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On Friday the Treverton College Athletics Team travelled down to South City Christian School to take part in their Interschool Athletics Meeting. It was a wonderful time for our team where many new members were introduced to some competitive and fun competition. Due to the long travel we took a small team down to compete. The team showed grit and determination taking part in many events to ensure that we could get as many points as possible. The hard work paid off and we finished third overall with the following athletes being awarded as Athletes of the day in their age categories.
Carli Hughes - u14 Girls
Tumi Gumbi - u15 Boys
Sienna Marx - u16 Girls
Andre Honiball - Open Boys
Thank you to everyone that took part and to the staff coaching team for a memorable weekend.
We look forward to our next event at the Treverton Super League on the 31st July.
Education truly is an adventure.
For further information please visit www.treverton.co.za
Pictured above L-R: Carly Hughes, Sienna Marx, Andre Honiball and Tumi Gumbi
'Thank You, Sandra from Plan and Plant!
Another amazing donation for our Mandela Day! Thank you to Sandra from Plan and Plant for donating these beautiful plants. Your contribution has made a lasting impact.
Help us say thank you to Sandra for her support!' announced Love Howick.
Call Sandra on 079 216 9322.
The Heritage House Preschool children dressed up and all looked very colourful in their traditional outfits. To celebrate 67 Minutes on Mandela Day they enthusiastically leant a hand and picked up litter in the park on Main Road in Howick.
After a long hiatus from performing concerts due to an unforeseen medical condition, Dr Madala Kunene returns to the stage with a special concert in his hometown of Durban. In association with The Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Madala will be coming back to the public eye with award winning virtuoso and fellow KZN'er, Guy Buttery. Together as a duo, they have unearthed new musical landscapes taking cyclical Zulu guitar patterns to the East and back again in a psychedelic layering of textures, deeply rooted in their home of KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Kunene is recovering from recent surgery, and the proceeds of this concert will go towards his medical expenses. Please consider supporting this event and find tickets here.
Commonly referred to as the “King of the Zulu Guitar”, Madala Kunene was recently awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the University of KwaZulu-Natal for his ongoing contribution to the development of indigenous music and to the music of Africa and that of the world. This will be Madala’s first tour with his new title of Doctor Madala Kunene. Madala is a genre unto himself. Born in 1947 in Mkhumbane (Cato Manor), a vibrant mixed community just outside of inner Durban, Kunene reflects his environment and his music acts as an urban war cry. His music is a portrait of an artist as a not-so-young man of faith, a sonic investigation that tries to make sense of the gradual process of sanitizing history—how the real past is purged for the sake of a historical sound bite. Kunene is an artist who is constantly shifting between musical habitats.
“Guy Buttery is something of a National treasure”, says South Africa’s leading newspaper. As an internationally recognised musician, this multi-instrumentalist enjoys invitations to play sell-out performances all over the globe. The USA, UK, Australia, France, Brazil, India and Italy have all welcomed him back year after year. However, to simply label Guy Buttery as one of South Africa’s musical phenoms would be an injustice. His international role has surpassed merely performing concerts to foreign audiences. It has evolved into one as an ambassador of South African music, inspiring people across the world with his home-grown style at the very heart of his talent and tenacity. Guy’s distinct unification of South African guitar music is the musical advocate for everything positive and beautiful about the place he calls home. Guy received the highest accolade for a musician in South Africa and was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. In almost 4 decades of honouring artists throughout the country, this was the first time since its inception that the award was presented to a musician outside of the classical realm.
Expect high dynamics, deep grooves, delicate African inflections and mind-bending string playing of an entirely new order from two of South Africa's most renowned artists.
CONCERT DETAILS:
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, UKZN Howard College Campus
Berea, Durban, KZN
Thursday, 1 Aug 2024
19:00
R200
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 031 260 2296
Photo credit: Jess Sterk
Congratulations to all our Treverton Riders who competed in the Showjumping Category in the SA Youth Champs held at Westown.
Kelly Harvey, riding Capitol Carlo, competed in the 1-star class, which the KZN Team won!
Jade Harvey, riding Whoopy Daisey, competed in the 1-star class.
Holly Roos, riding Polished Gold competed in the 80cm class and placed 8th out of 42 riders!
