Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - On their first outing as title holders in the Miss, Mrs and Miss Teen Klerksdorp, the beautiful ladies were hosted by From Shack to Sanctuary for a High Tea.
So on Saturday July 12 they donned their wide brimmed hats and sat down to a table fit for a queen. The table was beautifully decorated with tasteful cutlery, colourful flowers and the most delectable finger foods you can imagine.
With Nelson Mandela International Day (July 18) honoured this week, the theme for this year (‘It’s still in our hands to combat poverty and inequity’) sharpens the mind as to the origins of the continuing economic inequity experienced in our city. With this in mind, Klerksdorp Museum historian, Bert Gaffen, tells the story of Makweteng, Klerksdorp’s first township for Black people.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The origins of economic inequity lie not only in the formal Policy of Apartheid perpetrated by the National Party between 1948 and 1994, but also in the racial policies of, in turn, the two pre-20th Century British Crown Colonies (Cape Colony and Natal Colony) and the contemporary Boer Republics (ZAR and Orange Free State), the British Colonial Government immediately post Anglo Boer War, and the Union of South Africa (as of 1910). It is against this background that the story of Klerksdorp’s first Black township, Makweteng, should be read.
Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Maritha Coetzee van Hartbeesfontein se kleurvolle uitrusting het op Saturdag 5 Julie aandag getrek by die Durban July perdewedren.
Behalwe vir die perdewedren is die modes by die jaarlikse gebeurtenis ook altyd ‘n aantrekkingskrag.
Vanjaar was die tema ‘Marvels of Mzansi’ om Suid-Afrika se ryk geskiedenis, kulturele diversiteit en pragtige landskap uit te beeld. Maritha, ‘n DA-raadslid, het besluit om bekende handelsmerke in haar uitrusting uit te beeld.
“Ek het al die inkopiesakke met die bekende logos van chappies, vuurhoutjies en Marmite opgekoop en daarvolgens gewerk om die tema uit te beeld. Groot was my verrassing toe ek by die July opdaag en ‘n beeld van ‘n perd sien wat presies dieselfde tema as ek uitbeeld. Van die organiseerders het gesê ek het hul idee verpersoonlik. Die perd is deur die bemarkingspan gedoen,’’ het sy gesê.
Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Dit was ‘n oggend van lag, musiek en lawwe uitrustings vir die inwoners van Anistemie toe die bekende stilis Sandra Taljaard hul besoek.
Sandra het in Orkney grootgeword en einde Junie na haar wortels teruggekeer vir ‘n radio-onderhoud met Barbara Payne op Life FM, die bekendstelling van Petro Kotze-Odendaal se boek, Wanneer die krieke stil word, en ‘n glansoggend by Anistemie. Dit was vir haar ‘n lekker “trip down memory lane’’ en sy is veral beïndruk met die modeparade deur die inwoners van Anistemie.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - On Friday July 4 a new chapter of the Rotary Club of Orkney started when Johan Gerber handed the President’s chain over to Neil Strydom.
Neil was inducted as the 67th President of the Rotary club of Orkney at Villa Maria Guest Lodge where family and fellow Rotarians joined in the celebration.
Pres Neil dreams of fulfilling the new Rotarian theme “Unite for good”, in his service year by uniting the past with the present.
He is looking forward to making a difference with the help of the enthusiastic Rotarians to make a difference in the community of Klerksdorp.
