These Medals of Excellence are awarded annually to the top performers of the various City and Guilds courses that are offered in South Africa. The award celebrates the success of what these students achieved through hard work and dedication.

Says Juanita Potgieter, Senior Quality & Excellence Executive at City and Guilds Johannesburg Regional Office: “City & Guilds has been awarding medals to our best achievers for over 125 years because it’s important to us to recognise the achievements of our centres and candidates.”

These two Northlink students stand a chance to be selected to join the very few candidates to attend the prestigious Lion Award ceremony that will be held in London where the winner will be announced at a gala-dinner on 12 March 2012.

The nine prestigious Lion Awards are:

• FE Sector Learner of the Year
• Employee Learner of the Year
• Small Business Learner of the Year
• Outstanding Achiever of the Year
• Lifelong Learner of the Year
• Innovator of the Year
• Community Supporter of the Year
• Creative Craftsperson of the Year
• International Learner of the Year

“Northlink is truly proud of these two students to have received such awards and the opportunity to win an even more prestigious honour as a Lion Award,” said Gwen Harmsen, HOD: Hospitality and Tourism.

Nominations for the Lions Award closed on 26 January and now Northlink hold thumbs for these two bright students to be selected to this glamour event.

Mr. J.Louw (Lecturer); Ms. Stephanie Strydom (Medal Winner); Mrs. G. Harmsen (Head of Department: Tourism and Hospitality); Mrs. L. Christopher (Lecturer); Mrs. A. Koeleman (Campus Manager: Tygerberg Campus) and Mrs. M. Burgess (Program Manager: Hotel School). Absent: Chere-Lee Raw

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The 10 metre Brede Class lifeboat was brought from Tilbury docks in the United Kingdom to Cape Town harbour at no cost to NSRI because of the generous donations by all who helped with the project.

The ex-RNLI Brede sailed under the name Lyonesse. She will under-go a no frills-refit in Cape Town, where for the next two months she will be fitted with NSRI rescue equipment and resprayed in our colours.

The project to bring the Lochin made boat to Cape Town was managed by NSRI volunteer Andy Connell. With his organizing skills, and the generosity of all who brought the rescue boat to Cape Town, the NSRI will soon have new Brede in Mossel Bay.

NSRI have issued a big thank-you to everybody who donated money to replace the rescue boat that was sadly lost in the Gordon’s Bay boat-yard fire.

The following people made a significant contribution to getting the rescue boat to our shores at no cost:

Jaco Visagie of Safmarine Shipping Line, facilitated the sponsorship with his principles. Simon Thomas & David of Lochin Marine, prepared the lifeboat for her sea voyage and moved her from Newhaven to Tilbury docks. Lucy Hornett of Safmarine UK, helped Lochin and the forwarders get the lifeboat through Tilbury port, Bennie Gilson of Tilbury Container services organized the Stevedoring and lashing of lifeboat onto the flat-rack, David MacLean of Toll Group Perishables, facilitated the forwarding formalities out of England, Craig Garrow and Terence Du Toit of Pronto Clearing, performed the Import clearing formalities and documentation to release the lifeboat in Cape Town, Verdus De Jongh of Transnet Port Terminals, facilitated the discharge from the vessel and lift into the water, Trevor Francke of Diamond Shipping, were agents for the vessel the mv DAL Kalahari, who facilitated the planning operation between Safmarine and the port terminal. Godfrey Fisher of GF Trucking for moving the lifeboat in Cape Town Terminal and turning in the used flat-rack and cradle and Donovan Liedeman of Dole SA for arranging port formalities, entry and NSRI hospitality in the port.

The ex-RNLI lifeboat is lifted into the water at the Cape Town harbour container terminal with the Table Bay rescue boat Spirit of Vodacom standing-by. Picture Andrew Ingram/NSRI.

