Centenary Celebration
Minstrels, Kaapse Klopse
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By Rudolf Rieger
The year 2008 is under the banner of Centenary Celebration, one hundred years showing the Minstrels under the judgement of adjudicators with every year's traditional road march from the Old Hanover Street at District Six to Bo Kaap, the Malay quarters. History tells us about the Slave Route, Hanover Street along the Parade than into Long Market Street up to the Malay quarters. Today, however, this changed by marching up Wale instead of Long Market Street, the narrow Long Market Street couldn’t cope with the thousands of marchers and spectators.
An estimate of 60'000 Minstrels are participating annualy in the festivities
Minstrel structure 2008:
The Board has 6 seats including the Chairman and CEO.
The Cape Town Minstrels are presented at the Athlone Stadium.
The Kaapse Klopse Karnival are using the Vygekraal Stadium in Athlone for there performence presentation.
The Cape District Association has chosen the William Herbert Sports Ground in Wynberg.
There are 8 teams at the Athlone Stadium, 27 teams at the Vygekraal Stadium and 12 teams at the William Herbert Sports Ground.
With focus on the Kaapse Klopse Karnival Ass. performing at the Vygeskraal Stadium the following schedule applied for 2008:
- 1st event on the 1st of January
- Semi final, Section A -> 26 January
- Semi final, Section B -> 02 February
- the final event, Top Ten (champs of champs), 9th of February 2008
The criteria to measure the quality of the troupes, judged by the six Adjudicators, are:
- Best Dress
- Best Band
- Best Board
- Grand March Pass
- Group Singing
- Exhibition March Pass
General Auditing
The auditing section signs responsible for the following:
- Score sheets
- Tallying of scores
- Completion check on documents
- Insures that all teams have completed their set of duties
- Compilation of admin papers
- Compilation of reports
For further info on the Minstrels contact
Andre Jacobs
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Marketing our business
Andre Jacobs presenting the MOB's objectives and his vision on the MOB's impact
Primary focus of Consulate
Spear-heading the marketing of Hout Bay as a preferred destination & developing a Hout Bay-brand, a memorable packaged-experience for visitors and maximising sustainable benefits to the business sector & the community.
Present Stakeholders
- The Business sector : owners of businesses
- The Public sector : Government (Local, Provincial & National)
- Building Owners
- Community organisations
- Non Government Organisations
- The Press
- International Community Organisations
- Faith-based organisations
MOB Purpose
To develop and formalise a business-driven vehicle to act as a catalyst, to coordinate and act as a conduit through which an ultimate marketing plan may be instituted.
- Plan :
- Developing a plan
- Determine drivers
- Execution of plan
- Recommendation :
- Formalisation of body (Trust / Foundation)
- Call for nominations of Trust / Foundation members
- Other :
- MOB Web-site launch
- Wine tasting
- Newspaper
- Festivals & Events co-ordination 2008
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- 23 May 2008
- New members
By Rudolf Rieger
The 6th of January brought Peter and Lilian Cooke from Australia to Hout Bay to enjoy the music of the brass band and the sunny mood of the Hout Bay Malay Choir members. Peter is the son of the late Diana Grace Cooke who visited Llandudno various times and wile doing so got very fond of the local people and in particular to the Hout Bay community.
However, the decision after her passing to make her donations to this particular worthy cause was solely due to the trustee of her funds Mr Ernie Lanz of Llandudno, so that the brass band could add some more instruments to their existing assets.
The brass band’s Captain Winston Williams who moved to Hout Bay from Ocean View after he married into a Hangberg family paid a visit to his place of birth by taking the Malay Choir to Ocean View.
The day was finally blessed with sunshine after the morning rain decided to give space to a fun day for the Hangberg and Ocean View community.
A message from the captain of the band: Everybody .... from Imizamo Yethu, Hangberg or elsewhere in Hout Bay interested in joining the band is welcome. The band meets every Saturday from 10am to 3pm at the Sentinel Primary School.
