaking tourists, are viewed as important scarcities”.
Mava Scott of Chief Directorate, Communications, proclaimed, “Diverse tourism experiences offered by the country's nine provinces would be showcased in September”.
Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s jubilate Tourism Month in the know that Travel In South Africa Is Ranked Among The World’s Best!
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Hout Bay Business Opportunities Forum
Annual General Meeting, 25 August 2007 |
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l.t.r.: Greg Low, Merle Frechas, Maria Ngetu, Jonathan Dreyer
Noxolo Gladile, Stanley Meter
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At our recently held Annual General Meeting the members of the Hout Bay Business Opportunities Forum put their full trust in the previous directors and re-elected them. The board consists of:
- Rev. Jonathan Dreyer, Chairperson
- Noxolo Gladile, Secretary
- Stanley Meter, Finance
- Merle Frechas
- Maria Ngetu
- Pauline Landu
Last but not least Gregg Louw felt he had to step down as director but the members felt that he should stay on as the CEO and he accepted.
l.t.r.: Timothy Jacobs, Andrew Szokolay, Rudolf Rieger and Christopher Frechas
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We also had the pleasure to introduce to the members the new look HBBOF Advisory Council:
- Timothy (Timmy) Jacobs
- Rudolf (Rudi) Rieger
- Christopher (Chris) Frechas
- Andrew (Andy) Szokolay
Missing on the Advisory Council are some females but we will definitely work on that.
The way forward was clear and accepted by all present that we are still on track to achieve the other objectives. What we have at this time we will work with and catapult above and beyond. We esteem it a great honour to announce that one of our major successes this year was the Seafood Festival and Snoek Derby. We are already planning for next year and maybe one other major Festival such as? You’ll have to wait and see.
I wish for all previously and presently disadvantaged entrepreneurs all the business success.
We, as HBBOF, remain committed to bring business, skills opportunities and access to finance to our members.
Yours in achieving greatness together.
Rev. Jonathan Dreyer
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RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL
This is a call for HELP, so to say “re-inventing the wheel”. Edwin Rihlamvu, a wheelchair disabled, was hijacked on the highway and left there for 2 hours while surrounded by heavy early morning traffic. He is now short of a car with special alterations to be done to accomodate the wheelchair disabled.
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The Sembach Art Gallery
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