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Convened by leading cultural commentator and critic Sarah Nuttall (University of Stellenbosch) and GIPCA Director Jay Pather, this discussion will include leading international academics Cori Hayden, Ackbar Abbas, Dick Hebdige, Karim Makdisi, Achille Mbembe and David Goldberg.

The dualism between humans and nature has been a defining characteristic of modernity, alongside the incorporation of the world into global markets and the attendant production of waste on a scale never seen before. Yet there is a growing recognition that the rate of change of natural processes is shrinking towards the time scales of human society. The time lines of nature are now converging with those of society in a mutual lockstep.

This panel will discuss questions such as to what extent is the convergence of social and natural time opening up to possible disasters in the future? What are the implications of this foreshortening of social and natural time for artistic and aesthetic experimentation, new modes of politics and broader issues of equity and justice?

“We are honored to begin 2012 with this illustrious panel and also that we start the year with a consideration of such scale and vision,” said GIPCA Director Jay Pather. “The range of discipline and context that will be pursued in Futures of Nature/Facts That Matter signifies a rich start as we negotiate new territory this year,” he added.

Futures of Nature/Facts that Matter will take place on 7 February at 17:00 at Hiddingh Hall. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. For more information please contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 1756 or fin-gipca@uct.ac.za

About the panel

Cori Hayden is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkley.
Her research focuses on the anthropology of the biochemical sciences, global pharmaceutical politics, and postcolonial engagements with intellectual property and the politics of innovation and appropriation. These themes animated her 2003 book, When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico. Her current research is an ethnographic investigation of the recent emergence of generic drugs in Mexico, and the complex relationships – simultaneously biochemical, commercial and political – currently unfolding in their name.

Ackbar Abbas is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Previously he was Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and also Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures. His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism, and critical theory. His book Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance was published in 1997. He currently serves as a Contributing Editor to the academic journal Public Culture.

Dick Hebdige is a Professor in the Department of Art and Film Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been teaching in arts schools since the mid 1970’s, also having served as the Dean of Critical Studies and the Director of the experimental writing program at CalArts. Hebdige has published extensively and is the author of three seminal books on art and popular culture: Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Cut’n’mix: culture, identity and Caribbean Music and Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things. His research interests include transmedia performance and the integration of critical thinking into art practice and teaching.

Karim Makdisi is an Associate Professor of International Relations and International Enviromental Policy at the American University of Beirut. His current research projects include a multidisciplinary investigation of how multilateral environmental treaties (MEAs) are implemented in Lebanon and the Arab region: the evolution of environmentalism in the Arab region: and the shifting role of the United Nations (including peacekeepers) in the post-Cold War period. He is also interested in the state of international relations in the Arab region and is Associate Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs.

Achille Mbembe is a research professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) and co-convenor of The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC). He has written extensively on African history and politics, and his work has been translated in various languages. He is the author of many books in French, including Sortir de la grande nuit, Essai sur l’Afrique decolonisee (Paris, 2010). Mbembe is also the winner of the Bill Venter/Altron Award for his On the Postcolony (2001).

Born in South Africa, David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California. His work ranges over issues of political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies and, increasingly, digital humanities. He is the author and editor of several books including The Threat of Race (2008), The Racial State (2002) and Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (1995), and is the founding co-editor of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.

Sarah Nuttall is Research Professor in English at the University of Stellenbosch and worked for ten years at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). She is recognised locally and internationally as a prominent voice in the on-going debates on cultural theory and the author, editor or co-editor of eight books including Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid (2009), Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies (2000), and Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2004)

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“Our NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft and responded and WC Government Health: EMS and Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services responded.

“On arrival on-scene we found a Mr. Hartland, from Oranjezicht, had capsized his Hobie-Cat while sailing solo in False Bay and once capsized he had drifted onto rocks between Clovelly and Kalk Bay harbour.

“Two Kalk Bay residents, Johnathan Gloyd-Jones and his brother Sebastian, (we estimate them to be aged about 16 years old), had donned wet-suits and had swum out to assist Mr. Hartland after noticing that he was in trouble, from their house in Kalk Bay.