Should anybody like to know more about the Malay Choir and Hangberg’s brass band please contact Winston Williams at: 079 520-7437
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Starting, Improving and
Expanding Small Business
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Carlyn Sassman |
Got a business idea? Don’t know quite how to move forward with it?
The Business Place provides a friendly place in the Mother City for you to walk in the door with nothing more than your dreams and inspiration.
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The Business Place, a friendly walk-in business and entrepreneurship centre, is located at The Business Place, 7 Anton Anreith Arcade, 1st Floor, Cape Town. The Business Place is an Investec entrepreneurship and empowerment initiative, housing a cluster of small business service providers, branding it as a one stop hub for assisting small and micro-enterprises.
The Business Place seeks to create a culture of entrepreneurship and navigate small and micro-enterprises towards reaching their business goals.
Through one-on-one advice entrepreneurs are encouraged and guided through the “how to’s” and “next steps”. Clients are nurtured along the entrepreneurial path in order to provide an option for determining the economic component of their lives.
The Business Place is about starting, improving and expanding small business, it’s about providing:
- Relevant business information and resources
- Internet access for business research and idea generation
- Referrals to government resources and quality business-development service-providers including assistance with business plans, access to finance, business skills and computer training, marketing and market research
- Free accounting advice, by appointment, provided by Ernst and Young
- Free legal advice, by appointment, provided by Webber Wentzel Bowens
- Business-to-business networking opportunities
- Opportunities to showcase your products and services
- Regular hands-on workshops on a wide range of business related topics
- Our place is your space - our meeting rooms and training facilities are available for business use
The Business Place was created through a significant partnership between City of Cape Town, Investec Bank, Provincial Government of the Western Cape and Sekunjalo Investments. Each member contributes funding and resources as well as the shared vision to develop previously disadvantaged entrepreneurs in small and micro-enterprises.
The impact we hope to make in our City is to provide an enabling environment for the start up and growth of small and micro-enterprises from predominantly previously disadvantaged communities. Growth in this sector will contribute toward sustained poverty alleviation, employment, income distribution and economic growth.
Through fostering entrepreneurial talent, frustrated job seekers can become job creators by starting their own enterprise, especially amongst the youth. In order to increase the survival rate of small and micro-enterprises, especially in the crucial first 18 months, we provide ongoing support and needs-driven training.
The Business Place (Cape Town) operates as a franchise of Open for Business International, and a license agreement entitles international cross network communication, collective solution finding and sharing of ideas, programmes, knowledge and experiences.
Our aim is to customize the franchise to local needs, and to integrate our programmes into the international Open for Business Network.
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Lobster Processing |
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Crayfish/Lobster
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By Rudolf Rieger
Going back in time when Jan van Riebeeck landed in Hout Bay in 1657 he and his men were trading with the local Khoi population tobacco, copper and what else was in demand, for cattle and other livestock.
The Khoisan became Hout Bay’s first commercial fishermen. Some of today’s population living at Hangberg claim to be their descendants. Crayfish up to mid 19th century were mainly used for bait and still today some fishermen when angling the Hottentot fish are applying the very same method.
Process Flow: Live and Raw Frozen Lobsters
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Vessels leaving the peer of the Hout Bay harbour after offloading |
The lobster bins are offloaded from the boat and transported to the factory. Should they arrive from a remote area than they are transported in a refrigerated truck. This is to maintain a temperature of 7-12 degrees.
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Weighting
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The Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) officials are controlling the weight and monitoring the process.
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Transfer
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The tanks are filled with seawater maintaining a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius. The total tank capacity can hold 15 tons divided into 27 units. One unit hold up to 300kg representing 800 – 1200 lobsters. The lobsters will remain in the tanks for 72 hours.
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The lobsters are than graded whereby they are sorted into various sizes, which ranges are:
180-220gr
220-300gr
300-400gr
400-500gr
500-600gr
600gr+
Generally they are all earmarked for export with the exception of those showing damages, e.g. missing leg, etc; resulting in 3-4% sold locally.
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Tanks
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To complete the purging process the lobsters have to be retained in the tanks for 3-5 days.