Mona-Lisa Dinwayo, riding Thornton Creek, competed in the 80cm class.
Education truly is an adventure.
For further information please visit www.treverton.co.za
Midlands Veterinary Hospital is collecting 67 dog items for Funda Nenja this Thursday 18 July for Mandela day!
Please help with any dog related items, old or new, such as blankets, leads, collars and food.
More on Funda Nenja:
Funda Nenja started in 2009, the name roughly translates from isiZulu to mean ‘learning with a dog’.
The Funda Nenja model aims to nurture children into caring and responsible young adults while at the same time opening up possibilities for their self-development.
The dogs are used to teach these principles, creating the bond between child and dog. Using the training technique, they learn discipline and respect when interacting with parents, teachers, people of different cultures, and their environment.
The programme is delivered in a safe and secure environment using the dog training technique, it is a fun event that draws over 100 children each week to interact and learn from each other.
Winter greens…. What a challenge!
As the weather has been getting colder, so our greens have been getting faster and faster, with the stimpjmeter clocking a speed of 15s on Saturday, when we held a Hearing Aid Labs drawn trips competition.
A big thank you to Hearing Aid Labs for sponsoring a wellness day offering free basic hearing screening and advice on all things hearing. The competition was great fun with an interesting twist as the last end in each of the two sessions was a “power play” which meant the team that won the end doubled their score on the last end. The power play end was definitely a big help in some instances! Well done to the winning team of Colin Norris, Pat Norris & Barry Fairbrother. Second place went to Neil Wright, Bob Chetty & Jo Boonzaier, followed by Mike Scheffer, Koos Marais & Dave Langstone in third place.
That’s all for this week… see you on the greens!
Events to keep an eye out for…
Saturday 20 July : Greendale Spar Drawn Pairs. Tabs in 13h15
Friday, 26 July : Dormehl Nominated 2 Bowl Trips. Book with Pippa on 083 467 8140
Regular tabs in times are:-
Tuesdays at 08h45
Wednesdays at 13h15
Saturdays at 13h15.
Visitors are always welcome. Coaching by registered coaches is available.
For more information or enquiries about coaching, contact Ann on 071 676 5591.
Photo Caption: Colin Norris, Pat Norris & Barry Fairbrother, pictured with Luke from Hearing Aid Labs
Some dogs in dog school are occasionally just too boisterous and over stimulated for our young handlers to manage in a group class. The way to deal with this is to remove them from the class, give the dog space, and time to decompress.
Last Friday, Sbonelo, one of our experienced senior instructors, identified a pair in distress and took them aside. He quietly spoke to the young handler, reassured him and explained to him how to calm his dog. Soon both the dog and kid were fully relaxed and able to enjoy some rewarding together- time, while developing their mutual bond with each other.
Funda Nenja provides a safe place for young people and their dogs, in addition to teaching them how to humanely handle their canine companions.
Connect on 083 636 0891 or 082 657 5201.
Another week done and we’re half way through winter.
Last week Tuesday, we hosted our monthly J Leslie Smith & Company Inc. 2-4-2 competition with a full turnout. This is such a great format as it gives both players a chance at playing from a skips perspective and is great for experience. Thank you to JLS for their generous sponsorship, as well as the delicious teatime treats, and well done to the following:-
1st Prize: Alan Willey & Phil Lang
2nd Prize: Kevin Palmer & Wendy Smith
Plate Prize: Ray Bester & Graham Dougie
On Saturday was our monthly Greendale Spar & Amberglades drawn trips/pairs competition. Unfortunately the cold weather kept quite a few of our players home, but thank you to those who braved the chilly weather. Thank you also to both Greendale Spar and Amberglades for their much appreciated sponsorship. Congratulations to:-
1st Prize: Derrick “Balf” Balfour, Melanie Ross & Rob Lolli
2nd Prize: Ed Sharpe & Sindi Hlongwane
3rd Prize: Lisa Nagel & Neill Birdsey
In other news, we wish Lisa Nagel and Wendy Smith good bowling for the KZN Pairs competition which they’ll be playing in Durban over the weekend. Here they’ll have an opportunity to play against opponents from all the different KZN districts and so it’ll give them both great experience. We wish them the best and look forward to hearing how they fare.