“Well known local fisherman George Mandolis, aboard his fishing trawler Kalkie had also launched his boat to assist and George had managed to rig a tow-line onto the Hobie Cat and had pulled the Hobie Cat free from the rocks.

“The two teenagers had assisted George to attach the tow-line.

“Our NSRI rescuers confirmed that no one was injured and George towed the Hobie Cat to Kalk Bay harbour where it was recovered from the water using a Harbour crane and no further assistance was necessary.

Darius van Niekerk, NSRI Mykonos station commander, said; “At 15h12 on Saturday 21 January, NSRI Mykonos volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated to respond to 400 meters off-shore of Mykonos, at The Cove, where a Hobie-Cat capsized with Capetonians Johan van Staaden, 45, and Genevieve Perks, 35, both from Bloubergstrand, had capsized and were drifting and appearing to eye-witnesses to be unable to right their craft.

“Off-duty NSRI Air Sea Rescue swimmer Rob Fine and an unidentified bystander, who happened to be on the beach at the time, both swam out to assist the sailors after Rob confirmed that NSRI Mykonos had been activated.

“Rob, the bystander and NSRI Mykonos volunteers aboard our sea rescue craft helped the two sailors to right their craft and the two sailors then sailed their boat to Mykonos harbour without further problems.

“Our sea rescue craft monitored their safe passage and Rob and the bystander swam ashore.”

Editors Notes: Maybe they were training for the Hobie 16 Nationals, see: Close Action Sailing Returns to Hobie Beach

Catamaran Sailing: From Start to Finish

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This work speaks to the sailor who wants to get the most out of catamarans. Recent developments in the sport are addressed and a new chapter on performance sails is included.A catamaran sailing vessel provides the speed-hungry sailor with a perfect combination of a light-weight craft, the minimum amount of hull beneath the water and a large sail.

Phil Berman’s revised edition of his original 1982 publication includes updated information of names and numbers of catamaran models, new photographs and a whole new chapter on the modern phenomenon of performance sails.

In part 1 he guides the reader through the initial stages of buying a catamaran and basic sailing techniques useful to any novice sailor. Part 2 takes the reader one step further, introducing spinnakers, racing tactics and surfing with the concluding third part concentrating on maintenance and safety. Throughout the book photographs and diagrams illustrate the text and the useful glossary helps the beginner understand the many unusual terms used by sailors.

Berman has produced a very informative and readable book. The chapters on racing are particularly informative with Berman explaining some or the tricks and tactics used by helmsmen. These chapters would be useful to anybody who is interested in dingy sailing as much of the advice would also be relevant to single hull vessels as well as catamaran sailors. –Steven Payne

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“It appears that a 29 year old father was swimming with his 8 year old son when he got into difficulty and disappeared under water at around 11h30 this morning.

“The child was not injured and two eye-witnesses had come to his aid on his reaching the shore.

“It appears that the two eye-witnesses and the child and other bystanders claimed that they had been trying to raise the alarm since but it is not clear how they were trying to do this and Police are investigating the sequence of events.

“Our NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft the DISCOVERY rescue runner and NSRI rescue swimmers free dived on the scene to try to find the missing man.

“The SA Police Force were on-scene assisting in the search and had taken the child home to fetch his mother and other family members. A police dive unit was activated to respond to join in the search.

“During the search NSRI volunteers located and recovered the body of the man onto the sea rescue craft. He was found by NSRI volunteers floating semi-submerged under water near to where he had been reported to have gone missing.

“The body of the man was brought ashore aboard the NSRI sea rescue craft and handed into the care of the Forensic Pathology Services.

“The family are receiving trauma counseling.

“The deceased man is Christopher Robinson, from Ocean View.

“Police have opened an inquest docket.”