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Weighting
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Fresh lobsters are in for a weighting process before -> Packing.
For frozen, whole and tailed lobsters -> Drowning.
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Drowning
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The drowning in fresh, running water will take up to 30 minutes.
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Tailing
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After the drowning process is completed the lobster tail is removed from its body.
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Grading
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The next grading process sorts the tails into three different sizes.
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Curling
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Raw frozen lobsters
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The lobster are wrapped in plastic and kept together with a rubber band. This applies to the tailed and whole lobsters. |
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Packing
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Live lobsters are chilled for 15 minutes before they are packed. Packing applies according the grading results.
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Master
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The process of packing the product into cartons is called "Master". Live lobsters are packed in 10kg or 14kg styrofoam boxes, representing 20-62 units packed in wood wool with an ice pack per box, scaled for weight and labeled accordingly. A sample accompanies the export lobsters to be tested for quality purposes.
Frozen lobster are packed in 5kg boxes, representing +/- 60 tails or 20 whole lobsters per box.
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Holding Room
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Keeping the temperature of 7-10 degrees for fresh and -25 degrees celsius for raw frozen lobsters. |
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The Sembach Art Gallery
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Table Of Unity
27 April 2008
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Location
Vygekraal Stadium
Athlone, Cape Town
Date: 01 Jan 2008
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Iziko Museums of Cape Town’s Summer School 2008 will be officially opened on 31 January 2008, at the Iziko South African Museum. The main aim of the programme is to engage with society on issues of environmental, scientific and cultural concern. A symposium on 2 February will discuss issues revolving around climate change. Aside from films that tackle environmental controversies, several films will be screened that present thought-provoking perspectives on recent South African history.
Iziko Museums is proud to present an exhibition of the Timbuktu Manuscripts of Mali. These important manuscripts have provided an insight into an African heritage and culture of writing and reading that existed long before recorded colonial history. The exhibition at the Castle of Good Hope will be complemented by a Summer School symposium on 9 February focusing on the significance of the manuscripts.
An unusually strong art component includes a series of five lectures by Andrew Lamprecht, a curator’s walkabout of the new ‘Dungamanzi’ exhibition, beading and mosaic workshops, a visit to Darling and a performance by Pieter-Dirk Uys, and poetry by Diana Ferrus.
The ever-popular guided excursions include visits to the Sutherland observatory, walks in the Bo-Kaap and on Table Mountain, and a Cederberg retreat, each led by acknowledged experts.
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Umsobomvu Youth Fund |
Umsobomvu is a Government initiative aimed at creating opportunities for South African Youth in entrepreneurship and job creation. The Voucher Program is NOT a LOAN PROGRAM. The Voucher Program provides support services to both new and existing youth owned businesses.
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Who Qualifies?
- Males between 18 – 35 years of age
- Females 18-65 years of age
- Unemployed Graduates
- Young woman
- Rural and urban youth
- Youth in conflict with Law
- Previously disadvantaged individuals (PDI’s) – 90%
- South African citizens ONLY
- Non Previous disadvantaged individuals – 10%
Your Business should be in one of the following sectors:
- Tourism
- Information Communication Technology (ICT)
- Manufacturing
- Construction
- Agro-processing
- Service
- Franchise
Voucher Program Support Services includes:
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Accounting
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Bookkeeping – once off clean-up
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Business plan development
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Business and financial administration
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Feasibility
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Due Diligence
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Legal services
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Marketing Planning
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Tendering support
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Web Based Marketing
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Branding & Design of Business Forms
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CC & PTY Registrations
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If you would like to know more about the Program and are interested in the above mentioned services that are available through this Program, please feel free to come into our offices on a Wednesday morning @ 10:15am and attend the UYF Information Session and there after you will receive an application form that will allow you to apply for these support services. If you have any queries in this regards, you may contact me @ our offices with the details reflected below.
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The Business Place
7 Anton Anreith Arcade
1st Floor, Cape Town 8000
Visit us weekdays 09:00 to 16:30 or
 +27 (0) 21 425-7816
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