For those of you looking for something to do over the long weekend in August, we’ll be holding a quiz night on Saturday, the 10th of August. Entry fee is R80 per person, which includes dinner and a sweet treat. For more information or to enter, please whatsapp 071 353 2866.
That’s all for this week… see you on the greens!
Events to keep an eye out for…
Friday, 26 July: Dormehl Nominated 2 Bowl Trips. Book with Pippa on 083 467 8140
Regular tabs in times are:-
Tuesdays at 08h45
Wednesdays at 13h15
Saturdays at 13h15.
Visitors are always welcome. Coaching by registered coaches is available.
For more information or enquiries about coaching, contact Ann on 071 676 5591.
Photo Caption: Winners of our monthly JLS 2-4-2 competition, Phil Lang & Alan Willey with Crystal Dekker from JLS
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LET’S CHASE AWAY THE CHILL WITH SOME WINTER WOOLLIES!
We’re sure you’re feeling the season change and whilst the days may be sunny and bright, temperatures are dropping and the cold is creeping in. Will you come alongside us to “Chase away the chill” for those residents who need our help?
We are looking for both Ladies and Gents’ Winter items. All Shapes. All Sizes!
• Warm pajamas
• Socks
• Stockings
• Spencers
• Tracksuits
• Long sleeve shirts
• Slippers / Morning shoes
Donated items can be delivered to:
Sunnyside Park Home, 57 Mbubu Road,
OR
Shareè Horner, Mowana Head Office, 94 Roberts Road, Clarendon, Pietermaritzburg
OR
Tracey-Lee Caldecott, Greendale House, 33 Amber Avenue, Greendale Park, Howick
OR
You can get in touch with us and we can make a plan: email Sheree on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 078 250 3548
If donating clothes is not practical, but you feel the call to help, please get in touch to donate money. We promise that every cent will go towards buying items to “Chase away the chill’ and to improve the lives of these precious older adults. Follow our Facebook Page for regular updates.
The African Dance Disability Network partners with the Centre for Creative Arts and JOMBA! 2024 to present the ADDN JOMBA! ABILITY DANCE FESTIVAL 2024 at the Stable Theatre in Durban from 22 to 25 August.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience has a long history of including diverse and integrated dance work in its programming. In 2023, JOMBA’s curator Dr Lliane Loots teamed up with Prof Yvette Hutchison from the University of Warwick in the UK to work on the UKRI-funded project Encountering disability through contemporary dance in Africa, which explores widening citizenship through dance. Part of the outcome of this partnership is an uplifting four-day pre-JOMBA! festival and colloquium - the ADDN JOMBA! ABILITY DANCE FESTIVAL 2024 - that sees some of the world’s most inventive and beautiful dance-makers engage with disability and integrated dance practices.
This four-day festival, which takes place before the main JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience (27 August to 8 September), sees dancers and guest participants from South Africa, Kenya, USA, UK, Finland and China. The daily programme offers workshops, panel discussions, and open public evening performances.
The performance programme includes works from FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY and their FLATFOOT Wheelchair programme, as well work from their now 8-year-old FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company.
Cape Town’s ground-breaking Unmute Dance Theatre presents Andile Vellem’s signature work Listen to your hands – which use South African sign language as the core choreographic impulse to dance, move and speak. Johannesburg’s Thapelo Kotlolo connects queer culture to disability struggles in his beautiful and provocative Bells and Sirens 2. East African Kenyan, Ondiege Matthew and his company DANCE INTO SPACE, defiantly dive into cultural myths, disability and gender politics in his work Nyanam, while South Durban’s Jarryd Watson and DANCE MOVEMENT, celebrate three women coming together in solidarity celebrating the beauty, strength, and resilience of each other – despite, and in spite of, differences.
Further afield, Chicago (USA) based Sydney Erlikh and Unfolding Disability Futures (UDF) present (amongst other works) And Yet We Are Here, a powerful zeitgeist response to the destruction of war in acknowledgement of war’s physical and emotional impact. War not only leaves death and disability in its wake, but people with disabilities are more often unable to flee violence. Erlikh, talking about this work says, “This dance considers and expands on the themes of war and rebuilding while embodying the disability community's collective care and access, even in the face of bullets, bombs, and brutality”.