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At 14h56 NSRI Bakoven and Clifton Surf Lifesaving were activated after a man was witnessed waving for help on rocks off-shore of Clifton Beach.

It appears that the man, a construction worker working at a Clifton construction site, had gone for a swim to cool off but after reaching the rocks he may have decided that he had gone far enough and waved for help rather than swimming back.

Clifton Surf lifeguards on their surf rescue rubber-duck reached the man and coaxed him off the rock into their surf rescue boat and they brought him safely ashore. He was not injured and he required no further assistance.

At 15h52 NSRI Table Bay, WC Government Health: EMS, the Skymed rescue helicopter, the SA Police Force, SA National Park rangers, Law Enforcement, Cape Town Traffic Services, ER24 ambulance service, Milnerton Surf Lifesaving and a Police dive unit launched a massive search for a 35 year old male from Rugby who went missing while trying to rescue 2 females in the surf at Milnerton Lagoon Beach.

It appears two females originally got into difficulty and a number of people, including an Uncle of one of the females, went to their rescue but getting into difficulty themselves.

A paddle skier rescued a man, the two females managed to get out of the water safely without assistance but the Uncle of one of the females went missing in the surf during the ‘bystander’ rescue effort.

One man was rescued by an NSRI Hout Bay volunteer rescue swimmer who had also joined in the rescue operation.

An extensive sea, air and shore search has revealed no sign of the man who is presumed to have drowned.

An NSRI sea rescue craft and a private rigid inflatable boat, skippered by an NSRI volunteers son, assisted in the search.

Police have opened an inquest docket and NSRI Table Bay volunteers and Police divers have resumed a search from first light today (Thursday, 19th January).

At 19h12 NSRI Strandfontein, WC Government Health: EMS, the Skymed rescue helicopter, Law Enforcement, the SA Police Force and a Police dive unit launched a massive search and rescue operation for a 27 year old male, from Lost City, Mitchells Plein, who went missing in the surf at Mnandi Beach.

While exact details are still sketchy originally eye-witnesses reported at least 7 people being swept out to sea but following investigations at the beach revealed that 2 people were swept out to sea on a Boogie board and other swimmers and bystanders on the beach had gone into the water to try to rescue the pair but they had all found themselves in some difficulties in strong rip-currents but had managed to get out of the water safely.

One of the pair also made it out of the water safely but the 27 year old man had disappeared.

A Law Enforcement officer swam out to begin searching and he was joined by sea rescue craft and by the Skymed helicopter but despite an extensive sea, air and shore search, no sign of the man has been found and he is missing and is presumed to have drowned.

Police have opened an inquest docket and Police divers will resume the search today.

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“Our NSRI Hout Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft MTU NADINE GORDIMER and ALBIE MATTHEWS and on arrival on-scene we found the yacht being blown across the bay like a leaf in the wind bucking and pitching and having covered over 1.5 nautical miles in the 20 minutes it took our sea rescue craft to reach him and he was on a heading with Vulcan Rock directly in her path.

“A tow-line was rigged to the yacht from our sea rescue craft but on three occasions the tow-line snapped and the V-shaped bridle on the sea rescue craft broke twice. A 12mm thick stainless steel safety snap hook bent and snapped and had to be discarded but with slow progress and making only 1 knot, and having to re-attach the tow-line on numerous occasions, and seriously considering ordering the yachtsman to abandon ship on a number of occasions after the yacht came close to running aground during the rescue operation, our NSRI rescuers finally brought the yacht into the safety of Hout Bay harbour at 22h00.

“Bob Loana, who lives on his yacht, was returning to Hout Bay after “having such a good time there in 2003″, he said. Docking first in Durban and then last port of call Mossel Bay he was close to his destination when his mainsail tore in the gale force winds causing the rescue operation to be launched.

“Bob commended the NSRI Hout Bay volunteer sea rescue crew saying that it was the best teamwork and rescue operation he had witnessed in some of the most trying conditions he had ever found himself in.”

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“Our NSRI Kommetjie volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft Spirit of Winelands and on arrival on-scene found the 6 meter ski-boat Goliath, with 4 crew onboard, 2 adult males estimated to be aged in their mid forties, and two male teenagers, estimated ages 11 and 17, drifting towards rocks after their boats engines failed, in a 35 knot North Westerly wind and 4 meter swells.

“They were about 10 meters away from running onto the rocks when we arrived on-scene and we quickly set up a tow-line and towed them to shore safely where they required no further assistance.

“They are all from the local nearby Oceanview suburb and they were not injured.”

Photographic Print of Slangkoppunt Lighthouse, Kommetjie, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa from Robert Harding

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At Kommetjie Beach

“We need the power of the private sector, working together with governments around the world, to get this done in 48 months,” said John Megrue, CEO of Apax Partners US, and Chairman of the Business Leadership Council, a newly-formed group of business leaders that will be launched during the World Economic Forum in Davos later this month. “It is unacceptable that 360,000 children were born with HIV last year around the world.”

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina led the congressional delegation, and was joined by Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, Sen. Kay Hagen of North Carolina, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska and Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina.

In South Africa, the efforts are being led by the Government of South Africa with support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and from UNAIDS and from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the world’s leading financing institution dedicated to supporting large-scale prevention, treatment and care for these three diseases, and other partners. The Global Fund, which has already committed over US$22 billion worldwide, is a unique public-private partnership in global health that has proven highly effective.

“Thanks to strong government leadership, South Africa has made dramatic strides toward ending mother to child transmission of this virus,” said Mr. Megrue.

“In business, we take deadlines seriously, and work to ensure they are achieved,” said Natie Kirsh, CEO of Jetro. “This effort must be no different, and we as business leaders commit to bringing our expertise and resources to the table in this 48 month race.”

Mr. Kirsh was joined by several of South Africa’s most prominent figures and business leaders, including Executive Mayor Alderman Patricia de Lille, Deputy Minister of Health Gwendolyn Ramakgopa, former President F.W. De Klerk, singer-songwriter and HIV/AIDS-activist Annie Lennox, Bridgette Radebe, founder of Mmakau Mining, Andrea Kerzner, Founder of the Lalela Project, Brian Brink, Medical Director of Anglo American and Christo Wiese, Chairman of Pepkor & Shoprite SA.

Singer Annie Lennox (l) with Dr. Sipho S. Moto, Africa Director for the ONE foundation.

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“Our NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft, the Skymed Rescue helicopter, a Police Dive Unit and WC Government Health: EMS rescue squad responded to join Law Enforcement officers on-scene who had initiated a search using their rescue jet-ski.

“An extensive sea, air and shore search has revealed no sign of the youth and Police divers are continuing with an ongoing search operation.

“It has been reported that the child had arrived at the beach on his own with a tractor tyre tube. It is unknown where the child is from and only clothing that belongs to the child and the tyre tractor tube as been found on the beach and no identification has been found.

“3 eye-witnesses have confirmed that the child was seen in difficulty in the water before disappearing.

“Police have opened an inquest docket and attempts will be made to track down the child’s family.”

“While it is strongly suspected that this was a drowning accident Police are investigation all avenues including the possibility that the child could have left the beach even though, based on eye-witness reports, it remains most likely that the child has drowned. All possibilities are being explored.

NSRI and Police are appealing to anyone with information, that can help in identifying the child, believed to be either a colored or a black male, aged approximately between the ages of 11 and 13 years, suspected to be wearing only shorts or his underpants when he went into the water.

“The clothing left on the beach, by the child, are REFLEX black slippers, a Khaki three quarter pants, a black T-Shirt with a Fire-Fighter (Fire Department) type insignia on the chest and the wording on the front of the T-Shirt (below the insignia) INVADERS – ASTEROID.

Anyone with information can contact the Police Investigating Officer W/O Pretorius at 021-8577100 or 0824445900.