With a number of artists’ panels that engage ideas of disability as gain, of particular interest is a session by Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Lee Fischer and Tom Rogers, as they talk about and share the work of Free Fall Dance Company – a company of dancers living with intellectual disabilities. Freefall Dance Company is part of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s LEAP (Learning Education and Participation) programme and inclusivity work. It was established to challenge stereotypical views of people with disabilities and dance - through the creation of a high-quality training that showcases the creative talents of people with learning disabilities. The company is particularly proud of its award-winning screen dance films and most recently, its ground-breaking work using virtual reality – both of which Durban will have a chance to watch and engage.
The festival will host one digital online workshop by disability culture activist, wheelchair dancer, and community performance artist, Petra Kuppers. Kuppers, the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan (USA), offers free of charge, her Starship Somatic Workshop on Sunday 25 August from 4.15-5pm. To sign up contact, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For the full programme visit: https://jomba.ukzn.ac.za/ability-festival/
The workshops and panels are offered free of charge but places are limited, if you wish to join and participate, contact Marcia on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Bookings must be done a full 24 hours before the event.
Tickets for the evening shows are R50 each and booking is via COMPUTICKET: https://computicket.com/event/addn_jomba_2024/7294522
Top image: Nelisiwe aka Sunshine Sibiya (Jarryd Watson and DANCE MOVEMENT)
Image below: Freefall Dance Company
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Visit the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg before the 28th of July to see the Matric KZN Inland Art Exhibition of work from 2023. Work by Anna Dahl and Shiriska Neethling is on display. Don't miss out on this! We are so proud of their hard work and dedication to their art.
Education truly is an adventure.
For further information please visit www.treverton.co.za
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Welcome to our new principal - Dave Cato.
Dave grew up in Hillcrest near Durban where he completed his schooling. He studied for his Bachelor’s degree and professional teaching qualification at the University of Natal (Durban). During his career, Dave has served at four independent schools Kearsney College, Woodridge College, Treverton College and the Drakensberg Boys Choir School. Dave commenced his tenure as the Principal of Thembelihle School at the start of Term 3. Dave’s experience in numerous school leadership roles, which includes nine years as a Head, bodes well for the new season that lies ahead for him and Thembelihle School.
Dave is married to Helga and they have three children – Jennifer, Samantha and Mihlali, and two grandchildren – Noah and Oliver.
We are so excited to have Dave on our team.
'I thought I would give an update to friends and family on yesterday's events. We noticed a fire on the farm just after 7am and Lucio went to asses. We immediately started fighting it with the tractor that has a water tank and hose as well as physically beating out the flames. It appears that someone (most likely poachers passing through) had lit the fire as it was in a circle working outwards on the inside of our firebreaks with our neighbour Bongani. At that stage their was very little wind and it was blowing away from our houses, we let all our neighbours know as the grass was exceptionally dry and pretty thick and long. The fire moved down into the valley and as it started moving up the other side, which is all inaccessible by vehicle, the wind started picking up. Dino and Lucio took both tractors to meet the fire at the top of the valley, while Peter, Charlie and I waited for the fire to reach the short grass to put it out. The wind had really picked up by then and changed direction, SAPPI arrived with two firefighting trucks and about 15 firefighters, we are always so relieved to see them as water power and man power is king in grass fires.