Colapsing Macassar

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Revisited the old abandoned Macassar Beach Pavilion for 2 minutes over the weekend.

The first of many questions that people ask is: “What exactly is a CID and what does it do?” Property owners agree upon a geographical defined area in which businesses and residents pay a levy in proportion to their total basic property rates value, through the aid of a formula based on a ‘cent in the rand value’ for supplementary services. This area is then referred to as a CID under a City Council By-Law. A CID is designed to top-up the levels of service that the municipality provides; in no way is it a mechanism to replace the current services that the local authorities already provide or result in a reduction in these services or rates, covering the services of ‘visible policing and street sweeping’ accordingly.

Although still referred to as a CID, the CID acronym has now been replaced with SRA (Special Rating Area) in accordance with the City’s revised Special Rating Area By-Law governing all SRAs.

As one of the pioneering CIDs, the OKCID has set a precedent for this style of top-up services to supplement those provided by the City. Says OKCID CEO Marc Truss, “The OKCID works closely with local authorities and the community to identify where supplementary assistance is required. Services include security, cleansing and marketing. Above and beyond this mandate, the OKCID acts as a coordinated voice that effectively deals with a wide range of issues affecting the area.”

Up until the introduction of the OKCID in 2002, Oranje-Kloof showed serious signs of urban degeneration and distress. Over the past decade there has been a significant reduction in crime and litter, new businesses have moved into the area, upgrades take place regularly and there is a steady stream of both residents and visitors meandering through the streets, enjoying what the area has to offer.

As a testament to this, Arnold Bettendorf, owner of Arnold’s on Kloof Street, says, “The OKCID team is doing a really good job and often goes beyond the call of duty. For example they recently arranged for motorbike bays to be created outside our restaurant. We like the fact that they are highly visible, easily contactable and when there is an issue they sort it out quickly.”

High visibility, effective communication and quick response times are all closely linked, and equally important to a CID. Says OKCID security manager Marius Swanepoel, “We have CID security staff in the area 24 hours a day every day, both in vehicles and on foot patrols, and always in radio contact with each other.” When it comes to communication, the OKCID has covered all bases, with radios, several emergency phone numbers, email addresses for all management staff, an informative website, monthly e-newsletter, Facebook fan page and an interactive Twitter profile. This enables them to respond to crimes, queries and feedback immediately.

Keeping the streets clean and litter-free is also a high priority for the OKCID. This has become a reality in Oranje-Kloof as a result of working with their contracted service provider, Essential Cleansing, supported by Wasteman, in partnership with the City’s Solid Waste department. The regular use of Straatwerk, a non-profit Christian Society, provides additional top-up levels of cleansing when needed. Charles Canning from Cannings Panel Beaters says, “We have seen a massive improvement in levels of cleanliness in the neighbourhood as well as a decrease in petty crime. The visible policing by the OKCID has certainly contributed to this.”

Another element of the OKCID mandate is to make Oranje-Kloof more aesthetically appealing and accessible. The OKCID team has enhanced the area and encouraged urban regeneration by repaving vast sections of the walkways, adding wheelchair ramps, painting road markings and planting trees. The City kindly donate trees, however it still costs the OKCID R1 600 per tree, taking the surrounding paving and labour in to account. Although expensive, the brick paving used is durable and reusable, as sections can be easily lifted to replant trees or replace/ repair underground services such as cables. The finished project is green, gorgeous and cost-effective in the long run.

Local businesses have also contributed towards improving the areas surrounding their buildings, and often split the costs with the OKCID. This support has enabled the OKCID to make as much headway as they have and continue to do in the area. OKCID Manager Mike Reeler says, “We have worked hard to establish strong relationships with businesses and residents in the area as we feel that collaboration is key for us to realise our objectives. The facilitation role that we are able to play between the City and property owners is also valuable to all parties.”