They drove up to join Dino and Lucio who were retreating by this stage as the flames were massive and heading to our houses. Lucio phoned me to go home and start watering the lawn. I raced back home and got the dogs inside, let the donkeys out of their field and started to turn all the outside hoses on. The 2 SAPPI trucks were heading in my direction while they tried to douse the flames, there was a wall of flames coming down the hill towards us all. The next thing I just heard screaming and wailing and people running towards our garden, one of the trucks also came in. The fire had reached our fence and was burning through into the garden, I was running around trying to put it out. One of the men that had come in with the other crew was lying on the lawn and the lady firefighters were crying and on the phone. I came over to check on him and could see he had been badly burnt, I tried to calm the crew and told them to get their first aid kit and start administering first aid while I called the ambulance. While I was on the phone they were telling me others had got burnt that were still out there on the hill, I told the emergency people to send a few ambulances. I was then told that some people were dead! After cutting the clothes off the firefighter, his entire body was burnt and skin was hanging off, including his face. He was in so much pain, it was dreadful to see. There was also one woman on the hill whose clothes had burnt off her but she was still alive. The ambulances arrived and then police, SAPPI, investigators, our mayor, more police etc. I believe the ambulance met a helicopter on the main road to transport a patient to hospital and 4 others who were also critical were taken by ambulance. 3 people died on the hill and we heard last night that 3 more had died in hospital. We are waiting to hear how the remaining 2 people are. What a sad sad day.
We carried on fighting the fire to protect the donkeys shelter, by that stage to the fire engine had arrived and they came and helped there. Also the fire bomber planes with a spotter plane had started dropping water on the fire. The fire had gone over the hill to the Mitchell's as well as Busters next door. Dino and Lucio carried on until about 4.30pm.
Our plastic water pipes from our tanks had also got burnt so we had no water to fill up the fire fighters, so Lucio started fixing those too. Reece and his partner who had arrived earlier to help, got stuck in and helped replumb so we had water. Thankfully our tanks survived.
There were so many people who came to help as well as news channels who wanted to report the story, I just couldn't deal with speaking to them. Chris Pappas, our mayor, came to assess the damage and offer his condolences to the deceased and offer the municipality's support for feed for animals as there is absolutely no grazing left.
Carmen's parents offered to bring us a meal and drinking water as we weren't sure how long it would take to fix the pipes and fighting fires is very thirsty work.
We are so grateful for all the help on such a tragic day, I wonder if the person who started it will be found and held accountable? Every year we have this problem of people lighting fires, and most of the time we manage to contain it safely. I also wonder how the wildlife fared, we saw many buck trying to escape. I saw 3 reedbuck later when I took a drive and we did hear the jackals at about 1am.
Today we will need to see what needs repairing and to see if any animals need help.' Di Santoro.
The KZN Midlands forests, plantations and grasslands have been ravaged by devastating wild fires this month, from the Karkloof last week to the Boston tragedies this past weekend and a number of smaller flare ups in between.
Communities are urged to take extreme care, to spread fire saftey awareness and avoid starting fires at all during this dry and windy season which will still be around for some months before we can expect Spring rainfall.
Photo credits: Di Santoro
The Piggly Wiggly Blanket Appeal launched this year and in a space of three months rallied together supporters from everywhere possible, who made 267 blankets for the neediest communities as identified by Round Table Hilton 242. The Winter Knights delivered these as winter bared its teeth. Fired by a sense of achievement and the expansive deficit in poor rural KZN Midlands places, this initiative has pledged to keep on giving.
Newly dubbed Piggly Wiggly Warm Embrace, this project has gained momentum through a powerful base of supportive donors and crafters as well as a responsive and caring leader in Gill Pryke.
During the third week of June a chance meeting between Gill and Mary Gray, at Gill’s Piggly Wiggly based retail outlet Glass Cuttings, identified the need for winter warmth for the children who attend Yarrow Intermediate School in the Karkloof. This new need quickly became a new target to focus on.
Within less than a month Gill Pryke had loaded up her car with contributions from generous local knitters, crocheters and stitchers, this bundle included ten blankets made by residents of Pevensey Place in Underberg.
On the 11th July 2024, with the faint smell of runaway fires in the air and the reminder of surrounding devastation reinforced by two small planes flying overhead to keep watch on the situation, a small group of Warm Embrace representatives arrived at Yarrow School to present sixty-seven learners, aged between 5 and 14, with a beanie and blanket of their choice.
The pure gratitude for such simple necessities will fuel these formidable human wool crafting machines to do their best to meet future requests for woolly items where they are needed the most.
Pictured here top L-R: Mary Gray with Gill Pryke
Pictured below: Joyful times at Yarrow Intermediate School in the Karkloof, KZN Midlands, uMngeni
Please direct any questions and offers of assistance for Piggly Wiggly Warm Embrace to Gill Pryke on 082 254 4798.