Close working relationships with other entities including SAPS, Law Enforcement, Metro Police, Vetus Schola and the various line departments from the City of Cape Town are also vital to the success of the OKCID. Marc Truss and his team focus on taking a proactive approach, using practical solutions and working with the various role players see them through to fruition.

Says Marc Truss, “We strive to be the City of Cape Town’s leading supplementary service provider to nurture a safe, clean, attractive and accessible business and residential environment. It’s all about juggling and prioritising, yet keeping track at all times of why a CID came into existence.”

Oranje-Kloof City Improvement District CEO Marc Truss

“Our NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft JACK RILEY and on arrival on-scene a tow-line was rigged and under extremely difficult sea conditions the yacht was towed safely into the harbour and, after arriving at 05h00 this morning, was safely berthed and no further assistance was required.”

Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay

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A description of a well-run military installation displaying a high degree of commitment and professionalism at various levels.

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“Our NSRI Gordon’s Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft JACK RILEY and SPIRIT OF SURFSKI and our NSRI rescue vehicle responded to the scene.

“Metro EMS and the Metro EMS Skymed helicopter were placed on alert.

“On arrival on-scene our rescuers in our sea rescue vehicle spotted the 2 men about 2 nautical miles off-shore and directed our responding sea rescue craft to their location and on arriving on-scene the two men were rescued and their small blow-up inflatable craft was recovered.

“They were not injured and they were brought to our sea rescue base in Gordon’s Bay, aboard JACK RILEY and our NSRI volunteers have transported the 2 men, Kevin Murray, from Brackenfell, and Johan Visagie, from Durbanville, both aged in their mid 30′s home safely.

“It appears that they had launched earlier in the day to crayfish off Pringle Bay but as the off-shore winds increased in speed they were blown out to sea. “Not wearing life-jackets, and with no communications device, no red distress flares and no other safety equipment and with only their two oars and fishing equipment between them they had attempted to stop their boat from being swept out to sea by deploying their anchor but their anchor rope had snapped leaving them at the mercy of the sea.

“Had eye-witnesses not spotted them it is feared that the worst may have come of these two men. Their grey boat was also hard to spot in the choppy, white horses sea conditions and we therefore estimate that they are extremely lucky that the eye-witness had spotted them.”

Sea Rescue boats from Gordons Bay rescue two men in an inflatable boat who could not get back to the shore because of the strong off shore wind. Picture Andrew Ingram/NSRI

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On arrival on-scene a 9 year old male child was treated for near drowning symptoms and hypothermia and a Metro EMS ambulance was summoned.

The children, both males, a 9 year old and a 7 year old, both from Imizamo Yethu, had been rescued from the water by a local stand-up paddle boarder, who had spotted the children in difficulties in the water while he was stand-up paddle boarding in the sea nearby to the incident.

It appears that they had both been swept out to sea by strong rip-currents while swimming.

Because of traffic congestion and an urgent need to get the 9 year old male patient, who was in a critical condition, to hospital the Metro EMS Skymed helicopter was summoned and the 9 year old male patient has been airlifted to hospital by Skymed in a stable but serious condition.

The 7 year old was released by paramedics on-scene, he was in a satisfactory condition, and released into the care of Law Enforcement officers who will attempt to track down the children’s parents.

It appears that both children were swimming at the beach with no parental control or adult supervision.

Lyall Pringle, NSRI Hout Bay deputy station commander, said that the patient had responded well to oxygen therapy and treatment by the Metro EMS paramedics in their ambulance prior to the arrival of Skymed and his condition had stabilized marginally, although he was still in a serious condition, before being airlifted by Skymed to hospital.

Brad Geyser, NSRI Hout Bay station commander, has requested beach patrol officers, through the local ‘Watchcon’ ADT and neighborhood watch, to caution bathers, at Hout Bay Main Beach, of the strong rip-currents that prevail there.

NSRI are urging caution on South Africa’s beaches. Rough sea conditions and strong rip-currents prevail. NSRI are also urging the public to be particularly cautious at beaches adjacent to river mouths and adjacent to beach outcrops (where rocks, islands, piers and harbour walls jut out into the sea). These places are where rip-currents prevail constantly and are normally strong.

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It appears that a 19 year old male, from Atlantis, is reported to have suffered a seizure (epileptic seizure) while swimming. An unidentified man on a jet-ski and local lifeguards rescued the teenager from the water.

On arrival on-scene NSRI medics commenced treatment on the semi-conscious male and he was brought to the medical room at NSRI Melkbosstrand rescue base where treatment, for a seizure, continued. (The teenager did not show any signs or symptoms of near drowning).

Metro EMS were summoned and the man has been transported to hospital in a serious but stable condition by Metro EMS ambulance and he is being treated for a seizure.

The teenagers mother, who was with him at the beach at the time, accompanied her son to hospital.

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NSRI Melkbosstrand dispatched sea rescue craft and a rescue vehicle, and Metro EMS, a Metro EMS rescue squad, the Metro EMS Skymed helicopter, a Police helicopter accompanied by a Police diver, and a Police Dive Unit responded to join local lifeguards who had initiated a search for the missing man.

While rescue resources were responding to the scene Police confirmed that a male had disappeared under water approximately 50 meters off-shore after being swept out to sea.

It appears, according to reports, that lifeguards at the beach had closed the beach for swimming due to rough seas and they had warned the man not to enter the water due to the rough seas and strong rip-currents that prevailed at the beach but despite the warnings the man had waded into the water before being swept out to sea and was last seen being swept against rocks before disappearing under water. Lifeguards reached the place where the man disappeared only minutes after he had disappeared under water but despite their best efforts the man could not be detected in the water.

An extensive air, sea and shore search, hampered by very rough and confused sea conditions, has revealed no sign of the man and a Police Dive Unit are continuing with an ongoing search and recovery operation.

The 19 year old man, from Darling, is missing and is presumed to have drowned.

His mother and father, who were on the beach with him at the time, have been transported to hospital for trauma counseling and treatment for shock.

Police have opened an inquest docket.

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Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people’s hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.The stories that go with lifeboats and their crews are those of courage, sacrifice, community and our coastline. No matter if one is on holiday by the coast, or living inland, we are always aware of the work these brave crews do, and also aware of the tremendous affection the RNLI has throughout the whole of the British Isles. An island race appreciates those who risk their lives continually to help those endangered at sea.May-Day! May-Day! showcases the work, over many years, that the RNLI crews have undertaken, using the technology and training of their time to go out into dangerous waters to rescue people. It contains a great deal of useful/technical information to give the reader all the background information to the science of saving lives at sea.The RNLI is close to the hearts of the British public, who want to know more about their work today, but also historically how they have evolved. With archive material, first-person interviews of station commanders, rescuers, etc. plus scientific illustrations and maps, this book will be the first to bring together the history and technology, people and crews, triumphs and disasters of the RNLI together in one book.Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people’s hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.The stories that go with lifeboats and their crews are those of courage, sacrifice, community and our coastline. No matter if one is on holiday by the coast, or living inland, we are always aware of the work these brave crews do, and also aware of the tremendous affection the RNLI has throughout the whole of the British Isles. An island race appreciates those who risk their lives continually to help those endangered at sea.May-Day! May-Day! showcases the work, over many years, that the RNLI crews have undertaken, using the technology and training of their time to go out into dangerous waters to rescue people. It contains a great deal of useful/technical information to give the reader all the background information to the science of saving lives at sea.The RNLI is close to the hearts of the British public, who want to know more about their work today, but also historically how they have evolved. With archive material, first-person interviews of station commanders, rescuers, etc. plus scientific illustrations and maps, this book will be the first to bring together the history and technology, people and crews, triumphs and disasters of the RNLI together in one book.

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